Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Tommy Castro -- Just Like Me
2. Smokin' Joe Kubek & Bnois King -- I Saw It Coming
3. Arthur Adams & B.B. King -- The Long Haul
4. Big Bill Morganfield -- Evil
5. Reneé Austin & Delbert McClinton -- Pretend We Never Met
6. Popa Chubby -- Back In My Baby's Arms
7. Buddy Guy & Junior Wells -- Hoodoo Man Blues
8. Walter Horton -- Put The Kettle On
9. Debbie Davies -- 24 Hour Fool
10. Omar & The Howlers -- Monkey Land
11. Otis Rush -- Feel So Bad
12. James Cotton -- Honest I Do
13. Elvin Bishop -- What The Hell Is Going On
14. Reverend Billy C. Wirtz -- Jerry Rig
15. Savoy Brown -- Shake It All Night
16. Jeremy Spencer -- Precious Little

Disc 2:

1. Magic Slim & the Teardrops -- I'm A Bluesman
2. John Mooney -- She Ain't No Good
3. Harper -- Last Cup Of Coffee
4. Mighty Joe Young -- As the Years Go Passing By
5. Willie "Big Eyes" Smith & Kim Wilson -- Believe Me
6. Nick Curran and the Nitelifes -- Beautiful Girl
7. Hamilton Loomis -- No No No
8. Albert Cummings -- You Say You Love Me
9. Rod Piazza & the Mighty Flyers -- Moving In A West Coast Way
10. E.C. Scott -- Sweet Man Of Mine
11. Norton Buffalo & Roy Rogers -- All I Want
12. Deanna Bogart -- Real Time
13. George "Harmonica" Smith -- Blowing The Blues
14. Bill Perry -- Down In New Orleans
15. Pinetop Perkins -- After Hours
16. Otis Clay -- A Nickel And A Nail
17. Dr. Duke Tumatoe -- Moanin' The Blues

Disc 3:

1. Tommy Castro -- Can't Keep a Good Man Down
2. Popa Chubby -- If the Diesel Don't Get You Then the Jet Fuel Will
3. Magic Slim & the Teardrops -- Goin' To Mississippi
4. Rod Piazza & the Mighty Flyers -- Tough & Tender
5. Reverend Billy C. Wirtz -- Female Problems
6. Smokin' Joe Kubek & Bnois King -- My Heart's in Texas

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #74287 in Music
• Released on: 2006-09-12
• Number of discs: 3

Album Description
To kick off the celebration of our upcoming "Pearl" anniversary in 2007 – 30 years as purveyors of the finest in blues and roots music - we cast before you 33 audio and 6 video treasures from Blind Pig's illustrious history – musical moments that are polished, timeless, and rare as pearls. "Pearls From Swine" - two CDs plus a bonus DVD at a single CD price! Pig out!

Amazon.com
This stalwart independent label, headquartered in San Francisco, began in a small Ann Arbor club and grew into one of the most important imprints in blues. Thirty-three tunes ricochet between the potent old-school Chicago stylings of Buddy Guy and Junior Wells's classic "Hoodoo Man Blues" and Big Walter Horton'ss swinging shuffle "Put the Kettle On" to the intriguing pop-folk hybrid of Roy Rogers and Norton Buffalo and the dashing retro-nuevo guitarisms of Nick Curran & the Niteflies to the brawny Texas-schooled sounds of Omar & the Howlers and Smokin' Joe Kubek & Bnois King. The label's Delta blues side is underrepresented, although James Cotton and Elvin Bishop offer two great flavors of cottonland grind. But what's truly perplexing is that Blind Pig's historic recordings by Luther Allison, Johnny Shines, Jimmy Rogers, Charlie Musselwhite, Boogie Woogie Red (the label's first artist), and other significant musicians are omitted, while ham-fisted blues-rockers Tommy Castro and Albert Cummings and the mediocre Deanna Bogart and Duke Tumatoe get entries. Which makes this retrospective decidedly hit-and-miss. --Ted Drozdowski

Customer Reviews

Blind Pig rocks!!!
What can I say? I have never bought a Blind Pig compilation collection that I did not thoroughly enjoy. If you like contemporary blues from the Texas/Delta area, then check this one out.

Incredible Value
This is a great collection by itself or shuffled in your blues mp3 collection. The DVD sound is phenomenal as well with great live cuts giving lesser known artists their due. One of the best collection CDs I have. For this group of talented artists, great production and price, you can't go wrong.

Blues
If you like the blues this is a great album with various artists. For the price you can't go wrong