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Classic Piano Blues from Smithsonian Folkways

Various Artists
Classic Piano Blues from Smithsonian Folkways Storyville nightclubs, Beale Street juke joints, gambling houses, barrelhouse bars in the lumber and turpentine camps of East Texas—these were the places African American piano bluesmen called home. Born of ragtime and hard times, the piano blues migrated with its players from the deep South to the urban North. Classic Piano Blues revisits raucous boogie-woogie and blues legends Memphis Slim, Willie Dixon, Champion Jack Dupree, Speckled Red, Meade "Lux" Lewis, Lead Belly, Little Brother Montgomery, Roosevelt Sykes, James P. Johnson, and more, in 20 tracks drawn from the well of the Folkways Collections. Extensive notes, 32-page booklet, 64 minutes.

Track Listing

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Memphis Slim
03:12
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102
Booker T. Laury
03:06
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103
Speckled Red
03:20
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104
James P. Johnson and Katharine Handy Lewis
02:56
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105
Jazz Gillum, Memphis Slim
02:54
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106
Meade "Lux" Lewis
02:51
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107
Champion Jack Dupree
02:57
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108
Big Chief Ellis
04:54
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109
Lead Belly
01:10
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110
Sammy Price
02:51
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111
Henry Brown and Edith Johnson
03:03
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112
Little Brother Montgomery
04:08
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113
Speckled Red
03:26
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114
Memphis Slim, Willie Dixon
02:14
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115
Henry Townsend
02:53
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116
Victoria Spivey
04:33
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117
Champion Jack Dupree
04:21
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118
Roosevelt Sykes
02:56
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119
Little Brother Montgomery
03:29
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120
James P. Johnson
03:05