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

101	Dedication to Pete Johnson	Memphis Slim	03:12
102	Early in the Morning	Booker T. Laury	03:06
103	How Long Blues	Speckled Red	03:20
104	Yellow Dog Blues	James P. Johnson and Katherine Handy Lewis	02:56
105	Key to the Highway	Jazz Gillum, Memphis Slim	02:54
106	Medium Blues	Meade "Lux" Lewis	02:51
107	Black Wolf Blues	Champion Jack Dupree	02:57
108	Dices Blues	Big Chief Ellis	04:54
109	Big Fat Woman	Lead Belly	01:10
110	Harlem Parlor Blues	Sammy Price	02:51
111	Little Drops of Water	Henry Brown & Edith Johnson	03:03
112	Pinetop's Boogie Woogie	Little Brother Montgomery	04:08
113	Pinetop's Boogie Woogie	Speckled Red	03:26
114	Wish Me Well	Memphis Slim, Willie Dixon	02:14
115	All My Money's Gone	Henry Townsend	02:53
116	You're My Man	Victoria Spivey	04:33
117	On My Way to See Moe Asch	Champion Jack Dupree	04:21
118	Sweet Old Chicago	Roosevelt Sykes	02:56
119	No Special Rider Blues	Little Brother Montgomery	03:29
120	Hesitation Blues	James P. Johnson	03:05