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| Richer Tradition: Country Blues and String Band Music 1923-1942 | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 2 reviews) Sales Rank: 138960 Category: Music
Artist: Various Artists Publisher: Jsp Records Studio: Jsp Records Manufacturer: Jsp Records Label: Jsp Records Format: Box Set, Original Recording Remastered Media: Audio CD Discs: 4 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8 Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5.1 x 1.7
MPN: 7798 UPC: 788065779825 EAN: 0788065779825 ASIN: B000W7S8DW
Release Date: November 6, 2007 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| | Guitar Blues | | | Time Ain't Gonna Make Me Stay | | | Sundown Blues | | | Salt Lake City Blues | | | Whiskey and Gin Blues | | | James Alley Blues | | | Goin' to Leave You Blues | | | Hey Lawdy Mama/The France Blues | | | A Chicken Can Waltz the Gravy Around | | | Bamalong Blues | | | Man Trouble Blues | | | Blue Coat Blues | | | Frisco Whistle Blues | | | Two Ways to Texas | | | Gravel Camp Blues | | | T and T Blues | | | Death Bell Blues | | | C.C. & O. Blues | | | Middlin' Blues | | | Rolling Log Blues | | | Kyle's Worried Blues | | | Bull Frog Blues | | | Sobbin' Woman Blues | | | Miss Meal Cramp Blues | | | Unknown Blues |
Disc 2
| | Jail House Blues | | | Blues, Just Blues, That's All | | | String Band Blues | | | Black Cat Blues | | | Dirty Guitar Blues | | | Boodle-Am-Shake | | | Quill Blues | | | The Jug Band Special | | | Cold Morning Shout | | | Violin Blues | | | Winner, Easy | | | G. Burns Is Gonna Rise Again | | | I Got a Gal | | | The Jazz Fiddler | | | Knox County Stomp | | | Adam and Eve | | | Runnin' Wild | | | Giving It Away | | | Jackson Stomp | | | Rising Sun Blues | | | Travelin' Railroad Man Blues | | | Old Hen Cackle | | | Ted's Stomp | | | Dusting the Frets | | | Arkansas Traveler |
Disc 3
| | Original Stack O'Lee Blues | | | Tuxedo Blues | | | Mean Conductor Blues | | | Back Door Blues | | | Spanish Blues | | | Helena Blues | | | I Heard the Voice of a Pork Chop | | | Rising River Blues | | | She Could Toodle-Oo | | | Weak Minded Woman | | | Old Rock Island Blues | | | Cairo Blues | | | I Ain't Givin' Nobody None | | | Showers of Rain Blues | | | Framer's Blues | | | If I Call You Mama | | | Never Drive a Stranger from Your Door | | | Mississippi Swamp Moan | | | Paddlin' Madeline Blues | | | Shaking Weed Blues | | | South Carolina Rag | | | Beans | | | Poor Jane Blues | | | Window Pane Blues | | | Hot Jelly Roll Blues |
Disc 4
| | Labor Blues | | | Goin' Away Blues | | | No Baby | | | Early Mornin' Blues | | | Dreaming Blues | | | Weeping Willow Blues | | | Way Down in Arkansas | | | Wild About My Loving | | | Indian Squaw Blues | | | Florida Bound | | | God Didn't Make No Monkey Man | | | Tallahatchie River Blues | | | Diamond Ring Blues | | | Bedside Blues | | | Lonesome Midnight Dream | | | Billy Goat Blues | | | That Won't Do | | | Ghost Woman Blues | | | "Toby" Woman Blues | | | Rollin' Dough Blues | | | Starvation Farm Blues | | | Farewell to You Baby | | | Teasin' Brown Blues | | | Married Woman Blues | | | Dago Blues |
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| Customer Reviews:
  Richer Tradition Indeed! Essential Collection! March 10, 2008 6 out of 7 found this review helpful
As a budding Paramount Records Man, I have to somewhat agree with the previous review....But that being said, you have to take 'Pre War' Recordings with a grain of salt to begin with. And if your already in that frame of mind, then John Stedman and JSP has once again given us on helluva box set at a great price to listen to! What we have here, and again, if your into the "Paramount Records" thing then you know what I'm talking about, is a bunch of "one off" or "Two Off" country and rural Blues that, unless you were in a 20 mile radius of the artist, you never heard these 78's before. No!, their NOT Charlie Patton or Blind Blake or Blind Lemmon Jefferson, these were the guys and gals that were way below that scale of success, but that's the beauty of these sides....these get even more 'real' than the more popular pre-war artists! I could imagine sitting in someones livingroom listening to these songs while they were playing them! It's THAT intimate! And once again JSP comes up with a collection that is definitely NOT boring. Again, is it Charlie Or Blind Blake...NO...But these folks are real, pretty damned good at their playing and again, this is like being invited to a down home fish fry on a Sunday afternoon in Chicago, or Indiana or any Southern small town back in the pre war days...... I suggest you compare this collection with anything on the Document label, which does a very good job at 'Documenting' Old 78 artists, but for the most part makes for a very boring 'Listen', unless your a scholar. On the other hand, these are real people like you and me who, at least were worthy enough for someone to make a record of them, and JSP deserves Kudo's for putting together a 4 cd set that is both listenable (considering the rarity of the 78's involved) and enjoyable! So, when your ready to go beyond the 'Stars' of Pre-War Blues and Country/Rural music, take the plunge on this set, both the remastering and 'coolness' of this music hopefully will bring you much pleasure! Gerard Masters
  A Richer Tradition: Country Blues and String Music 1923-1942 February 21, 2008 9 out of 15 found this review helpful
This collection is not for the weak-hearted and includes a hundred sides on 4 CDs and there are few (literally and figuratively very few) real gems among them. Undoubtedly, you will find some sweet songs among the pile, any lover of the genre will find enough to be satisfied. However, more than fifty years into the blues revival one can say that most "good" stuff from this genre had made earlier reissues and this collection, sadly, features leftovers, rejects and material nobody chose to include in the past. What's left is not always cream of the crop material, and indeed, this collection seems like they scraped the deep bottom of the barrel to find these rarities. Unless you are an ethnomusicologist or folklorist interested in historical preservation for its own sake, much of this material will sound rough hewn, if not outright unlistenable, not only from an expectedly primitive recording standpoint but from basic musical skills. It seems like they pulled together anyone and anything, regardless of fundamental quality. Even the biggest aficionados of old-time deep-roots & blues, such as me, will find the bulk of this material a stretch. If you are looking for entertainment value with that old music, stick to the mainstay of the genre.
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