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Big Bill Broonzy: Big Bill Blues [Fabulous/Acrobat]

1 CD / Fabulous (USA) / 2011-11-08

Tracks: House Rent Stomp; I Can't Be Satisfied; Tadpole Blues; Police Station Blues; State Street Woman; Big Bill Blues; Brownskin Shuffle; Mr Conductor Man; Friendless Blues; I'll Be Back Home; Serve It to ...
Artists: Big Bill Broonzy

Contains 24 tracks.

Personnel: Big Bill Broonzy (vocals, guitar, banjo); John Thomas (spoken vocals, guitar); Arthur Pettis (guitar); Odell Rand (clarinet); Buster Bennett (alto saxophone); Pun...continue...

Michael Bloomfield: Prescription for the Blues

1 CD / Fabulous (USA) / 2011-11-08

Tracks: Hully Gully; Prisoners Song, The; Walkin' the Floor Over You; Don't You Lie to Me; Junko Partner; Knockin' Myself Out; Women Lovin' Each Other; Cherry Red; Prescription for the Blues; You Must Have J...
Artists: Michael Bloomfield

The celebrated blues guitarist Mike Bloomfield performs a variety of blues, R&B, and ragtime classics, including "Cherry Red," "Don't You Lie to Me," and "Walking the Floor Over You," on this accompli...continue...

Lillian "Lil" Green: Romance in the Dark

1 CD / Fabulous (USA) / 2011-11-08

Tracks: Romance in the Dark; Give Your Mama One Smile; What Have I Done?; What's the Matter With Love?; Love Me; How Can I Go On?; Why Don't You Do Right?; Just Rockin'; Country Boy Blues; I'm Wasting My Tim...
Artists: Lillian "Lil" Green

Lil Green , one of the unsung heroines of 1940's Blues , presents 16 of her Chicago recordings mostly with the guitar accompaniment of Big...continue...
ROMANCE IN THE DARK collects 16 of blues singer Lil Green's best-loved recordings including "Just Rockin'" and "Hello Baby."

Personnel: Lillian "Lil" Green (vocals); Big Bill Broonzy (guitar); ...continue...

Big Maceo Merriweather: Chicago Piano, Vol. 2

1 CD / Fabulous (USA) / 2011-11-08

Tracks: Kid Man Blues; Things Have Changed; Winter Time Bluies; Chicago Breakdown; Won't Be a Fool No More; Big Road Blues; Maceo's 32-20; Texas Stomp; Come on Home; Detroit Jump; My Own Troubles; I Lost My ...
Artists: Big Maceo Merriweather

Personnel: Eddie Boyd (piano); Melvin Draper, Charles Sanders (drums).

Recording information: Chicago, IL (02/26/1945-02/27/1947)....continue...

Big Maceo Merriweather: Chicago Piano, Vol. 1

1 CD / Fabulous (USA) / 2011-11-08

Artists: Big Maceo Merriweather

Roosevelt Sykes: The Honeydripper [Fabulous]

1 CD / Fabulous (USA) / 2011-11-08

Tracks: Boot That Thing; Roosevelt's Blues; Ten and Four Blues; Give Me Your Change; 32-20 Blues; She's in My Blood; '44' Blues; Sad and Lonely Day; DBA Blues (You Old Yas Yas); Honey Dripper, The; Ups and D...
Artists: Roosevelt Sykes

Personnel: Roosevelt "Honey Dripper" Sykes (vocals, piano); Oscar Carter (vocals, guitar); Napoleon Fletcher, Edith Johnson, Carl Rafferty (vocals); Kokomo Arnold (guitar); Artie Mosby (violin); Sidne...continue...

Canned Heat: Vintage

1 CD / Fabulous (USA) / 2011-11-08

Artists: Canned Heat

Recorded well before the free-flowing, psychedelic R&B of the Woodstock favorite "Going Up the Country," or the sinister, shimmering "On the Road Again," these mid-1960s studio tracks feature the prot...continue...

Walter Davis: Don't You Want to Go? *

1 CD / Fabulous (USA) / 2011-11-08

Tracks: M&O Blues; That Stuff You Sell Ain't No Good; Howling Wind Blues; L&N Blues; Minute Man Blues, Pt. 1; Minute Man Blues, Pt. 2; Sweet Sixteen; Root Man Blues; Moonlight Is My Spread; Ashes in My Whisk...
Artists: Walter Davis

Personnel: Walter Davis (vocals, piano); Henry Townsend, Joe Williams (guitar); John J. Moore (tenor saxophone); Roosevelt Sykes (piano).

Liner Note Author: Neil Slaven.

Recording inform...continue...

B.B. King: B.B. King and His Orchestra Live

1 CD / Fabulous (USA) / 2011-11-08

Tracks: B.B.'s Time; Why I Sing the Blues; Darling You Know I Love You; Sweet Little Angel; Everyday I Have the Blues; All Over Again; Guess Who?; Thrill Is Gone, The; Caldonia; Paying the Cost to Be the Boss
Artists: B.B. King

Liner Note Author: Neil Slaven.

Recording information: Palais des Congres, Cannes, France (01/1983).

Legendary bluesman B.B. King had reached his 80th year when this concert was recorded...continue...

Ray Charles: In the Beginning 1949-1952

2 CD / Fabulous (USA) / 2011-11-08

Tracks: Confession Blues; I Love You I Love You (I Will Never Let You Go); How Long Blues; Blues Before Sunrise; Sentimental Blues, A; You'll Never Miss the Water; Can Anyone Ask for More; Alone in This City...
Artists: Ray Charles

Personnel: Gosady McKee, Mitchell "Tiny" Webb, Oscar Moore (guitar); Earl Singers Brown, Marshall Royal (alto saxophone); Fleming Askew, Billy Brooks (tenor saxophone, trumpet); Maurice Simon, Jack Mc...continue...

Dinah Washington: Greatest Hits 1946-1953

2 CD / Fabulous (USA) / 2011-11-08

Tracks: Salty Papa Blues; Evil Gal Blues; Walking Blues; When a Woman Loves a Man; Slick Chick, A (On the Mellow Side); Blow Top Blues; Stairway to the Stars; Fool That I Am; Since I Fell for You; I Love You...
Artists: Dinah Washington

Personnel: Joe Van Loan (tenor); Chuck Norris , Freddie Green, Mundell Lowe, Billy Mackel (guitar); Rudy Rutherford (clarinet); Jewell L. Grant, Ernie Wilkins, Andrew Gardner, Rupert Cole, Herbie Fiel...continue...

Harlem Hamfats: Let's Get Drunk and Truck *

1 CD / Fabulous (USA) / 2011-11-08

Tracks: My Daddy Was a Lovin' Man; Hallelujah Joe Ain't Preachin' No More; Jam Jamboree; What You Gonna' Do?; Oh! Red; Growling Dog; Black Gal You Better Use Your Head; We Gonna Pitch a Boogie Woogie; Garbag...
Artists: Harlem Hamfats

Here are selections from this popular late '30s group of jazz and bluesmen featuring Joe and Charlie Mcoy. The Harlem Hamfats bridged the gap between...continue...
Harlem Hamfats: Joe McCoy, Charlie McCoy ....continue...

Robert Johnson: The Last of the Great Blues Singers

1 CD / Fabulous (USA) / 2011-11-08

Tracks: Kind Hearted Woman Blues; I Believe I'll Dust My Broom; Sweet Home Chicago; Rambling on My Mind; Come on in My Kitchen; Terraplane Blues; 32-20 Blues; They're Red Hot; Dead Shrimp Blues; Cross Road B...
Artists: Robert Johnson

Contains 25 tracks.

Personnel: Robert Johnson (vocals, guitar).

Recording information: Dallas, TX (11/07/1936-11/23/1937); San Antonio (11/07/1936-11/23/1937).

Although there are ...continue...

Leadbelly: Leadbelly Live [Fabulous]

1 CD / Fabulous (USA) / 2011-11-08

Tracks: Goodnight Irene; Ho-Day Ain't It Goin' Down to the Well No More; Rock Island Line; Go Down Old Hannah; Shine on Me; What Can I Do to Change Your Mind?; Skip to My Lou; Mary and Martha; C'est Bon, Les...
Artists: Leadbelly

Personnel: Leadbelly (vocals, 12-string guitar).

Liner Note Author: Neil Slaven.

Recording information: University of Texas, Austin, TX (06/15/1949).

Arranger: Leadbelly.

L...continue...

Bukka White: The Panama Limited

1 CD / Fabulous (USA) / 2011-11-08

Tracks: Aberdeen Mississippi Blues; Bukka's Jitterbug Swing; Special Stream Line; High Fever Blues; District Attorney Blues; Fixin' to Die Blues; Black Train Blues; Strange Place Blues; Where Can I Change My...
Artists: Bukka White

18 tracks featuring Bukka White's fierce, slashing bottleneck guitar style recorded between 1930 and 1940....continue...
Contains 18 tracks.

Recorded between 1930 & 1940.

Bukka White recorded the material on this disc between 1930 and 1940, and offers an excellent account of his pre-World War II output. In...continue...

Sonny Terry: Blowin' the Blues

1 CD / Fabulous (USA) / 2011-11-08

Tracks: Mean and No Good Woman; Train Whistle Blues; New Love Blues; Mountain Blues; New John Henry, The; Harmonica Blues; Harmonica and Washboard Breakdown; Somebody's Been Talkin'; Harmonica Stomp; Blowin'...
Artists: Sonny Terry

18 tracks recorded between 1938 and 1944 featuring some of the best known tracks from the blues harmonica ace....continue...
Contains 18 tracks.

Recorded between 1938 & 1944.

Personnel: Sonny Terry (vocals, harmonica); Blind Boy Fuller, Brownie McGhee (vocals, guitar); Woody Guthrie (guitar); Jordan Webb (harm...continue...

Dinah Washington: I Know How to Do It

1 CD / Fabulous (USA) / 2011-11-08

Tracks: Salty Papa Blues; I Know How to Do It; Homeward Bound; Blow Top Blues; No Voot No Boot; Wise Woman Blues; All or Nothing at All; Rich Man Blues; Mellow Mama Blues; Pacific Coast Blues; Evil Gal Blues...
Artists: Dinah Washington

Personnel: Dinah Washington (vocals); The Lionel Hampton Band.

Contains 20 tracks....continue...

Sleepy John Estes: Working Man's Blues

1 CD / Fabulous (USA) / 2011-11-08

Tracks: Girl I Love She Got Long Curly Hair, The; Broken Hearted Raggedy and Dirty Too; Divin' Duck Blues; Black Mattie Blues; Milk Cow Blues; Expressman Blues; Whatcha Doin'; Poor John Blues; My Black Gal B...
Artists: Sleepy John Estes

Contains 24 tracks.

Personnel: Sleepy John Estes (vocals, guitar); Hammie Nixon (spoken vocals, harmonica); Robert Lee McCoy (guitar, harmonica); Son Bonds (guitar, saxophone); Jab Jones (piano...continue...

Memphis Minnie: Crazy Crying Blues

1 CD / Fabulous (USA) / 2011-11-08

Tracks: Bumble Bee; Can I Do It for You, Pt. 1; Memphis Minnie-Jitis Blues; New Dirty Dozen; Frankie Jean (That Trottin' Fool); I Called You This Morning; What's the Matter with the Mill; North Memphis Blues...
Artists: Memphis Minnie

Contains 25 tracks.

Personnel: Memphis Minnie (vocals, guitar, mandolin); Kansas Joe McCoy (vocals, guitar).

Recording information: Chicago, IL (02/20/1930-05/21/1941); Memphis, TN (02/2...continue...

Big Joe Williams: Po' Jo

1 CD / Fabulous (USA) / 2011-11-08

Artists: Big Joe Williams

Recorded between 1935 & 1945.

Contains 25 tracks....continue...

Ron Thompson: Just Pickin'

CD / Fabulous (USA) / 2011-11-08

Tracks: Bullet Blues; Gangster Blues; Rockin' and Rollin' Blues; Funky G Street; Shakin' and Shoutin'; Texas Special; Sweet Mama; E. Street Boogie; Just Pickin'; Feeling the Blues; Goin' to Church; Barbecue ...
Artists: Ron Thompson