| Descrizione | This is by far the best and most comprehensive introduction to recorded blues ever assembled, drawing styles, record labels, and eras together with the efficiency of a spider’s web. These five discs--tied to the hit-and-miss PBS film series Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues--embrace field hollers, early queens Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, the music’s first composer W.C. Handy, Delta slide guitarists, string bands, piano barrelhousers, jazz geniuses Count Basie and Lionel Hampton, Texas hotshots, lyric poets Percy Mayfield and Willie Dixon, Chicago powerhouses from Muddy Waters to Buddy Guy, Howlin’ Wolf and howling white boys, soulkittens Etta James and Janis Joplin, juke joint brawlers like Hound Dog Taylor, African torchbearer Ali Farka Toure, modern guitar heroes Stevie Ray Vaughan and Luther Allison, and even recent hit-makers Peggy Scott-Adams and Susan Tedeschi. And that’s just a smidgen of the talents represented across more than 100 cuts. Nonetheless, there are grave omissions in disc five, which focuses on contemporary blues. The raw electric sound of present-day Mississippi, embodied by R.L. Burnside and other artists on the Fat Possum label, has done much to open the ears of college-age audiences and should be included. Also absent are the music’s most important contemporary innovators: Afro-blues fusionist Corey Harris, psychedelic folk bluesman Otis Taylor and rap-blues proselytizer Chris Thomas King. Still, it’s obvious this collection is a work of devotion and intelligence as well as commerce. --Ted Drozdowski
Product Description
Full title - Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues - A Musical Journey. Five-CD deluxe boxed set includes a comprehensive collection of the music from the seven films airing on PBS. A definitive overview of blues, from its earliest recordings over 80 years ago, to contemporary artists and new recordings made specifically for The Blues. Music from the PBS Series The Blues, executive produced by acclaimed filmmaker Martin Scorsese. 116 tracks on 5 CDs, plus 60-page collector's booklet with stunning photos and illuminating essays. Features introductory essay by Martin Scorsese. Gatefold digibox. Hip-O Records. 2003.
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Disc one
1. Othar Turner & The Rising Star Fife & Drum Band – "Shortnin'" / "Henduck"
2. Lightning & Group – "Long John"
3. Mamie Smith – "Crazy Blues"
4. W.C. Handy – "St. Louis Blues"
5. Bessie Smith – "Muddy Water"
6. Blind Lemon Jefferson – "Match Box Blues"
7. Furry Lewis – "Billy Lyons & Stack-O-Lee"
8. Ma Rainey – ""Ma" Rainey's Black Bottom"
9. Blind Willie Johnson – "Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground"
10. Louis Armstrong – "Savoy Blues"
11. Frank Stokes – "Downtown Blues"
12. Mississippi John Hurt – "Frankie"
13. Henry Thomas – "Fishing Blues"
14. Leroy Carr – "How Long, How Long Blues"
15. Tommy Johnson – "Canned Heat Blues"
16. Blind Willie McTell – "Statesboro Blues"
17. Tampa Red & Georgia Tom – "It's Tight Like That"
18. Pine Top Smith – "Pine Top's Boogie Woogie"
19. Lonnie Johnson – "Guitar Blues"
20. Charley Patton – "Pony Blues"
21. Blind Blake – "Diddie Wah Diddie"
22. Memphis Jug Band – "K.C. Moan"
23. Jimmie Rodgers – "Standin' On The Corner (Blue Yodel # 9)"
24. Mississippi Sheiks – "Sittin' on Top of the World"
25. Son House – "Preachin' The Blues"
Disc two
1. Skip James – "Devil Got My Woman"
2. Lead Belly – "C.C. Rider"
3. Big Joe Williams – "Baby, Please Don't Go"
4. Roosevelt Sykes – "Dirty Mother For You (Don't You Know)"
5. Billie Holiday – "Billie's Blues"
6. Robert Johnson – "Cross Road Blues"
7. Sonny Boy Williamson I – "Good Mornin' Little School Girl"
8. Bukka White – "Shake 'em on Down"
9. Joe Turner & Pete Johnson – "Roll 'Em Pete"
10. Robert Petway – "Catfish Blues"
11. Count Basie Orchestra with Jimmy Rushing – "Going To Chicago Blues"
12. Big Bill Broonzy – "Key To The Highway"
13. Memphis Minnie – "Me And My Chauffeur Blues"
14. Big Maceo Merriweather – "Worried Life Blues"
15. Tommy McClennon – "Cross Cut Saw Blues"
16. Lionel Hampton Sextet with Dinah Washington – "Evil Gal Blues"
17. Sister Rosetta Tharpe – "Strange Things Happening Everyday"
18. Joe Liggins – "Honeydripper" Pt.I
19. Johnny Moore's Three Blazers featuring Charles Brown – "Drifting Blues"
20. Louis Jordan – "Let the Good Times Roll"
21. Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup – "That's All Right Mama"
22. T-Bone Walker – "Call It Stormy Monday"
23. Wynonie Harris – "Good Rockin' Tonight"
24. Jimmy Witherspoon – "Ain't Nobody's Business, Part One"
25. The Johnny Otis Quintette with Little Esther & The Robins – "Double Crossing Blues"
Disc three
1. Memphis Slim – "Mother Earth"
2. Percy Mayfield – "Please Send Me Someone to Love"
3. Jackie Brenston – "Rocket 88"
4. Elmore James – "Dust My Broom"
5. Rosco Gordon – "No More Doggin'"
6. Little Walter – "Juke"
7. Big Mama Thornton – "Hound Dog"
8. Lowell Fulson – "Reconsider Baby"
9. Guitar Slim – "The Things That I Used To Do"
10. Professor Longhair – "In The Night"
11. Muddy Waters – "(I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man"
12. J. B. Lenoir – "Eisenhower Blues"
13. Fats Domino – "Blue Monday"
14. Ray Charles – "Hard Times"
15. Smiley Lewis – "I Hear You Knockin'"
16. Elvis Presley – "Mystery Train"
17. Sonny Boy Williamson II – "Don't Start Me To Talkin'"
18. Howlin' Wolf – "Smokestack Lightnin'"
19. Bo Diddley – "Who Do You Love"
20. Slim Harpo – "I'm a King Bee"
21. Chuck Berry – "Johnny B. Goode"
22. Bobby "Blue" Bland – "Farther Up The Road"
23. Otis Rush – "So Many Roads, So Many Trains"
24. Buddy Guy – "First Time I Met The Blues"
25. Jimmy Reed – "Big Boss Man"
Disc four
1. Freddie King – "Hide Away"
2. Junior Parker – "Drivin' Wheel"
3. John Lee Hooker – "Boom Boom"
4. Albert Collins – "Frosty"
5. Muddy Waters – "You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had"
6. Howlin' Wolf – "Killing Floor"
7. Son House – "Death Letter Blues"
8. Mississippi Fred McDowell – "You Gotta Move"
9. Bob Dylan – "Highway 61 Revisited"
10. Junior Wells – "Hoodoo Man Blues"
11. Koko Taylor – "Wang Dang Doodle"
12. John Mayall's Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton – "All Your Love"
13. Paul Butterfield Blues Band – "I've Got A Mind To Give Up Livin'"
14. Jimi Hendrix – "Red House"
15. Albert King – "Born Under a Bad Sign"
16. Magic Sam – "Mama Talk To Your Daughter"
17. Etta James – "Tell Mama"
18. The Jeff Beck Group – "I Ain't Superstitious"
19. Taj Mahal – "She Caught The Katy (And Left Me A Mule To Ride)"
20. Fleetwood Mac – "Black Magic Woman"
21. Janis Joplin – "One Good Man"
Disc five
1. B. B. King – "The Thrill Is Gone"
2. Johnny Winter – "Dallas"
3. Derek & The Dominos – "Have You Ever Loved a Woman"
4. Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers – "Give Me Back My Wig"
5. The Allman Brothers Band – "One Way Out"
6. Z. Z. Hill – "Down Home Blues"
7. Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble – "Pride And Joy"
8. Robert Cray – "Smoking Gun"
9. The Fabulous Thunderbirds – "Tuff Enuff"
10. John Lee Hooker & Bonnie Raitt – "I'm In The Mood"
11. Ali Farka Toure – "Timbarma"
12. Keb' Mo' – "Am I Wrong?"
13. Luther Allison – "Cherry Red Wine"
14. Peggy Scott-Adams – "Bill"
15. Susan Tedeschi – "Just Won't Burn"
16. Los Lobos – "Voodoo Music"
17. Bonnie Raitt – "Round And Round"
18. Cassandra Wilson – "Vietnam Blues"
19. Robert Cray & Shemekia Copeland – "I Pity The Fool" (Live)
20. Keb' Mo' & Corey Harris – "Sweet Home Chicago"
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