Classic Blues From Bluesville / Various Classic Blues From Bluesville / Various CD

2014 three CD collection. The Prestige label is a byword in Jazz circles, founded in 1948 by Bob Weinstock he launched a series of subsidiary labels buoyed by it's unprecedented success. One of the more successful of those sister labels was Bluesville, which proceeded to release some truly legendary Blues artists in the shape of Lightnin' Hopkins, Victoria Spivey and Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee. Sometimes in acoustic settings and in others with full accompaniment the labels' roster shone brightly no matter how they were presented, so enjoy the blues men and women of Bluesville doing what came naturally.

1. Walkin' This Road By Myself -Lightnin' Hopkins 2. Grinder Man Blues - Memphis Slim 3. Broke Down Engine Blues -Blind Willie McTell 4. You Gotta Reap What You Sow -Alberta Hunter 5. No Love for Sale - Lonnie Johnson 6. Custard Pie Blues -Brownie McGhee ; Sonny Terry 7. I'm a Red Hot Mama - Victoria Spivey 8. Blues Before Sunrise -Scrapper Blackwell 9. Everybody's Got Somebody But Me -Mildred Anderson 10. Big Road Blues - K.C. Douglas 11. Goin' to Alabama - Al Smith 12. Done Changed My Mind - Furry Lewis 13. I've Grown So Ugly - Robert Pete Williams 14. Jake's Cha Cha - Shakey Jake 15. Greasy Greens - Pink Anderson 16. Tired of Being Mistreated -Henry Townsend 17. Four O'Clock Blues - Sonny Terry 18. Wine Drinking Women -Memphis Willie B 19. Suicide Blues - Curtis Jones 20. Pallet on the Floor -Big Joe Williams 21. Go Easy - Willie Dixon 22. Don't Jive Me - Tampa Red 23. Meet Me at the Bottom -Big Joe Williams 24. I Got Men All Over This Town -Victoria Spivey 25. Catfish Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins 26. The Killin' Floor - Brownie McGhee 27. The Devil Is a Busy Man -Sunnyland Slim 28. Brown Skinned Woman -Blind Snooks Eaglin 29. One Room Country Shack -Mercy Dee Walton 30. Idle Hours -Lonnie Johnson ; Victoria Spivey 31. Sidney's Fox Chase - Sidney Maiden 32. Miss Ida B. - Roosevelt Sykes 33. Lost Boy in the Wilderness - Rev. Gary Davis 34. Bottle Up and Go - K.C. Douglas 35. Vicksburg Blues -Little Brother Montgomery 36. Free Again - Robert Pete Williams 37. Frankie and Johnny Boogie - Memphis Slim 38. Shake 'Em on Down - Furry Lewis 39. I'm Gettin' Long Alright -Mildred Anderson ; Eddie Davis Quartet 40. Goin' Where the Monon Crosses the Yellow Dog -Scrapper Blackwell 41. That's Why I'm Walking -Brownie McGhee ; Sonny Terry 42. Chirpin' the Blues - Alberta Hunter 43. Haunted House -Lonnie Johnson ; Elmer Snowden 44. Coffee Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins 45. Have You Ever Been Out in the Country -Mercy Dee Walton 46. St. Louis Blues - Lucille Hegamin 47. Death Don't Have No Mercy -Rev. Gary Davis 48. Alberta - Blind Snooks Eaglin 49. Me and My Chauffeur - Sidney Maiden 50. I'm Prison Bound - Sunnyland Slim 51. Worried Man Blues - Memphis Willie B 52. Santa Fe - Little Brother Montgomery 53. I Got Men All Over This Tow -Victoria Spivey 54. I've Got the Right Kind of Lovin' -Al Smith ; Eddie Davis Quartet 55. Baby I'm Going Away - Pink Anderson 56. Sittin' and Cryin' the Blues -Willie Dixon 57. You Better Let My Gal Alone -Tampa Red 58. Hangover - Roosevelt Sykes 59. Little Boy Blue - Scrapper Blackwell 60. The Dyin' Crapshooter's Blues -Blind Willie McTell