Disc 1
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| Song Title | Sample |
| 1. Crazy Blues - Mamie Smith ~ Various Artists |  |
| 2. Match Box Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson ~ Various Artists | |
| 3. Police Dog Blues - Blind Blake ~ Various Artists | |
| 4. Yonder Comes The Blues - Ma Rainey ~ Various Artists | |
| 5. Screamin' And Hollerin' Blues - Charley Patton ~ Various Artists | |
| 6. Canned Heat Blues - Tommy Johnson ~ Various Artists | |
| 7. St Louis Blues - Bessie Smith ~ Various Artists | |
| 8. Walking Blues - Son House ~ Various Artists | |
| 9. How Long - Pinetop Perkins ~ Various Artists | |
| 10. Take A Walk With Me - Robert Lockwood Jr. ~ Various Artists | |
| 11. She Brought Life Back To The Dead - Sonny Boy Williamson ~ Various Artists | |
| 12. Reconsider Baby - Lowell Fulson ~ Various Artists | |
| 13. Caldonia - Louis Jordan ~ Various Artists | |
| 14. Shake Rattle And Roll - Big Joe Turner ~ Various Artists | |
| 15. Mama (He Treats Your Daughter Mean) - Ruth Brown ~ Various Artists | |
| 16. Okie Dokie Stomp - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown ~ Various Artists | |
| 17. Call It Stormy Monday - T-Bone Walker ~ Various Artists | |
| 18. Everyday I Have The Blues - B.B. King ~ Various Artists | |
| 19. St. James Infirmary - Bobby "Blue" Bland ~ Various Artists | | Disc 2
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| Song Title | Sample |
| 1. Hoochie Coochie Man - Muddy Waters ~ Various Artists | |
| 2. Rollin' And Tumblin' - Little Walter (Part 1) ~ Various Artists | |
| 3. Dust My Broom - Elmore James ~ Various Artists | |
| 4. Things I Used To Do, The - Guitar Slim ~ Various Artists | |
| 5. Wang Dang Doodle - Koko Taylor ~ Various Artists | |
| 6. Big Boss Man - Jimmy Reed ~ Various Artists | |
| 7. How Many More Years - Howlin' Wolf ~ Various Artists | |
| 8. Three Times A Fool - Otis Rush ~ Various Artists | |
| 9. First Time I Met The Blues, The - Buddy Guy ~ Various Artists | |
| 10. You're Gonna Have Murder On Your Hands - Little Milton ~ Various Artists | |
| 11. Born Under A Bad Sign - Albert King ~ Various Artists | |
| 12. Shake Em On Down - Mississippi Fred McDowell ~ Various Artists | |
| 13. I Can't Be Satisfied - Big Bill Broonzy ~ Various Artists | |
| 14. Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues - Skip James ~ Various Artists | |
| 15. Samson & Delilah - Reverend Gary Davis ~ Various Artists | |
| 16. Aberdeen Mississippi Blues - Bukka White ~ Various Artists | |
| 17. Candy Man Blues - Mississippi John Hurt ~ Various Artists | |
| 18. Boom Boom - John Lee Hooker ~ Various Artists | |
| 19. Hound Dog - Big Mama Thornton ~ Various Artists | |
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| Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Compilation producers: Jay Levey, Richard Foos, Jim O'Neal. | | Audio Remasterer: Bob Fisher . | | Liner Note Author: Jim O'Neal. | | Photographer: Dick Waterman. | | Unknown Contributor Roles: Sonny Boy Williamson; Elmore James; Bonita Butter; Leonard Chess; Little Milton; Little Walter; Louis Jordan; Lowell Fulson; Ma Rainey; Mamie Smith; Mississippi John Hurt; Muddy Waters; Robert Lockwood, Jr.; Ruth Brown; T-Bone Walker; Bessie Smith; Big Mama Thornton; Koko Taylor; Blind Blake; Blind Lemon Jefferson; Bobby "Blue" Bland; Buddy Guy; Charley Patton. | | Blues Story opens with the wonderful, lazy horns of Mamie Smith's "Crazy Blues" and ends on the edge of rock & roll with Big Mama Thornton's "Hound Dog." In between are dozens of classic old blues tracks, including Tommy Johnson's bright but desperate signature tune, "Canned Heat Blues," T-Bone Walker's "Call It Stormy Monday" (with its famous line, "The eagle flies on Friday"), Elmore James' "Dust My Broom," Jimmy Reed's "Big Boss Man" (with the equally famous line, "He's just tall, that's all"), and Louis Jordan's jump blues standard, "Caldonia." One of Skip James' finest performances is also here, "Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues," as well as Bukka White's autobiographical and driving "Aberdeen Mississippi Blues." It is extremely difficult to give the fabled story of the blues its fair due in just under 40 tracks, but this collection does a marvelous job, and functions as a varied and well-balanced history of one of America's most important musical styles. ~ Steve Leggett |
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| Technical Info |
| Release Date : 09/30/2003 | | Original Release Date : 2003 | | Catalog ID : 31134 | | Label : Shout! Factory | | Number of Discs : 2 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00826663113426 |
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