I've got the blues but I'm too damn mean to cry : protest in early blues & gospel / compiled and annotated by Max Haymes.

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Thomas, Willard, performer.

McPherson, Ozie, performer.

Davis, Wilmer, performer.

Sykes, Roosevelt, performer.

Davis, Madlyn, performer.

Smith, Clara, performer.

Patton, Charley, 1891-1934, performer.

Platt, Mose "Clear Rock", performer.

Baker, James "Iron Head", performer.

Williams, Ernest, active 1918, performer.

Martin, Sara, 1884-1955, performer.

Henderson, Rosa, performer.

Campbell, Gene (Vocalist), performer.

Dodd, Dorothy, performer.

Carter, George (Musician), performer.

Brown, Bessie, performer.

Bogan, Lucille, performer.

Washington, Lightnin', performer.

Hall, Vera, 1902-1964, performer.

Moore, Alice, performer.

Daniels, Julius, performer.

Tucker, Bessie, performer.

Weaver, Sylvester, performer.

Jones, Curtis, performer.

Byrd, John, performer.

Tyus, Charles, performer.

Leadbelly, 1885-1949, performer.

Jefferson, Blind Lemon, 1897-1929, performer.

Edwards, Bernice, performer.

Pigmeat Pete, performer.

Lincoln, Charley, performer.

Carter, Bo, 1893-1964, performer.

Casey, Smith, 1895-1950, performer.

Davenport, Cow Cow, 1894-1955, performer.

House, Son, performer.

Pace, Kelly, 1913-1958, performer.

Clayborn, Edward W., performer.

Rainey, Ma, 1886-1939, performer.

Too Tight Henry, 1899-1971, performer.

Carr, Dora, performer.

Johnson, Robert, 1911-1938, performer.

Bumble Bee Slim, performer.

Gates, J. M., Rev., performer.

Jenkins, Hezekiah, performer.

Campbell, Bob (Guitarist), performer.

Davis, Walter, 1912-1963, performer.

Hurt, Mississippi John, 1892-1966, performer.

Smith, J. T. (John T.), performer.

Hunter, Alberta, performer.

Johnson, Lonnie, 1894-1970, performer.

Copeland, Martha, performer.

Bradley, Jess, performer.

Williams, George (Harmonica player), performer.

Bell, Tom (Blues musician), performer.

Carr, Leroy, 1905-1935, performer.

Blackwell, Scrapper, performer.

McGee, F. W. (Ford Washington), 1890-1971, performer.

Smith, Bessie, 1894-1937, performer.

Wallace, Sippie, performer.

Smith, Mamie, performer.

Scruggs, Irene, performer.

Jackson, Jim, -1937, performer.

McTell, Blind Willie, performer.

Gillum, Jazz, 1904-1966, performer.

Jones, Maggie, approximately 1900- performer.

Tampa Red, 1904-1981, performer.

Bennett, Will (Blues musician), performer.

Miles, Josephine, performer.

Kelly, Jack (Performer), performer.

Alexander, Texas, 1900-1954, performer.

Winston, Edna, performer.

Gross, Helen, performer.

Palmer, Sylvester, performer.

Burleson, Hattie, performer.

Washboard Sam, 1910-1966, performer.

Mississippi Sheiks, performer.

Norfolk Jazz Quartet, performer.

Birmingham Jubilee Singers, performer.

Jubilee Singers (Fisk University), performer.

Heavenly Gospel Singers, performer.

Johnson-Nelson-Porkchop, performer.

Paramount Jubilee Singers, performer.

Memphis Jug Band, performer.

South Memphis Jug Band, performer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blues (Music)--To 1931.

Blues (Music).

Blues (Music)--1931-1940.

Protest songs.

Genre:

Blues (Music)

Gospel music.

Physical Description:

4 audio discs ; 4 3/4 in.

Other Title:

I have got the blues but I'm too damn mean to cry

Protest in early blues & gospel

Protest in early blues and gospel

Place of Publication:

London, England : JSP Records, [2015]

System Details:

digital stereo

audio file CD audio

Contents:

CD A. Jail bird love song (Mississippi Sheiks)

No job blues (Ramblin' Thomas)

Down in the bottom where I stay (Ozie McPherson)

Gut struggle (Wilmer Davis)

Trouble and whiskey (Roosevelt Sykes)

Raise a R-U-K-U-S tonight (Norfolk Jubilee Singers (as Norfolk Jazz Quartet))

Raise a R-U-K-U-S tonight (Birmingham Jubilee Singers (Birmingham Quartet))

Landlady's footsteps (Madlyn Davis)

Get on board (Clara Smith)

I'm goin' home (Charley Patton)

Old rattler (Mose "Clear Rock" Platt & James "Iron Head" Baker)

Ain't no more cane on this brazos (Ernest Wiliams, James "Iron Head" Baker & Convict Group)

The prisoners blues (Sara Martin)

Penitentiary bound blues (Rosa Henderson)

Wash and iron woman blues (Gene Campbell)

I've got the blues but I'm just too mean to cry (Dorothy Dodd)

Rising river blues (George Carter)

Song from a cotton field (Bessie Brown)

The ain't walking no more (Lucille Bogan)

Long John (Washington ('Lightnin''))

Another man done gone (Vera Hall)

Black evil blues (Alice Moore)

Richmond blues, take 1 (Julius Daniels)

Bessie's moan (Bessie Tucker)

Rock pile blues (Sylvester Weaver)

Highway 51 blues (Curtis Jones)

CD B. Down the dirt road blues (Charley Patton)

Po' moaners got a home at last (Fisk Jubilee Singers)

That white mule of sin (John Byrd)

You've got to recognise me (Charles Tyus)

I'm all out and down (Leadbelly)

Prison cell blues (Blind Lemon Jefferson)

Moaning blues (Moanin' Bernice Edwards)

On our turpentine farm (Pigmeat Pete & Catjuice Charlie)

Good old turnip greens (Bo Carter)

Two white horses standing in line (Smith Casey)

Jim Crow blues (Cow Cow Davenport)

Am I right or wrong (Son House)

It makes a long time man feel bad (Kelly Pace)

Waitin for the evenin' mail (Clara Smith)

I shall not be moved (Rev. Edward Clayborn)

Toad frog blues (Ma Rainey)

Squinch owl moan (Too Tight Henry)

Daddy-calling mama (Alice Moore)

Mean old world (Heavenly Gospel Singers)

Cow cow blues (Dora Carr with Cow Cow Davenport)

Last fair deal gone down (Robert Johnson)

Chain gang bound (Bumble Bee Slim)

These hard times are tight like that (Rev. J.M. Gates)

The panic is on (Hezekiah Jenkins)

Preachin the blues pt. 1 (Son House)

CD C. Starvation farm blues (Bob Campbell)

No place to go (Walter Davis)

One dime blues (Blind Lemon Jefferson)

Blue harvest blues (Mississippi John Hurt)

Fools blues (Funny Paper Smith)

Boll weevil blues (The Boll weevil hollar) / Vera Hall)

Mississippi boll weevil blues (Charley Patton)

Hopali (Hop-a-lee) / (8 Unknown Girls)

Experience blues (Alberta Hunter)

Broken levee blues (Lonnie Johnson)

Eighteen hundred and ninety one (Ain't working song) (Charley Campbell)

Bank failure blues (Martha Copeland)

Hammer ring (Jess Bradley)

The escaped convict, take 2 (George "Bullet" Williams)

I'm having so much trouble (Bumble Bee Slim)

Worried blues (Tom Bell)

Workhouse blues (Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell)

The sure route excursion to Hell, part 1 (Rev. F.W. McGee)

Black hearse blues (Sara Martin)

Washwoman blues (Bessie Smith)

Sud bustin' blues (Sippie Wallace)

Hitler and Hell (Rev. J.M. Gates)

Don't mess with me (Mamie Smith)

My daddy's calling me (Irene Scruggs)

I heard the voice of a pork chop, take 1 (Jim Jackson)

G. Burns gonna rise again (Johnson-Nelson-Porkchop)

The bourgeois blues (Leadbelly)

CD D. Hobo Bill (Martha Copeland)

Dyin' crapshooter's blues (Martha Copeland)

Dying crapshooter's blues (Blind Willie McTell)

Sarah Jane (Jazz Gillum)

North bound blues (Maggie Jones)

Go down old Hannah (James "Iron Head" Baker)

Been drinking (Vera Hall)

Poor Lazarus (Vera Hall)

Cotton seed blues (Tampa Red)

I couldn't hear nobody pray, take 2 (Paramount Jubilee Singers)

He's in jailhouse now (Memphis Jug Band)

Railroad Bill (Will Bennett)

Mad mama's blues (Josie Miles)

Dynamite blues (Blind Lemon Jefferson)

Key to the bushes blues (Bessie Tucker)

Red ripe tomatoes (Jack Kelly & His South Memphis Jug Band)

Justice blues (Texas Alexander)

Nobody knows the way I feel dis mornin' (Clara Smith)

Pail in my hand (Edna Winston)

The basement blues (Clara Smith)

Workin' woman's blues (Helen Gross)

Broke man blues (Sylvester Palmer)

Sadie's servant room blues (Hattie Burleson)

Red cross man (Lucille Bogan (as "Bessie Jackson"))

Life is just a book (Washboard Sam).

Participant:

Various performers.

Notes:

Title from disc labels.

"Remastered"--Container.

Contains material recorded 1911-1942.

Program notes, discographical material, and full credits on container inserts.

OCLC:

959817161

Publisher Number:

00788065720025 gtin-14

788065720025

JSP77200 JSP Records (container)

JSP77200A JSP Records (CD A)

JSP77200B JSP Records (CD B)

JSP77200C JSP Records (CD C)

JSP77200D JSP Records (CD D)