The rural blues : a study of the vocal and instrumental resources / compiled and annotated by Samuel B. Charters.

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Charters, Samuel Barclay, 1929- compiler.

Alexander Street Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blues (Music)--To 1931.

Blues (Music).

Blues (Music)--1931-1940.

Blues (Music)--1941-1950.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 audio file (56 minutes))

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Folkways Records, 1960.

System Details:

digital

optical

stereo

audio file

Contents:

Disc 1. I can't stand it (Will Shade)

Shelby County work house blues (Hambone Willie Newburn)

From four until late (Robert Johnson)

You can leave, baby (Furry Lewis)

Milk cow blues (Sleepy John Estes)

Roberta blues (L'il Son Jackson)

Thousand woman blues (Blind Boy Fuller)

If I get lucky (Arthur Crudup)

Down the highway (Charlie Picket)

Milk cow blues (Kokomo Arnold)

Take your burden to the Lord (Blind Willie Johnson)

New highway 51 (Tommy McClennan)

Mama tain't long fo' day (Blind Willie McTell)

Take your fingers off it (Charles Burse)

My wife drove me from my door (Charlie Lincoln)

Skin game blues (Peg Leg Howell)

Goin' back to Florida (Lightnin' Hopkins)

Standing at the crossroads (Robert Johnson). Disc 2. One kind favor (Lightning Hopkins)

Nobody's fault but mine (Blind Willie Johnson)

Warm up (Furry Lewis)

Bukka's jitterbug swing (Bukka White)

Coal man blues (Peg Leg Howell)

Southern can mama (Blind Willie McTell)

Airy man blues (Papa Charlie Jackson)

Little cow and calf is gonna die blues (Skip James)

New how long how long blues (Leroy Carr and Scraper Blackwell)

Harmonica stomp (Sonny Terry and Oh Red, with Blind Fuller)

Shiney town blues (Frank Stokes)

Trouble in mind (Virgil Perkins)

Mean old Frisco (Arthur Crudup) Sporting life blues (Brownie McGhee)

Solo (Virgil Perkins)

Tippin' round (Charlie Burse)

Mama don't 'low it (Ham Gravy)

Key to the highway (Moochie Reeves).

Participant:

Various performers.

Notes:

Title from cover image (viewed November 9, 2021).

Includes program notes.

Streaming audio files.

Other Format:

Original cat. no.: FWRF202

OCLC:

1288159018

Publisher Number:

ASP71300/amso

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.