I've Got the Blues, But I'm Too Damn Mean to Cry: Compiled and Annotated By Max Haymes

Protest, wrok en wanhoop, dat is waar blues eigenlijk om draait en waar deze selectie aan gewijd is. Het protest wordt hier met humor en een flinke dosis intelligentie gebracht, zodat de respectievelijke betrokkenen niet in de gaten hadden dat het over hen ging. Maar soms was het minder subtiel zoals in het geval van de Mississippi Sheiks en de Memphis Jug Band, die klaagden over corruptie bij de politie. Fantastische muziek met de sociologie als bonus. Met o.a. Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Wilie McTell, Texas Alexander, Clara Smith en vele, vele anderen.

Disc 1
1: Jail Bird Love Song - Mississippi Sheikhs
2: No Job Blues - Ramblin Thomas
3: Down in the Bottom Where I Stay - Ozie McPherson
4: Gut Struggle - Wilmer Davis
5: Trouble and Whiskey - Roosevelt Sykes
6: Raise R-U-K-U-S Tonight - Norfolk Jubilee Singers
7: Raise R-U-K-U-S Tonight - Birmingham Jubilee Singers
8: Landlady's Footsteps - Madlyn Davis
9: Get On Board - Clara Smith
10: I'm Goin' Home - Charley Patton
11: Old Rattler - Moses 'Clear Rock' Platt And James 'Iron Head' Baker
12: Ain't No More Cane On the Brazos - Ernest Williams, James 'Iron Head' Baker & Convict Group
13: The Prisoner's Blues - Sara Martin
14: Penitentiary Bound Blues - Rosa Henderson
15: Wash and Iron Woman Blues - Gene Campbell
16: I've Got the Blues But I'm Just Too Mean to Cry - Dorothy Dodd
17: Rising River Blues - George Carter
18: Song from a Cotton Field - Bessie Brown
19: They Ain't Walking No More - Lucille Bogan
20: Long John - Lightnin'
21: Another Man Done Gone - Vera Hall
22: Black Evil Blues - Alice Moore
23: Richmond Blues - Julius Daniels
24: Bessie's Moan - Bessie Tucker
25: Rock Pile Blues - Sylvester Weaver
26: Highway 51 Blues - Curtis Jones

Disc 2
1: Down the Dirt Road Blues - Charley Patton
2: Po Moaners Got a Home at Last - The Fisk Jubilee Singers
3: That White Mule of Sin - John Byrd
4: You've Got to Recognise Me - Charles Tyus
5: I'm All Out and Down - Leadbelly
6: Prison Cell Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
7: Moaning Blues - Moanin' Bernice Edwards
8: On Our Turpentine Farm - Pigmeat Pete & Catjuice Charlie
9: Good Old Turnip Greens - Bo Carter
10: Two White Horses Standing in Line - Smith Casey
11: Jim Crow Blues - Cow Cow Davenport
12: Am I Right Or Wrong - Son House
13: It Makes a Long Time Man Feel Bad - Kelly Pace
14: Waitin' for the Evening Mail - Clara Smith
15: I Shall Not Be Moved - Rev. Edward Clayborn
16: Toad Frog Blues - Ma Rainey
17: Squinch Owl Moan - Too Tight Henry
18: Daddy-calling Mama - Alice Moore
19: Mean Old World - Heavenly Gospel Singers
20: Cow Cow Blues - Dora Carr & Cow Cow Davenport
21: Last Fair Deal Gone Down - Robert Johnson
22: Chain Gang Bound - Bumble Bee Slim
23: These Hard Times Are Tight Like That - Rev. J.M. Gates
24: The Panic Is On - Hezekiah Jenkins
25: Preachin' the Blues Part 1 - Son House

Disc 3
1: Starvation Farm Blues - Bob Campbell
2: No Place to Go - Walter Davis
3: One Dime Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
4: Blue Harvest Blues - Mississipi John Hurt
5: Fool's Blues - Funny Papa Smith
6: Boll Weevil Blues - Vera Hall
7: Mississippi Bo Weavil Blues - Charley Patton
8: Hopali - 8 Unknown Girls
9: Experience Blues - Alberta Hunter
10: Broken Levee Blues - Lonnie Johnson
11: Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-one - Charley Campbell
12: Bank Failure Blues - Martha Copeland
13: Hammer Ring - Jess Bradley
14: The Escaped Convict - George Williams
15: I'm Having So Much Trouble - Bumble Bee Slim
16: Worried Blues - Tom Bell
17: Workhouse Blues - Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell
18: The Sure Route Excursion to Hell - Rev. F.W. McGee
19: Black Hearse Blues - Sara Martin
20: Washwoman Blues - Bessie Smith
21: Sud Bustin' Blues - Sippie Wallace
22: Hitler and Hell - Rev. J.M. Gates
23: Don't Mess With Me - Mamie Smith
24: My Daddy's Calling Me - Irene Scruggs
25: I Heard the Voice of a Porkchop - Jim Jackson
26: G. Burns Is Gonna Rise Again - Johnson-Nelson-Porkchop
27: The Bourgeois Blues - Leadbelly

Disc 4
1: Hobo Bill - Martha Copeland
2: Dyin' Crapshooter's Blues - Martha Copeland
3: Dyin' Crapshooter's Blues - Blind Willie McTell
4: Sarah Jane - Jazz Gillum
5: North Bound Blues - Maggie Jones
6: Go Down Old Hannah - James Baker
7: Been Drinking - Vera Hall
8: Poor Lazarus - Vera Hall
9: Cotton Seed Blues - Tampa Red
10: I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray - Paramount Jubilee Singers
11: He's in the Jailhouse Now - Memphis Jug Band
12: Railroad Bill - Will Bennett
13: Mad Mama's Blues - Josie Miles
14: Dynamite Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
15: Key to the Bushes Blues - Bessie Tucker
16: Red Ripe Tomatoes - Jack Kelly & His South Memphis Jug Band
17: Justice Blues - Texas Alexander
18: Nobody Knows the Way I Feel Dis Mornin' - Clara Smith
19: Pail in My Hand - Edna Winston
20: The Basement Blues - Clara Smith
21: Workin' Woman's Blues - Helen Gross
22: Broke Man Blues - Sylvester Palmer
23: Sadie's Servant Room Blues - Hattie Burleson
24: Red Cross Man - Lucille Bogan
25: Life Is Just a Book - Washboard Sam

Number of Discs: 4

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