Broadcasting the Blues: Black Blues in the Segregation Era (Compiled and Edited by Paul Oliver)
byVarious Artists
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- Date Released: February 14, 2006
- Genre: Blues
- Style: Traditional Blues
- Label: Document Records / The Orchard
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Baby, Please Don't Go
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3:27 |
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Match Box Blues
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2:56 |
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Yonder Come the Blues
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3:03 |
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Yellow Dog Blues
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3:01 |
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Walkin' Blues
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2:30 |
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Ring Dance
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2:01 |
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My Soul Is A Witness
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3:27 |
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Long Hot Summer Days
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1:58 |
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Lucky Holler
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2:28 |
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Penitentiary Moan
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3:08 |
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Old Country Stomp
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2:54 |
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Dry Bone Shuffle
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2:45 |
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Mysterious Coon
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3:17 |
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Ragtime Millionaire
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3:11 |
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You Shall
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2:50 |
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Gus Cannon Interview
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1:10 |
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I Heard the Voice of a Porkchop
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2:54 |
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Spike Driver Blues
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3:17 |
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Kassie Jones - Part 1
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3:07 |
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Fare Thee Well Blues
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3:12 |
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Poor Boy, Long Ways from Home
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3:13 |
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Travelin' Blues
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3:10 |
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22 Total Tracks, 62:59 Total Length
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Chocolate to the Bone
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2:53 |
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Sad Blues
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3:05 |
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Tennessee Dog
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1:52 |
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Country Blues |
3:26 |
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Washboard Cut-Out
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2:59 |
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Flying Crows Blues
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2:48 |
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Rules and Regulations "Signed Razor Jim"
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3:15 |
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Ground Hog Blues
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3:04 |
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Broke and Hungry Blues
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3:22 |
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Wednesday Evening She Left Me
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3:58 |
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Lonesome Day Blues
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3:09 |
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Win the War Blues
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2:50 |
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Fox Hunt
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2:18 |
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Black, Brown and White
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3:06 |
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Pratt City Blues
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2:48 |
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Blues Before Sunrise
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3:35 |
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Blues Trip Me This Morning
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3:04 |
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Poor Man Blues
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3:03 |
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Henry Townsend Interview - "It gives you relief…"
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1:19 |
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My Black Mamma (Part 1)
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3:13 |
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Cotton Pickin' Blues
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3:14 |
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Wade Walton Interview - "When the final settlement comes…"
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1:07 |
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Number 29
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3:12 |
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Jim Crow Blues
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3:07 |
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24 Total Tracks, 69:47 Total Length
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Aunt Caroline Dyer Blues
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3:07 |
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Willie Shade Interview - "Aunt Caroline Dyer…"
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1:06 |
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Policy Dream Blues
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2:49 |
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North Memphis Blues
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2:36 |
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Stump Johnson Interview - "The Levee at St. Louis…"
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1:16 |
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They Ain't Walkin' No More
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3:10 |
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Ice Pick Blues
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2:48 |
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Lonnie Johnson Interview - "They ganged him" (death of Sonny Boy Williamson)
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1:15 |
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Parchman Farm Blues
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2:42 |
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Shelby County Workhouse Blues
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2:56 |
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Working on the Project
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3:05 |
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Black Ace Interview - "Depression time… I would play house parties"
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0:46 |
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Let's Have a New Deal
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2:47 |
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Tallahatchie River Blues
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2:48 |
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St. Louis Cyclone Blues
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3:07 |
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John Lee Hooker Interview - "That's what makes the blues…"
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1:16 |
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Fire Department Blues
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3:09 |
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Give Me a 32-20
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2:53 |
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Prof. Rayford Logan Interview - "When we arrived in France…" |
1:15 |
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Build a Cave
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2:24 |
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Crying Mother Blues
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2:40 |
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Speckled Red Interview - "They was real bad words…"
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0:47 |
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The Dirty Dozen
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3:18 |
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Three Ball Blues
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2:56 |
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Milk Cow Blues
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3:11 |
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Cool Drink of Water Blues
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3:27 |
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Some Summer Day
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2:56 |
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Make Me a Pallet on the Floor
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4:26 |
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Longe Gone Lost John
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2:46 |
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Spirit of Boogie Woogie
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3:06 |
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Fifty Miles of Elbow Room
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2:40 |
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31 Total Tracks, 79:28 Total Length
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