The Rough Guide to the Roots of the Blues Various Artists SKU: RGNET1397LP Barcode: 605633139747 13.00 £13.00 Genre: Blues Label: World Music Network Released Date: 28th February 2020 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Featuring the greatest names in early blues music including Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bessie Smith, Charley Patton and Ma Rainey. The perfect overview of the many different styles and key performers of early blues on one album. An incredibly diverse selection of tracks including bottleneck guitar, barrelhouse piano, classic songster tunes and vaudeville blues. An album which traces the development of blues music during its early recorded history of the 1920s. An unique insight into the first great wave of blues artists who remain an inspiration to this day. The first documented description of what we now recognise as the blues occurred in 1903 when the composer and musician W.C. Handy was waiting for a train at Tutwiler, Mississippi. He heard a man playing a guitar by pressing a knife against the strings and singing a song with the line, “Goin’ where the Southern cross the Dog”. Handy went on to become a great collector and populariser of the blues and was hugely influential in bringing this local folk music from the Mississippi Delta to public attention. Along with Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey spearheaded the 1920s “classic era” of recorded blues. Handy’s ‘St. Louis Blues’ were recorded in the mid-1920s heyday of the classic blues era, shortly before the female dominance of the genre was eclipsed by the rougher sound of the country blues. Likewise, many white musicians were heavily influenced by the blues including the ‘Father of Country Music’, Jimmie Rodgers whose yodel-infused blues became a prominent element of his music. There can be little doubt that the blues grew up in the Mississippi Delta as an elaboration on work chants, slave songs, and the lyrical and haunting field hollers. Unquestionably the most influential of all the blues forms, the Delta blues laid the foundations for what was to become rock and roll, with all roads leading to its father figure Charley Patton who served as a major influence on other legendary bluesmen who followed including Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf. Along with the guitar, the piano came into its own in the barrelhouses, as roving musicians hammered out high-spirited tunes for the drinkers and dancers. Artist Various Artists Genre Blues Label World Music Network Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie - When The Levee Breaks Scrapper Blackwell - Kokomo Blues Ma Rainey - Stack O’Lee Blues Blind Blake - West Coast Blues Henry Thomas - Fishing Blues Memphis Jug Band - Stealin’, Stealin’ Victoria Spivey - T.B. Blues Blind Lemon Jefferson - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean Cow Cow Davenport - Cow Cow Blues Blind Willie Johnson - Mother’s Children Have A Hard Time Dick Justice - Brown Skin Blues Bo Weevil Jackson - Devil And My Brown Blues Mississippi John Hurt - Got The Blues, Can’t Be Satisfied Hambone Willie Newbern - Roll And Tumble Blues Clarence “Pinetop” Smith - Pinetop’s Boogie Woogie Texas Alexander - Section Gang Blues Blind Willie McTell - Statesboro Blues Speckled Red - The Dirty Dozen Charley Patton - Screamin’ And Hollerin’ The Blues Jimmie Rodgers - Blue Yodel No. 1 (T For Texas) Bessie Smith - St. Louis Blues Papa Charlie Jackson - All I Want Is A Spoonful Weaver And Beasley - Bottleneck Blues Tampa Red & Georgia Tom - It’s Tight Like That - No. 2 Tommy Johnson - Canned Heat Blues Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Various Artists View Product Quick View Various Artists Back To Black OST Rock And Pop | UMR | 1LP, 2LP Released 17th May 2024 £24.00 - £33.00 Select options Various Artists Back To Black OST £24.00 - £33.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: UMR Formats: 1LP, 2LP Released Date: 17th May 2024 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Various Artists REACH Rock And Pop | Numero Group | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 5th April 2024 £23.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Various Artists REACH £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Numero Group SKU: NUM500LP-C1 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 5th April 2024 Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Various Artists Best of Ravel Classical | Warner Classics | 2LP Released 5th April 2024 £28.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Various Artists Best of Ravel £28.00 Genre: Classical Label: Warner Classics SKU: 5054197704741 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 5th April 2024 Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Various Artists Eccentric Soul: Consolidated Productions Vol. 1 Soul / Funk | Numero Group | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 5th April 2024 £30.00 - £32.00 Select options Various Artists Eccentric Soul: Consolidated Productions Vol. 1 £30.00 - £32.00 Genre: Soul / Funk Label: Numero Group Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 5th April 2024 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Various Artists Eurodance Collected Rock And Pop | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 2LP Released 19th April 2024 £34.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Various Artists Eurodance Collected £34.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP3720C Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 19th April 2024 Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Various Artists City Music Tokyo – Multiple World / Fusion | Gearbox | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 5th April 2024 £35.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Various Artists City Music Tokyo – Multiple £35.00 Genre: World / Fusion Label: Gearbox SKU: GB1593 Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 5th April 2024 Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Various Artists Congo Funk! 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