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The great Tomato blues package : 45 classic blues selections.

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Format:
Sound recording
Contributor:
Shines, Johnny, performer.
McDowell, Fred, performer.
Jackson, Arthur, 1911-1977, performer.
Louisiana Red, performer.
Hopkins, Lightnin', 1912-1982, performer.
Terry, Sonny, performer.
Williamson, Sonny Boy, -1965, performer.
Sykes, Roosevelt, performer.
Morton, Jelly Roll, 1890-1941, performer.
Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971, performer.
Smith, Bessie, 1894-1937, performer.
Dupree, Champion Jack, -1992, performer.
Mabon, Willie, performer.
Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959, performer.
Parker, Charlie, 1920-1955, performer.
Thornton, Big Mama, performer.
Little Walter, 1930-1968, performer.
Howlin' Wolf, 1910-1976, performer.
Brown, Buster, 1911-1976, performer.
James, Elmore, 1918-1963, performer.
Franklin, Aretha, performer.
Charles, Ray, 1930-2004, performer.
King, B. B., performer.
McGhee, Brownie, 1915-1996, performer.
Bo Diddley, 1928-2008, performer.
Little Richard, 1932-2020, performer.
James, Etta, 1938-2012, performer.
Harrison, Wilbert, performer.
Muddy Waters, 1915-1983, performer.
Reed, Jimmy, 1925-1976, performer.
Taylor, Koko, performer.
Berry, Chuck, performer.
Domino, Fats, 1928-2017, performer.
Gardner, Don (Musician), performer.
Ford, Dee Dee, 1936-1972, performer.
Thomas, Irma, performer.
Sledge, Percy, performer.
Perkins, Carl, 1932-1998, performer.
Lewis, Jerry Lee, performer.
Hooker, John Lee, performer.
King, Albert, 1923-1992, performer.
Hill, Rocky, performer.
Winter, Johnny, performer.
Van Zandt, Townes, performer.
Cray, Robert, performer.
Leadbelly, 1885-1949, performer.
Turner, Ike, performer.
Turner, Tina, performer.
Ike and Tina Turner Revue, performer.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Blues (Music).
Genre:
Blues (Music)
Physical Description:
2 audio discs ; 4 3/4 in.
Place of Publication:
[New York, N.Y.] : Tomato, [1989]
System Details:
digital
optical
1.4 m/s
audio file
CD audio
Contents:
Too wet to plow (4:20) (Johnny Shines)
You got to move (2:49) (Mississippi Fred McDowell)
Joshua fit the battle of Jericho (3:17) (Peg Leg Sam)
Sweet blood call (2:57) (Louisiana Red)
Cryin' shame (2:30) (Lightnin' Hopkins)
Playing with the thing (2:36) (Sonny Terry)
Fattening frogs for snakes (2:20) (Sonny Boy Williams)
Music is my business (2:38) (Roosevelt Sykes)
Dead man blues (3:13) (Jelly Roll Morton)
St. Louis blues (3:02) (Louis Armstrong)
Alexander's ragtime band (2:59) (Bessie Smith)
Shake baby shake (2:24) (Champion Jack Dupree)
Poison Ivy (2:52) (Willie Mabon)
Please don't talk about me when I'm gone (1:52) (Billie Holiday)
Parker's mood (3:01) (Charlie Parker)
Ball & chain (6:55) ('Big Mama' Thornton)
Juke (2:41) (Little Walter)
Little red rooster (2:23) (Howlin' Wolf)
Fanny Mae (2:55) (Buster Brown)
The sky is crying (2:42) (Elmore James)
There is a fountain (4:25) (Aretha Franklin)
Blues is my middle name (3:09) (Ray Charles)
Poor fool (2:33) (Ike & Tina Turner)
The other night blues (3:34) (B.B. King)
The blues had a baby (2:51) (Brownie McGhee)
Bo Diddley (2:26) (Bo Diddley)
Lucille (2:24) (Little Richard)
I'd rather go blind (2:33) (Etta James)
Kansas City (2:23) (Wilbert Harrison)
Mannish boy (2:53) (Muddy Waters)
Take out some insurance (2:23) (Jimmy Reed)
Wang dang doodle (2:59) (Koko Taylor)
In the wee wee hours (3:01) (Chuck Berry)
Blue Monday (2:42) (Fats Domino)
I need your lovin' (2:14) (Don Garner & Dee Dee Ford)
Wish someone would care (2:11) (Irma Thomas)
When a man needs a woman (2:54) (Percy Sledge)
Honey don't (2:46) (Carl Perkins)
Whole lotta shakin' goin' on (5:00) (Jerry Lee Lewis)
Tupelo (7:22) (John Lee Hooker)
Angel of mercy (5:51) (Albert King)
Bad girl blues (2:44) (Rocky Hill & Johnny Winter)
Nothin' (2:46) (Townes van Zandt)
Too many cooks (2:47) (Robert Cray)
Midnight special (2:54) (Leadbelly).
Participant:
Various performers.
Notes:
Tomato: 2696 152.
Title from disc labels.
Blues songs.
This compilation contains previously released material.
Program notes by Pete Welding in booklet in container.
Contains:
Too wet to plow.
You got to move.
Joshua fit the battle of Jericho.
Sweet blood call.
Cryin' shame.
Crying shame.
Playing with the thing.
Fattening frogs for snakes.
Music is my business.
Dead man blues.
St. Louis blues.
Alexander's ragtime band.
Shake baby shake.
Poison Ivy.
Please don't talk about me when I'm gone.
Parker's mood.
Ball & chain.
Ball and chain.
Juke.
Little red rooster.
Fanny Mae.
Sky is crying.
There is a fountain.
Blues is my middle name.
Poor fool.
Other night blues.
Blues had a baby.
Bo Diddley.
Lucille.
I'd rather go blind.
Kansas City.
Mannish boy.
Take out some insurance.
Wang dang doodle.
In the wee wee hours.
Blue Monday.
I need your lovin'.
I need your loving.
Wish someone would care.
When a man needs a woman.
Honey don't.
Whole lotta shakin' goin' on.
Whole lotta shaking going on.
Tupelo.
Angel of mercy.
Bad girl blues.
Nothin'.
Nothing.
Too many cooks.
Midnight special.
OCLC:
221040801
Publisher Number:
027726961521
2696 152 Tomato

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