Various Artists

Never Let the Same Bee Sting You Twice: Blues, Ballads, Rags and Gospel in the Songster Tradition

Release date 2005

Tracklist

1
James Alley
3:13
3:13
2
Never Let the Same Bee Sting You Twice
2:45
2:45
3
I’m Not Jealous
3:21
3:21
4
Mystery of the Dunbar’s Child
4:33
4:33
5
Sinking of the Titanic
3:50
3:50
6
Gang of Brown Skin Women
2:53
2:53
7
Hey Lawdy Mama – The France Blues
3:03
3:03
8
Two Little Tommie Blues
2:51
2:51
9
Don’t You Leave Me Here
3:00
3:00
10
Quill Blues
2:52
2:52
11
Goin’ to Leave You Blues
2:43
2:43
12
Mama You Don't Know How
2:58
2:58
13
Original Stack O' Lee Blues
2:41
2:41
14
I Believe I’ll Go Back Home
2:39
2:39
15
When That Great Ship Went Down
2:54
2:54
16
Everybody Help the Boys Come Home
2:27
2:27
17
Sinner You’ll Need King Jesus
2:56
2:56
18
Church Bell Blues (take 1)
3:18
3:18
19
Church Bell Blues (take 2)
3:09
3:09
20
Pick Poor Robin Clean (take 1)
3:14
3:14
21
Pick Poor Robin Clean (take 2)
3:15
3:15
22
Cocaine Blues
3:25
3:25
23
Travelling Coon
3:18
3:18
24
My Gal’s Done Quit Me
3:01
3:01
25
Won't You Be Kind?
2:57
2:57
26
If I Call You Mama
3:15
3:15
27
Tom Brown Sits in His Prison Cell
2:57
2:57
28
Frankie
3:24
3:24
29
Nobody's Dirty Business
2:55
2:55
30
Ain’t No Tellin’
2:56
2:56
31
Louis Collins
3:00
3:00
32
Avalon Blues
3:05
3:05
33
Big Leg Blues
2:54
2:54
34
Stack O' Lee Blues
2:59
2:59
35
Candy Man Blues
2:48
2:48
36
Got the Blues, Can’t Be Satisfied
2:58
2:58
37
Blessed Be the Name
2:49
2:49
38
Praying on the Old Camp Ground
2:39
2:39
39
Blue Harvest Blues
2:54
2:54
40
Spike Driver Blues
3:17
3:17
41
She Could Toodle‐oo
3:02
3:02
42
Nobody Knows (What The Good Deacon Does)
3:09
3:09
43
Shelby County Workhouse
2:55
2:55
44
Way Down in Arkansas
3:11
3:11
45
Hambone Willie’s Dreamy-Eyed Woman’s Blues
3:04
3:04
46
Roll and tumble blues
3:07
3:07
47
Framer's Blues
3:07
3:07
48
God Didn't Make Me No Monkey Man
3:14
3:14
49
How You Want Your Rollin' Done?
2:49
2:49
50
Teasin' Brown Blues
2:47
2:47
51
Caroline
2:49
2:49
52
Ford V-8
2:50
2:50
53
Watch the Fords Go By
3:12
3:12
54
Mary Had a Little Lamb
2:45
2:45
55
She's Totin' Something Good
3:06
3:06
56
What a Pity
2:38
2:38
57
I Believe Somebody's Ridin' My Mule
3:00
3:00
58
Don't Use That Stuff
2:35
2:35
59
Buy It From The Poultry Man
2:44
2:44
60
Don't Credit My Stuff
2:50
2:50
61
Jimmy Shut His Store Doors
2:44
2:44
62
I Had a Gal for the Last Fifteen Years
2:10
2:10
63
Tell Me What's Wrong With You
2:59
2:59
64
You Gonna Look Like a Monkey When You Get Old
2:54
2:54
65
G Blues
2:31
2:31
66
Just Smilin'
2:33
2:33
67
Pal, How I Miss You Tonight
3:20
3:20
68
Lumber-Yard Blues
2:35
2:35
69
I'm Going to Write and Tell My Mother
2:53
2:53
70
It Is So Good
3:03
3:03
71
Hill's Hot Sauce
2:51
2:51
72
Dago Blues
3:26
3:26
73
Red River Blues
2:54
2:54
74
Who's That Knockin' at My Door
2:43
2:43
75
Somebody Stole My Jane
2:58
2:58
76
Travelin’ Man
2:56
2:56
77
Preacher and the Bear
2:03
2:03

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