Various - Roots of It All Acoustic Blues Vol. 1 (CD)

Details: In addition to well-known names such as Blind Lemon Jefferson, Tommy Johnson, Charley Patton, Son House, Robert Johnson and Bukka White discover obscure bluesmen like Rube Lacy, Little Hat Jones uva August 10, 1920, a crucial for the future of the blues day. Back then took Mamie Smith, accompanied by romantic piano music and jazzy horns, their seminal Crazy Blues for Okeh Records on. Your glamorous dealing with the music based on the tradition of vaudeville. The next big trend in the Blues came a little later and turned to blues players, of which almost all came from the rural South and the tradition of the slave songs and work songs. Some truly virtuosic playing on their instruments. With each published shellac plate designed Lonnie Johnson, Blind Willie McTell, Blind Blake and Skip James dominated by guitars future of the genre. With the help of slides or bottleneck they doubled the volume of their guitars and procured so even in the evil-sounding noise of a rural pub ear. They produced a liquid, howling sound on their acoustic devices or pounded with all his chords in the strings. Better known musicians could afford with metal body, which sounded much louder than normal guitar the glittering 'National' guitars. After it's discovery in Texas in 1925 or 1926 had Blind Lemon Jefferson incredible success within the African-American population, thus emphasizing the commercial potential of the rural blues of the South. By crushing poverty of the Depression in the early thirties of the first boom of Blue recordings came to an unforeseen end. But the first two decades in the history of Blue recordings remain a gold mine with great examples of acoustic blues. This compilation provides a wonderful cross-section of the best shots.

Tracklist:

1. Guitar Blues
2. Shake That Thing
3. Mr. Johnson's Blues
4. Match Box Blues
5. Mississippi Heavy Water Blues
6. Billy Lyons and Stack O'Lee
7. Jim Jackson's Kansas City Blues - Pt. 1
8. Dark Was the Night - Cold Was the Ground
9. Downtown Blues
10. Frankie
11. So Lonesome
12. Ham Hound Crave
13. Bull Doze Blues
14. Kokomo Blues
15. Canned Heat Blues
16. The Four Day Blues
17. Statesboro Blues
18. No No Blues
19. Roll and Tumble Blues
20. Cairo Blues
21. Pony Blues
22. When the Levee Breaks
23. Little Hat Blues
24. Diddie Wa Diddie
25. Last Time Blues
26. That's No Way to Get Along
27. Henry's Worry Blues
28. Ice and Snow Blues
29. Outside Woman Blues
30. Sitting on Top of the World
31. Dough Roller Blues
32. My Black Mama - Part 1
33. M ; O Blues
34. Stack O' Dollars Blues
35. Howling Wolf Blues - No. 1
36. I'm So Glad
37. Times Has Done Got Out of Hand
38. Long Tall Mama
39. Good Gal
40. Black Angel Blues
41. Midnight Special
42. Chickasaw Train Blues (Low Down Dirty Thing)
43. Milk Cow Blues
44. Lead Pencil Blues (It Just Won't Write)
45. Someday Baby Blues
46. Cross and Evil Woman Blues
47. Rag Mama Rag
48. Crow Jane
49. Baby Please Don't Go
50. Somebody Changed the Lock on My Door
51. Lone Wolf Blues
52. Cross Road Blues
53. Black Ace
54. Prowling Night-Hawk
55. Shake 'Em on Down
56. Old Devil
57. This Train
58. Bottle It Up and Go