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    06/26/2007 | Mastercuts Lifestyle 

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    All Music Guide Review

    There are countless blues compilations out there, and at first glance, this two-disc, 30-track selection doesn't seem to be anything special, but a closer look reveals that it covers a fairly wide spectrum, both in the number of blues styles it includes (prewar country-blues to Chicago blues, jump blues, folk-blues and more) and in the years it considers (disc one covers 1927 to 1950, while disc two carries things from 1950 through 1973). It also features relatively rare tracks even when the artist is well known (Muddy Waters is represented by "Mean Red Spider," for instance, rather than one of his better known songs like "I Can't Be Satisfied"), which doesn't necessarily make this collection essential, but it does make it more likely to fill in some cracks for listeners who may already have a large blues library. [Some editions of This Is Blues included a bonus third disc of twelve Ray Charles' tracks that were originally released by Cleopatra Records as a standalone album called Essentials.] ~ Steve Leggett, All Music Guide

    Track Listing

  • Track#
  • Title
  • Artist
  • time
  • lyrics
  • 1
  • See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
  • Jefferson, Blind Lemon
  • 2:56

  • 2
  • High Water Everywhere, Pt. 2
  • Patton, Charley
  • 3:07

  • 3
  • Garlic Blues
  • Humes, Helen
  • 2:58

  • 4
  • Morning Sun Blues
  • Johnson, Mary
  • 2:50

  • 5
  • Goin' to Chicago
  • Rushing, Jimmy
  • 3:24

  • 6
  • How Long Blues
  • 2:10

  • 7
  • Mean Old World Blues
  • Walker, T-Bone
  • 2:54

  • 8
  • Chewin' Mama Blues
  • Washington, Dinah
  • 2:53

  • 9
  • Dream Lucky Blues
  • Lee, Julia
  • 3:04

  • 10
  • Mean Red Spider
  • Waters, Muddy
  • 2:23

  • 11
  • Lovin' Blues
  • Davis, Martha & The Esquires
  • 2:47

  • 12
  • Confession Blues
  • 2:29

  • 13
  • She Knows How to Love a Man
  • Nighthawk, Robert
  • 3:06

  • 14
  • Bad Luck Got My Man
  • Thornton, Big Mama
  • 3:03

  • 15
  • Midnight Dreams
  • McNeely, Big Jay
  • 3:09

  • 16 (2)
  • Mother Earth
  • Memphis Slim
  • 2:43

  • 17 (2)
  • Catfish Blues
  • Thomas, Bobo "Slim"
  • 2:54

  • 18 (2)
  • Everybody's Fishing
  • 2:20

  • 19 (2)
  • Delta Blues
  • Williams, Big Joe & His 9 String Guitar
  • 2:39

  • 20 (2)
  • Smile at Me
  • Howlin' Wolf
  • 2:06

  • 21 (2)
  • Make a Little Love with Me
  • Crudup, Arthur "Big Boy"
  • 3:07

  • 22 (2)
  • From the Bottom
  • Williamson, Sonny Boy [I]
  • 2:39

  • 23 (2)
  • Come on in This House
  • Wells, Junior
  • 2:23

  • 24 (2)
  • You've Done Lost Your Good Thing Now
  • King, B.B.
  • 5:15

  • 25 (2)
  • Broken-Hearted Blues
  • Guy, Buddy
  • 3:10

  • 26 (2)
  • Mojo Hand
  • Hopkins, Lightnin'
  • 3:01

  • 27 (2)
  • 44 Blues
  • Sykes, Roosevelt
  • 3:02

  • 28 (2)
  • Little Dreamer
  • 4:18

  • 29 (2)
  • You Got to Move
  • McDowell, Mississippi Fred
  • 2:54

  • 30 (2)
  • Driftin' Blues
  • Brown, Charles
  • 4:02

  • 31 (3)
  • (Untitled) (*)
  • Charles, Ray
  • 2:52

  • 32 (3)
  • (Untitled) (*)
  • Charles, Ray
  • 2:56

  • 33 (3)
  • (Untitled) (*)
  • Charles, Ray
  • 2:49

  • 34 (3)
  • (Untitled) (*)
  • Charles, Ray
  • 2:46

  • 35 (3)
  • (Untitled) (*)
  • Charles, Ray
  • 2:35

  • 36 (3)
  • (Untitled) (*)
  • Charles, Ray
  • 2:49

  • 37 (3)
  • (Untitled) (*)
  • Charles, Ray
  • 2:29

  • 38 (3)
  • (Untitled) (*)
  • Charles, Ray
  • 2:42

  • 39 (3)
  • (Untitled) (*)
  • Charles, Ray
  • 2:42

  • 40 (3)
  • (Untitled) (*)
  • Charles, Ray
  • 2:43

  • 41 (3)
  • (Untitled) (*)
  • Charles, Ray
  • 3:11

  • 42 (3)
  • (Untitled) (*)
  • Charles, Ray
  • 7:27

  • Credits

    • Athan Maroulis
    • Producer, Liner Notes, Compilation, Art Direction, Annotation


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