VA - Classic Blues from Bluesville [2014] (3 x CDs)

BLUESVILLE BLUES

Previously posted February 26, 2020

VA - Classic Blues from Bluesville [2014] (3 x CDs)

Bluesville was a subsidiary of Prestige Records and released many good blues albums over the years. This 3 CD set is a pretty good overview of the kinds of blues the label was recording and releasing. But another 3 CD set could easily be issued because there's so many great blues artists/songs available from that era. The sound is pretty good/good overall--like other sets from the Not Now Music label. And similar to other releases, there's no booklet, only a short essay about the label and a few of the artists.

Most of the blues on this compilation lean toward country blues, with a smattering of more sophisticated blues from people like Willie Dixon, Alberta Hunter, Victoria Spivey, and even Sunnyland Slim.  These tracks were recorded in the late 1950's/early '60s, when the folk-blues boom was just starting to happen. And as such they rely mostly on acoustic guitar, piano, and mouth harp for accompaniment, along with a small rhythm section. Bluesville was known (in the vinyl LP days) as a label for country/folk/blues and this collection has a number of good/great tracks from many artists. This compilation is a perfect foil to the more electric, post-war collections from the Not Now label. (Amazon)

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Track Lists

CD 1

01 Lightnin' Hopkins - Walkin' This Road by Myself 4:52

02 Memphis Slim - Grinder Man Blues 4:34

03 Blind Willie McTell - Broke Down Engine Blues 2:46

04 Alberta Hunter - You Gotta Reap What You Sow 2:43

05 Lonnie Johnson - No Love for Sale 3:03

06 Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Custard Pie Blues 2:43

07 Victoria Spivey - I'm a Red Hot Mama 3:32

08 Scrapper Blackwell - Blues Before Sunrise 5:10

09 Mildred Anderson - Everybody's Got Somebody but M 5:34

10 K.C. Douglas - Big Road Blues 3:25

11 Al Smith - Goin' to Alabama 3:21

12 Furry Lewis - Done Changed My Mind 3:00

13 Robert Pete Williams - I've Grown so Ugly 2:49

14 Shakey Jake - Jake's Cha Cha 2:07

15 Henry Townsend - Tired of Being Mistreated 2:57

16 Pink Anderson - Greasy Greens 4:40

17 Sonny Terry - Four O'clock Blues 3:33

18 Memphis Willie B. - Wine Drinking Women 3:37

19 Curtis Jones - Suicide Blues 4:08

20 Big Joe Williams - Pallet on the Floor 3:01

CD 2

01 Willie Dixon - Go Easy 5:52

02 Tampa Red - Don’t Jive Me 3:31

03 Big Joe Williams - Meet Me at the Bottom 3:30

04 Alberta Hunter - I Got a Mind to Ramble 2:42

05 Lightnin' Hopkins - Catfish Blues 4:17

06 Brownie McGhee - The Killin' Floor 3:41

07 Sunnyland Slim - The Devil Is a Busy Man 3:57

08 Blind Snooks Eaglin - Brown Skinned Woman 3:41

09 Mercy Dee Walton - One Room Country Shack 4:06

10 Lonnie Johnson & Victoria Spivey - Idle Hours 3:31

11 Sidney Maiden - Sidney's Fox Chase 2:27

12 Roosevelt Sykes - Miss Ida B. 4:58

13 Reverend Gary Davis - Lost Boy in the Wilderness 5:00

14 K.C. Douglas - Bottle up and Go 4:06

15 Little Brother Montgomery - Vicksburg Blues 3:15

16 Robert Pete Williams - Free Again 5:01

17 Memphis Slim - Frankie and Johnny Boogie 4:08

18 Furry Lewis - Shake 'Em on Down 2:51

19 Mildred Anderson & Eddie Davis Quartet - I'm Gettin' Long Alright (Connections) 2:44

20 Scrapper Blackwell - Goin' Where the Monon Crosses the Yellow Dog 4:47

CD 3

01 Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - That's Why I'm Walking 2:45

02 Alberta Hunter - Chirpin' the Blues 3:32

03 Lonnie Johnson & Elmer Snowden - Haunted House 4:59

04 Lightnin' Hopkins - Coffee Blues 3:38

05 Mercy Dee Walton - Have You Ever Been out in the 3:38

06 Lucille Hegamin - St. Louis Blues 3:31

07 Reverend Gary Davis - Death Don't Have No Mercy 4:43

08 Blind Snooks Eaglin - Alberta 2:34

09 Sidney Maiden - Me and My Chauffeur 2:37

10 Sunnyland Slim - I'm Prison Bound 3:25

11 Memphis Willie B. - Worried Man Blues 3:23

12 Little Brother Montgomery - Santa Fe 2:37

13 Victoria Spivey - I Got Men All over This Town 5:02

14 Al Smith & Eddie Davis Quartet - I've Got the Right Kind of Lov 3:24

15 Pink Anderson - Baby I'm Going Away 2:56

16 Willie Dixon - Sittin' and Cryin' the Blues 3:15

17 Tampa Red - You Better Let My Gal Alone 3:23

18 Roosevelt Sykes - Hangover 3:18

19 Scrapper Blackwell - Little Boy Blue 3:07

20 Blind Willie McTell - The Dyin' Crapshooter's Blues 3:03

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