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Desperate Man Blues: Discovering the Roots of American Music
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Track Listing
- We Live a Long Time to Get Old - Jimmy Murphy
- Cross Road Blues - Robert Johnson
- When I'm Gone - Joe Hill Louis
- Death Valley Is Just Half Way to My Home - Lonnie Johnson
- Whoop 'Em Up, Cindy - Uncle Dave Macon
- Statesboro Blues - Blind Willie McTell
- It Won't Be Long - Charley Patton
- Death Letter Blues - Son House
- Hard Time Blues - Lane Hardin
- Indian War Whoop - Hoyt Ming and His Pep Steppers
- Paddlin' Madeline Blues - Gitfiddle Jim
- Mandolin Blues - Tennessee Mess Arounders
- Coo-Coo Bird - Clarence Ashley
- John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man - The Carter Family
- Lost Child - The Stripling Brothers
- Bugle Call Rag - Billy Banks & His Orchestra,
- Sail Away Lady - Uncle Bunt Stephens
- Original Stack O' Lee Blues - Papa Harvey Hull, Long "Cleve" Reed,
- Dark Was the Night - Cold Was the Ground - Blind Willie Johnson
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #37913 in Music
- Released on: 2006-12-05
- Number of discs: 1
Editorial Reviews
Album Description
This CD features 19 prime cuts from Joe Bussard's shelves of 25,000 78s.
Everett True, Planb, March 2007
This is an incredible collection, put together by obsessive collector (Joe) Bussard. It includes the record that won Uncle Bunt Stephen the Henry Ford Fiddling Contest, 'Sail Away Lady', Clarence Ashley with his claw hammer banjo, and possible the rarest record in the world, Cleve Reed and Harvey Hull's 'Original Stack 'O Lee Blues.
From the Artist
Collectors and musicians come to see and hear first-hand what is considered to be the most vital, historically important privately owned collection of early-20th-century American music. Although other formidable private record collections exist, what makes Bussard such an undeniable force in old-time music circles isn't simply his collection but what he has done with it over the years. It is a fusion of obsessive, almost pathological hoarding and an equally strong impulse for rampant dissemination. He has got to own the record, yes, but he wants the whole world to hear it, too.
