Classic Piano Blues: From Smithsonian / Various Classic Piano Blues: From Smithsonian / Various CD

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.

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 - James P. Johnson / Katherine Handy Lewis 5. Key to the Highway - Jazz Gillum / Memphis Slim 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 - Henry Brown / Edith North Johnson 12. Pinetop's Boogie Woogie - Little Brother Montgomery 13. Pinetop's Boogie Woogie - Speckled Red 14. Wish Me Well - Willie Dixon / Memphis Slim 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