BLUES
VA - Everything You Ever Need to Know About the Blues, Parts 1, 2 & 3 [2020] (3 x CDs)
Everything You Ever Need to Know About the Blues Volumes 1, 2 and 3 is less a formal anthology and more an expansive listening project that stiches together a huge range of blues voices, eras and styles, an unofficial, bootleg assembled series that functions as a raw survey of the music through its most resonant figures. Taken as a whole, the set’s three parts cast a wide net, moving from delta and country blues through Chicago and urban electric styles, and touching early rhythm-and-blues-inflected performances alongside more classic post-war blues.
What gives this unsanctioned compilation its shape is sheer breadth. Foundational figures sit alongside more familiar names, with guitarists, pianists and harmonica players often appearing in succession across the volumes, their different approaches sketching a rough but tangible history of the form. Early selections lean into raw, acoustic textures, voices close and unvarnished, rhythm driven by sand-papered beat and breath. As the series unfolds, the sound broadens into electric bands, fuller arrangements, and performances that carry the tension between tradition and evolution.
Sequencing across three volumes teases out contrasts as much as similarities, so that raw country blues might give way to horn-driven shuffles, and solo performance may sit beside band-driven numbers. Over the long arc the emotional language of blues, lament, resilience, rhythm, swing — becomes clear less through definition than accumulation.
As a whole, Everything You Ever Need to Know About the Blues operates like a field recording assembled for breadth rather than precision, offering a sprawling, sometimes rough-edged portrait of the music’s many moods, voices and eras. It rewards sustained listening and patience, and its unofficial nature underscores that the blues itself has never been a single market product but a living, shifting tradition. (B)
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Track lists
Vol. 1
01 Muddy Waters - Forty Days and Forty Nights 2:54
02 Otis Rush - I Can't Quit You Baby 3:07
03 Howlin' Wolf - I Asked for Water - She Gave Me Gasoline 2:51
04 Sonny Boy Williamson - From the Bottom 2:40
05 Champion Jack Dupree - Walking the Blues 3:01
06 Howlin' Wolf - Forty Four 2:50
07 Sonny Boy Williamson - Don't Start Me Talkin' 2:35
08 Little Walter - Who 2:24
09 Screamin' Jay Hawkins - She Put the Whamee on Me 3:04
10 Bobby "Blue" Bland - It's My Life 2:45
11 Elmore James - Dust My Blues 3:11
12 Little Willie John - Need Your Love so Bad 2:18
13 Jimmy Reed - Ain't That Loving You Baby 2:15
14 Smiley Lewis - I Hear You Knocking 2:33
15 Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy 2:56
16 Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightnin' 3:08
17 Little Walter - My Babe 2:42
18 Sonny Boy Williamson (II) - Keep it to Yourself 2:51
19 Big Joe Turner - Corrinne, Corrina 2:55
20 Muddy Waters - Just Make Love to Me 2:51
21 Little Walter - You're so Fine 2:27
22 Willie Mabon - Poison Ivy 2:05
23 Elmore James - Make My Dreams Come True 2:42
24 Lowell Fulson - Reconsider Baby 3:12
25 Muddy Waters - I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man 2:52
26 Jimmy Reed - You Don't Have to Go 3:06
27 J.B. Lenoir - Play a Little While 2:46
28 John Lee Hooker - Pouring Down Rain 2:35
29 Memphis Minnie - Kissing in the Dark 2:29
30 Jimmy Rogers - Sloppy Drunk Blues 3:03
31 Muddy Waters - I Want to Be Loved 2:31
Vol. 2
01 Guitar Slim - Story of My Life 3:02
02 Little Walter - Last Night 2:44
03 Muddy Waters - I'm Ready 3:04
04 T-bone Walker - Wanderin' Heart 2:32
05 Howlin' Wolf - Rockin' Daddy 3:04
06 Willie Mabon - I'm Mad 2:38
07 Champion Jack Dupree - Shake Baby Shake 2:27
08 Big Joe Turner - Honey Hush 2:39
09 Willie Mabon - You're a Fool 2:26
10 Otis Blackwell - Daddy Rollin' Stone 2:42
11 Memphis Slim - The Come Back 2:38
12 T-bone Walker - Party Girl 2:10
13 Floyd Dixon - Hole in the Wall 2:52
14 Little Junior's Blue Flames - Fussin' & Fightin' Blues 2:58
15 Freddie King - Hide Away 2:37
16 Willie Nix - Truckin' Little Woman 2:39
17 James Cotton - Straighten up Baby 2:20
18 Howlin' Wolf - The Wolf is at Your Door 2:59
19 Freddie King - I'm Torn Down 2:39
20 Muddy Waters - Rock Me 3:15
21 Memphis Slim - How Long 2:21
22 Howlin' Wolf - How Many More Years 2:44
23 Sonny Terry & Brownie Mcghee - Livin' with the Blues 3:59
24 Snooks Eaglin - By the Water 2:39
25 Freddie King - San-Ho-Zay 2:40
26 Jimmy Witherspoon - Ain't Nobody's Business 6:51
27 Arthur Big Boy Crudup - That's All Right - Mama 2:56
28 Buddy Guy - Sit and Cry 3:01
29 Muddy Waters - Rollin' Stone 3:08
30 Buddy Guy - You Sure Can't Do 2:39
31 Muddy Waters - Rollin' and Tumblin' 3:00
Vol. 3
01 Jimmy Witherspoon - When the Lights Go Out 2:53
02 Elmore James - The Sky is Crying 2:50
03 Albert King - Travelin' to California 3:03
04 Mississippi Fred McDowell - 61 Highway Blues 3:10
05 Magic Sam & Shakey Jake Harris (vocal) - Call Me If You Need Me 3:05
06 Smokey Hogg - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl 2:23
07 Bobby "Blue" Bland - Turn on Your Lovelight 2:40
08 Junior Wells - I Could Cry 2:54
09 Muddy Waters - I Got My Mojo Working 2:54
10 Albert King - Dyna Flow 2:51
11 Magic Sam - Everything Gonna Be Alright 2:51
12 Arthur Alexander - You Better Move on 2:46
13 Arthur Big Boy Crudup - So Glad You're Mine 2:48
14 Slim Harpo - I M a King Bee 3:08
15 Jimmy Witherspoon - Spoon's Blues 2:26
16 Blind Willie McTell - Lay Some Flowers on My Grave 3:26
17 Magic Sam - Love Me with a Feeling 2:10
18 Champion Jack Dupree - Junker's Blues 3:12
19 Robert Jr. Lockwood & His Band - My Daily Wish 2:43
20 Otis Spann - It Must Have Been the Devil 2:43
21 Jimmy McGriff - I've Got a Woman Part 1 3:59
22 Roosevelt Sykes - Sweet Old Chicago 2:24
23 Chuck Willis - C.c. Rider 2:37
24 Big Walter Horton - Easy 3:00
25 T-bone Walker - The Hustle is on 2:34
26 Pee Wee Crayton & His Guitar - You Know Yeah 2:35
27 Blind John Davis - The Day Will Come 2:48
28 Jimmy Reed - The Sun is Shining 2:52
29 Sunnyland Slim - Going Back to Memphis 2:59
30 Albert Collins - The Freeze 2:22
31 Jimmy Witherspoon - Hey, Mrs. Jones 2:21
32 Big Joe Williams - Someday Baby 3:13
33 Muddy Waters - Gypsy Woman 2:37
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