Track Listing 1. Bamalong Blues - Andrew & Jim Baxter 2. Run Mollie Run - Henry Thomas 3. Lonesome Road Blues - Sam Collins 4. Jackson Stomp - Mississippi Mud Steppers 5. On Jordan's Stormy Banks We Stand - Seventh Day Adventist Choir 6. Mississippi Jail House Groan - Rube Lacy 7. Forked Deer - Taylor's Kentucky Boys 8. Bye Bye Baby Blues - Little Hat Jones 9. Pretty Polly - B.F. Shelton 10. Soft Steel Piston - Weaver & Beasley 11. Two White Horses in a Line - Evans & McClain 12. Jamestown Exhibition - Bayless Rose 13. Dupree Blues - Willie Walker 14. France Blues - Papa Harvey Hull 15. Dying Mother and Her Child - Rev. Gates & Congregation 16. John Hardy - Buell Kazee 17. Wayward Girl Blues - Lottie Kimbrough 18. Newport Blues - Cincinnati Jug Band 19. Tom Sherman's Barroom - Dick Devall 20. Stack O'Lee Blues - Mississippi John Hurt 21. Lawdy Lawdy Worried Blues - Teddy Darby 22. I'll Go With Her Blues - Robert Wilkins 23. Christian Soldier - Denson Quartet
| Details | | Distributor: | E1 Distribution (USA) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Mono | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes BEFORE THE BLUES: THE EARLY AMERICAN BLACK MUSIC SCENE, VOLUME 1 chronicles the evolution of blues from early religious music to its more modern form during the 1920s and 1930s. Compilation producers: Richard Nevins, Don Kent. Includes liner notes by Don Kent and Richard Nevins.
Editorial Reviews ...almost 70 tracks of songs and music from the era when the emerging blues had not yet obliterated the rags, reels and ballads that preceded it... moving and illuminating music....The sound engineering is terrific... Mojo (06/01/1996)
...an eerie blend of Appalchian balladry, fiddle breakdowns, ragtime beats, and revival moans. When roots is what you crave, dig deep. Spin (06/01/1996)
...BEFORE THE BLUES offers a tour of folk ballads, ragtime melodies, church hymns and breakdown dances that is as listenable as it is enlightening... New York Times (04/14/1996)
...an eerie blend of Appalchian balladry, fiddle breakdowns, ragtime beats, and revival moans. When roots is what you crave, dig deep. Spin (06/01/1996)
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