Really the Blues?
A Blues History 1893-1959 by Allen Lowe, Volume 1 of 4 (1893-1929)
Studio pianist (piano), Len Spencer (vocals), Bert Williams (vocals), James Reese Europe (piano), Morton Harvey (vocals), George O'Connor (vocals), William Christopher Handy (cornet), Arthur Collins (vocals), Al Bernard (vocals, instruments), Wilbur Sweatman (clarinet), J. Milton DeCamp (piano), Mamie...
- Release Date: 21st Jun 2010
- Catalogue No: WHRA6028
- Label: West Hill Radio Archive
- Length: 11 hours 41 minutes
9 CDs
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Chas Hunn: Mama's Black Baby Boy
- Unique Quartet Fall
anon.: Keep Movin'
- Standard Quartette
Sam Cousins: Poor Mourner
- Cousins and DeMoss and Studio ensemble
- Cousins and DeMoss, Studio ensemble
Ben Harney: You've Been a Good Old Wagon, but You've Done Broke Down
- Len Spencer, Studio pianist
Sam Cousins: Poor Mourner
- Dinwiddie Colored Quartet
Williams, Bert: Nobody
- Bert Williams
- Studio ensemble
anon.: What a Time
- Polk Miller Old South Quartette, Studio ensemble
anon.: Camp Meeting Jubilee
- Male quartet
Sam Cousins: Poor Mourner
- Fisk University Jubilee Quartet
Wilbur Sweatman: Down Home Rag
- Europe Society Orchestra
- James Reese Europe
anon.: The Rain Song
- Studio pianist
- Afro American Folk Song Singers
Handy: The Memphis Blues
- Victor Military Band
Handy: The Memphis Blues
- Morton Harvey
Doc Cook: Blame It on the Blues
- Victor Military Band
Handy: Saint Louis Blues
- Prince's Orchestra
Lasses White: Nigger Blues, "N Blues"
- George O'Connor
- W.C. Handy Memphis Blues Band
Ray Lopez, Alcide Nunez: Livery Stable Blues
- Original Dixieland Jazz Band
Handy: Moonlight Blues
- William Christopher Handy
- Studio ensemble
Clarence Stout: O Death Where Is Thy Sting
- Arthur Collins
- Studio ensemble
Handy: Beale Street Blues
- Al Bernard
- Studio ensemble
Handy: The Memphis Blues
- Europe Society Orchestra
- James Reese Europe
Euday L. Bowman: Kansas City Blues
- Wilbur Sweatman
- Wilbur Sweatman Jazz Band
J. Milton DeCamp: Swanee Blues
- J. Milton DeCamp
Perry Bradford: Lovin' Sam from Alabam
- Mamie Smith
- Mamie Smith's Jazz Hounds
Marion Dickerson: Frankie Blues
- Mamie Smith
- Mamie Smith's Jazz Hounds
Sam Moore: Chain Gang Blues
- Sam Moore, Horace Davis
anon.: My Soul Is a Witness
- Florida Normal Industrial Institute Quartet
John Spikes, Reb Spikes: Society Blues
- Edward Kid Ory
- Kid Ory Sunshine Orchestra
Nick Lucas: Teasin' the Frets
- Nick Lucas, Studio pianist
Williams, S: I Ain't Got Nobody
- Marion Harris
- Studio ensemble
Williams, S: Midnight Blues
- Ethel Waters
- Studio ensemble
Roy Turk, J. Russell Robinson: Aggravatin' Papa
- Sophie Tucker
- Studio ensemble
Morton, Jelly Roll: New Orleans Joys
- Jelly Roll Morton
Sylvester Weaver: Guitar Blues
- Sylvester Weaver
Morton, Jelly Roll: London Blues
- Jelly Roll Morton Orchestra
Blake, E: Waitin' for the Evening Mail
- Eubie Blake, Noble Sissle
Lovie Austin: Bleeding Hearted Blues
- James Price Johnson
Morton, Jelly Roll: London Cafe Blues
- Jimmie Noone, Joe 'King' Oliver, Baby Dodds
anon.: The Gospel Train Am Comin'
- Homer Rodheaver and the Wiseman Quartet
Lovie Austin: Any Woman's Blues
- Bessie Smith, Fletcher Henderson
trad.: God's Gonna Set This World on Fire
- Kentucky Trio
Roy Turk, Eddie Cantor, Lou Handman: If You Do What You Do
- Eddie Cantor
- The Georgians
Clifford Hayes: Hatchet Head Blues
- Old Southern Jug Band
Ed Andrews: Time Ain't Gonna Make Me Stay
- Ed Andrews
Johnny Bayersdorffer: Waffle Man's Call
- Johnny Bayersdorfer
- Johnny Bayersdorffer Jazzola Novelty Orchestra
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
- Paul Whiteman Dance Band
- Paul Whiteman
Roy Ingraham: I've Got a Cross-Eyed Papa
- Levitsch Tanzorchester
Ma Rainey: Barrel House Blues
- Rosa Henderson, Studio pianist
Confrey: Mississippi Shivers
- Zez Confrey Orchestra
Milton Drake: Kiss Me Sweet
- Joe King Oliver and Butterbeans and Susie, Joe 'King' Oliver
- Butterbeans and Susie
Larry Shields, Nick LaRocca: Toddlin' Blues
- Don Murray, Tommy Dorsey, Bix Beiderbecke
- Bix Beiderbecke Rhythm Jugglers
Tom Delaney, Pearl Delaney: Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning
- Alberta Hunter
- Studio ensemble
Lovie Austin, Jimmy O'Bryant, Tommy Ladnier: Steppin' on the Blues
- Lovie Austin, Jimmy O'Bryant, Tommy Ladnier
anon.: All Night Long Blues
- Roba Stanley, Bob Stanley
- Studio ensemble
anon.: Meddlin' with the Blues
- Two of Spades
Andrew Jenkins: Frank Du Pree
- Andrew Jenkins, Studio guitarist
Earl Coleman: Steel String Blues
- Sylvester Weaver
Hersal Thomas: Hersal Blues
- Hersal Thomas
anon.: Street Cries of New Orleans
- Edna Thomas
Robert Winslow Gordon: The Wagon
- Ben Harney
anon.: A Married Man's Blues
- Wade Ward
Santo Pecora: She's Cryin' for Me
- New Orleans Rhythm Kings
Richard M. Jones: Put Me in the Alley Blues
- Richard M. Jones, Albert Nicholas, Johnny St. Cyr
anon.: All I Want Is a Little Spoonful
- Papa Charlie Jackson
Armand J. Piron, Peter Bocage: Red Man Blues
- Armand Piron's New Orleans Orchestra
anon.: South Street Blues
- Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra
Doc Pomus: No Home Blues
- Louise Ross, Anonymous and Studio pianist, Louise Ross, Studio pianist
Boyd Senter, Walter Melrose: Sugar Babe
- Lee Morse
Handy: Careless Love Blues
- Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Green, Fletcher Henderson
Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith: Don't Fish in My Sea
- Ma Rainey, Jimmy Blythe
trad.: I'll Be Rested (When the Roll Is Called)
- Roosevelt Graves and His Brother
anon.: I Want My Life to Testify
- Hendersonville Double Quartet
anon.: Can't Sleep Blues
- Pebbles, The
anon.: String Band Blues
- Kansas City Blues Strummers
Viola McCoy: Black Cat Blues
- Old Pal Smoke Shop Four
anon.: Mama's Angel Child
- Johnny Watson
Blind Lemon Jefferson: Jack O'Diamond Blues
- Sippie Wallace, Louis Armstrong, Hersal Thomas
Henry Clifford: Memphis Shake
- Dixieland Jug Blowers
anon.: Crucifixion
- Arizona Dranes
anon.: Royal Palm Special
- Robert Cooksey, Bobbie Leecan
anon.: Lamb's Blood Has Washed Me Clean
- Arizona Dranes
- Jubilee Singers
anon.: I Shall Wear a Crown
- Arizona Dranes
- Studio vocal ensemble
Joe Sanders: High Fever
- Freddie Keppard
- Cookie Gingersnaps
trad.: I Want Jesus to Walk with Me
- Homer Quincy Smith, Studio organist
anon.: Blackville
- Hazel Meyers
- Studio ensemble
Nolan Welsh, Richard M. Jones: Bridwell Blues
- Nolan Welsh, Richard M. Jones, Louis Armstrong
Jimmy Blythe: Fat Meat and Greens
- Jelly Roll Morton
trad.: Christians Fight on Your Time Ain't Long
- Bo Weavil Jackson
Blind Lemon Jefferson: Got the Blues
- Blind Lemon Jefferson
Blind Lemon Jefferson: Chock House Blues
- Blind Lemon Jefferson
Paul Whiteman: Birth of the Blues
- Ferde Grofé, Charles Gaylord, Austin Young, Jack Fulton, Willie Hall, Harry Perella
- Paul Whiteman Orchestra
- Paul Whiteman
Sam McGee: Knoxville Blues
- Sam McGee, Uncle Dave Macon
anon.: My Soul Is a Witness
- Arizona Dranes
Charles Luke: Smoke House Blues
- Jelly-Roll Morton Red Hot Peppers
Carmichael, H: Boneyard Shuffle
- Red Heads, The
trad.: Motherless Child
- Blind Willie Johnson
John Gerrard Williams: The Bumps
- Jeanette James Synco Jazzers
Ben Pollack, Mel Stitzel, George Brunies, Paul Mares, Leon Roppolo: Tin Roof Blues
- Sol Hoopii's Novelty Trio
Andrew Baxter, Jim Baxter: Bamalong Blues
- Andrew Baxter, Jim Baxter
Harry von Tilzer: Hana Won't You Open the Door
- Sam McGee, Kirk McGee
Henry Thomas: Honey Just Allow Me One More Chance
- Henry Thomas
- Studio ensemble
Richard Brown: James Alley Blues
- Richard Brown
Eddie Jackson, Louis Domaine: Franklin Street Blues
- Louis Dumaine's Jazzola Eight
John Spikes, Reb Spikes: Fight That Thing
- Reb Spikes, Johnny Dodds, Bud Scott, Lillian Hardin Armstrong
Johnny Dodds: Clarinet Wobble
- Johnny Dodds
- Studio ensemble
Ben Harney: Mr. Johnson Turn Me Loose
- South Georgia Highballers
Waller: My Old Daddy's Got a Brand New Way to Love
- Thomas Morris, Bobbie Leecan, Robert Cooksey
Frederick A. Graves: Honey in the Rock
- Blind Mamie Forehand, A.C. Forehand
Eddie Anthony, Henry Rubberlegs Williams: Georgia Crawl
- Eddie Anthony, Henry Rubberlegs Williams
trad.: Blessed Are the Poor
- Luther Magby, A.C. Forehand, Washington Phillips, Blind Mamie Forehand
Eddie Green: A Good Man Is Hard to Find
- Bix Beiderbecke, Bill Rank, Frankie Trumbauer, Don Murray, Pee Wee Russell, Adrian Rollini, Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang, Frank Signorelli, Chauncey Morehouse
Fillmore: I Am Resolved
- Ernest Stoneman, Kahle Brewer
- Stoneman's Dixie Mountaineers
Mark Graham: Curley Headed Woman
- Burnett and Rutherford
trad.: Down South Blues
- Dock Boggs
Victoria Spivey: Black Snake Blues
- King Oliver's Dixie Syncopators
anon.: Weary Way Blues
- Jimmy Blythe's Owls
Meade Lux Lewis: Honky Tonk Train Blues
- Meade Lux Lewis
anon.: The Lord Is my Shepherd
- Blind Connie Rosemond
Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang: Penn Beach Blues
- Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang, Don Murray, Frank Signorelli
Mike Jackson: Black Hearse Blues
- Sara Martin, Sylvester Weaver
B.F. Shelton: Cold Penitentiary Blues
- B.F. Shelton
Berlin, I: Ziegfeld Follies of 1927: Shaking the Blues Away
- Ruth Etting, Rube Bloom
Walter Rhodes: The Crowing Rooster
- Walter Rhodes
Ellington: Creole Love Call
- Duke Ellington, Adelaide Hall
- Duke Ellington Orchestra
trad.: God's Gonna Separate the Wheat from the Tares
- Blind Joe Taggart
Tom Delaney: Jazz Me Blues
- Bix Beiderbecke Gang
Clarence Williams, Spencer Williams: Royal Garden Blues
- Bix Beiderbecke Gang
Isidor Seidel: Chattanooga Blues
- Allen Brothers
Ellington: New Orleans Lowdown
- Duke Ellington, Bubber Miley
- Duke Ellington Kentucky Club Orchestra
anon.: Barrelhouse Man
- Will Ezell
Washington Phillips: I Am Born to Preach the Gospel
- Washington Phillips
Adoniram Judson Buchanan: Death Is Only a Dream
- Edward Clayborn
anon.: Neckbones and Beans
- Henry Johnson Boys
Jimmie Rodgers: She's in the Graveyard Now
- Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band
Handy: Yellow Dog Blues
- Sam Collins
Ed Bell: Mamlish Blues
- Ed Bell
Jesse Stone: Starvation Blues
- Jesse Stone's Blue Serenaders
Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton: Wild Man Blues
- Louis Armstrong, Johnny Dodds
- Louis Armstrong Hot Seven
Gus Cannon: Can You Blame the Colored Man?
- Gus Cannon, Blind Blake
Harvey Hull, Cleve Reed: Mama You Don't Know How Long
- Down Home Boys
anon.: A Woman Gets Tired of the Same Man All the Time
- David Crockett, Sam Jones
- Stovepipe No. 1
anon.: Second-Handed Blues
- Margaret Johnson, Bobbie Leecan, Robert Cooksey
anon.: Awful Fix
- Buddy Boy Hawkins
Gilliam Banmon Grayson, Henry Whitter: Train 45
- Gilliam Banmon Grayson, Henry Whitter
Billy Smythe, Scott Middleton, Art Gillham: Hesitation Blues
- Al Bernard, Chelsea Quealey, Bobby Davis, Al Duffy
Alger "Texas" Alexander: Section Gang Blues
- Alger "Texas" Alexander, Lonnie Johnson
Lonnie Johnson: Lonesome Ghost Blues
- Lonnie Johnson
anon.: Lord I Can't Stay Away
- Violet Harmony Singers
trad.: Deep River
- Paul Robeson
anon.: Doan Let Satan Git You
- Barbour's Plantation Singers
trad.: Everytime I Feel the Spirit
- Mae Frierson Moore
- Four Aces, The
Jaybird Coleman: Man Trouble
- Jaybird Coleman
Tommy Johnson: Big Road Blues
- Tommy Johnson
trad.: Deep River
- Forbes Randolph's Kentucky Jubilee Choir
Prince Albert Hunt: Blues in the Bottle
- Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers
trad.: Stealin'
- Memphis Jug Band
Jim Jackson: I'm Wild About My Lovin'
- Jim Jackson
Noah Lewis: Viola Lee Blues
- Cannon's Jug Stompers
Berlin, I: Take Me Back
- Frank Stokes
Gershwin: 3 Preludes: No. 2 in C-Sharp Minor: Andante con moto e poco rubato
- George Gershwin
Elizabeth Harbison David: I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say
- Biddleville Quintet
Lonnie Johnson: Away Down in the Alley Blues
- Lonnie Johnson
Henry L. Bandy: Going Across the Sea
- Henry L. Bandy
Robert Hicks: Chocolate to the Bone
- Robert Hicks
Pinetop Smith: Pinetop's Blues
- Pinetop Smith
Julius Daniels: 99 Year Blues
- Julius Daniels
George Williams: Touch Me Light Mama
- George Williams
Rube Lacey: Mississippi Jail House Groan
- Rube Lacey
Rambling Thomas: Sawmill Moan
- Rambling Thomas
Clarence Green: Johnson City Blues
- Clarence Green
Lottie Kimbrough: Wayward Girl Blues
- Lottie Kimbrough, Milas Pruitt
McHugh: I Must Have That Man
- Annette Hanshaw
Moten: Slow Motion
- Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra
Moses Mason: Molly Man
- Moses Mason
anon.: If the Light Has Gone Out in Your Soul
- Ernest Phipps, Roland Johnson, Ethel Baker, Ancil McVay, Eula Johnson, Shirley Jones
- Ernest Phipps Holiness Singers
Dennis McGee: Mon chere bebe creole
- Dennis McGee
Byron Gay, Marco H. Hellman: Four or Five Times
- Joe 'King' Oliver
- King Oliver's Dixie Syncopators
Mississippi John Hurt: Avalon Blues
- Mississippi John Hurt
Williams, S: I Ain't Got Nobody
- Emmett Miller
- Georgia Crackers
anon.: G. Burns Is Gonna Rise Again
- Tom Nelson, T.C. Johnson
Kern: Show Boat: Can't help lovin' dat man
- Helen Morgan
- Paul Whiteman Orchestra
Nap Hayes: Violin Blues
- Johnson Boys, The
anon.: Good Old Turnip Greens
- Bo Chatman, Walter Vinson, Charlie McCoy
Blind Simmie Dooley, Pink Anderson: Every Day in the Week Blues
- Blind Simmie Dooley, Pink Anderson
Jimmy Blythe: Alley Rat
- Jimmy Blythe
Sarah Lancaster: I'm On My Journey Home
- Denson Quartet
William Moore: One Way Gal
- William Moore
Cliff Edwards: Stack O'Lee, Pt. 2
- Cliff Edwards
Gladys Bentley: Worried Blues
- Gladys Bentley
Kern: Show Boat: Can't help lovin' dat man
- Helen Morgan
Morton, Jelly Roll: Jungle Blues
- Benny Goodman's Boys
Kern: Ol' Man River (from Showboat)
- Bing Crosby
- Paul Whiteman Orchestra
- Paul Whiteman
R.M. Massey: Old Time Baptism, Pt. 2
- R.M. Massey
Johnny Dodds: Blue Piano Stomp
- Johnny Dodds Trio
Jesse Hooker, Sam Harris, Percy Darensbourg, Christian Polite: Sunshine Special
- Frenchy's String Band
Morton, Jelly Roll: Midnight Mama
- Frances Hereford
- Jelly Roll Mortons Levee Serenaders
anon.: Lord, Lord, He Sure Is Good
- Richard Bryant
- Elder Richard Bryant Sanctified Singers
Leo Wood, Gus Mueller, Buster Johnson: Wang Wang Blues
- Sam Ku West Harmony Boys
Thomas A. Dorsey, Tampa Red: It's Tight Like That
- Frankie "Hal Pint" Jaxon
- Tampa Red Hokum Jug Band
Signorelli, F: A Blues Serenade
- Original Memphis Five
trad.: I Truly Understand You Love Another Man
- Shortbuckle Roarke Family
Williams, S: I Found A New Baby
- Chicago Rhythm Kings
Bernice Edwards: Hard Hustlin' Blues
- Bernice Edwards
Charlie Johnson: The Boy in the Boat
- Charlie Johnson Paradise Ten
Rosie Mae Moore: School Girl Blues
- Rosie Mae Moore, Charlie McCoy
Armand J. Piron: I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate
- Boyd Senter Sentipedes
Humphrey Bate: Ham Beats All Meat
- Dr. Humphrey Bate Possum Hunters
anon.: In the Mornin'
- Johnson-Nelson-Porkchop
Montana Jack Gillette, Dick Hartman, Curly Campbell, William Blair, Tex Martin: The Preacher Got Drunk and Laid His Bible Down
- Tennessee Ramblers
anon.: Home Town Blues
- Roane County Ramblers
Furry Lewis: Judge Harsh Blues
- Furry Lewis
Earl Hines: Caution Blues
- Earl Hines
Clifford Hayes: Blue Harmony
- Clifford Hayes' Louisville Stompers
Frank Hutchison: Cannon Ball Blues
- Frank Hutchison
Dick Justice: Brown Skin Blues
- Dick Justice
trad.: Leake County Blues
- Leake County Revelers
anon.: Bathe in That Beautiful Pool
- Dock Walsh
Robin Moise, Leo Soileau: Easy Rider Blues
- Leo Soileau
anon.: Operation Blues
- Frankie "Hal Pint" Jaxon, Thomas A. Dorsey
Sippie Wallace: I'm a Mighty Tight Woman
- Sippie Wallace, Natty Dominique, Johnny Dodds, Edward Kid Ory, Bill Johnson
Robert Wilkins: That's No Way to Get Along
- Robert Wilkins
Raymond Barrow: Walking Blues
- Raymond Barrow
Brown,: Don't Mistreat Your Good Boyfriend
- Bubbling Over Five
William Christopher Handy, Roy Evans: St. Louis Blues - Weary Yodelin' Blues
- Roy Evans
anon.: Fresno Blues
- Johnnie Crockett, Albert Crockett
James Simons: Mean Low Blues
- James Simons, Studio pianist
Annalisa Blake: Georgia Bound
- Blind Blake
Luke Jordan: If I Call You Mama
- Luke Jordan
Mike Mosiello: Just Blues
- Andy Sannella, Al Duffy
- Memphis Jazzers
Blind Teddy Darby: Lawdy Lawdy Worried Blues
- Blind Teddy Darby, Roosevelt Sykes
anon.: New York Blues
- Roosevelt Graves, Will Ezell
Eddie Lang, Lonnie Johnson: Guitar Blues
- Eddie Lang, Lonnie Johnson
Herve Duerson: Avenue Strut
- Herve Duerson
Cow Cow Davenport: Slum Gullion Stomp
- Cow Cow Davenport
