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VA - Blues Women Anthology [2007] (18 x CDs)

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VA - Blues Women Anthology [2007] (18 x CDs)

The Blues Women Anthology series is a sprawling, unofficial collection of compilations that gathers performances by female blues artists from many eras and corners of the genre. Unlike curated anthologies issued by record labels with rights clearances and remastered sources, these anthologies are bootleg compilations assembled outside the formal industry system, circulating largely as digital double-CD sets. That context matters to how the series functions more than any single track list, because part of the experience is encountering music that might otherwise be scattered across rare LPs, obscure singles, or out-of-print compilations.

As a body of material these anthologies are eclectic and uneven by design. There are moments of clear beauty and deep expression here, performances that carry the raw emotional weight and stylistic range that define blues as a form. Vocals and instrumentation run the gamut from early country blues grit to later urban and rhythm-inflected styles, giving a broad, if informal, sense of the diverse voices women brought to the music over decades. On its own terms the series can be a trove of interesting performances, especially for listeners who enjoy discovery outside mainstream catalogs.

The Blues Women Anthology series reads more as a collector-driven archive than a polished survey. It shines brightest when taken as a window into the breadth of women’s contributions to blues and related forms, approached with an ear for charm and curiosity rather than expecting uniform fidelity or definitive representation. That blend of rawness and range gives the series a particular appeal, even as its unofficial nature and patchy quality remind listeners that it occupies a different space from sanctioned anthologies backed by labels and rights. (B)

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Track lists

Vo. 1 CD1

01 Rory Block - Peavine Blues 3:30

02 Karin Rudefelt & Doctor Blues - It's a Curse 3:53

03 Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog 2:48

04 Marcia Ball - Mobile 3:04

05 Memphis Minnie - Killer Diller Blues 2:29

06 Nina Hagen & Leipzig Big Band - Sugar Blues 3:23

07 Ma Rainey - Runaway Blues 2:26

08 Aretha Franklin - Today I Sing The Blues 4:21

09 Maggie Bell & Stone The Crows - The Touch of Your Loving Hand 6:00

10 Jo Anne Kelly - The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair (live) 3:00

11 Billie Holiday - God Bless The Child 3:57

12 Diamanda Galás & John Paul Jones - Dark End of The Street 2:41

13 Ella Fitzgerald - Blues in the Night 3:39

14 Janis Joplin - Turtle Blues (live) 4:20

15 Clara Smith - For Sale (Hannah Johnson's Big Jack Ass) 2:56

16 Isabel Tavares & Black Coffee Band - Chain of Fools 2:57

17 Elle Walker & Matt Corcoran - Can't Sing 4:25

18 Marva Whitney - I'm Tired, I'm Tired, I'm Tiered (Things Better Change Before It's Too Late) 2:26

19 Sheryl Crow - Long Gone Lonesome Blues (live) 3:06

20 Deborah Coleman & Joe Willie 'Pinetop' Perkins - Meanest Woman 3:20

21 Etta James - I Just Wanna Make Love to You 3:03

22 Diana Krall & Vince Benedetti - Detroit Blues 6:27


Vo. 1 CD2

01 Etta James - Hoochie Coochie Gal 4:21

02 Marcia Ball - Scene of the Crime 3:10

03 Carmen McRae & Dave Brubeck - Travellin' Blues (live) 2:56

04 Ma Rainey - See See Rider Blues 3:17

05 Sheryl Crow - Tombstone Blues (live) 4:35

06 Diamanda Galás - Reap What You Sow 3:38

07 Isabel Tavares & Black Coffee Band - Proud Mary 4:22

08 Karin Rudefelt & Doctor Blues - My Baby and The Booze 4:11

09 Virginia Liston - I've Got What it Takes 3:14

10 Ella Fitzgerald & The Tommy Flanagan Trio - I Ain't Got Nothing But The Blues (live) 4:17

11 Odetta - Another Man Done Gone 2:08

12 Rory Block - Big Road Blues (live) 2:10

13 Big Mama Thornton - Ball and Chain 4:45

14 Diana Krall - Body and Soul 5:28

15 Amy Madigan & Ry Cooder - He Made a Woman Out of Me 4:08

16 Billie Holiday - I Must Have That Man 3:02

17 Precious Bryant - Don't Jump My Pony 3:21

18 Norah Jones - Bessie Smith (live) 4:05

19 Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved A Man 2:48

20 Clara Smith - Kitchen Mechanic Blues 3:19

21 Janis Joplin - Mercedes Benz 1:45

22 Memphis Minnie - Fashion Plate Daddy 2:58


Vo. 2 CD1

01 Janiva Magness - Less and Less of You 3:28

02 Helen Humes - St. Louis Blues 2:43

03 Irene Scruggs - The Voice of The Blues 2:52

04 Blues Queen Sylvia - Why Wonder 4:39

05 Jessie Mae Hemphill - Standing in My Doorway Crying 4:40

06 Reneé Austin - Heartless World 3:01

07 Bessie Smith - Take it Right Back 3:21

08 Jolie Holland - Old Fashion Morphine 4:32

09 Odetta - Nobody knows 2:19

10 Ike & Tina Turner - I Smell Trouble (live) 6:53

11 Erja Lyytinen - Dreamland Blues 4:10

12 Lucinda Williams - Fruits of My Labor 4:46

13 Maria Muldaur - Fool's Paradise 5:33

14 Holly Cole - Hum Drum Blues 5:33

15 Natalie Cole - Ahmad's Blues 4:12

16 Gillian Welch, Allison Krauss & Emmylou Harris - Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby 1:54

17 Gaye Adegbalola & Roddy Barnes - Crazy Blues 3:15

18 Suzi Quatro - Fever 3:39

19 Rory Block - Crossroad Blues 2:29

20 Delbert McClinton & Francine Reed - I Used to Worry 2:54

21 Nina Simone - Go to Hell 2:46


Vo. 2 CD2

01 Janiva Magness - I'm Leaving You 3:17

02 Maria Viana Blues Band - Basin Street Blues (live) 3:21

03 Bonnie Tyler - Turtle Blues (live) 4:09

04 Madeleine Peyroux - Reckless Blues 3:01

05 Sarah Vaughan - No 'Count Blues 5:25

06 Helen Humes - Jet Propelled Papa 2:45

07 Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris - I Feel The Blues Movin In 4:31

08 Bessie Smith - Me and My Gin 2:51

09 Jolie Holland - Poor Girl 5:23

10 Suzi Quatro - Shot of Rhythm and Blues 4:51

11 Eva Cassidy - Wade in the Water 4:02

12 Rory Block - Peavine Blues 3:30

13 Jessie Mae Hemphill - Shame on You I Feel It 4:53

14 Big Maybelle Smith - Just Want Your Love 3:12

15 Laura Fedele - 29 Dollari (e una borsetta di coccodrillo) 6:05

16 Blues Queen Sylvia - Can't Get Along 5:38

17 Nina Simone - House of the Rising Sun 3:49

18 Lucinda Williams - Hard Times Killing Floor Blues 5:11

19 Irene Scruggs & Blind Blake - Itching Heel 3:16


Vo. 3 CD1

01 Bonnie Raitt - Give it Up Or Let Me Go 4:27

02 Shirley Brown - If You're Weak Enough 4:54

03 Gaye Adegbalola with Roddy Barnes - Nothing in Rambling 3:51

04 Susan Tedeschi - Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean 4:40

05 Claudia Bettinaglio - Ice Cream Man 3:01

06 Betty Davis - 70's Blues 4:56

07 Katie Melua - Crawling Up The Hill 3:22

08 Erja Lyytinen - Greed 2:52

09 Marcia Ball, Lou Ann Barton & Angela Strehli - I Idolize You 3:30

10 Bettye LaVette - Little Sparrow 4:39

11 Thornetta Davis - Please Send Me Someone to Love (live) 7:49

12 Deitra Farr - I'm Feeling Good 4:07

13 Amy Winehouse - Rehab 3:32

14 Sue Foley - Walkin' Home 3:13

15 Concrete Blonde - Simple Twist of Fate 5:44

16 Denise La Salle - It Be's That Way Sometimes 8:35

17 Zora Young - Go Ahead and Take Him 6:33


Vo. 3 CD2

01 Marcia Ball, Lou Ann Barton & Angela Strehli - Good Rockin' Daddy 2:18

02 Cher - (The Fall) Kurt's Blues 5:15

03 Bettye Lavette - Serves Him Right 3:27

04 Astrid Seriese - Underground 1:58

05 Yolanda Adams - Even Me 5:26

06 Louise Hoffsten - I Pity the Fool 4:09

07 Tracy Conover & Arlo West - Help Me 6:55

08 Scarlett Johansson - Summertime 3:53

09 Sue Foley - You Don't Have to Go (live) 4:32

10 Lucille Bogan - Pay Roll Blues 2:55

11 Maggie Jones & Louis Armstrong - Screamin' the Blues 3:11

12 Lou Ann Barton - One Good Man 5:21

13 Ana Popovic - Need All The Help I Can Get 2:47

14 Emmylou Harris & Mark Knopfler - Right Now 3:27

15 Katie Melua - My Aphrodisiac is You 3:30

16 Elvie Thomas & Geechie Wiley - Last Kind Words Blues 3:00

17 Dinah Washington - Romance in the Dark 2:11

18 Eve Monsees - Lonely Lonely Nights 3:53

19 Duane Allman, Bonnie Bramlett & Delany Bramlett - Come on in My Kitchen (live) 3:35

20 Madeleine Peyroux - Don't Wait Too Long 3:07

21 Debbie Davies & Kenny Neal - Money 4:44


Vo. 4 CD1

01 Koko Taylor - Piece of Man 4:29

02 Linda Perry & 4 Non Blondes - Pleasantly Blue 2:24

03 Roxanne Potvin - Say It 2:28

04 Ana Popovic - Recall The Days 3:43

05 Tina Turner - Night Time is The Right Time 6:06

06 Beverly "Guitar" Watkins - You Make Me Feel So Good 3:48

07 Doris Troy - What You Will Blues 4:57

08 Norah Jones & The Little Willies - I Gotta Get Drunk 2:26

09 Dinah Washington - It's a Mean Old Man's World 3:11

10 Trixie Smith - My Daddy Rocks Me 2:51

11 Gloria Estefan & B.B. King - There Must Be a Better World Somewhere 6:48

12 April Lawton & Ramatam - Push a Little 5:16

13 Astrid Seriese - Yesterday is Here 3:31

14 Sally Norvell - Please Call Me, Baby 5:01

15 Della Reese - I Got the Blues 3:27

16 Mildred Bailey - Gulf Coast Blues 3:07

17 Susan Tedeschi - Better Days 6:43

18 Katie Webster - Problems 3:46

19 Mahalia Jackson - Joshua Fit the Battle of Jerico (live) 2:23

20 Sweet Georgia Brown - The Low Down Lonely Blues 3:12


Vo. 4 CD2

01 Janis Joplin - One Good Man 4:09

02 B.J. Sharp - Never Felt No Blues 4:43

03 Angela Strehli - Deja Blue 4:18

04 Claudia Bettinaglio - $29 7:08

05 Zouka Dzaza & X-Ray Pop - Le Pull Péruvien (live) 7:42

06 Algia Mae Hinton - My Baby's Gone 3:36

07 Barbara Carr - You Gonna Mess Around and Get Bit 4:31

08 Bonnie Raitt - Walkin' Blues (live) 3:29

09 Carmen Maki & Blues Creation - Mean Old Boogie 4:59

10 Bettye Lavette - Hey, Hey Baby (Bettye's Blues) 4:13

11 Anaïs - Bad Blues Player (live) 5:58

12 Doris Troy - Exactly Like You 3:06

13 Sammy Price - I Love to Georgia Brown So Slow 3:00

14 Roxanne Potvin - While I Wait for You 3:25

15 Big Maybelle - Ramblin' Blues 2:51

16 Linda Thompson - Do Your Best for Rock 'N Roll 4:38

17 Lil Green - Why Don't You Do Right? 2:56

18 Sarah Vaughan - I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues 4:59


Vo. 5 CD1

01 Big Time Sarah - Hochie Coochie Woman 4:56

02 Cher - See See Rider 2:36

03 Dana Gillespie - Long Lean Baby 3:45

04 Deborah Coleman, Roxanne Potvin & Sue Foley - So Far 4:49

05 Joan Baez - New York Blues (live) 9:23

06 Ivian Greene - Red Light 2:55

07 Adrienne Morgan Hammond - Don't Get Around Much Anymore 2:46

08 Dianne Schuur - I'm Not Ashamed to Sing The Blues 6:23

09 Carly Simon - One More Time 3:28

10 Irma Thomas - Sufferin' With The Blues 2:14

11 Nancy Sinatra - Two Shots of Happy, One Shot of Sad 4:13

12 Deborah Coleman - Torn in Two 3:31

13 Michelle Shocked - Graffiti Limbo 3:37

14 Deanna Bogart - Good Times 3:22

15 Jan James - Limousine Blues 4:32

16 Wendy Saddington - Backlash Blues (live) 3:48

17 Maria Muldaur - A Good Man is Hard to Find 3:55

18 Cassandra Wilson - Slow Down Woman 2:18

19 Julia Lee - My Man Stands Out 2:11

20 Tracy Chapman - Give Me One Reason 4:27


Vo. 5 CD2

01 Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - This Land is Your Land 4:29

02 Bonnie Tyler - Need Your Love So Bad 5:10

03 Lea Gilmore - Trouble in Mind (live) 2:42

04 Thornetta Davis - Cry 4:10

05 Denise La Salle - A Love Reputation 2:44

06 Deanna Bogart - I'll Be Missing You 5:33

07 Debbie Davies - Sittin' & Cryin' 4:14

08 Joanna Connor - Big Girl Blues 3:44

09 Michelle Shocked - Hello Hopeville 2:54

10 Betty Davis - Special People 3:19

11 Roxanne Potvin - Your Love Keeps Working on Me 3:06

12 Janiva Magness - Lost and Lookin' 2:55

13 Jo Anne Kelly - Back Water Blues 3:10

14 Etta Baker - Never Let Your Deal Go Down 3:00

15 Julie London - Blues in the Night 3:39

16 Ana Popovic - How'd You Learn to Shake it Like That? 3:56

17 Heart - Love Alive (live) 5:06

18 Maggie Bell & Stone The Crows - Danger Zone 6:17

19 Tierney Sutton - Walkin' After Midnight 2:58

20 Julia Lee & Her Boyfriends - King Size Papa 2:40

21 Mildred Jones - Mr. Thrill 2:30


Vo. 6 CD1

01 Erja Lyytinen - Skinny Girl 3:05

02 Irma Thomas - I  Need Your Love So Bad 3:15

03 Safhire - T'ain't Nobody's Business 4:12

04 Lou Ann Barton & Stevie Ray Vaughan - You Can Have My Husband 2:52

05 Heart - Things 2:36

06 Rebecca Hancock Snow & Wayne Hancock - Summertime 5:41

07 Bonnie Bramlett - I Can Laugh About it Now 2:51

08 Tierney Sutton Band - Get Happy (Version 1) 4:46

09 Candye Kane - The Lord Was A Woman 3:15

10 Wendy Saddington - Blues in A (Live) 14:19

11 Dana Gillespie - Below The Belt 3:42

12 Maria Aurigema & Jeff Healey - Feels Right Take Me 2:50

13 Erma Franklin - Hold on I'm Coming 3:02

14 Carolyn Wonderland - Judgement Day Blues 4:23

15 Georgia White - Walking The Street 2:27

16 Dianne Schuur - When Did You Leave Heaven? 4:15

17 Koko Taylor - You Ain't Worth A Good Woman 5:33

18 Angela Brown & Katie Webster - Hold Him Close 2:52

19 Patti Smith - Soul Kitchen 3:43


Vo. 6 CD2

01 Isabel Tavares & Black Coffee Band - Hootchie Coochie Girl 4:28

02 Rory Block - Rowdy Blues 3:03

03 Bonnie Raitt - You Got to Know How 3:33

04 Della Reese - Sermonette 2:20

05 Deborah Coleman - The Day it Comes 3:50

06 Reneé Austin - U-Haul 3:10

07 Karin Rudefelt & Doctor Blues - Pick Your Battles 3:11

08 Carolyn Wonderland - Homelessness in Austin 3:54

09 Barbara Carr - Bo Hawg Grind 4:33

10 Katie Melua - Blues in the Night 4:11

11 Diamanda Galás & John Paul Jones - Baby's Insane 4:37

12 Linda Gail & Jerry Lee Lewis - Baby (you've got what it takes) 2:36

13 Deitra Farr - Anywhere But Here 4:27

14 Melvina Allen - Steppin' In 4:36

15 Dana Gillespie - Sweets 3:25

16 Dixie Chicks - Some Days You Gotta Dance (live) 2:36

17 Victoria Spivey - Good Cabbage 3:03

18 Michelle Shocked - If Love Was a Train 4:03

19 Maria Muldaur - Don't You Feel My Leg 2:45

20 Tierney Sutton Band - Get Happy (version 2) 5:03

21 Maria Aurigema & Jeff Healey - Love is Like 6:06


Vo. 7 CD1

01 Angela Strehli - Cut You Loose 3:47

02 Doris Troy - You Give Me Joy Joy 3:37

03 Big Maybelle - Maybelle's Blues 3:08

04 Marsha Raven & Bernie Marsden - Loved Another Woman 4:12

05 Lou Ann Barton - Every Night of The Week 2:36

06 Melvina Allen - Dr. Feelgood 5:48

07 Bettye Lavette - It Ain't Easy 2:24

08 Big Mama Thornton - Sweet Little Angel 5:25

09 Jula de Palma - ST. Louis Blues 3:01

10 Carmen McRae - Monkery's the Blues 4:51

11 Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - Fish in the Dish 3:15

12 Janis Joplin - Ball and Chain (live) 8:56

13 Reese Witherspoon - Juke Box Blues 2:11

14 Merline Johnson - Love With A Feeling 2:51

15 Reneé Austin - One Man 3:23

16 Katie Melua - Learnin' The Blues 3:21

17 Lara Martelli - New Orleans 0:39

18 Ann Rabson - School Days 2:45

19 Ida Cox & Coleman Hawkins Quintet - Blues for Rampart Street 2:56

20 Jessi Colter - Why You Been Gone So Long 3:03

21 Katie Webster - Lord, I Wonder 4:03

22 Bonnie Bramlett - Gotcha 2:50


Vo. 7 CD2

01 Debbie Davies - Lovin' Cup 4:50

02 Bonnie Bramlett - A Change is Gonna Come 5:28

03 Joss Stone - Killing Time 5:09

04 Katie Melua - Mockingbird Song 3:04

05 Erja Lyytinen - You Talk Dirty 4:21

06 Billie Holiday & BB King - Stormy Blues 3:26

07 Eva Cassidy - Stormy Monday (live) 5:48

08 Big Maybelle - Pitiful 2:55

09 Wendy Saddington - Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues (live) 7:42

10 Diamanda Galás - Blue Spirit Blues (live) 4:43

11 Aretha Franklin - Baby I Love You 2:39

12 Marsha Raven & Bernie Marsden - Downhome Blues 4:43

13 Ann Rabson - Let Me Go Home, Whiskey 4:05

14 Precious Bryant - My Babbe 2:53

15 Candye Kane - It Won't Be Long 3:43

16 Sue Foley, Deborah Coleman & Roxanne Potvin - Hitting on Nothing 2:53

17 Sweet Georgia Brown - Black Cat Bone 3:17

18 Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity - All Blues 5:40

19 Annie Lennox - Keep Young and Beautiful 2:16


Vo. 8 CD1

01 Katie Webster - On The Run 6:32

02 Tracy Conover - Wanta Be an Angel (live) 5:06

03 Lucinda Williams - Happy Woman Blues 3:08

04 Deitra Farr - Call Your Wife 4:37

05 Mavis Staples - Step Into the Light 4:48

06 Renee Olstead - At Last 4:32

07 Victoria Spivey - Dope Head Blues 3:21

08 Aline Fajardo & Trio Bluseiro - Blues Cabeça 2:30

09 Ellen McIlwaine - I'm a Women (live) 6:20

10 Miranda Lambert - Down 3:53

11 Tab Benoit, Debbie Davies & Kenny Neal - Homesick for the Road 3:40

12 Barbara Lynn - You Don't Have to Go 3:18

13 Dionne Warwick & BB King - Hummingbird 4:19

14 Carla Thomas & Otis Redding - Tell it Like it Is 3:11

15 Lynn White - May The Best Man Win 4:26

16 Jessi Colter - Is There Any Way 2:45

17 Rosemary Clooney - A Touch of the Blues 3:01

18 Martyna Jakubowicz - Dom Zachodzacego Slonca 3:47

19 Joss Stone - Dirty Man 2:56

20 Elis Regina - Vinte Anos Blues 2:40


Vo. 8 CD2

01 Ellen Mcilwaine - I Want Watcha Got 2:53

02 Peggy lee - Everything’s Moving Too Fast 2:57

03 Marian Mcpartland & Norah Jones - In The Dark 4:29

04 Diana Ross & The Supremes - The Son of a Preacher Man 2:25

05 Eva Cassidy - Getting Out 4:17

06 Tracy Conover - Addiction (live) 5:50

07 Carla Thomas - If It's Not Asking Too Much 2:35

08 Reneé Austin - Strangers on a Train 4:35

09 Marisa Monte - Negro Gato (live) 4:50

10 Rosemary Clooney - Learnin' the Blues 3:50

11 Renee Olstead - Is You is Or is You Ain't My Baby 3:18

12 Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity - In and Out 3:01

13 Miranda Lambert - Kerosene 3:04

14 Carolyn Dawn Johnson - Simple Life 3:48

15 Barbara Lynn - Sugar Coated Love 2:38

16 Michelle Shocked - Little Billie 4:32

17 Julia Lee - Don't Save it Too Long 2:24

18 Amy Grant & Keb' Mo - Come Be with Me 4:19

19 Doris Day - I've Gotta Sing Away These Blues 2:39

20 Lynn White - Your Time to Cry 4:51

21 Fear Itself - Crawlin' Kingsnake 3:20

22 Mavis Staples - What Happened to the Real Me 2:36


Vo. 9 CD1

01 Rita Coolidge - Hallelujah I Love Him So 3:07

02 Regina Spektor - Lady 4:42

03 Emilia Almazán - Don Diablo 2:36

04 Flora Purim - Sweet Baby Blues 3:11

05 Cláudia Lino & Velhas Virgens - Blues do Velcro 3:38

06 Marta Kubisová - Tak Dej se k Ruman a Projdem Suet 4:23

07 Sandra Hall - I Need to Love You 5:23

08 Annie Lyon - LSD Blues 4:25

09 Sinead O'Connor - Why Don't You Do Right? 2:22

10 Rosa Maria - Cantei um Blues 3:49

11 Denise Reis - Miss Celie's Blues 4:01

12 Clara McDaniel - Unwanted Child 4:05

13 Aguaturbia - Blues on the Westside 6:15

14 Rita Reys - Basin Street Blues 2:51

15 Lita Ford - White Lightnin' 3:53

16 Maria Muldaur - Brickyard Blues 4:15

17 Petra & Nobody's Bizness - Ain't Nobody's Bizness (live) 3:45

18 Julia Lee - That's What I Like 2:43

19 Patricia Kaas - Regarde les Riches 3:37

20 Joanna Dean - Ready for Saturday Night 3:55

21 Vânia Bastos - Sky of My Blues 2:58


Vo. 9 CD2

01 Sandra Hall - I Got the Will 3:03

02 Sinéad O'Connor - I Want to Be Loved by You 2:43

03 Helena Noguerra - Blues Indolent 3:15

04 Cowboy Junkies - Me & The Devil Blues 5:30

05 Wanda Sá with Sérgio Mendes & Brasil 66 - For What It's Worth 3:40

06 Rosa Maria - Rosa in Blues 3:58

07 Bonet - Blues en Sol 5:21

08 Marcella Gravina - My Pink Guitar (La mia chitarra dentellare) 2:06

09 Brigitte Bardot - Je Danse Donc Je Suis 1:52

10 Julia Lee - I Didn't Like it the First Time 2:57

11 Rita Coolidge - Call it Stormy Monday 5:02

12 Lita Ford - Spider Monkeys 5:36

13 Nico - My Funny Valentine 3:24

14 Etta Baker & Cora Phillips - Broken Hearted Blues 5:03

15 Dona Oxford - Red, White & Blues 5:17

16 Celeste Carballo - Mi Ultimo Blues 3:17

17 Christine Tobin - Not Just Anyone 4:54

18 Patricia Kaas - Mademoiselle Chante le Blues (live) 3:45

19 Marva Wright - Let the Good Times Roll 2:44

20 Mamie Smith - Crazy Blues 3:26

21 Marilina Ross - Blues para Seguir 2:52

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14 comments:

  1. Hi BB, fantastic compilation. Another one! Just a quick question: did you compile the songs yourself? Because the variety of performers is incredible. Your overview is truly vast. It almost offers a new approach to discovering the blues. A huge thank you for this truly engaging collection. Hervé

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    1. Hi Hervé,
      Really glad this one resonated with you. I didn’t compile the original set, that credit goes to the team behind the 2007 unofficial release, but I’m always drawn to collections that cast the net wide and give a fuller picture of a genre. The range of voices here is exactly what makes it such a rewarding listen, especially if you’re exploring the blues from new angles.
      Cheers.

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  2. Hi BB, thank you, this is great collection, some new names I am not familiar with, I have to explore it deeper. Ciao Christiaan

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    1. Hi Christiaan,
      That’s one of the joys of a set like this, plenty of familiar voices, but just as many artists waiting to be discovered. Hope the deeper dive brings a few new favourites your way.
      Cheers.

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  3. Another awesome gift. Never saw this before. Thanks always for your professorial introductions.

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    1. Hi BillyMac,
      Happy this one was new to you. It’s a deep, rewarding set, and a pleasure to post.
      Glad the intros help set the scene.
      Cheers.

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  4. What a mix! Thanks Butterboy for this really remarkable collection.

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    1. Hi Little Bill,
      It really is a wide‑ranging set, so many voices, styles, and stories woven together.
      It’s a collection worth spending time with.
      Cheers.

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  5. Thank you Butterboy. I know many of these artists but not many of the songs. I'm really looking forward to listening to this collection.

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    1. Hi Done4it,
      That’s the beauty of a set like this, familiar names paired with deep cuts you may not have crossed paths with yet. Plenty here to rediscover and plenty to hear for the first time.
      Enjoy the journey through it.
      Cheers.

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  6. Many thanks BB, especially for bringing the blues to the surface!

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  7. All has been said -
    Thank you very much, BB.
    Cheers,
    Giulio

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  8. nice one B.B thank you so much

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  9. Many thanks for these .. I have only recently started listening to Ana Popovic and Dianne Schuur .. so these I'm sure will add to my voyage of discovery.

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