Track Listing

1. Dark Road - Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry
2. Step It Up and Go - Warner Williams
3. It Was Early One Morning - Lead Belly
4. Until My Baby Comes Home - Nora Lee King
5. That's No Way to Do - Pink Anderson
6. Farro Street Jive - Little Brother Montgomery
7. I Ain't Gonna Cry - Son House
8. Graveyard Blues - Roscoe Holcomb
9. 44 Blues - Roosevelt Sykes
10. Big Fat Mama - Honeyboy Edwards
11. Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor - Lucinda Williams
12. Lieutenant Blues - Barrelhouse Buck
13. The Woman Is Killing Me - Sonny Terry and Friends
14. Little Drops of Water - Edith Johnson
15. When Things Go Wrong - Big Bill Broonzy
16. Poor Boy a Long, Long Way From Home - Cat-Iron
17. My Jack Don't Drink Water No More - Shortstuff Macon
18. Way Behind the Sun - Barbara Dane
19. Tell Me Baby - Lightnin' Hopkins
20. Just A Dream - Memphis Slim
21. Jelly Jelly - Josh White
22. Down in the Alley - Chambers Brothers

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #43072 in Music
• Released on: 2003-09-23
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
By popular demand! Featuring a second helping of all-time blues greats: Lead Belly, Son House, Lightnin’ Hopkins, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Big Bill Broonzy and Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee. Also includes other voices of the blues: Roscoe Holcomb, Lucinda Williams, and many more, highlighting the diversity of the blues tradition!

From the Artist
"The blues is good news. Pass it on." — J. Otis Williams, blues poet

Customer Reviews

What started it all...the great grandparents of modern music
If you've seen the great PBS/Martin Scorsese Blues series, or read any of the books about the great bluesmen (Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, etc) then this disc gives you the opportunity to hear the old songs that started the blues music revolution recorded by the musicians who were at the start of the movement.

Son House, Big Bill Broonzy, Lightnin' Hopkins were all part of the original movement -- the folks that brought the blues to light.

Granted there's a number of modern cuts on this disc (I don't think Lucinda Williams was playing the blues in Chicago or the Mississippi Delta in the 1940's) but that doesn't detract from experience of hearing the old songs sung by the originals.