Blues Routes: Heroes and Tricksters: Blues and Jazz Work Songs and Street Music

Various Artists

Blues Routes is a resonant almanac of blues styles and blues-related music and musicians including: Memphis barrelhouse and Harlem parlor piano players; blues guitarists from the Delta and Piedmont, San Francisco and Chicago; Kansas City and New Orleans jazz masters; hambone call-and-response and Mardi Gras Indian chants; Texas jump blues and Louisiana Creole zydeco; minstrel and jazz banjomen; street go-go bucket-drummers and railroad track-lining gandy dancers. In this fin de siècle collection, the diversity of American blues and blues-influenced styles and the unity of their African ancestral heartbeats can be heard in great performances recorded live at the influential Folk Masters concert and radio series.

AWARDS
2000 Crossroads Music Awards Gold Star for Blues Music

Track Listing

101	Rooster Call	John Henry Mealing and the Gandy Dancers	3:57
102	John Henry	John Cephas and Phil Wiggins	5:15
103	Step it Up and Go	Warner Williams	2:40
104	Flipping and Flopping	Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson and Willie "Pinetop" Perkins	3:38
105	Twenty-Fours a Day	Erbie Bowser, T.D. Bell, and the Blues Specialists	4:10
106	Little Queen of Spades	Robert Jr. Lockwood	4:13
107	One Dime Blues	Etta Baker	3:43
108	Bluetail Fly	Abner Jay	2:33
109	Gut Bucket Blues	Don Vappie and the Creole Jazz Serenaders	4:15
110	That Certain Someone	Claude Williams	4:33
111	Harlem Parlor Blues	Sammy Price	2:51
112	Early in the Morning	Booker T. Laury	3:05
113	Sew, Sew, Sew	The White Cloud Hunters Mardi Gras Indians	5:09
114	My Mind Has No Color / Doing it the Go-Go Way (medley)	Rapper Dee, C.J. (Carl Jones) and Five Gallons of Fun	4:40
115	Hambone	Georgia Sea Island Singers	2:24
116	Uncle Bud	Boozoo Chavis and the Magic Sounds	2:56
117	Bluesifyin	Joe Louis Walker and the Boss Talkers	8:43