Roots Of It All Acoustic Blues Vol. 1 / Various Roots Of It All Acoustic Blues Vol. 1 / Various CD

In addition to well-known names such as Blind Lemon Jefferson, Tommy Johnson, Charley Patton, Son House, Robert Johnson and Bukka White discover obscure bluesmen like Rube Lacy, Little Hat Jones uva August 10, 1920, a crucial for the future of the blues day. Back then took Mamie Smith, accompanied by romantic piano music and jazzy horns, their seminal Crazy Blues for Okeh Records on. Your glamorous dealing with the music based on the tradition of vaudeville. The next big trend in the Blues came a little later and turned to blues players, of which almost all came from the rural South and the tradition of the slave songs and work songs. Some truly virtuosic playing on their instruments. With each published shellac plate designed Lonnie Johnson, Blind Willie McTell, Blind Blake and Skip James dominated by guitars future of the genre. With the help of slides or bottleneck they doubled the volume of their guitars and procured so even in the evil-sounding noise of a rural pub ear. They produced a liquid, howling sound on their acoustic devices or pounded with all his chords in the strings. Better known musicians could afford with metal body, which sounded much louder than normal guitar the glittering 'National' guitars. After it's discovery in Texas in 1925 or 1926 had Blind Lemon Jefferson incredible success within the African-American population, thus emphasizing the commercial potential of the rural blues of the South. By crushing poverty of the Depression in the early thirties of the first boom of Blue recordings came to an unforeseen end. But the first two decades in the history of Blue recordings remain a gold mine with great examples of acoustic blues. This compilation provides a wonderful cross-section of the best shots.

1. Guitar Blues 2. Shake That Thing 3. Mr. Johnson's Blues 4. Match Box Blues 5. Mississippi Heavy Water Blues 6. Billy Lyons and Stack O'Lee 7. Jim Jackson's Kansas City Blues - Pt. 1 8. Dark Was the Night - Cold Was the Ground 9. Downtown Blues 10. Frankie 11. So Lonesome 12. Ham Hound Crave 13. Bull Doze Blues 14. Kokomo Blues 15. Canned Heat Blues 16. The Four Day Blues 17. Statesboro Blues 18. No No Blues 19. Roll and Tumble Blues 20. Cairo Blues 21. Pony Blues 22. When the Levee Breaks 23. Little Hat Blues 24. Diddie Wa Diddie 25. Last Time Blues 26. That's No Way to Get Along 27. Henry's Worry Blues 28. Ice and Snow Blues 29. Outside Woman Blues 30. Sitting on Top of the World 31. Dough Roller Blues 32. My Black Mama - Part 1 33. M ; O Blues 34. Stack O' Dollars Blues 35. Howling Wolf Blues - No. 1 36. I'm So Glad 37. Times Has Done Got Out of Hand 38. Long Tall Mama 39. Good Gal 40. Black Angel Blues 41. Midnight Special 42. Chickasaw Train Blues (Low Down Dirty Thing) 43. Milk Cow Blues 44. Lead Pencil Blues (It Just Won't Write) 45. Someday Baby Blues 46. Cross and Evil Woman Blues 47. Rag, Mama Rag 48. Crow Jane 49. Baby Please Don't Go 50. Somebody Changed the Lock on My Door 51. Lone Wolf Blues 52. Cross Road Blues 53. Black Ace 54. Prowling Night-Hawk 55. Shake 'Em on Down 56. Old Devil 57. This Train 58. Bottle It Up and Go