Box of the blues [sound recording].
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MusicPublisher number: 11661-2171-2 | RounderPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Rounder Records, p2003.Description: 4 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s): | Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | CD | BLUES Box of the blues | v.1 | Available | 33111004473126 | ||||
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Main Library | CD | BLUES Box of the blues | v.3 | Available | 33111004856114 | ||||
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Main Library | CD | BLUES Box of the blues | v.4 | Available | 33111004856353 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Rounder's four-CD Box of the Blues is, by looking at its inclusion of tracks, seemingly an ambitious proposition. But looks can be deceiving. Compiled and introduced by vice president of A&R Scott Billington -- a man whose credentials, when it comes to fighting for and preserving blues traditions, are unassailable -- these discs become a kind of theme-oriented blur of Rounder's substantial catalog holdings. Billington's schemata are quirky, sometimes ironic, and sometimes downright scary and profound as the set's first and second discs' "61 Highway" and "One More Mile" attest. The first CD concentrates its energies on the revelation of blues as it came up from the Mississippi Delta in the music of Fred McDowell, Johnny Shines, Etta Baker, Blind Willie McTell, John Hurt, and others and mutated up north to Chicago with Otis Spann, Robert Nighthawk, and others. On disc two, the blues becomes a more regional concern as expressed by everyone from Gatemouth Brown to Jack Dupree to Willie Cobbs and J.B. Hutto. Texas and News Orleans are prominently featured. And disc four, being a mishmash of current styles, has its merits even if the strategy is hard to decipher -- perhaps it is only that Billington put his favorite cuts on the disc, which would make it plenty valid even if it is a careening listen. But "Change in the Pocket" is erratic in its presentations of traditional purveyors of the music from George Thorogood and Corey Harris to the Tarbox Ramblers and Roomful of Blues. Here everything feels willy-nilly and reeks of some kind of revisionism. But still, three out of four isn't bad and the price is right, too. This is no Grammy-deserving compilation, but there are some amazing things on it -- even if it feels like Rounder patting itself on the back and trying to cash in on Martin Scorsese's Presents the Blues series on PBS. ~ Thom Jurek
Compact discs.
Compilation of selections previously released by Rounder.
Program notes on insert in container.
Disc 1. 61 highway / Mississippi Fred McDowell -- See see rider / Babe Stoval and Herb Quinn -- I could hear my name ringin' / Sonny Boy Williamson, Memphis Slim and Big Bill Broonzy -- Cheating and lying blues / Robert Nighthawk -- Lonesome whistle / Johnny Shines with Robert Jr. Lockwood -- Broken hearted blues / Etta Baker -- I'm gonna make you happy / Buster Brown -- Dooleyville blues / Boogie Bill Webb -- One kind favor / Cephas & Wiggins -- Blues for Martin Luther King / Otis Spann -- Wind howlin' blues / David "Honeyboy" Edwards -- Dying crapshooter's blues / Blind Willie McTell --Screamin' and cryin' / Big Joe Williams -- Candy man / Mississippi John Hurt -- The Red Cross store / Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee.
Disc 2. One more mile / Gatemouth Brown -- My eyes keep me in trouble / Carey Bell -- Give me flowers while I'm living / Champion Jack Dupree -- Cool blues walk / Eddy "The Chief" Clearwater -- Port Arthur blues / Philip Walker -- Nobody but you / Johnny Copeland -- Jukin' / Willie Cobbs -- Johnny's jump / Johnny Young -- Goin' out west / Larry Davis -- Walking by myself / Jimmy Rogers -- Blues and my guitar / Lowell Fulson -- Eighteen year old girl / J.B. Hutto & The New Hawks -- I'm from Mississippi / Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson & The Magic Rockers -- This is the blues / Lonesome Sundown --The man from Mars / Smokey Wilson.
Disc 3. Change in my pocket / Anson Funderburgh & The Rockets -- Blue house / Marcia Ball -- Meanest woman / Geoff Muldaur -- Make some changes / Andrew Jr. Boy Jones -- Down South blues / Tarbox Ramblers -- How long / Chris Duarte Group -- I'm the toughest girl alive / Candye Kane -- Keep your lamp trimmed and burning / Corey Harris -- Frankie and Albert / Rory Block -- What that means to me / Duke Robillard and The Pleasure Kings -- Let me live / Roomful of Blues -- Lovin' someone else / Little Jimmy King and the Memphis Soul Survivors -- John Hardy / George Thorogood -- One night affiar / Smokin' Joe Kubek with Little Milton -- Shifting sand / Michelle Wilson.
Disc 4. A good day for the blues / Ruth Brown -- Outskirts of town / Wilson Pickett -- Live and let live / Bobby King & Terry Evans -- Roadblock / Johnny Adams -- I can take you to heaven tonight / Otis Clay -- Got to get myself some money / Solomon Burke -- Nowhere to hide / Paul Kelly -- What can I do (somebody tell me) / Little Buster and the Soul Brothers -- Two wrongs / Theryl "Houseman" de'Clouet -- I stepped in quicksand / Charles Brown -- Ain't no business like your business / Ann Peebles -- Promised land / The Holmes Brothers -- You don't know nothin' about love / Irma Thomas and Tracy Nelson -- Bring it on home Daddy / Ted Hawkins -- Out of the dark / Walter "Wolfman" Washington.
Various performers.