Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Shortnin' / Henduck - Otha Turner/The Rising Star Fife/Drum Band
2. Long John - Lightning & Group
3. Crazy Blues - Mamie Smith
4. St. Louis Blues - W.C. Handy
5. Muddy Water - Bessie Smith
6. Match Box Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
7. Billy Lyons and Stack O'Lee - Furry Lewis
8. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - Ma Rainey
9. Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground - Blind Willie Johnson
10. Savoy Blues - Louis Armstrong
11. Downtown Blues - Frank Stokes
12. Frankie - Mississippi John Hurt
13. Fishing Blues - Henry Thomas
14. How Long How Long Blues - Leroy Carr
15. Canned Heat Blues - Tommy Johnson
16. Statesboro Blues - Blind Willie McTell
17. It's Tight Like That - Tampa Red/Georgia Tom
18. Pine Top's Boogie Woogie - Pine Top Smith
19. Guitar Blues - Lonnie Johnson
20. Pony Blues - Charley Patton
21. Diddie Wah Diddie - Blind Blake
22. K.C. Moan - Memphis Jug Band
23. Standin' on the Corner (Blue Yodel No. 9) - Jimmie Rodgers
24. Sittin' on Top of the World - Mississippi Sheiks
25. Preachin' the Blues - Son House
DISC 2:
1. Devil Got My Woman - Skip James
2. C.C. Rider - Leadbelly
3. Baby Please Don't Go - Big Joe Williams
4. Dirty Mother For You (Don't You Know) - Roosevelt Sykes
5. Billie's Blues - Billie Holiday
6. Cross Road Blues - Robert Johnson
7. Good Mornin' Little School Girl - Sonny Boy Williamson
8. Shake 'Em on Down - Bukka White
9. Roll 'Em Pete - Joe Turner/Pete Johnson
10. Catfish Blues - Robert Petway
11. Going to Chicago Blues - Count Basie & His Orchestra/Jimmy Rushing
12. Key to the Highway - Big Bill Broonzy
13. Me and My Chauffeur Blues - Memphis Millie
14. Worried Life Blues - Big Maceo Merriweather
15. Cross Cut Saw Blues - Tommy McClennan
16. Evil Gal Blues - Lionel Hampton & His Sextet/Dinah Washington
17. Strange Things Happening Every Day - Sister Rosetta Tharpe
18. Honeydripper, The (Part 1) - Joe Liggins
19. Drifting Blues - Johnny Moore's Three Blazers/Charles Brown
20. Let the Good Times Roll - Louis Jordan
21. That's All Right Mama - Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup
22. Call It Stormy Monday - T-Bone Walker
23. Good Rockin' Tonight - Wynonie Harris
24. Ain't Nobody's Business - Jimmy Witherspoon (Part One)
25. Double Crossing Blues - The Jimmy Otis Quintette/Little Esther & The Robins
DISC 3:
1. Mother Earth - Memphis Slim
2. Please Send Me Someone to Love - Percy Mayfield
3. Rocket 88 - Jackie Brenston
4. Dust My Broom - Elmore James
5. No More Doggin' - Rosco Gordon
6. Juke - Little Walter
7. Hound Dog - Big Mama Thornton
8. Reconsider Baby - Lowell Fulson
9. Things That I Used to Do, The - Guitar Slim
10. In the Night - Professor Longhair
11. Hoochie Coochie Man, (I'm Your) - Muddy Waters
12. Eisenhower Blues - J.B. Lenoir
13. Blue Monday - Fats Domino
14. Hard Times - Ray Charles
15. I Hear You Knockin' - Smiley Lewis
16. Mystery Train - Elvis Presley
17. Don't Start Me to Talkin' - Sonny Boy Williamson
18. Smokestack Lightnin - Howlin' Wolf
19. Who Do You Love - Bo Diddley
20. I'm a King Bee - Slim Harpo
21. Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry
22. Farther up the Road - Bobby "Blue" Bland
23. So Many Roads, So Many Trains - Otis Rush
24. First Time I Met the Blues - Buddy Guy
25. Big Boss Man - Jimmy Reed
DISC 4:
1. Hide Away - Freddie King
2. Drivin' Wheel - Junior Parker
3. Boom Boom - John Lee Hooker
4. Frosty - Albert Collins
5. You Can't Lose What You Never Had - Muddy Waters
6. Killing Floor - Howlin' Wolf
7. Death Letter Blues - Son House
8. You Gotta Move - Mississippi Fred McDowell
9. Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
10. Hoodoo Man Blues - Junior Wells
11. Wang Dang Doodle - Koko Taylor
12. All Your Love - John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers/Eric Clapton
13. I've Got a Mind to Give up Livin' - Paul Butterfield Blues Band
14. Red House - Jimi Hendrix
15. Born Under the Bad Sign - Albert King
16. Mama Talk to Your Daughter - Magic Sam
17. Tell Mama - Etta James
18. Ain't Superstitious - Jeff Beck Group
19. She Caught the Katy and Left Me a Mule to Drive - Taj Mahal
20. Black Magic Woman - Fleetwood Mac
21. One Good Man - Janis Joplin
DISC 5:
1. Thrill Is Gone, The - B.B. King
2. Dallas - Johnny Winter
3. Have You Ever Loved a Woman - Derek & The Dominos
4. Give Me Back My Wig - Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers
5. One Way Out - The Allman Brothers Band
6. Down Home Blues - Z.Z. Hill
7. Pride and Joy - Stevie Ray Vaughan/Double Trouble
8. Smoking Gun - Robert Cray
9. Tuff Enuff - The Fabulous Thunderbirds
10. I'm in the Mood - John Lee Hooker/Bonnie Raitt
11. Timbarma - Ali Farka Toure
12. Am I Wrong? - Keb' Mo'
13. Cherry Red Wine - Luther Allison
14. Bill - Peggy Scott-Adams
15. Just Won't Burn - Susan Tedeschi
16. Voodoo Music - Los Lobos
17. Round and Round - Bonnie Raitt
18. Vietnam Blues - Cassandra Wilson
19. I Pity the Fool - Robert Cray/Shemekia Copeland (live)
20. Sweet Home Chicago - Keb' Mo'/Corey Harris
| Details | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Includes a 60 page collector's booklet which contains photos and essays.
Compilation producers: Steve Berkowitz, Alex Gibney, Andy McKaje, Jerry Rappaport.
Includes liner notes by Martin Scorsese, Tom Piazza and Lawrence Hoffman.
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS won the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Album Notes and for Best Historical Album.
Editorial Reviews
5 stars out of 5 - Probably the best blues album in the world...ever!
Uncut (01/01/2004)
5 stars out of 5 - [T]his compact, good-looking and expertly made compilation has to rate Best of Show.
Mojo (12/01/2003)
3 stars out of 5 - ...The strength of THE BLUES is that it acknowledges that the best introduction to the music should retain a personal stamp.
Rolling Stone (10/16/2003)
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