here is the NFO file from Indietorrents
Couldn’t get the NFO generator to work this time around, but it’s V0, encoded with LAME 3.97.
Here’s a tracklist:
Disc 1
1 Mama’s Black Baby Boy / Unique Quartet Fall 2:29
2 Keep Movin’ 2:48
3 Poor Mourner 1:58
4 You Been a Good Old Wagon / Len Spencer 2:14
5 Poor Mourner / Dinwiddie Colored Quartet 2:56
6 Nobody / Bert Williams 2:55
7 What a Time 3:45
8 The Camp Meeting Jubilee / Male Quartet 1:43
9 Poor Mourner / Fisk University Jubilee Quartet 3:11
10 Down Home Rag / James Reese Europe 3:24
11 The Rain Song / The Afro-American Folk Song Singers 3:09
12 Memphis Blues / Victor Military Band 3:04
13 Memphis Blues / Morton Harvey 2:42
14 Blame It On the Blues / Victor Military Orchestra 3:11
15 St. Louis Blues / Prince’s Band 4:08
16 N Blues / George O’Connor 3:00
17 Livery Stable Blues / Original Dixieland Jazz Band 3:10
18 Moonlight Blues / W.C. Handy 3:18
19 Death Where is Thy Sting? / Arthur Collins 3:14
20 Beale Street Blues / Al Bernard 3:07
21 Memphis Blues / James Reese Europe 2:39
22 Kansas City Blues / Wilbur Sweatman 3:10
23 Swanee Blues / J. Milton Decamp 2:30
24 Lovin’ Sam From Alabam / Mamie Smith 2:51
25 Frankie Blues / Mamie Smith 3:07
26 Chain Gang Blues 2:51
27 My Soul is a Witness 2:31
Disc 2
1 Society Blues / Kid Ory 3:14
2 Teasin’ the Frets / Marion Harris 2:56
3 I Ain’t Got Nobody / Marion Harris 3:07
4 Midnight Blues / Ethel Waters 3:05
5 Aggravatin’ Papa / Sophie Tucker 3:05
6 New Orleans Joys 2:47
7 Guitar Blues / Sylvester Weaver 2:42
8 London Blues / Jelly Roll Morton’s Jazz Orchestra 3:16
9 Waitin’ For the Evening Mail / Noble Sissle 2:56
10 Bleeding Hearted Blues / James P. Johnson 3:03
11 London Cafe Blues / Baby Dodds 2:47
12 The Gospel Train Am Comin’ / Homer Rodheaver 2:58
13 Any Woman’s Blues / Bessie Smith 3:19
14 God’s Gonna Set This World On Fire / Kentucky Trio 3:04
15 If You Do What You Do / Eddie Cantor & the Georgians 3:06
16 Hatchet Head Blues / Old Southern Jug Band 2:46
17 Time Ain’t Gonna Make Me Stay / Ed Andrews 2:47
18 Waffle Man’s Call / Johnny Bayersdorffer 3:03
19 Rhapsody In Blue / Paul Whiteman 3:54
20 I’ve Got a Cross Eyed Papa / Lewitsch Tanzorchester 3:30
21 Barrel House Blues / Rosa Henderson 3:19
22 Mississippi Shivers / Zez Confrey and His Orchestra 3:26
23 Kiss Me Sweet / Butterbeans 3:10
24 Toodlin’ Blues / Bix Beiderbecke & His Rhythm Jugglers 2:44
25 Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning / Alberta Hunter 2:49
26 Steppin On the Blues / Lovie Austin 2:30
Disc 3
1 All Night Long Blues / Roba Stanley 3:16
2 Meddlin’ With the Blues / The Two Of Spades 3:11
3 Frank Du Pree 2:58
4 Steel String Blues / Sylvester Weaver 3:14
5 Hersal Blues / Hersal Thomas 3:00
6 Street Cries of New Orleans / Edna Thomas 3:01
7 The Wagon / Ben Harney 1:47
8 A Married Man’s Blues / Wade Ward 2:40
9 She’s Cryin’ For Me / New Orleans Rhythm Kings 2:46
10 Put Me In the Alley 2:53
11 All I Want is a Little Spoonful / Papa Charlie Jackson 2:41
12 Red Man Blues / Piron’s New Orleans Orchestra 3:00
13 South Street Blues / Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra 2:36
14 No Home Blues / Louise Ross 2:46
15 Sugar Babe / Lee Morse 2:40
16 Careless Love / Bessie Smith 3:28
17 Don’t Fish In My Sea / Ma Rainey 2:54
18 I’ll Be Rested / Roosevelt Graves and Brother 2:31
19 I Want My Life To Testify / Hendersonville Double Quartet 2:54
20 Can’t Sleep Blues / The Pebbles 2:30
21 String Band Blues / Kansas City Blues Strummers 2:33
22 Black Cat Blues / Old Pal Smoke Shop Four 3:07
23 Mama’s Angel Child / Papa Stovepipe 2:59
24 Jack O’ Diamond Blues / Hersal Thomas 3:06
25 Memphis Shake / The Dixieland Jug Blowers 3:18
26 Crucifixion / Arizonia Dranes 3:31
27 Royal Palm Special 3:02
Disc 4
1 Lamb’s Blood Has Washed Me Clean / Rev. F.W. McGee 3:17
2 I Shall Wear a Crown 3:12
3 High Fever / Cookie’s Gingersnaps 3:21
4 I Want Jesus To Walk With Me 2:51
5 Blackville / Hazel Meyers 3:11
6 Bridwell Blues / Nolan Welsh 3:29
7 Fat Meat and Greens / Jelly Roll Morton 2:58
8 Christians Fight On Your Time Ain’t Long / Sam Butler 2:45
9 Got the Blues / Blind Lemon Jefferson 2:59
10 Chock House Blues / Blind Lemon Jefferson 2:42
11 Birth of the Blues / Paul Whiteman 3:07
12 Knoxville Blues / Sam McGee 3:03
13 My Soul is a Witness / Arizonia Dranes 2:27
14 Smoke House Blues / Omer Simeon 3:27
15 Boneyard Shuffle / The Red Heads 2:54
16 Motherless Child / Blind Willie Johnson 3:22
17 The Bumps / Jeanette’s Synco Jazzers 2:24
18 Tin Roof Blues / Sol Hoopii 3:18
19 Bamalong Blues / Jim Baxter 3:10
20 Hana Won’t You Open the Door / Kirk McGee 2:53
21 Honey Just Allow Me One More Chance / Henry Thomas 2:52
22 James Alley Blues 3:11
23 Franklin Street Blues / Louis Dumaine’s Jazzola Eight 3:23
24 Fight That Thing / Reb Spikes 2:35
25 Clarinet Wobble / Johnny Dodds 2:37
26 Mr. Johnson Turn Me Loose / South Georgia Highballers 2:58
Disc 5
1 My Old Daddy’s Got a Brand New Way To Love / Thomas Morris 3:30
2 Honey In the Rock / Blind Mamie Forehand 2:44
3 Georgia Crawl / Eddie Anthony 3:22
4 Blessed Are the Poor / Luther Magby 3:09
5 A Good Man is Hard To Find / Venuti 3:04
6 I Am Resolved / Kahle Brewer 3:00
7 Curley Headed Woman / Dick Burnett 3:08
8 Down South Blues / Doc Boggs 3:08
9 Black Snake Blues / King Oliver 3:01
10 Weary Way Blues / Jimmy Blythe 3:08
11 Honky Tonk Train Blues / Meade “Lux” Lewis 3:14
12 The Lord is My Shepherd / Blind Connie Rosemond 3:30
13 Penn Beach Blues / Joe Venuti 2:52
14 Black Hearse Blues / Sarah Martin 3:14
15 Cold Penitentiary Blues / B.F. Shelton 3:27
16 Shaking the Blues Away / Ruth Etting 3:14
17 The Crowing Rooster / Walter Rhodes 3:25
18 Creole Love Call / Duke Ellington 3:04
19 Gods Gonna Separate the Wheat From the Tares / Blind Joe Taggart 2:48
20 Jazz Me Blues / Bix Beiderbecke & His Gang 2:55
21 Royal Garden Blues / Bix Beiderbecke & His Gang 2:55
22 Chattanooga Blues / Allen Brothers 3:09
23 New Orleans Lowdown / Duke Ellington 3:04
24 Barrelhouse Man / Will Ezell 3:14
25 I Am Born To Preach the Gospel / Blind Washington Phillips 3:02
Disc 6
1 Death is Only a Dream / Rev. Edward Clayborn 2:57
2 Neckbones and Beans / Henry Johnson & His Boys 2:47
3 She’s In the Graveyard Now / Earl Macdonald’s Original Jug Band 2:46
4 Yellow Dog Blues / Sam Collins 2:33
5 Mamlish Blues / Ed Bell 2:37
6 Starvation Blues / jessie stone 3:16
7 Wild Man Blues / Louis Armstrong 3:12
8 Can You Blame the Colored Man? / Gus Cannon 2:45
9 Mama You Don’t Know How Long / Long Cleve Reed & the Downhome Boys 2:56
10 A Woman Gets Tired of the Same Man All the Time / Sam “Stovepipe No. 1” Jones 3:15
11 Second-Hand Blues / Margaret Johnson 3:21
12 Awful Fix / Buddy Boy Hawkins 2:29
13 Train 45 3:07
14 Hesitation Blues / Al Duffy 3:09
15 Section Gang Blues / Alger “Texas” Alexander 3:01
16 Lonesome Ghost Blues / Lonnie Johnson 3:11
17 Lord I Can’t Stay Away / Violet Harmony Singers 3:24
18 Deep River / Paul Robeson 2:21
19 Doan Let Satan Git You / Barbour’s Plantation Singers 2:46
20 Every Time I Feel the Spirit / Four Aces of Harmony 3:00
21 Man Trouble / Jaybird Coleman 3:05
22 Big Road Blues / Tommy Johnson 3:21
23 Deep River / Forbes Randolph’s Kentucky Jubilee Choir 2:54
24 Blues In the Bottle / Prince Albert Hunt’s Texas Ramblers 3:25
25 Stealin’ / Memphis Jug Band 3:10
26 I’m Wild About My Lovin’ / Jim Jackson 3:13
Disc 7
1 Viola Lee Blues / Cannon’s Jug Stompers 3:11
2 Take Me Back / Frank Stokes 3:12
3 Three Preludes / George Gershwin 2nd Prelude 2:36
4 I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say / Biddleville Quintette 3:17
5 Away Down In the Alley Blues / Lonnie Johnson 2:57
6 Going Across the Sea / H.L. Bandy 3:00
7 Chocolate To the Bone / Barbecue Bob 2:56
8 Pinetop’s Blues / Pinetop Smith 2:48
9 99 Year Blues / Julius Daniels 3:05
10 Touch Me Light Mama / George “Bullet” Williams 2:48
11 Mississippi Jail House Groan / Rube Lacy 3:24
12 Sawmill Moan / Ramblin’ Thomas 2:58
13 Johnson City Blues / Clarence Green 2:59
14 Wayward Girl Blues / Lottie Kimbrough 2:54
15 I Must Have That Man / Annette Hanshaw 3:00
16 Slow Motion / Bennie Moten 2:43
17 Molly Man / Rev. Moses Mason 3:09
18 If the Light Has Gone Out In Your Soul / Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Singers 3:06
19 Mon Cherie / Dennis McGee 2:47
20 Four or Five Times / King Oliver 3:12
21 Avalon Blues / Mississippi John Hurt 3:05
22 I Ain’t Got Nobody / Emmett Miller 3:08
23 G Burns is Gonna Rise Again 3:03
24 Can’t Help Lovin’ That Man / Helen Morgan 2:58
25 Violin Blues / Johnson Boys 3:22
26 Good Old Turnip Greens / Bo Chatman 3:07
Disc 8
1 Every Day of the Week Blues / Simmie Dooley 2:54
2 Alley Rat / Jimmy Blythe 3:01
3 I’m On My Journey Home / The Denson Quartet 3:21
4 One Way Gal 3:17
5 Stack O’Lee, Pt. 2 / Cliff Edwards 2:34
6 Worried Blues / Gladys Bentley 2:48
7 Can’t Help Lovin’ That Man / Helen Morgan 3:04
8 Jungle Blues / Benny Goodman’s Boys 3:19
9 Old Man River 3:15
10 Old Time Baptism, Pt. 2 / Reverend R.M. Massey 3:31
11 Blue Piano Stomp / Johnny Dodds 3:10
12 Sunshine Special / Frenchy’s String Band 3:14
13 Midnight Mama / Frances Hereford 2:48
14 Lord Lord He Sure is Good / Elder Richard Bryant 3:06
15 Wang Wang Blues / Sam Ku West Harmony Boys 3:09
16 Tight Like That / Tampa Red’s Hokum Jug Band 2:45
17 A Blues Serenade / The Original Memphis Five 2:36
18 I Truly Understand You Love Another Man / Shortbuckle Roarke & His Family 2:37
19 I Found a New Baby 3:11
20 Hard Hustling Blues / Bernice Edwards 3:12
21 The Boy In the Boat / Charlie Johnson’s Original Paradise Ten 3:35
22 School Girl Blues / Rosie Mae Moore 3:30
23 I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate / Boyd Senter & His Senterpedes 3:07
24 Ham Beats All Meat / Dr Humphrey Bate & His Possum Hunters 2:39
25 In the Mornin’ 2:57
26 The Preacher Got Drunk and Laid His Bible Down / The Tennessee Ramblers 2:46
Disc 9
1 Home Town Blues / The Roane County Ramblers 3:10
2 Judge Harsh Blues / Furry Lewis 3:05
3 Caution Blues / Earl Hines 3:02
4 Blue Harmony / Hense Grundy 3:33
5 Cannon Ball Blues / Frank Hutchison 3:22
6 Brown Skin Blues / Dick Justice 3:13
7 Leake County Blues / The Leake County Revelers 3:07
8 Bathe In That Beautiful Pool / Doc Walsh 2:58
9 Easy Rider Blues / Leo Soileau 2:57
10 Operation Blues / Frankie Jaxon 3:13
11 I’m a Mighty Tight Woman / Sippie Wallace 2:53
12 That’s No Way To Get Along / Robert Wilkins 2:54
13 Walking Blues / Raymond Barrow 3:07
14 Don’t Mistreat Your Good Boyfriend / Bubbling Over Five 3:17
15 St. Louis Blues/Weary Yodelin’ Blues 3:58
16 Fresno Blues / Johnnie Crockett 2:57
17 Mean Low Blues / Blues Birdhead 3:17
18 Georgia Bound / Blind Blake 3:24
19 If I Call You Mama / Luke Jordan 3:13
20 Just Blues / Memphis Jazzers 2:55
21 Lawdy Lawdy Worried Blues / Blind Teddy Darby 3:08
22 New York Blues / Will Ezell 3:13
23 Guitar Blues / Lonnie Johnson 3:19
24 Avenue Strut / Herve Duerson 2:50
25 Slum Guillion Stomp / Cow Cow Davenport 2:59
Collage name # torrents
April 2012: Pre War Blues & Mountain Music 23
Compilation info
This will be a beautiful freeleech. I cleaned up the tags and corrected the dates.
When Allen Lowe’s previous CD documentary, Minstrel to Mojo [American Pop] was released, it was acclaimed as one of the ten best boxed sets of the year by The New York Times and as the best independent production of the year in Pulse! magazine. Gary Giddins wrote in the U.S. magazine Modern Maturity (circulation: 23 million): “This astonishing trove of 215 selections lives up to its title . . . the sheer variety is overwhelming.” Here are some other rave reviews:
“There can be few better guides to the varied, fascinating, and vastly influential music of the United States than this.” —John Clarke, The Times [London]
“No one has ever attempted anything like this before . . . these are the streams and tributaries that have fed the river of American music in this century, and it is an amazing experience to sit back and listen to them as they flow together.” —Elijah Wood, The Boston Globe
“There has never been such a fascinating collection of reissued vintage records . . . nor one that gives such an overview of American popular song . . .” —Philip Elwood, San Francisco Examiner
“What glorious music this country produced in the 20th century!” — Bob Rusch in Cadence
“With at least twenty-four numbers to a disc, Really the Blues? is a cornucopia; it’s a swamp. It’s a forest to get lost in, tree by tree or even leaf by leaf. It’s a grand and overarching story—though that ? at the end of his title marks Lowe’s doubt as to whether with the blues such a story is possible, or even a good idea.” — Greil Marcus in Believer Magazine