Various Artists

Broadcasting the Blues: Black Blues in the Segregation Era

Release date 2006

Tracklist

1
Baby, Please Don’t Go
3:27
3:27
2
Match Box Blues
2:56
2:56
3
Yonder Come the Blues
3:03
3:03
4
Yellow Dog Blues
3:01
3:01
5
Walkin’ Blues
2:30
2:30
6
Ring Dance
2:01
2:01
7
My Soul Is a Witness
3:27
3:27
8
Long Hot Summer Days
1:58
1:58
9
Lucky Holler
2:28
2:28
10
Penitentiary Moan
3:08
3:08
11
Old Country Stomp
2:54
2:54
12
Dry Bone Shuffle
2:45
2:45
13
Mysterious Coon
3:17
3:17
14
Ragtime Millionaire
3:11
3:11
15
You Shall
2:50
2:50
16
Interview
1:10
1:10
17
I Heard the Voice of a Pork Chop
2:54
2:54
18
Spike Driver Blues
3:17
3:17
19
Kassie Jones Part 1
3:07
3:07
20
Fare Thee Well Blues
3:12
3:12
21
Poor Boy Long Ways From Home
3:13
3:13
22
Travelin' Blues
3:10
3:10
23
Chocolate To The Bone
2:53
2:53
24
Sad Blues
3:05
3:05
25
Tennessee Dog
1:52
1:52
26
Country Blues
3:26
3:26
27
Washboard Cut-Out
2:59
2:59
28
Flying Crows Blues
2:48
2:48
29
Rules and Regulations 'Signed Razor Jim'
3:15
3:15
30
Ground Hog Blues
3:04
3:04
31
Broke and Hungry Blues
3:22
3:22
32
Wednesday Evening She Left Me
3:58
3:58
33
Lonesome Day Blues
3:09
3:09
34
Win the War Blues
2:50
2:50
35
Fox Hunt
2:18
2:18
36
Black Brown and White
3:06
3:06
37
Pratt City Blues
2:48
2:48
38
Blues Before Sunrise
3:35
3:35
39
Blues Trip Me This Morning
3:04
3:04
40
Poor Man Blues
3:03
3:03
41
Interview
1:19
1:19
42
My Black Mama - Part 1
3:13
3:13
43
Cotton Pickin Blues
3:14
3:14
44
Interview
1:07
1:07
45
Number 29
3:12
3:12
46
Jim Crow Blues
3:07
3:07
47
Aunt Caroline Dyer Blues
3:07
3:07
48
Interview
1:06
1:06
49
Policy Dream Blues
2:49
2:49
50
North Memphis Blues
2:36
2:36
51
Interview
1:16
1:16
52
They Ain’t Walkin’ No More
3:10
3:10
53
Ice Pick Blues
2:48
2:48
54
Interview
1:15
1:15
55
Parchman Farm Blues
2:42
2:42
56
Shelby County Workhouse Blues
2:56
2:56
57
Working on the Project
3:05
3:05
58
Interview
0:46
0:46
59
Let’s Have a New Deal
2:47
2:47
60
Tallahatchie River Blues
2:48
2:48
61
St. Louis Cyclone Blues
3:07
3:07
62
Interview
1:16
1:16
63
Fire Department Blues
3:09
3:09
64
Give Me a 32–20
2:53
2:53
65
Interview
1:15
1:15
66
Build a Cave
2:24
2:24
67
Crying Mother Blues
2:40
2:40
68
Interview
0:47
0:47
69
The Dirty Dozen
3:18
3:18
70
Three Ball Blues
2:56
2:56
71
Milk Cow Blues
3:11
3:11
72
Cool Drink of Water Blues
3:27
3:27
73
Some Summer Day, Part 1
2:56
2:56
74
Make Me a Pallet on the Floor
4:26
4:26
75
Long Gone Lost John
2:46
2:46
76
Spirit of the Boogie-Woogie
3:06
3:06
77
Fifty Miles of Elbow Room
2:40
2:40

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