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Details: Inveterate record collector R. Crumb's artwork for this 2-CD set includes the subtitle "The Dead Sea Scrolls of Record Collecting," and indeed he and his henchmen at the Yazoo label have cooked up quite the collection for US unsuspecting consumers, consisting of 46 of the rarest and greatest blues and country sides from the '20s and '30s! Among the gems: two newly discovered masterpieces from Son House, Mississippi Country Farm Blues and Clarksdale Moan; If I Call You, a Luke Jordan side 'never' heard anywhere; the long-lost Georgia Pot Lickers record featuring duet fiddling by Lowe Stokes and A.A. Gray, and rarities from rural legends Tommy Johnson, Dock Boggs, Clarence Ashley, the Sweet Brothers, Andrew and Jim Baxter and many, many more. Crumb's booklet artwork expounds on the lunacy of record collecting utterly unique!
Tracklist:
- Freeny's Barn Dance Band: Croquet Habits
- Son House: Mississippi County Farm Blues
- Georgia Pot Lickers: Up Jumped the Rabbit
- Memphis Minnie ; Joe McCoy: I'm Going Back Home
- Wilmer Watts ; the Lonely Eagles: Fightin' in the War with Spain
- John Byrd: Old Timbrook Blues
- Ernest Phipps and His Holiness Singers: A Little Talk with Jesus
- Tommy Johnson: Slidin' Delta
- The Three Striped Gears: Alabama Blues
- Jack Gowdlock: Rollin Dough Blues
- Kentucky Ramblers: Ginseng Blues
- Ollis Martin: Police and High Sheriff Come Ridin' Down
- Roy Harvey ; Jess Johnston and the West Virginia Ramblers: John Hardy Blues
- Long "Cleeve" Reed ; Little Harvey Hull - the Down Home Boys: Original Stack O' Lee Blues
- Amedie Ardoin ; Dennis McGee: Two Step de la Prairie Soileau
- Andrew ; Jim Baxter: Operator Blues
- J.D. Harris: The Grey Eagle
- Memphis Jug Band: Jim Strainer Blues
- Grayson County Railsplitters: Ain't That Trouble in Mind (Unissued)
- Dock Boggs: Old Rub Alcohol Blues
- Jaybird Coleman: Mistreatin' Mama
- Henry Whitter: It's a Rough Road to Georgia (Unissued)
- Rev. B.L. Wightman with Lottie Kimbrough ; Congregation: Live the Life
- Yank Rachel with Sleepy John Estes ; Jab Jones: Sweet Mama
- Crowder Brothers: We All Love Mother (Unissued)
- Son House: Clarksdale Moan
- Ashley ; Foster: Bull Dog Sal (Unissued)
- Jesse "Babyface" Thomas: Down in Texas Blues
- Georgia Pot Lickers: Chicken Don't Roost Too High
- William Harris: I'm Leavin' Town (But I Sho' Don't Wanna Go)
- Asa Martin ; Roy Hobbs: Wild Cat Rag
- King Solomon Hill: Whoopee Blues (Alternate Take)
- Chubby Parker: Davey Crockett
- Geeshie Wiley: Skinny Leg Blues
- Sweet Brothers: I'm Gonna Marry That Pretty Little Girl
- Blind Roosevelt Graves ; Varoy Graves: I Shall Not Be Moved
- Smith ; Irvine: Lonesome Road Blues
- Luke Jordon: If I Call You Mama
- Grayson ; Whitter: My Mind Is to Marry (Unissued)
- Osey Helton: Green River
- Lottie Kimbrough: Don't Speak to Me
- Wade Ward: Married Man's Blues (Unissued)
- Ken Maynard: Sweet Betsey from Pike (Unissued)
- Jaybird Coleman: Boll Weevil
- Bill Shepherd with Hayes Shepherd ; Ed Webb: Bound Steel Blues
- Middle Georgia Singing Convention No. 1: Bells of Love
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