The great Tomato blues package.

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:

"45 classic blues selections"--Container.

Title from disc labels.

Blues songs.

This compilation contains previously released material.

Program notes by Pete Welding in booklet in container.

OCLC:

221040801

Publisher Number:

027726961521

2696 152 Tomato