VA - American Epic, The Best Of Blues [2017]

AMERICAN EPIC BLUES

VA - American Epic, The Best Of Blues [2017]

American Epic, The Best of Blues is a compilation of early blues songs recorded between 1927 and 1936 and released to accompany the American Epic films in 2017. The album was released as a 17-track download and a 13-track vinyl LP. The album was praised by critics as the definitive pre-war blues compilation.

The album concentrates on the first electrically recorded blues discs made in North America between 1927 and 1931. It covers a broad range of blues music, from Mississippi Delta artists such as, Charley Patton, Son House and Skip James to Memphis songsters like Frank Stokes and jug bands including the Memphis Jug Band and Cannon’s Jug Stompers, Piedmont blues players like Blind Willie McTell and Texas gospel blues evangelist Blind Willie Johnson.  The compilation also featured female country blues musicians like Geeshie Wiley and Mattie Delaney who were quite unusual at the time. The album opened with its sole later recording from 1936 - Robert Johnson’s “Cross Road Blues” which was itself inspired by the earlier recordings on the set and would become the conduit for later generations into rediscovering these hugely influential late 20's and early 30's blues recordings. (Wikipedia)

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Track lists

01 Robert Johnson Cross Road Blues 2:32

02 Memphis Jug Band On The Road Again 2:51

03 Mississippi John Hurt Louis Collins 3:01

04 Mississippi Sheiks Sittin' On Top Of The World 3:16

05 Frank Stokes 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I 3:16

06 Charley Patton Down The Dirt Road Blues 2:56

07 Son House My Black Mama, Pt. 1 & 2 6:24

08 Cannon's Jug Stompers Walk Right In 2:57

09 Bukka White The Panama Limited 3:12

10 Geeshie Wiley & Elvie Thomas Last Kind Words Blues 3:04

11 Garfield Akers Cottonfield Blues, Pt. 2 3:21

12 Mattie Delaney Tallahatchie River Blues 2:48

13 Blind Willie McTell Mamma, 'Tain't Long Fo' Day 3:05

14 Willie Brown Future Blues 2:57

15 Tommy Johnson Cool Drink Of Water Blues 3:34

16 Skip James Cypress Grove Blues 3:14

17 Blind Willie Johnson Dark Was The Night, Cold Was T 3:26

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