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Plug It In! Turn It Up! (Part 1: Beginnings 1939-1954)

Plug It In! Turn It Up! (Part 1: Beginnings 1939-1954)

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  • Release Date: 10/01/2025
  • Barcode: 4000127169211
  • Edition: Box Set
  • Genre: Blues
  • Label Family: Bear Family
  • Subgenre: Compilation
Plug It In! Turn It Up! (Part 1: Beginnings 1939-1954)

Plug It In! Turn It Up! (Part 1: Beginnings 1939-1954)

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EDITORIAL REVIEWS
Part one of the most comprehensive history EVER of electrified blues on 12 electrifying CDs! Every significant artist . every significant recording from the 1930s to the present day, including T-Bone Walker, Muddy Waters, George Thorogood, and Freddie, B.B. and Albert King, Jeff Beck, Fleetwood Mac, Charlie Musselwhite, Johnny Winter, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, and literally hundreds more!

TRACK LISTING


  • Disc 1
    1: Floyd's Guitar Blues (Feat. Floyd Smith) - Andy Kirk And His Twelve Clouds Of Joy
    2: Mean Old World - T-Bone Walker
    3: Strange Things Happening Every Day - Sister Rosetta Tharpe
    4: Drifting Blues - Johnny Moore's Three Blazers
    5: Ain't That Just Like a Woman - Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five
    6: That's All Right - Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup
    7: Let Me Play With Your Poodle - Lightnin' Hopkins
    8: Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just As Bad) - T-Bone Walker
    9: Better Cut That Out - Sonny Boy Williamson
    10: Ramblin' Bill - Big Bill Broonzy & His Rhythm Band
    11: I Can't Be Satisfied - Muddy Waters
    12: Boogie Chillen - John Lee Hooker
    13: Blues After Hours - Pee Wee Crayton
    14: Mary Is Fine - Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
    15: Drinkin' Wine Spo-dee-o-dee - Stick McGhee & His Buddies
    16: Hit the Road - Little Willie Littlefield
    17: Who's Been Jivin' You - Jimmy Witherspoon
    18: Black Angel Blues (Sweet Black Angel) - The Nighthawks
    19: My Special Friend Blues - Baby Boy Warren
    20: Every Day I Have the Blues (Lonely Heart Blues) - Lowell Fulson
    21: Rock Awhile - Goree Carter & His Hep Cats
    22: Bon Ton Roula - Clarence Garlow
    23: Rollin' and Tumblin' Part 1 - Baby Face Leroy Trio
    24: Slippin' and Slidin' - Gene Phillips with Jack McVea Orchestra
    25: Rockin' All Day (Aka Rockin' and Reelin') - Jimmy McCracklin
    26: Love Don't Love Nobody - Roy Brown and His Mighty Mighty Men

    Disc 2
    1: That's All Right - Jimmy Rogers
    2: Midnight Boogie - Tampa Red
    3: Black Night - Charles Brown
    4: Rock Little Baby - Cecil Gant
    5: Why Should I Cry? - Lonnie Johnson
    6: Rocket '88' - Jackie Brenston
    7: How Many More Tears? - Howlin' Wolf
    8: Boogie Woogie Nighthawk - James 'Wide Mouth' Brown
    9: Baby Let's Go Down to the Woods - Floyd Dixon
    10: Kansas City Blues - Robert Nighthawk
    11: Pontiac Blues - Sonny Boy Williamson
    12: Dust My Broom - Elmore James
    13: I'm in the Mood - John Lee Hooker
    14: Cold Cold Feeling - T-Bone Walker
    15: Ramblin' On My Mind - Boyd Gilmore
    16: Please Send My Baby Back - Sunny Blair
    17: Trust in Me - Fats Domino
    18: Juke - Little Walter
    19: Me and My Chauffeur Blues - Memphis Minnie
    20: Five Long Years - Eddie Boyd
    21: Lonesome Train - Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson
    22: Hound Dog - Willie Mae 'Big Mama' Thornton
    23: Chocolate Pork Chop Man - Pete 'Guitar' Lewis
    24: Woke Up This Morning - B.B. King
    25: Evening Sun - Johnny Shines
    26: Cryin' Shame - Snooky Pryor

    Disc 3
    1: Messin' Up - Chuck Norris
    2: Please Love Me - B.B. King
    3: Forty Cups of Coffee - Danny Overbea
    4: Ice Cream Man - John Brim
    5: Losing Hand - Ray Charles
    6: Hydramatic Woman - Joe Hill Louis
    7: Feelin' Good - Little Junior's Blue Flames
    8: One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer - Amos Milburn
    9: Tiger Man - Rufus Thomas Jr.
    10: Blues With a Feeling - Little Walter
    11: Piggly Wiggly - Lil' Son Jackson
    12: TV Mama - Joe Turner
    13: The Things That I Used to Do - Guitar Slim
    14: Shim Sham Shimmy - Champion Jack Dupree
    15: Dirty Work at the Crossroad - Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
    16: You Don't Have to Go - Jimmy Reed
    17: I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man - Muddy Waters
    18: Sloppy Drunk - Jimmy Rogers
    19: Shake That Thing - Wynonie Harris
    20: Wine, Women, Whiskey - Papa Lightfoot
    21: I'm Gonna Murder My Baby - Pat Hare
    22: Pet Cream Man - J.B. Hutto
    23: Reconsider Baby - Lowell Fulson
    24: Don't Have to Worry - Lafayette Thomas
    25: The Boogie Disease - Dr. Ross,
    Disc 1
    1: Floyd's Guitar Blues (Feat. Floyd Smith) - Andy Kirk And His Twelve Clouds Of Joy
    2: Mean Old World - T-Bone Walker
    3: Strange Things Happening Every Day - Sister Rosetta Tharpe
    4: Drifting Blues - Johnny Moore's Three Blazers
    5: Ain't That Just Like a Woman - Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five
    6: That's All Right - Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup
    7: Let Me Play With Your Poodle - Lightnin' Hopkins
    8: Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just As Bad) - T-Bone Walker
    9: Better Cut That Out - Sonny Boy Williamson
    10: Ramblin' Bill - Big Bill Broonzy & His Rhythm Band
    11: I Can't Be Satisfied - Muddy Waters
    12: Boogie Chillen - John Lee Hooker
    13: Blues After Hours - Pee Wee Crayton
    14: Mary Is Fine - Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
    15: Drinkin' Wine Spo-dee-o-dee - Stick McGhee & His Buddies
    16: Hit the Road - Little Willie Littlefield
    17: Who's Been Jivin' You - Jimmy Witherspoon
    18: Black Angel Blues (Sweet Black Angel) - The Nighthawks
    19: My Special Friend Blues - Baby Boy Warren
    20: Every Day I Have the Blues (Lonely Heart Blues) - Lowell Fulson
    21: Rock Awhile - Goree Carter & His Hep Cats
    22: Bon Ton Roula - Clarence Garlow
    23: Rollin' and Tumblin' Part 1 - Baby Face Leroy Trio
    24: Slippin' and Slidin' - Gene Phillips with Jack McVea Orchestra
    25: Rockin' All Day (Aka Rockin' and Reelin') - Jimmy McCracklin
    26: Love Don't Love Nobody - Roy Brown and His Mighty Mighty Men

    Disc 2
    1: That's All Right - Jimmy Rogers
    2: Midnight Boogie - Tampa Red
    3: Black Night - Charles Brown
    4: Rock Little Baby - Cecil Gant
    5: Why Should I Cry? - Lonnie Johnson
    6: Rocket '88' - Jackie Brenston
    7: How Many More Tears? - Howlin' Wolf
    8: Boogie Woogie Nighthawk - James 'Wide Mouth' Brown
    9: Baby Let's Go Down to the Woods - Floyd Dixon
    10: Kansas City Blues - Robert Nighthawk
    11: Pontiac Blues - Sonny Boy Williamson
    12: Dust My Broom - Elmore James
    13: I'm in the Mood - John Lee Hooker
    14: Cold Cold Feeling - T-Bone Walker
    15: Ramblin' On My Mind - Boyd Gilmore
    16: Please Send My Baby Back - Sunny Blair
    17: Trust in Me - Fats Domino
    18: Juke - Little Walter
    19: Me and My Chauffeur Blues - Memphis Minnie
    20: Five Long Years - Eddie Boyd
    21: Lonesome Train - Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson
    22: Hound Dog - Willie Mae 'Big Mama' Thornton
    23: Chocolate Pork Chop Man - Pete 'Guitar' Lewis
    24: Woke Up This Morning - B.B. King
    25: Evening Sun - Johnny Shines
    26: Cryin' Shame - Snooky Pryor

    Disc 3
    1: Messin' Up - Chuck Norris
    2: Please Love Me - B.B. King
    3: Forty Cups of Coffee - Danny Overbea
    4: Ice Cream Man - John Brim
    5: Losing Hand - Ray Charles
    6: Hydramatic Woman - Joe Hill Louis
    7: Feelin' Good - Little Junior's Blue Flames
    8: One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer - Amos Milburn
    9: Tiger Man - Rufus Thomas Jr.
    10: Blues With a Feeling - Little Walter
    11: Piggly Wiggly - Lil' Son Jackson
    12: TV Mama - Joe Turner
    13: The Things That I Used to Do - Guitar Slim
    14: Shim Sham Shimmy - Champion Jack Dupree
    15: Dirty Work at the Crossroad - Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
    16: You Don't Have to Go - Jimmy Reed
    17: I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man - Muddy Waters
    18: Sloppy Drunk - Jimmy Rogers
    19: Shake That Thing - Wynonie Harris
    20: Wine, Women, Whiskey - Papa Lightfoot
    21: I'm Gonna Murder My Baby - Pat Hare
    22: Pet Cream Man - J.B. Hutto
    23: Reconsider Baby - Lowell Fulson
    24: Don't Have to Worry - Lafayette Thomas
    25: The Boogie Disease - Dr. Ross
  • ADDITIONAL DETAILS

  • Number of Discs: 3
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