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A1	–John Lee Hooker	Boom Boom	2:33
A2	–John Lee Hooker	Crawlin' King Snake	2:41
A3	–John Lee Hooker	I'm In The Mood	2:43
A4	–John Lee Hooker	Huckle Up Baby	2:47
A5	–John Lee Hooker	I Love you Honey	2:33
A6	–John Lee Hooker	Boogie Chillen'	2:35
A7	–John Lee Hooker	Hobo Blues	2:48
B1	–Muddy Waters	Got My Mojo Working	2:51
B2	–Muddy Waters	Mannish Boy	2:53
B3	–Muddy Waters	Forty Days And Forty Nights	2:58
B4	–Muddy Waters	Honey Bee	3:43
B5	–Muddy Waters	I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man	2:57
B6	–Muddy Waters	Rollin' Stone	3:18
B7	–Muddy Waters	Baby Please Don't Go	3:27
C1	–Howlin' Wolf	Smokestack Lightnin'	2:09
C2	–Howlin' Wolf	Spoonful	2:58
C3	–Howlin' Wolf	The Red Rooster	2:25
C4	–Howlin' Wolf	I Asked For Water (She Gave Me Gasolene)	3:02
C5	–Howlin' Wolf	How Many Years	2:43
C6	–Howlin' Wolf	Howlin' Blues	2:57
C7	–Howlin' Wolf	Moanin' At Mitnight	2:56
D1	–Elmore James	Dust My Boom	2:46
D2	–Elmore James	It Hurts Me Too	3:18
D3	–Elmore James	Hawaiian Boogie	2:20
D4	–Elmore James	The Sky Is Crying	2:50
D5	–Elmore James	Rollin' And Tumblin'	2:30
D6	–Elmore James	Standing At The Crossroads	3:00
D7	–Elmore James	Early In The Morning	2:48
E1	–B.B. King	3 O'Clock Blues	3:02
E2	–B.B. King	You Upset Me Baby	3:02
E3	–B.B. King	Please Love Me	2:47
E4	–B.B. King	Did You Ever Love A Woman	2:34
E5	–B.B. King	Sweet Little Angel	3:01
E6	–B.B. King	Woke Up This Morning	2:58
E7	–B.B. King	Every Day I Have The Blues	2:49
F1	–Robert Johnson	Come On In My Kitchen	2:43
F2	–Robert Johnson	Hell Hound On My Trail	2:37
F3	–Robert Johnson	Love In Vain	2:23
F4	–Robert Johnson	Ramblin' On My Mind	2:49
F5	–Robert Johnson	Terraplane Blues	3:01
F6	–Robert Johnson	Cross Road Blues	2:31
F7	–Robert Johnson	Sweet Home Chicago	3:11

Notes

In the beginning there was the Blues. No genre of music has helped to shape so many other modern musical genres – Jazz, Rock and Roll, Rhythm and Blues, Hip Hop, Soul, Metal and Rock all have the original Bluesmen to thank for their very existence. The emergence of the Blues as a genre occurred towards the end of the 19th century just after the US Emancipation Act of 1863 and the subsequent move away from slavery to share-cropping. Blues music is believed to have its origins in the work songs and spirituals of African-American slaves brought to work on the plantations of the southern states of America. Many newly emancipated African Americans sought to establish careers and to lay down the foundations of solid communities, rather than to survive on subsistence farming alone. There was an increased desire for education, employment, and business opportunities, influenced in great part by the teachings of Booker T. Washington. African Americans had been freed from slavery and grudgingly granted partial access to the American Dream.
Historian Lawrence Levine suggests that the genre had a pivotal role in American history seeing, “a direct relationship between the national ideological emphasis upon the individual, the popularity of Booker T. Washington’s teachings, and the rise of the Blues.” Between 1870 and 1900 the Blues grew in popularity with the establishment of ‘juke joints’. These were venues where black people went to listen to music, dance, or gamble after a hard day’s work. Starting out as unaccompanied vocal songs, the Blues evolved rapidly. Though the earliest public performances tended to be group-based, by the early 1900’s there was a move to individual performers and their highly individuated styles of singing and playing. These were the original Bluesmen and – unusually for the times – Blueswomen. It is no surprise that as American society and culture has changed, so too has the Blues. From the 1920s to the late 1930s the Blues was associated with the rural, southern US states, most notably Mississippi, giving rise to what is known as Delta Blues. During this period other regional variations emerged, most notably Memphis Blues, Texas Blues and Piedmont Blues. As black and white working class people flocked to towns and cities in the search for work, the Blues evolved a new urban sound characterised by amplification and the distinctive sound of the electric guitar. Known variously as Chicago Blues, Urban Blues, and later Electric Blues, the genre’s popularity gradually spread across America and the world. The Blues explosion had begun, helping to shape what came to be known as Rock and Roll and later, the Rock genre. The Blues made it across the Atlantic and inspired a wave of British Blues Rock bands including The Yard Birds, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, and Cream. The success of the British acts and their covers of American Blues classics opened up the genre to a new younger, white audience globally.
The artists featured in this collection were all born in Mississippi – home of the Delta Blues – but each forged their own paths and styles, leaving their unique mark on the genre. According to Bluesman Willie Dixon, “The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.” Your journey of discovery starts here.

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