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Classic Piano Blues From Smithsonian Fol - Classic Piano Blues: From Smithsonian Folkways [CD]

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Storyville nightclubs, Beale Street juke joints, gambling houses, barrelhouse bars in the lumber and turpentine camps of East Texas - these were the places African American piano bluesman called home. Born of ragtime and hard times, the piano blues migrated with it's players from the deep South to the urban North. CLASSIC PIANO BLUES revisits raucous boogie-woogie and blues legends Memphis Slim, Willie Dixon, Champion Jack Dupree, Speckled Red, Meade "Lux" Lewis, Lead Belly, Little Brother Montgomery, Roosevelt Sykes, James P Johnson, and more, in 20 tracks drawn from the well of the Folkways Collections.

Tracklist:

  1. Dedication To Pete Johnson - Memphis Sun
  2. Early In the Morning - Booker T. Laury
  3. How Long Blues - Speckled Red
  4. Yellow Dog Blues - Katherine Handy Lewis/James P. Johnson
  5. Key To the Highway - Memphis Slim/Jazz Gillum
  6. Medium Blues - Meade "Lux" Lewis
  7. Black Wolf Blues - Champion Jack Dupree
  8. Dices Blues - Big Chief Ellis
  9. Big Fat Woman - Leadbelly
  10. Harlem Parlor Blues - Sammy Price
  11. Little Drops of Water - Edith North Johnson/Henry Brown
  12. Pinetop's Boogie Woogie - Little Brother Montgomery
  13. Pinetop's Boogie Woogie - Pinetop Smith/Speckled Red
  14. Wish Me Well - Memphis Slim/Willie Dixon
  15. All My Money's Gone - Henry Towsend
  16. You're My Man - Victoria Spivey
  17. On My Way To See Moe Asch - Champion Jack Dupree
  18. Sweet Old Chicago - Roosevelt Sykes
  19. No Special Rider Blues - Little Brother Montgomery
  20. Hesitation Blues - James P. Johnson

UPC: 093074019627
Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Release Date: 6.24.08
Format: CD