VA - Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues, A Musical Journey [2003] (5 x CDs)

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VA - Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues, A Musical Journey [2003] (5 x CDs)

Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues, A Musical Journey is a 2003 box set released on Hip-O Records. It is the soundtrack to the Martin Scorsese PBS documentary series The Blues. The box set attempts to present a history of the blues from the dawning of recorded music to the present day. It offers a survey of many different blues subgenres and tangential music styles, as well as a survey of almost all the most notable blues performers over time.

In 2004, the box set won two Grammy Awards for Best Historical Album and Best Album Notes. The previous year it was number 2 on the Billboard's Top Blues Albums chart. (Wikipedia)

This five-disc, 116-track box set presents a sweeping history of the blues from its emergence in the early 1900s clear through to its various contemporary guises, and includes samples of country blues in all of its regional variations, as well as cuts from string bands, jug bands, jazz combos, gritty Chicago blues outfits, and a look at how rock artists like Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix incorporated the blues into their distinctive styles. Intelligently gathered and arranged, it treats the blues both from a historical perspective and from a working assumption that the form is still alive and well, continually morphing and transforming itself. There simply isn't a better or deeper survey of the blues on the market. (AllMusic review by Steve Leggett)

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Track lists

CD1

01 Othar Turner & the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band - Shortnin'-Henduck 2:52

02 Lightning & Group - Long John 5:25

03 Mamie Smith - Crazy Blues 3:29

04 W.C. Handy - St. Louis Blues 3:02

05 Bessie Smith - Muddy Water 3:08

06 Blind Lemon Jefferson - Match Box Blues 3:01

07 Furry Lewis - Billy Lyons & Stack-O-Lee 2:36

08 Ma Rainey - 'Ma' Rainey's Black Bottom 3:03

09 Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground 3:21

10 Louis Armstrong - Savoy Blues 3:27

11 Frank Stokes - Downtown Blues 3:10

12 Mississippi John Hurt - Frankie 3:24

13 Henry Thomas - Fishing Blues 2:43

14 Leroy Carr - How Long How Long Blues 3:06

15 Tommy Johnson - Canned Heat Blues 3:38

16 Blind Willie McTell - Statesboro Blues 2:30

17 Tampa Red & Georgia Tom - It's Tight Like That 3:05

18 Pine Top Smith - Pine Top's Boogie Woogie 3:22

19 Lonnie Johnson - Guitar Blues 3:15

20 Charley Patton - Pony Blues 3:00

21 Blind Blake - Diddie Wah Diddie 2:58

22 Memphis Jug Band - K.C. Moan 2:32

23 Jimmie Rodgers - Standin' on the Corner (Blue Yodel #9) 2:39

24 Mississippi Sheiks - Sittin' on Top of the World 3:04

25 Son House - Preachin' the Blues 3:02

CD2

01 Skip James - Devil Got My Woman 3:01

02 Lead Belly - C.C. Rider 2:59

03 Big Joe Williams - Baby Please Don't Go 3:24

04 Roosevelt Sykes - Dirty Mother for You (Don't You Know) 3:00

05 Billie Holiday - Billie's Blues 2:40

06 Robert Johnson - Cross Road Blues 2:40

07 Sonny Boy Williamson I - Good Mornin' Little School Girl 3:01

08 Bukka White - Shake 'Em on Down 3:01

09 Joe Turner & Pete Johnson - Roll 'Em Pete 2:50

10 Robert Petway - Catfish Blues 2:53

11 Count Basie Orchestra with Jimmy Rushing - Going to Chicago Blues 3:26

12 Big Bill Broonzy - Key to the Highway 3:01

13 Memphis Minnie - Me and My Chauffeur Blues 2:46

14 Big Maceo Merriweather - Worried Life Blues 2:56

15 Tommy McClennon - Cross Cut Saw Blues 2:46

16 Lionel Hampton Sextet with Dinah Washington - Evil Gal Blues 2:54

17 Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Strange Things Happening Everyday 2:53

18 Joe Liggins - Honeydripper Pt.1 3:05

19 Johnny Moore's Three Blazers featuring Charles Brown - Drifting Blues 3:14

20 Louis Jordan - Let the Good Times Roll 2:47

21 Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup - That's All Right Mama 2:55

22 T-Bone Walker - Call it Stormy Monday 3:02

23 Wynonie Harris - Good Rockin' Tonight 2:48

24 immy Witherspoon - Ain't Nobody's Business, Part One 2:55

25 The Johnny Otis Quintette with Little Esther & the Robins - Double Crossing Blues 2:46

CD3

01 Memphis Slim - Mother Earth 2:42

02 Percy Mayfield - Please Send Me Someone to Love 2:55

03 Jackie Brenston - Rocket 88 2:50

04 Elmore James - Dust My Broom 2:45

05 Rosco Gordon - No More Doggin' 3:09

06 Little Walter - Juke 2:46

07 Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog 2:50

08 Lowell Fulson - Reconsider Baby 3:10

09 Guitar Slim - The Things That I Used to Do 3:02

10 Professor Longhair - In the Night 2:32

11 Muddy Waters - (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man 2:51

12 J.B. Lenoir - Eisenhower Blues 2:53

13 Fats Domino - Blue Monday 2:17

14 Ray Charles - Hard Times 2:55

15 Smiley Lewis - I Hear You Knockin' 2:44

16 Elvis Presley - Mystery Train 2:27

17 Sonny Boy Williamson II - Don't Start Me to Talkin' 2:34

18 Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightnin' 3:08

19 Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love 2:30

20 Slim Harpo - I'm a King Bee 3:04

21 Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode 2:42

22 Bobby 'Blue' Bland - Farther Up the Road 2:58

23 Otis Rush - So Many Roads, So Many Trains 3:13

24 Buddy Guy - First Time I Met the Blues 2:18

25 Jimmy Reed - Big Boss Man 2:49

CD4

01 Freddie King - Hide Away 2:35

02 Junior Parker - Drivin' Wheel 2:37

03 John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom 2:32

04 Albert Collins - Frosty 3:03

05 Muddy Waters - You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had 2:58

06 Howlin' Wolf - Killing Floor 2:50

07 Son House - Death Letter Blues 4:21

08 Mississippi Fred McDowell - You Gotta Move 3:22

09 Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited 3:26

10 Junior Wells - Hoodoo Man Blues 2:05

11 Koko Taylor - Wang Dang Doodle 3:01

12 John Mayall's Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton - All Your Love 3:34

13 Paul Butterfield Blues Band - I've Got a Mind to Give Up Livin' 4:58

14 Jimi Hendrix - Red House 3:51

15 Albert King - Born Under the Bad Sign 2:46

16 Magic Sam - Mama Talk to Your Daughter 2:43

17 Etta James - Tell Mama 2:23

18 Jeff Beck Group - Ain't Superstitious 4:53

19 Taj Mahal - She Caught the Katy 3:30

20 Fleetwood Mac - Black Magic Woman 2:53

21 Janis Joplin - One Good Man 4:09

CD5

01 B.B. King - The Thrill is Gone 4:03

02 Johnny Winter - Dallas 2:45

03 Derek & the Dominos - Have You Ever Loved a Woman 6:53

04 Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers - Give Me Back My Wig 3:35

05 Allman Brothers Band - One Way Out 4:57

06 Z.Z. Hill - Down Home Blues 3:59

07 Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Pride and Joy 3:40

08 Robert Cray - Smoking Gun 4:00

09 Fabulous Thunderbirds - Tuff Enuff 3:22

10 John Lee Hooker & Bonnie Raitt - I'm in the Mood 4:31

11 Ali Farka Toure - Timbarma 4:11

12 Keb' Mo' - Am I Wrong 2:20

13 Luther Allison - Cherry Red Wine 4:23

14 Peggy Scott-Adams - Bill 4:18

15 Susan Tedeschi - Just Won't Burn 4:46

16 Los Lobos - Voodoo Music 3:23

17 Bonnie Raitt - Round & Round 3:39

18 Cassandra Wilson - Vietnam Blues 4:32

19 Robert Cray & Shemekia Copeland - I Pity the Fool (Live) 3:40

20 Keb' Mo' & Corey Harris - Sweet Home Chicago 2:51

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