Rural Blues / Various Rural Blues / Various CD

Taken from unreleased recordings, previous Folkways releases, and early blues recordings, this two-disc set offers an introduction to the vocal styles, ornamentation, and instrumentation of this "highly personal, expressive idiom." Copious liner notes by Samuel B. Charters accompany the musical material.

1. I Can't Stand It 2. Shelby County Work House Blues 3. From Four Until Late 4. You Can Leave, Baby 5. Milk Cow Blues 6. Roberta Blues 7. Thousand Woman Blues 8. If I Get Lucky 9. Down the Highway 10. Milk Cow Blues 11. Take Your Burden to the Lord 12. New Highway 51 13. Mama T'ain't Long Fo' Day 14. Take Your Fingers Off It 15. My Wife Drove Me from My Door 16. Skin Game Blues 17. Goin' Back to Florida 18. Standing at the Crossroads 19. One Kind Favor 20. Nobody's Fault But Mine 21. Warm Up 22. Bukka's Jitterbug Swing 23. Coal Man Blues 24. Southern Can Mama 25. Airy Man Blues 26. Little Cow and Calf Is Gonna Die Blues 27. New How Long How Long Blues 28. Harmonica Stomp 29. Shiney Town Blues 30. Trouble in Mind 31. Mean Old Frisco 32. Sporting Life Blues 33. Solo 34. Tippin' Round 35. Mama Don't Low It 36. Key to the Highway