If You Take Me Back: Some Of The Very Best / Var If You Take Me Back: Some Of The Very Best / Var CD

Document's second budget sampler, lovingly put together selections, with no didactic agenda, whose one and only purpose is to offer an hour or so of unmitigated good listening. The compiler of this anthology knows a good record when he hears it, as it offers one stunner after another. If you like variety in American Roots Music, you'll find it here, and guaranteed high quality at the same time.

1. Fixin' to Die Blues - Bukka White 2. Give It Up - Jewel Paige ; Her Brown Brownies 3. Illinois Blues - Skip James 4. Lint Head Stomp - Phebel Wright 5. Rockaway - Jimmy Peters ; Ring Dance Singers 6. Signifying Woman - Jazz Gillum 7. Golden Street - Rev. Lonnie Farris ; the Gospel Flames 8. New Dirty Dozen - Memphis Minnie 9. Hard Day Blues - Muddy Waters 10. Halam Improvisation - Thyam Sy Griots 11. Don't Let You Deal Down - Fiddlin' John Carson 12. Shake Boogie - Carolina Slim 13. You Need Some Loving - Johnny Dunn ; His Band 14. Guitar Swing - the Brown Bombers of Swing 15. Children Go Where I Send You - Harmony Four 16. The Last Scene of the Titanic - Frank Hutchinson 17. If You Take Me Back - Big Joe (McCoy) ; His Washboard Band 18. Olds '98' Blues - Johnnie Temple 19. Lonesome Trail Blues - Amos Easton (Bumble Bee Slim) 20. She's Gone - Alonzo Scales 21. Magic Carpet - Blind John Davis