Title: Classic Piano Blues: From Smithsonian Folkways Artist: Various Artists Label: Smithsonian Folkways Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 093074019627 Genre: Blues Release Date: 2008-06-24 Number of Discs: 1
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.
Tracks: 1.1 Dedication to Pete Johnson - Memphis Sun 1.2 Early in the Morning - Booker T. Laury 1.3 How Long Blues - Speckled Red 1.4 Yellow Dog Blues - James P. Johnson / Katherine Handy Lewis 1.5 Key to the Highway - Jazz Gillum / Memphis Slim 1.6 Medium Blues - Meade Lux Lewis 1.7 Black Wolf Blues - Champion Jack Dupree 1.8 Dices Blues - Big Chief Ellis 1.9 Big Fat Woman - Leadbelly 1.10 Harlem Parlor Blues - Sammy Price 1.11 Little Drops of Water - Henry Brown / Edith North Johnson 1.12 Pinetop's Boogie Woogie - Little Brother Montgomery 1.13 Pinetop's Boogie Woogie - Speckled Red 1.14 Wish Me Well - Willie Dixon / Memphis Slim 1.15 All My Money's Gone - Henry Towsend 1.16 You're My Man - Victoria Spivey 1.17 On My Way to See Moe Asch - Champion Jack Dupree 1.18 Sweet Old Chicago - Roosevelt Sykes 1.19 No Special Rider Blues - Little Brother Montgomery 1.20 Hesitation Blues - James P. Johnson
