Down Home Blues - Detroit - Detroit Special

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A collection of blues music from Detroit-based musicians from the late 1940s to the early 1960s.

Packaged in a digipak with an outer slip case, features 82 tracks, all digitally remastered, with some unissued recordings and others which have not been available for decades.

Includes a 48 page book featuring an essay on the origins of Detroit music by Mike Rowe, complete with rare photos, tracklisting and full sessionography.

CD 1: 77 minutes
CD 2: 74 minutes
CD 3: 73 minutes

Similar formations on successive tracks aren't relisted.
Track 1-5 is performed by "Swing Brothers".
Tracks 1-19 & 1-20 are performed by "Baby Boy Warren and His Buddy" (1949), tracks 1-26 and 1-27 by "Baby Boy Warren and His Trio" (1952-53).
Martee Bradley is called The Hastings Street Hill-Billy on tracks 1-24 & 1-25.
Tracks 3-19 & 3-20 are performed by Eddie Kirkland and His Houserockers.
© 2016 Wienerworld Limited.

Matrix / Runout (Disc 1): 2100006288452 WNRCD5095
Matrix / Runout (Disc 2): 2100006288483 WNRCD5095
Matrix / Runout (Disc 3): 2100006288513 WNRCD5095
Mastering SID Code: IFPI LK97
Mould SID Code: IFPI 9R88

Annotation last modified on 2023-11-12 23:00 UTC.

Tracklist

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1▼CD
#	Title	Artist	Rating	Length
1	Miss Lorraine	John Lee Hooker		3:06
2	Talkin' Boogie	John Lee Hooker		3:08
3	Come Back Sugar Mama	L.C. Green		2:20
4	Little Machine	L.C. Green		2:34
5	Papa's Boogie	Slim Pickens		2:40
6	My Special Friend Blues	Baby Boy Warren		2:40
7	Nervy Woman Blues	Baby Boy Warren		2:57
8	Making a Fool Out of Me	Eddie Burns		2:59
9	Squeeze Me Baby	Eddie Burns		2:59
10	Democrat Blues (Democrat Man)	Bobo Jenkins		3:13
11	Bad Luck and Trouble	Bobo Jenkins		2:45
12	Lillie Mae (version 1)	Calvin Frazier		3:20
13	Rockhouse	Calvin Frazier		3:03
14	Bus Driver	John Brim		2:56
15	When the Sun Is Shining	L.C. Green		2:32
16	Hold Me in Your Arms	L.C. Green		2:36
17	Rockin' Chair Boogie	Clarence Posey		2:58
18	Nelly Mae	Detroit Slim		3:40
19	Lonesome Cabin Blues	Baby Boy Warren		3:00
20	Don't Want No Skinny Woman	Baby Boy Warren		3:11
21	Gangster Blues	Eddie Burns		2:36
22	Grievin' Blues	Eddie Burns		2:47
23	Ramblin' Around Blues	Sam Kelly		2:38
24	Now I'll Have to Sing the Blues	Martee Bradley		2:17
25	Winter Time Is Comin'	Martee Bradley		2:44
26	Taxi Driver Blues	Baby Boy Warren		2:35
27	Bad Lover Blues	Baby Boy Warren		3:17

2▼CD
#	Title	Artist	Rating	Length
1	Graveyard Blues	John Lee Hooker		3:15
2	I Love to Boogie	John Lee Hooker		3:13
3	Little School Girl	L.C. Green		2:19
4	Remember Way Back	L.C. Green		3:11
5	Superstition	Big Ed & His Combo		2:42
6	Biscuit Baking Woman	Big Ed & His Combo		2:35
7	Forgive Me Darling	Baby Boy Warren		2:36
8	Please Don't Think I'm Nosey	Baby Boy Warren		2:32
9	She Fool Me	Harvey Hill, Jr.		2:53
10	Boogie Woogie Woman	Harvey Hill, Jr.		2:40
11	Lilly Mae (version 2)	Calvin Frazier		2:30
12	Dog Me Blues	Henry Smith		3:00
13	Baby Don't You Want to Go	Bobo Jenkins		2:33
14	Ten Below Zero	Bobo Jenkins		2:13
15	I Got Lucky	Baby Boy Warren		3:00
16	Let's Renew Our Love	Baby Boy Warren		3:07
17	Papa Doo	James Walton		2:50
18	Loving You Baby	Earl Chatman		2:10
19	Parrot Lounge	Detroit Count		0:59
20	Detroit Boogie	Detroit Count		2:38
21	Seasick and Waterbound	Bobo Jenkins		3:17
22	Pitch a Boogie Woogie	Big Jack Reynolds		2:15
23	Lilly Mae (version 3)	Calvin Frazier		2:32
24	Mattie Mae	Baby Boy Warren		2:49
25	Santa Fe	Baby Boy Warren		2:28
26	Hastings Street After Hours	Little Sonny		2:20
27	Love You Pretty Baby	Little Sonny		2:27
28	Have Mercy on Me	John Lee Hooker		3:29

3▼CD
#	Title	Artist	Rating	Length
1	Somebody Put Bad Luck on Me	Baby Boy Warren		2:38
2	Stop Breaking Down	Baby Boy Warren		2:37
3	Love Shock	Little Sonny		1:54
4	I'll Love You Baby Until the Day I Die	Little Sonny		2:05
5	I'll Move You	Eddie Kirkland		2:37
6	Mercy Blues	Eddie Kirkland		2:55
7	Miss Sadie Mae	John Lee Hooker		2:56
8	609 Boogie	John Lee Hooker		2:52
9	Cat Squirrel	Doctor Ross		2:21
10	The Sunnyland	Doctor Ross		2:36
11	Nothing but Love	Bobo Jenkins		2:25
12	Tell Me Who	Bobo Jenkins		2:34
13	Orange Driver	Eddie Burns		3:26
14	Hard Hearted Woman	Eddie Burns		2:33
15	I Gotta Find My Baby	Little Sonny		2:32
16	Hear My Woman Calling	Little Sonny		2:38
17	Chuck-A-Luck (aka Chicken)	Baby Boy Warren and His Band		3:12
18	Baby Boy Blues	Baby Boy Warren and His Band		2:48
19	Done Somebody Wrong	Eddie Kirkland		3:05
20	I Need You Baby	Eddie Kirkland		2:45
21	She's My Baby	Bob Kelly		2:16
22	The Thing to Do	Eddie Burns		2:51
23	I Hear My Woman Callin' - Alternate	Little Sonny		3:05
24	Industrial Boogie	Doctor Ross		2:38
25	Thirty Two Twenty recording of: Thirty-Two, Twenty Blues	Doctor Ross		2:47
26	Baby Don't You Want Me to Go - Alternate	Bobo Jenkins		2:52
27	Ten Below Zero - Alternate	Bobo Jenkins		3:18

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part of:	Down Home Blues (Series of Wienerworld Presentation) (order: 1)

Discogs:	https://www.discogs.com/release/11068290 [info]

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