I've Got the Blues but I'm Too Damn Mean to Cry: Protest in Early Blues & Gospel

~ Release by Various Artists (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Tracklist

1▼CD: Disc 1
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1Jail Bird Love Song
Mississippi Sheiks3:00
2No Job Blues
Ramblin’ Thomas3:12
3Down in the Bottom Where I Stay
Ozie McPherson2:37
4Gut Struggle
Wilmer Davis2:56
5Trouble and Whiskey
Roosevelt Sykes2:43
6Raise R-U-K-U-S Tonight
Norfolk Jubilee Singers2:56
7Raise a R-U-K-U-S Tonight
Birmingham Jubilee Singers2:52
8Landlady's Footsteps
Madlyn Davis3:02
9Get on Board
Clara Smith3:23
10I'm Goin' Home
recorded in:
Richmond, Indiana, United States (on 1929-06-14)
guitar and lead vocals:
Charley Patton (American Delta blues musician) (on 1929-06-14)
vocals:
Walter “Buddy Boy” Hawkins (on 1929-06-14) and Charley Patton (American Delta blues musician) (on 1929-06-14)
recording of:
I’m Goin’ Home (on 1929-06-14)
Charley Patton3:07
11Old Rattler
James “Iron Head” Baker, Moses “Clear Rock” Platt3:09
12Ain't No More Cane on This Brazos
James "Iron Head" Baker, Convict Group, Ernest Williams2:50
13The Prisoner's Blues
Sara Martin2:47
14Penitentiary Bound Blues
Rosa Henderson2:59
15Wash and Iron Woman Blues
recorded in:
Chicago, Illinois, United States (in 1930-05)
guitar and lead vocals:
Gene Campbell (early blues musician) (in 1930-05)
Gene Campbell2:18
16I've Got the Blues but I'm Just Too Mean to Cry
Dorothy Dodd3:10
17Rising River Blues
George Carter2:50
18Song From a Cotton Field
Bessie Brown2:46
19They Ain't Walking No More
Lucille Bogan3:08
20Long John
Lightnin' Washington & Work Group5:26
21Another Man Done Gone
recorded in:
Livingston, Alabama, United States (on 1940-10-31)
recording engineer:
John A. Lomax (on 1940-10-31)
vocals:
Vera Hall (on 1940-10-31)
recording of:
Another Man Done Gone (on 1940-10-31)
writer:
Johnny Cash (country music legend), Vera Hall, Alan Lomax (US ethnomusicologist), John A. Lomax and Ruby Pickens Tartt
Vera Hall1:25
22Black Evil Blues
Alice Moore2:53
23Richmond Blues
Julius Daniels3:33
24Bessie's Moan
recorded in:
Memphis, Tennessee, United States (on 1928-08-29)
piano:
K.D. Johnson (on 1928-08-29)
lead vocals:
Bessie Tucker (on 1928-08-29)
Bessie Tucker3:29
25Rock Pile Blues
recorded in:
New York, New York, United States (on 1927-11-27)
guitar:
Walter Beasley (early blues guitarist) (on 1927-11-27) and Sylvester Weaver (on 1927-11-27)
lead vocals:
Sylvester Weaver (on 1927-11-27)
Sylvester Weaver3:01
26Highway 61 Blues
Curtis Jones2:40
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