I'Ve Got The Blues But I'M Too Damn Mean / Various I'Ve Got The Blues But I'M Too Damn Mean / Various CD

Resentment and despair leavened with wit and humor... isn't that the blues? It is here as you encounter 103 tracks that vent even as they entertain with dazzling musicianship: "Last Fair Deal Gone Down" Robert Johnson, "Jailbird Love Song" Mississippi Sheiks, "Trouble and Whiskey" Roosevelt Sykes, "I'm Goin' Home" Charley Patton, "Highway 51 Blues" Curtis Jones, "I'm All Out and Down" Lead Belly, "Jim Crow Blues" Cow Cow Davenport, "Am I Right or Wrong" Son House, "No Place to Go" Walter Davis, "Broken Levee Blues" Lonnie Johnson, "Workhouse Blues" Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell, "Washwoman Blues" Bessie Smith, "Sud Bustin' Blues" Sippie Wallace, "Sarah Jane" Jazz Gillum, "Dynamite Blues" Blind Lemon Jefferson, "Life Is Just a Book" Washboard Sam and more! JSP.

1. Jail Bird Love Song: Mississippi Sheiks 2. No Job Blues: Ramblin Thomas 3. Down in the Bottom Where I Stay: Ozie McPherson 4. Gut Struggle: Wilmer Davis 5. Trouble and Whiskey: Roosevelt Sykes 6. Raise R-U-K-U-S Tonight: Norfolk Jubilee Singers 7. Raise a R-U-K-U-S Tonight: Birmingham Jubilee Singers 8. Landladys Footsteps: Madlyn Davis 9. Get on Board: Clara Smith 10. Im Goin Home: Charley Patton 11. Old Rattler: Mose Clear Rock Platt ; James Iron Head Baker 12. Aint No More Cane on This Brazos: Ernest Williams, James Iron Head Baker ; Convict Group 13. The Prisoners Blues: Sara Martin 14. Penitentiary Bound Blues: Rosa Henderson 15. Wash and Iron Woman Blues: Gene Campbell 16. Ive Got the Blues But Im Just Too Mean to Cry: Dorothy Dodd 17. Rising River Blues: George Carter 18. Song from a Cotton Field: Bessie Brown 19. They Aint Walking No More: Lucille Bogan 20. Long John: Washington (Lightnin) 21. Another Man Done Gone: Vera Hall 22. Black Evil Blues: Alice Moore 23. Richmond Blues - TK 1: Julius Daniels 24. Bessies Moan: Bessie Tucker 25. Rock Pile Blues: Sylvester Weaver 26. Highway 51 Blues: Curtis Jones 27. Down the Dirt Road Blues: Charley Patton 28. Po Moaners Got a Home at Last: Fisk Jubilee Singers 29. That White Mule of Sin: John Byrd 30. Youve Got to Recognise Me: Charles Tyus 31. Im All Out and Down: Leadbelly 32. Prison Cell Blues: Blind Lemon Jefferson 33. Moaning Blues: Moanin? Bernice Edwards 34. On Our Turpentine Farm: Pigmeat Pete ; Catjuice Charlie 35. Good Old Turnip Greens: Bo Carter 36. Two White Horses Standing in Line: Smith Casey 37. Jim Crow Blues: Cow Cow Davenport 38. Am I Right or Wrong: Son House 39. It Makes a Long Time Man Feel Bad: Kelly Pace 40. Waitin for the Evenin Mail: Clara Smith 41. I Shall Not Be Moved: Rev. Edward Clayborn 42. Toad Frog Blues: Ma Rainey 43. Squinch Owl Moan: Too Tight Henry 44. Daddy-Calling Mama: Alice Moore 45. Mean Old World: Heavenly Gospel Singers 46. Cow Cow Blues: Dora Carr with Cow Cow Davenport 47. Last Fair Deal Gone Down: Robert Johnoson 48. Chain Gang Bound: Bumble Bee Slim 49. These Hard Times Are Tight Like That: Rev. J.M. Gates 50. The Panic Is on: Hezekiah Jenkins 51. Preachin the Blues ? PT 1: Son House 52. Starvation Farm Blues: Bob Campbell 53. No Place to Go: Walter Davis 54. One Dime Blues: Blind Lemon Jefferson 55. Blue Harvest Blues: Mississippii John Hurt 56. Fools Blues: Funny Paper Smith 57. Boll Weevil Blues: Vera Hall 58. Mississippi Bo Weavil Blues: Charley Patton 59. Hopali: 8 Unknown Girls 60. Experience Blues: Alberta Hunter 61. Broken Levee Blues: Lonnie Johnson 62. Eighteen Hundred and Ninety One: Charley Campbell 63. Bank Failure Blues: Martha Copeland 64. Hammer Ring: Jess Bradley 65. The Escaped Convict - TK 2: George Bullet Williams 66. Im Having So Much Trouble: Bumble Bee Slim 67. Worried Blues: Tom Bell 68. Workhouse Blues: Leroy Carr ; Scrapper Blackwell 69. The Sure Route Excursion to Hell - PT 1: Rev. F.W. McGee 70. Black Hearse Blues: Sara Martin 71. Washwoman Blues: Bessie Smith 72. Sud Bustin Blues: Sippie Wallace 73. Hitler and Hell: Rev. J.M. Gates 74. Dont Mess with Me: Mamie Smith 75. My Daddys Calling Me: Irene Scruggs 76. I Heard the Voice of a Pork Chop - TK 1: Jim Jackson 77. G. Burns Gonna Rise Again: Johnson-Nelson-Porkchop 78. The Bourgeois Blues: Leadbelly 79. Hobo Bill: Martha Copeland 80. Dyin Crapshooters Blues: Martha Copeland 81. Dying Crapshooters Blues: Blind Willie McTell 82. Sarah Jane: Jazz Gillum 83. North Bound Blues: Maggie Jones 84. Go Down Old Hannah: James Iron Head Baker 85. Been Drinking: Vera Hall 86. Poor Lazarus: Vera Hall 87. Cotton Seed Blues: Tampa Red 88. I Couldn?T Hear Nobody Pray - TK 2: Paramount Jubilee Singers 89. Hes in the Jailhouse Now: Memphis Jug Band 90. Railroad Bill: Will Bennett 91. Mad Mamas Blues: Josie Miles 92. Dynamite Blues: Blind Lemon Jefferson 93. Key to the Bushes Blues: Bessie Tucker 94. Red Ripe Tomatoes: Jack Kelly ; His South Memphis Jug Band 95. Justice Blues: Texas Alexander 96. Nobody Knows the Way I Feel Dis Mornin: Clara Smith 97. Pail in My Hand: Edna Winston 98. The Basement Blues: Clara Smith 99. Workin Womans Blues: Helen Gross 100. Broke Man Blues: Sylvester Palmer 101. Sadies Servant Room Blues: Hattie Burleson 102. Red Cross Man: Lucille Bogan 103. Life Is Just a Book: Washboard Sam