Various Artists - The Rough Guide to Delta Blues Vol. 2 [CD]

Cat. no: RGNET1417CD
Format: CD
Barcode: 605633141726
Release Date: 25 Aug 2023
Genre: Blues

This Rough Guide highlights how the Delta blues became the most infuential of all the blues forms, a must-have album for blues and guitar enthusiasts it features a classic collection of tracks by artists who laid the foundations for the electric blues and rock explosion to come

Featuring many blues legends including Charley Patton, Son House, Skip James and Tommy Johnson, tracks by blues divas Memphis Minnie and Mattie Delaney as well as more obscure artists across 26 carefully chosen tracks that have been lovingly remastered using pioneering restoration techniques.

There can be few fner examples of how grand culture can emerge from the most horrendous conditions and then fourish than the story of the Delta blues. Born of the oppressed labouring the rich soils of the Mississippi Delta region, no other musical form has had such an enduring infuence on western rock culture.

Tracks: Bukka White - District Attorney Blues / Joe Callicott - Fare Thee Well Blues / Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe - Can I Do It For You? - Part 1 / Skip James - Cherry Ball Blues / Big Joe Williams - Little Leg Woman / Bo Carter - Shake 'Em On Down / Arthur Petties - Good Boy Blues / Willie "Poor Boy" Lofton - It's Killin' me / Mattie Delaney - Down The Big Road Blues / Charley Patton - Shake It And Break It (But Don't Let It Fall Mama) / Robert Wilkins - Rolling Stone – Part 1 / Mississippi Bracey - I'll Overcome Some Day / Tommy Johnson - Maggie Campbell Blues / Mississippi Matilda - Happy Home Blues / Son House - Dry Spell Blues - Part 1 / Sonny Boy Nelson - Pony Blues / Rube Lacey - Ham Hound Crave / Louise Johnson - All Night Long Blues / Ishman Bracey - Saturday Blues / Mississippi Mud Steppers - Vicksburg Stomp / Willie Brown - Future Blues / Garfeld Akers - Cottonfeld Blues - Part 1 / Jelly Jaw Short - Grand-Daddy Blues / The Mississippi Moaner - Mississippi Moan / Johnnie Temple - Big Boat Whistle / Kid Bailey - Mississippi Bottom Blues

More From This Artist: Arthur Petties Big Joe Williams Bo Carter Bukka White Charley Patton Garfeld Akers Ishman Bracey Jelly Jaw Short Joe Callicott Johnnie Temple Kid Bailey Louise Johnson Mattie Delaney Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe Mississippi Bracey Mississippi Matilda Mississippi Mud Steppers Robert Wilkins Rube Lacey Skip James Son House Sonny Boy Nelson The Mississippi Moaner Tommy Johnson Willie "Poor Boy" Lofton Willie Brown