Best Of Blues (3pkdigi) (2000)

Product Summary Label: Madacy Entertainment UPC: 00628261117123 Release Date: 6/7/2005 Buy.com Sku: 63991210 Item#: M2FD53 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Boom Boom - John Lee Hooker ~ Various Artists 2. Paying The Cost To Be The Boss (live) - B.B. King ~ Various Artists 3. I Smell Trouble - Ike & Tina Turner ~ Various Artists 4. Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand - Charles Brown ~ Various Artists 5. Blue And Disgusted - Memphis Slim ~ Various Artists 6. Sweet Sixteen - B.B. King ~ Various Artists 7. Boogie Woogie Blues - Roy Brown ~ Various Artists 8. No Use Crying - Buddy Guy/Junior Wells ~ Various Artists 9. Blues on my Weary Mind - Dinah Washington ~ Various Artists 10. I Got A Big Fat Mama - Roy Milton ~ Various Artists 11. Poor Fool - Ike & Tina Turner ~ Various Artists 12. Wee Baby Blues - Big Joe Turner ~ Various Artists Disc 2 Song Title Sample 1. Thrill Is Gone, The - B.B. King ~ Various Artists 2. I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good - Billie Holiday ~ Various Artists 3. Bourgeois Blues, The - Leadbelly ~ Various Artists 4. Mama Talk To Your Daughter - John Mayall ~ Various Artists 5. I Cried For You - Big Maybelle ~ Various Artists 6. Goin' Away Won't Be Back Till Fall - Big Joe Williams ~ Various Artists 7. Information Blues - Roy Milton ~ Various Artists 8. Bad Bad Whiskey - Amos Milburn ~ Various Artists 9. So Blue Over You - Ike & Tina Turner ~ Various Artists 10. Letter, The - B.B. King ~ Various Artists 11. Lover Man - Billie Holiday ~ Various Artists 12. Mojo Hand - Lightnin' Hopkins ~ Various Artists Disc 3 Song Title Sample 1. 44 Blues - Memphis Slim ~ Various Artists 2. Cannon's Blues - Cannonball Adderley ~ Various Artists 3. Black Night - Charles Brown ~ Various Artists 4. Big Road Blues - Canned Heat ~ Various Artists 5. Blues After Hours - Pee Wee Crayton ~ Various Artists 6. Walkin' And Talkin' - Bo Diddley ~ Various Artists 7. Loser For You Baby - Dr. John ~ Various Artists 8. Everyday I Have The Blues - Buddy Guy/Junior Wells ~ Various Artists 9. Billie's Blues - Billie Holiday ~ Various Artists 10. Last Night - Lightnin' Hopkins ~ Various Artists 11. You've Done Lost Your Good Thing Now - B.B. King ~ Various Artists 12. Put Yourself In My Place - Big Maybelle ~ Various Artists   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info All tracks have been digitally mastered using 24-bit technology. Unlike most of the Madacy collections on the market, the Best of Blues set consists of mostly high-quality blues recordings from some of the biggest names in the genre. Many different aspects of the blues are here, from the delicate piano ballads of Billie Holiday and Ray Charles to the rock/blues rave-ups of Rare Earth and John Mayall to the traditional guitar-based work of B.B. King and Buddy Guy. Some incredible songs are unearthed for this collection too, like Charles Brown's guitar workout "Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand," Howlin' Wolf's incredible stop-and-start crawler "Ain't Superstitious," and Leadbelly's depressing race relations tale "The Bourgeois Blues." While many of these are songs that appear quite frequently on these types of collections, this particular set has a great track listing that complements the genre nicely. The sound quality is rough in spots, particularly on anything released before 1950, but the songs are still quite listenable despite the audible scratches and clicks. Fans of the genre may have most of these tracks, but to anyone looking to hear an inexpensive blues sampler that features some high-quality music, this is a great album to start with. ~ Bradley Torreano   Technical Info Release Date : 06/30/2005 Original Release Date : 2000 Catalog ID : 51171 Label : Madacy Distribution Number of Discs : 3 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00628261117123