I've Got The Blues But I'm Too Damn Mean - Various Artists - 4 CD Set

Resentment and despair leavened with wit and humor... isn't that the blues? It is here as you encounter 103 tracks that vent even as they entertain with dazzling musicianship: "Last Fair Deal Gone Down" Robert Johnson, "Jailbird Love Song" Mississippi Sheiks, "Trouble and Whiskey" Roosevelt Sykes, "I'm Goin' Home" Charley Patton, "Highway 51 Blues" Curtis Jones, "I'm All Out and Down" Lead Belly, "Jim Crow Blues" Cow Cow Davenport, "Am I Right or Wrong" Son House, "No Place to Go" Walter Davis, "Broken Levee Blues" Lonnie Johnson, "Workhouse Blues" Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell, "Washwoman Blues" Bessie Smith, "Sud Bustin' Blues" Sippie Wallace, "Sarah Jane" Jazz Gillum, "Dynamite Blues" Blind Lemon Jefferson, "Life Is Just a Book" Washboard Sam and more! JSP. Disc: 1 1 Jail Bird Love Song: Mississippi Sheiks 2 No Job Blues: Ramblin Thomas 3 Down in the Bottom Where I Stay: Ozie McPherson 4 Gut Struggle: Wilmer Davis 5 Trouble and Whiskey: Roosevelt Sykes 6 Raise R-U-K-U-S Tonight: Norfolk Jubilee Singers 7 Raise a R-U-K-U-S Tonight: Birmingham Jubilee Singers 8 Landladys Footsteps: Madlyn Davis 9 Get on Board: Clara Smith 10 Im Goin Home: Charley Patton 11 Old Rattler: Mose Clear Rock Platt & James Iron Head Baker 12 Aint No More Cane on This Brazos: Ernest Williams, James Iron Head Baker & Convict Group 13 The Prisoners Blues: Sara Martin 14 Penitentiary Bound Blues: Rosa Henderson 15 Wash and Iron Woman Blues: Gene Campbell 16 Ive Got the Blues But Im Just Too Mean to Cry: Dorothy Dodd 17 Rising River Blues: George Carter 18 Song from a Cotton Field: Bessie Brown 19 They Aint Walking No More: Lucille Bogan 20 Long John: Washington (Lightnin) 21 Another Man Done Gone: Vera Hall 22 Black Evil Blues: Alice Moore 23 Richmond Blues - TK 1: Julius Daniels 24 Bessies Moan: Bessie Tucker 25 Rock Pile Blues: Sylvester Weaver 26 Highway 51 Blues: Curtis Jones Disc: 2 1 Down the Dirt Road Blues: Charley Patton 2 Po Moaners Got a Home at Last: Fisk Jubilee Singers 3 That White Mule of Sin: John Byrd 4 Youve Got to Recognise Me: Charles Tyus 5 Im All Out and Down: Leadbelly 6 Prison Cell Blues: Blind Lemon Jefferson 7 Moaning Blues: Moanin’ Bernice Edwards 8 On Our Turpentine Farm: Pigmeat Pete & Catjuice Charlie 9 Good Old Turnip Greens: Bo Carter 10 Two White Horses Standing in Line: Smith Casey 11 Jim Crow Blues: Cow Cow Davenport 12 Am I Right or Wrong: Son House 13 It Makes a Long Time Man Feel Bad: Kelly Pace 14 Waitin for the Evenin Mail: Clara Smith 15 I Shall Not Be Moved: Rev. Edward Clayborn 16 Toad Frog Blues: Ma Rainey 17 Squinch Owl Moan: Too Tight Henry 18 Daddy-Calling Mama: Alice Moore 19 Mean Old World: Heavenly Gospel Singers 20 Cow Cow Blues: Dora Carr with Cow Cow Davenport 21 Last Fair Deal Gone Down: Robert Johnoson 22 Chain Gang Bound: Bumble Bee Slim 23 These Hard Times Are Tight Like That: Rev. J.M. Gates 24 The Panic Is on: Hezekiah Jenkins 25 Preachin the Blues – PT 1: Son House Disc: 3 1 Starvation Farm Blues: Bob Campbell 2 No Place to Go: Walter Davis 3 One Dime Blues: Blind Lemon Jefferson 4 Blue Harvest Blues: Mississippii John Hurt 5 Fools Blues: Funny Paper Smith 6 Boll Weevil Blues: Vera Hall 7 Mississippi Bo Weavil Blues: Charley Patton 8 Hopali: 8 Unknown Girls 9 Experience Blues: Alberta Hunter 10 Broken Levee Blues: Lonnie Johnson 11 Eighteen Hundred and Ninety One: Charley Campbell 12 Bank Failure Blues: Martha Copeland 13 Hammer Ring: Jess Bradley 14 The Escaped Convict - TK 2: George Bullet Williams 15 Im Having So Much Trouble: Bumble Bee Slim 16 Worried Blues: Tom Bell 17 Workhouse Blues: Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell 18 The Sure Route Excursion to Hell - PT 1: Rev. F.W. McGee 19 Black Hearse Blues: Sara Martin 20 Washwoman Blues: Bessie Smith 21 Sud Bustin Blues: Sippie Wallace 22 Hitler and Hell: Rev. J.M. Gates 23 Dont Mess with Me: Mamie Smith 24 My Daddys Calling Me: Irene Scruggs 25 I Heard the Voice of a Pork Chop - TK 1: Jim Jackson 26 G. Burns Gonna Rise Again: Johnson-Nelson-Porkchop 27 The Bourgeois Blues: Leadbelly Disc: 4 1 Hobo Bill: Martha Copeland 2 Dyin Crapshooters Blues: Martha Copeland 3 Dying Crapshooters Blues: Blind Willie McTell 4 Sarah Jane: Jazz Gillum 5 North Bound Blues: Maggie Jones 6 Go Down Old Hannah: James Iron Head Baker 7 Been Drinking: Vera Hall 8 Poor Lazarus: Vera Hall 9 Cotton Seed Blues: Tampa Red 10 I Couldn’T Hear Nobody Pray - TK 2: Paramount Jubilee Singers 11 Hes in the Jailhouse Now: Memphis Jug Band 12 Railroad Bill: Will Bennett 13 Mad Mamas Blues: Josie Miles 14 Dynamite Blues: Blind Lemon Jefferson 15 Key to the Bushes Blues: Bessie Tucker 16 Red Ripe Tomatoes: Jack Kelly & His South Memphis Jug Band 17 Justice Blues: Texas Alexander 18 Nobody Knows the Way I Feel Dis Mornin: Clara Smith 19 Pail in My Hand: Edna Winston 20 The Basement Blues: Clara Smith 21 Workin Womans Blues: Helen Gross 22 Broke Man Blues: Sylvester Palmer 23 Sadies Servant Room Blues: Hattie Burleson 24 Red Cross Man: Lucille Bogan 25 Life Is Just a Book: Washboard Sam