Electric Blues 1939-54 (English) 1 / Various Electric Blues 1939-54 (English) 1 / Various CD

Volume One of Four. Booklet in English. EU-only three CD collection compiled and annotated by renowned Blues expert, Bill Dahl. Bear Family Records is telling the story from the beginning of electric Blues into the new millennium. In the 1930s, the invention of Gibson's ES-150 - the first electric guitar - changed popular music forever. The first generation of Blues pioneers played acoustic instruments, but with the invention of amplification, guitar and harmonica players could be heard over the piano, drums and horns. Music was revolutionized. Here's the complete story from jazz-inspired jump numbers in the late 1930s to hard-driving blues/rock from the States and Great Britain in the 1960s, '70s, and beyond.

1. Floyd's Guitar Blues 2. Mean Old World 3. Strange Things Happening Every Day 4. Drifting Blues 5. Ain't That Just Like a Woman 6. That's All Right 7. Let Me Play with Your Poodle 8. Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just As Bad) 9. Better Cut That Out 10. Ramblin' Bill 11. I Can't Be Satisfied 12. Boogie Chillen 13. Blues After Hours 14. Mary Is Fine 15. Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee 16. Hit the Road 17. Who's Been Jivin' You 18. Black Angel Blues (Sweet Black Angel) 19. My Special Friend Blues 20. Every Day I Have the Blues (Lonely Heart Blues) 21. Rock Awhile 22. Bon Ton Roula 23. Rollin' and Tumblin', Pt. 1 24. Slippin' and Slidin' 25. Rockin' All Day (Rockin' and Reelin') 26. Love Don't Love Nobody 27. That's All Right 28. Midnight Boogie 29. Black Night 30. Rock Little Baby 31. Why Should I Cry? 32. Rocket '88' 33. How Many More Years? 34. Boogie Woogie Nighthawk 35. Baby Let's Go Down to the Woods 36. Kansas City Blues 37. Pontiac Blues 38. Dust My Broom 39. I'm in the Mood 40. Cold Cold Feeling 41. Ramblin' on My Mind 42. Please Send My Baby Back 43. Trust in Me 44. Juke 45. Me and My Chauffeur Blues 46. Five Long Years 47. Lonesome Train 48. Hound Dog 49. Chocolate Pork Chop Man 50. Woke Up This Morning 51. Evening Sun 52. Cryin' Shame 53. Messin' Up 54. Please Love Me 55. Forty Cups of Coffee 56. Ice Cream Man 57. Losing Hand 58. Hydramatic Woman 59. Feelin' Good 60. One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer 61. Tiger Man 62. Blues with a Feeling 63. Piggly Wiggly 64. TV Mama 65. The Things That I Used to Do 66. Shim Sham Shimmy 67. Dirty Work at the Crossroad 68. You Don't Have to Go 69. I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man 70. Sloppy Drunk 71. Shake That Thing 72. Wine, Women, Whiskey 73. I'm Gonna Murder My Baby 74. Pet Cream Man 75. Reconsider Baby 76. Don't Have to Worry (Jumpin' in the Heart of Town) 77. The Boogie Disease