(Blues) VA - Blues Masters - 17 Volumes Collection | 2012, FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

CD1
01. B.B. Boogie
02. When Your Baby Packs Up and Goes
03. Got the Blues
04. Take a Swing With Me
05. Miss Martha King
06. Mistreated Woman
07. The Other Night Blues
08. Walkin' and Cryin'
09. My Baby Is Gone
10. Fine Looking Woman
11. She's Dynamite
12. She's a Mean Woman
13. Hard Working Woman
14. That Ain't the Way to Do It
15. Three O'Clock Blues
16. She Don't Move Me No More
17. Shake It Up and Go
18. My Own Fault Darlin'
19. Gotta Find My Baby
20. B.B. Blues
CD2
01. Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground
02. Blind Willie Johnson - If I Had My Way I'd Tear the Building Down
03. Blind Willie Johnson - Praise God I'm Satisfied
04. Blind Willie Johnson - Trouble Will Soon Be Over
05. Blind Willie Johnson - I Know His Blood Can Make Me Whole
06. Blind Willie Johnson - Everybody Ought to Treat a Stranger Right
07. Blind Willie Johnson - It's Nobody's Fault But Mine
08. Blind Willie Johnson - I'm Gonna Run to the City of Refuge
09. Blind Willie Johnson - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning
10. Blind Willie Johnson - Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed
11. Tommy Johnson - Cool Drink of Water Blues
12. Tommy Johnson - Maggie Campbell Blues
13. Tommy Johnson - Canned Heat Blues
14. Tommy Johnson - Big Road Blues
15. Tommy Johnson - Alcohol and Jake Blues
16. Skip James - If You Haven't Any Hay Get On Down the Road
17. Skip James - 22-20 Blues
18. Skip James - How Long 'Buck'
19. Skip James - Cypress Grove Blues
20. Skip James - Devil Got My Woman
CD3
01. Magic Sam - All Your Love
02. Magic Sam - Love Me With a Feeling
03. Magic Sam - Everything Gonna Be Alright
04. Magic Sam - Easy Baby
05. Magic Sam - 21 Days in Jail
06. Jimmy McCracklin - Listen Woman
07. Jimmy McCracklin - I Can't Understand Love
08. Jimmy McCracklin - Josephine (Just Won't Let Her Go)
09. Jimmy McCracklin - Love When It Rains
10. Jimmy McCracklin - I Think My Time Is Here
11. Jimmy McCracklin - Deceivin' Blues
12. Jimmy McCracklin - Beer Drinkin' Woman
13. Jimmy McCracklin - Hamburger Joint
14. Jimmy McCracklin - Just Won't Let Her Go
15. Jimmy McCracklin - Rockin' All Day
16. Jimmy McCracklin - Gotta Cut Out
17. Jimmy McCracklin - Rockin' Man
18. Jimmy McCracklin - Looking For a Woman
19. Jimmy McCracklin - True Love Blues
20. Jimmy McCracklin - The Walk

Riley B. King (born September 16, 1925), known by the stage name B.B. King, is an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him at No. 6 on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. According to Edward M. Komara, King "introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending and shimmering vibrato that would influence virtually every electric blues guitarist that followed." King has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
"Blind" Willie Johnson (January 22, 1897 – September 18, 1945) was an American singer and guitarist, whose music straddled the border between blues and spirituals. While the lyrics of his songs were often religious, his music drew from both sacred and blues traditions. His music is distinguished by his powerful bass thumb-picking and gravelly false-bass voice, with occasional use of a tenor voice.
Tommy Johnson (1896 – November 1, 1956) was an influential American delta blues musician, who recorded in the late 1920s, and was known for his eerie falsetto voice and intricate guitar playing. Johnson was born near Terry, Mississippi, and moved around 1910 to Crystal Springs where he lived for most of his life. He learned to play the guitar and, by 1914, was supplementing his income by playing at local parties with his brothers Major and LeDell. In 1916 he married and moved to Webb Jennings' Plantation near Drew, Mississippi, close to the Dockery Plantation. There he met other musicians including Charlie Patton and Willie Brown.
Nehemiah Curtis "Skip" James (June 9, 1902 – October 3, 1969) was an American Delta blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter. Born in Bentonia, Mississippi, he died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He first learned to play guitar from another bluesman from the area, Henry Stuckey. His guitar playing is noted for its dark, minor sound, played in an open D-minor tuning with an intricate fingerpicking technique. James first recorded for Paramount Records in 1931, but these recordings sold poorly due to the Great Depression, and he drifted into obscurity. After a long absence from the public eye, James was "rediscovered" in 1964 by three blues enthusiasts, helping further the blues and folk music revival of the 1950s and early 60s. During this period, James appeared at several folk and blues festivals and gave live concerts around the country, also recording several albums for various record labels. His songs have influenced several generations of musicians, being adapted or covered by Kansas Joe McCoy, Robert Johnson, Cream, Deep Purple, Chris Thomas King, Alvin Youngblood Hart, The Derek Trucks Band, Beck, Big Sugar, and Rory Block. He is hailed as "one of the seminal figures of the blues."
Samuel "Magic Sam" Gene Maghett (February 14, 1937 – December 1, 1969) was an American Chicago blues musician. Maghett was born in Grenada, Mississippi, United States, and learned to play the blues from listening to records by Muddy Waters and Little Walter. After moving to Chicago at the age of nineteen, he was signed by Cobra Records and became well known as a bluesman after his first record, "All Your Love" in 1957. He was known for his distinctive tremolo-guitar playing.
Jimmy McCracklin (born August 13, 1921, St. Louis, Missouri, United States) is an American pianist, vocalist, and songwriter. His style contains West Coast blues, Jump blues, and R&B. Over a career that has spanned seven decades, he says he has written almost a thousand songs and has recorded hundreds of them. McCracklin has recorded over 30 albums, and owns four gold records.

CD4
01. John Lee Hooker - Dimples
02. John Lee Hooker - I'm in the Mood
03. John Lee Hooker - Boogie Chillen'
04. John Lee Hooker - Let Your Daddy Ride
05. John Lee Hooker - John L's House Rent Boogie
06. John Lee Hooker - Weeping Willow Boogie
07. John Lee Hooker - Huckle Up Baby
08. John Lee Hooker - Hobo Blues
09. John Lee Hooker - Crawlin' King Snake
10. John Lee Hooker - Sally Mae
11. Wynonie Harris - Around the Clock Pt. 1 & 2
12. Wynonie Harris - Yonder Goes My Baby
13. Wynonie Harris - Don't Take My Whiskey Away From Me
14. Wynonie Harris - Cock-A-Doodle-Doo
15. Wynonie Harris - Time to Change Your Town
16. Wynonie Harris - You Got to Get Yourself a Job, Girl
17. Wynonie Harris - Oh Babe!
18. Wynonie Harris - Luscious Woman
19. Wynonie Harris - Stormy Night Blues
20. Wynonie Harris - Git to Gittin' Baby
CD5
01. Jimmy Reed - Baby What You Want Me To Do
02. Jimmy Reed - Found Love
03. Jimmy Reed - Big Boss Man
04. Jimmy Reed - Hush Hush
05. Jimmy Reed - I'm Nervous
06. Jimmy Reed - Going By The River Pt. 1
07. Jimmy Reed - I Ain't Got You
08. Jimmy Reed - Come Love
09. Jimmy Reed - Meet Me
10. Jimmy Reed - I Was So Wrong
11. Otis Rush - Checking On My Baby
12. Otis Rush - Love That Woman
13. Otis Rush - My Baby Is A Good'un
14. Otis Rush - All Your Love
15. Otis Rush - If You Were Mine
16. Otis Rush - Violent Love
17. Otis Rush - My Love Will Never Die
18. Otis Rush - Three Times A Fool
19. Otis Rush - Keep On Loving Me Baby
20. Otis Rush - It Takes Time
CD6
01. Johnny Guitar Watson - Gangster Of Love
02. Johnny Guitar Watson - Too Tired
03. Johnny Guitar Watson - Oh Baby
04. Johnny Guitar Watson - Motor Head Baby
05. Johnny Guitar Watson - Telephone Boogie
06. Johnny Guitar Watson - She Moves Me
07. Johnny Guitar Watson - One Room Country Shack
08. Johnny Guitar Watson - Hot Little Mama
09. Johnny Guitar Watson - You've Been Gone Too Long
10. Johnny Guitar Watson - Love Bandit (Gangster Of Love)
11. Big Joe Williams - Drop Down Blues
12. Big Joe Williams - Wanita
13. Big Joe Williams - Vitamin A
14. Big Joe Williams - Stack Of Dollars
15. Big Joe Williams - Wild Cow Moan
16. Big Joe Williams - King Biscuit Stomp
17. Big Joe Williams - Baby Please Don't Go
18. Big Joe Williams - Houselady Blues
19. Big Joe Williams - His Spirit Lives On
20. Big Joe Williams - She's A Married Woman

John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001) was a highly influential Delta blues American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist. Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, William Hooker, and rose to prominence performing his own unique style of what was originally a unique brand of country blues. He developed a 'talking blues' style that was his trademark. Though similar to the early Delta blues, his music was metrically free. John Lee Hooker could be said to embody his own unique genre of the blues, often incorporating the boogie-woogie piano style and a driving rhythm into his blues guitar playing and singing. His best known songs include "Boogie Chillen'" (1948), "I'm in the Mood" (1951) and "Boom Boom" (1962), the first two reaching R&B #1 in the Billboard charts.
Wynonie Harris (August 24, 1915 – June 14, 1969), born in Omaha, Nebraska, was an American blues shouter and rhythm and blues singer of upbeat songs, featuring humorous, often ribald lyrics. With fifteen Top 10 hits between 1946 and 1952, Harris is generally considered one of rock and roll's forerunners, influencing Elvis Presley among others. He was the subject of a 1994 biography by Tony Collins.
Mathis James "Jimmy" Reed (September 6, 1925 – August 29, 1976) was an American blues musician and songwriter, notable for bringing his distinctive style of blues to mainstream audiences. Reed was a major player in the field of electric blues, as opposed to the more acoustic-based sound of many of his contemporaries. His lazy, slack-jawed singing, piercing harmonica and hypnotic guitar patterns were one of the blues' most easily identifiable sounds in the 1950s and 1960s, and had a significant impact on many rock and roll artists who followed, such as Elvis Presley and the Rolling Stones.
Otis Rush (born April 29, 1935 in Philadelphia, Mississippi) is a blues musician, singer and guitarist. His distinctive guitar style features a slow burning sound and long bent notes. With similar qualities to Magic Sam and Buddy Guy, his sound became known as West Side Chicago blues and became an influence on many musicians including Michael Bloomfield and Eric Clapton. Rush is left-handed and, unlike many other left-handed guitarists, plays a left-handed instrument strung upside-down with the low E string at the bottom. He played often with the little finger of his pick hand curled under the low E for positioning. It is widely believed that this contributes to his distinctive sound. He has a wide-ranging, powerful tenor voice.
Johnny "Guitar" Watson (February 3, 1935 – May 17, 1996) was an American blues and funk guitarist and singer. A flamboyant showman and guitar picker in the style of T-Bone Walker, Watson recorded throughout the 1950s and 1960s with some success. His raunchy reinvention in the 1970s with disco and funk overtones, saw Watson have hits with "Ain't That a Bitch", "I Need It" and "Superman Lover". His successful recording career spanned forty years, with his biggest hit being the 1977 "A Real Mother For Ya".
Joseph Lee Williams (October 16, 1903 – December 17, 1982), billed throughout his career as Big Joe Williams, was an American Delta blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, notable for the distinctive sound of his nine-string guitar. Performing over four decades, he recorded such songs as "Baby Please Don't Go", "Crawlin' King Snake" and "Peach Orchard Mama" for a variety of record labels, including Bluebird, Delmark, Okeh, Prestige and Vocalion. Williams was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame on October 4, 1992.

CD 7
01. Muddy Waters - Country Blues
02. Muddy Waters - I Be's Troubled
03. Muddy Waters - Burr Clover Farm Blues
04. Muddy Waters - Take A Walk With Me
05. Muddy Waters - Burr Clover Blues
06. Muddy Waters - Walking Blues
07. Muddy Waters - I Can't Be Satisfied
08. Muddy Waters - Gypsy Woman
09. Muddy Waters - I Feel Like Going Home
10. Muddy Waters - Little Anna Mae
11. Junior Wells - Hoodoo Man
12. Junior Wells - Junior's Wail
13. Junior Wells - Tomorrow Night
14. Junior Wells - Please Throw This Poor Dog A Bone
15. Junior Wells - Blues Hit Big Town
16. Junior Wells - Bout The Break Of Day
17. Junior Wells - So All Alone
18. Junior Wells - Cut That Out
19. Junior Wells - Ways Like An Angel
20. Junior Wells - Lord Lord
CD 8
01. Big Bill Broonzy - Mississippi River Blues
02. Big Bill Broonzy - Long Tall Mama
03. Big Bill Broonzy - Worrying You Off My Mind (Part 1)
04. Big Bill Broonzy - Rising Sun Shine On
05. Big Bill Broonzy - Come Home Early
06. Big Bill Broonzy - Good Jelly
07. Big Bill Broonzy - Bull Cow Blues
08. Big Bill Broonzy - I Can't Make You Satisfied
09. Big Bill Broonzy - How You Want It Done
10. Big Bill Broonzy - Hattie Blues
11. Scrapper Blackwell - Kokomo Blues
12. Blind Blake - Come On Boys, Let's Do That Messin' Around
13. Blind Blake - Hard Pushin' Papa
14. Blind Blake - Skeedle Loo Doo Blues
15. Blind Blake - Georgia Bound
16. Blind Blake - Too Tight Blues, N°. 2
17. Blind Blake - Diddie Wah Diddie
18. Blind Blake - Southern Rag
19. Blind Blake - C.C. Pill Blues
20. Blind Blake - Rope Stretching Blues, Pt. 1
CD 9
01. Little Willie John - Fever
02. Little Willie John - All Around The World
03. Little Willie John - Suffering With The Blues
04. Little Willie John - Tell It Like It Is
05. Little Willie John - Person To Person
06. Little Willie John - Need Your Love So Bad
07. Little Willie John - Talk To Me, Talk To Me
08. Little Willie John - Home At Last
09. Little Willie John - My Nerves
10. Little Willie John - Leave My Kitten Alone
11. Smiley Lewis - How Long
12. Smiley Lewis - Goin' To Jump And Shout
13. Smiley Lewis - Ain't Goin' There No More
14. Smiley Lewis - Last Night
15. Smiley Lewis - Tee-Nah-Nah
16. Smiley Lewis - Lonesome Highway
17. Smiley Lewis - Lying Woman
18. Smiley Lewis - No Letter Today
19. Smiley Lewis - Mama Don't Like
20. Smiley Lewis - I Want To Be With Her

Smiley Lewis (July 5, 1913 – October 7, 1966) was an American New Orleans rhythm and blues musician. The journalist, Tony Russell, in his book The Blues - From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray, stated "Lewis was the unluckiest man in New Orleans. He hit on a formula for slow-rocking, small-band numbers like "The Bells Are Ringing" and "I Hear You Knocking" only to have Fats Domino come up behind him with similar music more ingratiatingly delivered. Lewis was practically drowned in Domino's backwash".
McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913 – April 30, 1983), known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician, generally considered the "father of modern Chicago blues". He was a major inspiration for the British blues explosion in the 1960s, and was ranked #17 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
Junior Wells (December 9, 1934 – January 15, 1998), born Amos Wells Blakemore Jr., was an American Chicago blues vocalist, harmonica player, and recording artist. Wells, who was best known for his performances and recordings with Muddy Waters, Earl Hooker, and Buddy Guy, also performed with Bonnie Raitt, The Rolling Stones, and Van Morrison.
Big Bill Broonzy (June 26, 1903 – August 15, 1958) was a prolific American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. His career began in the 1920s when he played country blues to mostly black audiences. Through the ‘30s and ‘40s he successfully navigated a transition in style to a more urban blues sound popular with white audiences. In the 1950s a return to his traditional folk-blues roots made him one of the leading figures of the emerging American folk music revival and an international star. His long and varied career marks him as one of the key figures in the development of blues music in the 20th century. Broonzy copyrighted more than 300 songs during his lifetime, including both adaptations of traditional folk songs and original blues songs. As a blues composer, he was unique in that his compositions reflected the many vantage points of his rural-to-urban experiences.
Francis Hillman "Scrapper" Blackwell (February 21, 1903 – October 7, 1962) was an American blues guitarist and singer; best known as half of the guitar-piano duo he formed with Leroy Carr in the late 1920s and early 1930s, he was an acoustic single-note picker in the Chicago blues and Piedmont blues style, with some critics noting that he veered towards jazz.
"Blind" Blake (born Arthur Blake; 1896, Newport News, Virginia – December 1, 1934, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) was an American blues and ragtime singer and guitarist. Blind Blake recorded about 80 tracks for Paramount Records from 1926 to 1932. He was one of the most accomplished guitarists of his genre with a surprisingly diverse range of material. He is best known for his distinct guitar sound that was comparable in sound and style to a ragtime piano.
William Edward John (November 15, 1937 - May 26, 1968), better known by his stage name Little Willie John, was an American R&B singer who performed in the 1950s and early 1960s. Many sources erroneously give his middle name as Edgar. He is best known for his popular music chart successes with songs such as, "All Around the World" (1955), "Need Your Love So Bad" (1956) and "Fever" the same year, the latter covered in 1958 by Peggy Lee.

CD 10
01. They're Red Hot
02. 32-20 Blues
03. Preachin' Blues (Up Jumped The Devil)
04. Stop Breakin' Down Blues
05. I Believe I'll Dust My Broom
06. Sweet Home Chicago
07. Kindhearted Woman Blues
08. Ramblin' On My Mind
09. Crossroad Blues
10. Malted Milk
11. Love In Vain Blues
12. Honeymoon Blues
13. When You Got A Good Friend
14. Travelling Riverside Blues
15. Terraplane Blues
16. Dead Shrimp Blues
17. Walkin' Blues
18. From Four Till Late
19. Last Fair Deal Goin' Down
20. Me And The Devil Blues
CD 11
01. Elmore James - Dust My Broom
02. Elmore James - Sho' Nuff I Do
03. Elmore James - Please Find My Baby
04. Elmore James - Cry For Me Baby
05. Elmore James - Sunny LAnd
06. Elmore James - The 12 Year Old Boy
07. Elmore James - It Hurts Me, Too
08. Elmore James - Hawaiian Boogie
09. Elmore James - T.V. Mama
10. Lonnie Johnson - Have to Change Keys (to Play These Blues)
11. Lonnie Johnson - Mr. Johnson's Blues
12. Lonnie Johnson - Mean Old Bedbug Blues
13. Lonnie Johnson - Toothache Blues Pt. 1
14. Lonnie Johnson - Toothache Blues Pt. 2
15. Lonnie Johnson - Sweet Potato Blues
16. Lonnie Johnson - Guitar Blues
17. Lonnie Johnson - She's Making Whoopee in Hell Tonight
18. Lonnie Johnson - Got the Blues For Murder Only
19. Lonnie Johnson - I'm Nuts About That Gal
20. Lonnie Johnson - Deep Blue Sea Blues
CD 12
01. Bukka White - Good Gin Blues
02. Bukka White - Shake 'Em On Down
03. Bukka White - When Can I Change My Clothes?
04. Bukka White - High Fever Blues
05. Bukka White - Bukka's Jitterbug Swing
06. Bukka White - Disctrict Attorney Blues
07. Bukka White - Strange Place Blues
08. Bukka White - Sleepy My Blues
09. Bukka White - Pinebluff, Arkansas
10. Bukka White - Fixin' to Die Blues
11. Josh White - Uncle Sam says
12. Josh White - Jim Crow Train
13. Josh White - Bad Housing Blues
14. Josh White - Southern Exposure
15. Josh White - Defense Factory Blues
16. Josh White - Prison Bound
17. Josh White - Hard Time Blues
18. Josh White - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
19. Josh White - One Meat Ball
20. Josh White - Hard Times Blues

Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1911 – August 16, 1938) was an American blues singer and musician. His landmark recordings from 1936–37 display a combination of singing, guitar skills, and songwriting talent that have influenced later generations of musicians. Johnson's shadowy, poorly documented life and death at age 27 have given rise to much legend, including a Faustian myth. As an itinerant performer who played mostly on street corners, in juke joints, and at Saturday night dances, Johnson enjoyed little commercial success or public recognition in his lifetime. His records sold poorly during his lifetime, and it was only after the first reissue of his recordings on LP in 1961 that his work reached a wider audience. Johnson is now recognized as a master of the blues, particularly of the Mississippi Delta blues style. He is credited by many rock musicians as an important influence; Eric Clapton has called Johnson "the most important blues singer that ever lived." Johnson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as an "Early Influence" in their first induction ceremony in 1986. In 2003, David Fricke ranked Johnson fifth in Rolling Stone 's list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.
Elmore James (January 27, 1918 – May 24, 1963) was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and band leader. He was known as "the King of the Slide Guitar" and had a unique guitar style, noted for his use of loud amplification and his stirring voice. James was born Elmore Brooks in the old Richland community in Holmes County, Mississippi (not to be confused with two other locations of the same name in Mississippi). He was the illegitimate son of 15-year-old Leola Brooks, a field hand. His father was probably Joe Willie "Frost" James, who moved in with Leola, and so Elmore took this as his name. His parents adopted an orphaned boy at some point named Robert Holston.
Alonzo "Lonnie" Johnson (February 8, 1899 – June 16, 1970) was an American blues and jazz singer/guitarist and songwriter who pioneered the role of jazz guitar and is recognized as the first to play single-string guitar solos. Johnson was not only one of the few black blues musicians invited to be 'guest featured' on a number of jazz recording sessions, he was also one of the only classic 1920's blues artists to have a revived a high-charting career after WWII.
Booker T. Washington White (November 12, 1909 – February 26, 1977), better known as Bukka White, was an American Delta blues guitarist and singer. "Bukka" was not a nickname, but a phonetic misspelling of White's given name Booker, by his second (1937) record label (Vocalion). Born between Aberdeen and Houston, Mississippi, White was the second cousin of B.B. King. White himself is remembered as a player of National steel guitars. He also played, but was less adept at, the piano. White started his career playing the fiddle at square dances. He claims to have met Charlie Patton early on, although some doubt has been cast upon this; Regardless, Patton was a large influence on White. White typically played slide guitar, in an open tuning. He was one of the few, along with Skip James, to use a crossnote tuning in E minor, which he may have learned, as James did, from Henry Stuckey.
Joshua Daniel White (February 11, 1914 – September 5, 1969), better known as Josh White, was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, actor, and civil rights activist. He also recorded under the names "Pinewood Tom" and "Tippy Barton" in the 1930s. White grew up in the Jim Crow South. During the 1920s and 1930s, he became a prominent race records artist, with a prolific output of recordings in genres including Piedmont blues, country blues, gospel, and social protest songs. In 1931, White moved to New York, and within a decade his fame had spread widely; his repertoire expanded to include urban blues, jazz, traditional folk songs, and political protest songs. He soon was in demand as an actor on radio, Broadway, and film.

CD 13
01. Look-A-Here Baby
02. Smile at Me
03. California Boogie
04. My Baby Walked Off
05. Chocolate Drop
06. Mr. Highway Man
07. Color and Kind
08. Everybody's in the Mood
09. (Well) That's Alright
10. Baby Ride With Me
11. Decoration Day Blues
12. Moanin' at Midnight
13. The Wolf Is at Your Door
14. Getting Old and Grey
15. Oh, Red!
16. My Last Affair
17. Dorothy Mae
18. I Got a Woman/Sweet Woman
19. Bluebird Blues
20. Howlin' Wolf Boogie
CD 14
01. Blues With a Feeling
02. Juke
03. Sad Hours
04. Tell Me Mama
05. Off the Wall
06. You Better Watch Yourself
07. My Babe
08. Last Night
09. You're So Fine
10. Roller Coaster
11. Moonshine Blues
12. Bad Acting Woman
13. Blue Baby
14. Can't Hold On Much Longer
15. Tonight With a Fool
16. Boogie
17. Red Headed Woman
18. I Just Keep Loving Her
19. Mean Old World
20. Lights Out
CD 15
01. Richard Berry - Louie, Louie
02. Richard Berry - Sweet Sugar You
03. Richard Berry - You Look So Good
04. Richard Berry - Mess Around
05. Richard Berry - No Room
06. Richard Berry - I Want You to Be My Girl
07. Richard Berry - I'm Your Fool
08. Richard Berry - Walk Right In
09. Richard Berry - Give It Up
10. Richard Berry - Have Love, Will Travel
11. Barbecue Bob - Yo Yo Blues
12. Barbecue Bob - California Blues
13. Barbecue Bob - Motherless Chiles Blues
14. Barbecue Bob - She's Coming Back Some Cold Rainy Day
15. Barbecue Bob - Barbecue Blues
16. Barbecue Bob - Ease It to Me Blues
17. Barbecue Bob - Chocolate to the Bone
18. Barbecue Bob - Good Time Rounder
19. Barbecue Bob - Atlanta Moan
20. Barbecue Bob - Diddle-Da-Diddle

Barbecue Bob , better known as Robert Hicks (September 11, 1902 – October 21, 1931) was an early American Piedmont blues musician. His nickname came from the fact that he was a cook in a barbecue restaurant. One of the two extant photographs of Bob show him playing his guitar while wearing a full length white apron and cook's hat. He was born in Walnut Grove, Georgia. He and his brother, Charlie Hicks, together with Curley Weaver, were taught how to play the guitar by Curley's mother, Savannah "Dip" Weaver. Bob began playing the 6-string guitar but picked up the 12-string guitar after moving to Atlanta, Georgia in 1923–1924. He became one of the prominent performers of the newly developing early Atlanta blues style.
Richard Berry (April 11, 1935 – January 23, 1997) was an African American singer, songwriter and musician, who performed with many Los Angeles doo-wop and close harmony groups in the 1950s, including The Flairs and The Robins. He is best known as the composer and original performer of the rock standard "Louie Louie". The song went on to be a hit for The Kingsmen becoming one of the most recorded songs of all time, however Berry received little financial benefit for writing it until the 1980s, having signed away his rights to the song in 1959.
Little Walter , born Marion Walter Jacobs (May 1, 1930 – February 15, 1968), was an American blues harmonica player, whose revolutionary approach to his instrument has earned him comparisons to Charlie Parker and Jimi Hendrix, for innovation and impact on succeeding generations. His virtuosity and musical innovations fundamentally altered many listeners' expectations of what was possible on blues harmonica. Little Walter was inducted to the The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008 in the "sideman" category making him the first and only artist ever to be inducted specifically for his work as a harmonica player.
Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910 – January 10, 1976), known as Howlin' Wolf, was an influential American blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player. With a booming voice and looming physical presence, Burnett is commonly ranked among the leading performers in electric blues; musician and critic Cub Koda declared, "no one could match Howlin' Wolf for the singular ability to rock the house down to the foundation while simultaneously scaring its patrons out of its wits." A number of songs written or popularized by Burnett—such as "Smokestack Lightnin'", "Back Door Man", "Killing Floor" and "Spoonful"—have become blues and blues rock standards. At 6 feet, 6 inches (198 cm) and close to 300 pounds (136 kg), he was an imposing presence with one of the loudest and most memorable voices of all the "classic" 1950s Chicago blues singers. This rough-edged, slightly fearsome musical style is often contrasted with the less crude but still powerful presentation of his contemporary and professional rival, Muddy Waters. Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson (Rice Miller), Little Walter Jacobs, and Muddy Waters are usually regarded in retrospect as the greatest blues artists who recorded for Chess in Chicago. Sam Phillips once remarked, "When I heard Howlin' Wolf, I said, 'This is for me. This is where the soul of man never dies.'" In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him #51 on their list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time".

CD 16
01. I'm a Man
02. Bo Diddley
03. Pretty Thing
04. Bring It to Jerome
05. Diddy Wah Diddy
06. I'm Looking For a Woman
07. Who Do You Love?
08. You Don't Love Me
09. Hey Bo Diddley
10. Mona (I Need You Baby)
11. Say Boss Man
12. Before You Accuse Me
13. Say Man
14. The Clock Strikes Twelve
15. Crackin' Up
16. Don't Let It Go (Hold On to What You Got)
17. Mumblin' Guitar
18. She's Alright
19. Road Runner
20. The Story of Bo Diddley
CD 17
01. Percy Mayfield - Please Send Me Someone to Love
02. Percy Mayfield - Strange Things Happening
03. Percy Mayfield - What a Fool I Was
04. Percy Mayfield - Lost Love
05. Percy Mayfield - Advice
06. Percy Mayfield - Nightmare
07. Percy Mayfield - You Don't Exist No More
08. Percy Mayfield - Get Way Back
09. Percy Mayfield - The River's Invitation
10. Percy Mayfield - Life Is Suicide
11. Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - Dragnet Blues
12. Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - Saturday Night (Four Nights Drunk)
13. Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - Johnny, Johnny
14. Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - Down in Texas
15. Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - Be Cool
16. Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - Playing Numbers
17. Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - Crazy With the Blues
18. Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - Nightmare Blues
19. Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - Gee, It's Rough
20. Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - I Don't Know, Yes I Know
CD 18
01. Champion Jack Dupree - Strollin'
02. Champion Jack Dupree - T.B. Blues
03. Champion Jack Dupree - Can't Kick the Habit
04. Champion Jack Dupree - Evil Woman
05. Champion Jack Dupree - Nasty Boogie
06. Champion Jack Dupree - Junker's Blues
07. Champion Jack Dupree - Bad Blood
08. Champion Jack Dupree - Goin' Down Slow
09. Champion Jack Dupree - Frankie & Johnny
10. Champion Jack Dupree - Stack-O-Lee
11. Cousin Joe - Fly Hen Blues
12. Cousin Joe - Little Eva
13. Cousin Joe - Lightning Struck the Poorhouse
14. Cousin Joe - Baby You Don't Know at All
15. Cousin Joe - The Barefoot Baby
16. Cousin Joe - Box Car Shorty and Peter Blue
17. Cousin Joe - Beggin' Woman
18. Cousin Joe - Sadie Brown
19. Cousin Joe - Evolution Blues
20. Cousin Joe - Box Car Shorty's Confession

Ellas Otha Bates (December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008), known by his stage name Bo Diddley, was an American rhythm and blues vocalist, guitarist, songwriter (usually as Ellas McDaniel), and rock and roll pioneer. He was also known as "The Originator" because of his key role in the transition from the blues to rock & roll, influencing a host of acts, including Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, The Velvet Underground, The Who, The Yardbirds, Eric Clapton, The Beatles, and George Michael, among others. He introduced more insistent, driving rhythms and a hard-edged electric guitar sound on a wide-ranging catalog of songs, along with African rhythms and a signature beat (a simple, five-accent rhythm) that remains a cornerstone of rock and pop. Accordingly, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation and a Grammy Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. He was known in particular for his technical innovations, including his trademark rectangular guitar.
Percy Mayfield (August 12, 1920 – August 11, 1984) was an American songwriter famous for the songs "Hit the Road Jack" and "Please Send Me Someone to Love", as well as a successful rhythm and blues artist known for his smooth vocal style. Mayfield was born in Minden, the seat of Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana. As a youth, his talent for poetry led him into songwriting and singing. He began his performing career in Texas, and then moved to Los Angeles, California in 1942; success as a singer continued to elude him. In 1947, a small record label, Swing Time, signed him to record his song "Two Years of Torture." The song sold steadily over the next few years, prompting Art Rupe to sign Mayfield to his label, Specialty Records in 1950.
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers were a successful and influential African-American vocal and instrumental group in the 1940s and 1950s.
William Thomas Dupree, best known as Champion Jack Dupree, was an American blues pianist. His birth date is disputed, given as July 4, July 10, and July 23, in the years 1908, 1909, or 1910. He died on January 21, 1992. Champion Jack Dupree was the embodiment of the New Orleans blues and boogie woogie pianist, a barrelhouse "professor". His father was from the Belgian Congo and his mother was part African American and Cherokee. He was orphaned at the age of two, and sent to the New Orleans Home for Colored Waifs (also the alma mater of Louis Armstrong). He taught himself piano there and later apprenticed with Tuts Washington and Willie Hall, whom he called his 'father' and from whom he learned "Junker's Blues". He was also "spy boy" for the Yellow Pochahantas tribe of Mardi Gras Indians and soon began playing in barrelhouses and other drinking establishments.
Cousin Joe (December 20, 1907 — October 2, 1989) was an American blues and jazz singer, later famous for his 1940s recordings with clarinetist Sidney Bechet and saxophonist Mezz Mezzrow. His birth name was Pleasant Joseph and he was born in Wallace, Louisiana, United States. He died in his sleep from natural causes in New Orleans, at the age of 81.

CD 19
01. Buddy Guy - Try to Quit You, Baby
02. Buddy Guy - You Sure Can't Do
03. Buddy Guy - This Is the End
04. Buddy Guy - Sit and Cry (the Blues)
05. Arthur Gunter - Baby Let's Play House
06. Arthur Gunter - No Naggin', No Draggin'
07. Arthur Gunter - Honey Babe
08. Arthur Gunter - Little Blue Jeans Woman
09. Arthur Gunter - Baby You Better Listen
10. Arthur Gunter - I Want Her Back
11. Arthur Gunter - Crazy Me
12. Arthur Gunter - Ludella
13. Arthur Gunter - Blues After Hours
14. Slim Gaillard - Walkin' & Cookin' Blues
15. Slim Gaillard - Blue Heaven
16. Slim Gaillard - Thunderbird
17. Slim Gaillard - Chicken Rhythm
18. Slim Gaillard - I Love You
19. Slim Gaillard - I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You
20. Slim Gaillard - Don't Blame Me
CD 20
01. Memphis Minnie - Frisco Town
02. Memphis Minnie - Moonshine
03. Memphis Minnie - Nothing in Rambling
04. Memphis Minnie - I'm Talking About You
05. Memphis Minnie - Joe Louis Strut
06. Memphis Minnie - Me and My Chauffeur Blues
07. Memphis Minnie - My Baby Don't Want Me No More
08. Memphis Minnie - Bumble Bee
09. Memphis Minnie - Boy Friend Blues
10. Memphis Minnie - In My Girlish Days
11. Big Maybelle - Gabbin' Blues (Don't Run My Business)
12. Big Maybelle - Rain Down Rain
13. Big Maybelle - Way Back Home
14. Big Maybelle - Please Stay Away From My Sam
15. Big Maybelle - Jinny Mule
16. Big Maybelle - I've Got a Feelin'
17. Big Maybelle - One Monkey Don't Stop No Show
18. Big Maybelle - Hair Dressin' Women
19. Big Maybelle - Don't Leave Poor Me
20. Big Maybelle - No More Trouble Out of Me
CD 21
01. Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - Wrong Man Blues
02. Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - Gettin' All Wet
03. Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - Blue With the Blues
04. Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - Christmas in Jail, Ain't That a Pain
05. Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - That's Tellin'em
06. Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - Papa Wants a Cookie
07. Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - The Dirty Dozen
08. Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - Carried Water For the Elephant
09. Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - Let's Disagree
10. Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - Papa's Got Your Water On
11. Pee Wee Crayton - Win-O
12. Pee Wee Crayton - I Got News For You
13. Pee Wee Crayton - Blues Before Dawn
14. Pee Wee Crayton - Don't Break My Heart
15. Pee Wee Crayton - The Telephone is Ringing
16. Pee Wee Crayton - California Women
17. Pee Wee Crayton - Blues For My Baby
18. Pee Wee Crayton - Dedicated to the Blues
19. Pee Wee Crayton - Phone Call From My Baby
20. Pee Wee Crayton - Blues After Hours

Connie Curtis Crayton (December 18, 1914 – June 25, 1985), known as Pee Wee Crayton, was an American R&B and blues guitarist and singer. Born in Rockdale, Texas, United States, there are several stories on how Crayton acquired the name Pee Wee. In a Living Blues article in the 1980s, he stated that friend and singer, Roy Brown, gave him the nickname. This makes sense since Brown had a way of making nicknames for many of his friends. It has also been said that his father gave him the nickname as a tribute to a local Texas piano player. Crayton began playing guitar seriously after moving to California in 1935, and settling in San Francisco. While there he absorbed the music of T-Bone Walker, but developed his own unique approach. His aggressive playing contrasted with his smooth vocal style, and was copied by many later blues guitarists.
Leroy Carr (March 27, 1905 – April 29, 1935) was an American blues singer, songwriter and pianist, who developed a laid-back, crooning technique and whose popularity and style influenced such artists as Nat King Cole and Ray Charles. He first became famous for "How Long, How Long Blues" on Vocalion Records in 1928. Carr was born in Nashville, Tennessee. Although his recording career was cut short by an early death, Carr left behind a large body of work. He had a long-time partnership with guitarist Scrapper Blackwell. His light bluesy piano combined with Blackwell's melodic jazz guitar to attract a sophisticated black audience. Carr's vocal style moved blues singing toward an urban sophistication, influencing such singers as T-Bone Walker, Charles Brown, Amos Milburn, Jimmy Witherspoon, Ray Charles among others. Count Basie and Jimmy Rushing used some of Carr's songs and Basie's band shows the influence of Carr's piano style. His music has been covered by notable artists such as Robert Johnson, Ray Charles, Big Bill Broonzy, Moon Mullican, Champion Jack Dupree, Lonnie Donegan and Memphis Slim. Carr died of nephritis shortly after his thirtieth birthday.
Mabel Louise Smith (May 1, 1924 – January 23, 1972), known professionally as Big Maybelle, was an American R&B singer and pianist. Her 1956 hit single "Candy" received the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999. Born in Jackson, Tennessee, United States, Big Maybelle sang gospel as a child and by her teens had switched to rhythm and blues. She began her professional career with Dave Clark's Memphis Band in 1936, and also toured with the all female International Sweethearts of Rhythm. She then joined Christine Chatman's Orchestra as pianist, and made her first recordings with Chatman in 1944, and with the Tiny Bradshaw's Orchestra from 1947 to 1950.
Memphis Minnie (June 3, 1897 – August 6, 1973) was an American blues guitarist, vocalist and songwriter. She was the only female blues artist considered a match to male contemporaries as both a singer and an instrumentalist. Born Lizzie Douglas in Algiers, Louisiana, Minnie was one of the most influential and pioneering female blues musicians and guitarists of all time. She recorded for forty years, almost unheard of for any woman in show business at the time and unique among female blues artists. A flamboyant character who wore bracelets made of silver dollars, she was a very popular blues recording artist from the early Depression years through World War II. One of the first generation of blues artists to take up the electric guitar, in 1942, she combined her Louisiana-country roots with Memphis blues to produce her own unique country-blues sound; along with Big Bill Broonzy and Tampa Red, she took country blues into electric urban blues, paving the way for Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Little Walter, and Jimmy Rogers to travel from the small towns of the south to the big cities of the north.
Bulee "Slim" Gaillard (January 4, 1916 – February 26, 1991) was an American jazz singer, songwriter, pianist, and guitarist, noted for his vocalese singing and word play in a language he called "Vout". (In addition to speaking 8 other languages, Gaillard wrote a dictionary for his own constructed language.) Along with Gaillard's date of birth, his family lineage and place of birth are disputed. One account is that he was born in Santa Clara, Cuba of a Greek father and an Afro-Cuban mother; another is that he was born in Pensacola, Florida to a German father and an African-American mother. Adding to the confusion, the 1920 U.S. Census lists a 19-month-old boy named "Beuler Gillard" in Pensacola, but born in Alabama. He grew up in Detroit and moved to New York City in the 1930s.
Arthur Gunter (May 23, 1926 – March 16, 1976)[1] was an American blues guitarist and musician. He was best known for his song "Baby Let's Play House", which was later a hit single for Elvis Presley. Gunter was born in Nashville, Tennessee, a musician from an early age; as a child, he was in a gospel group with his brothers and cousins called the Gunter Brothers Quartet. In the early 1950s he played in various blues groups around Nashville, and began recording for Excello Records in 1954. In November 1954, Gunter recorded "Baby Let's Play House" for Excello (2047), which became a local hit. It became nationally known later that year when Elvis Presley recorded a version for Sun Records. "Elvis got that number and made it famous. But I didn't get a chance to shake his hand," Gunter would later say. His first royalty check, received that same year, was for $6500. Gunter continued to record for Excello until 1961. His regular band broke up in 1966 and he moved to Pontiac, Michigan, performing only occasionally thereafter. He died of pneumonia in 1976 at his home in Port Huron, Michigan.
George "Buddy" Guy (born July 30, 1936) is an American blues guitarist and singer. Critically acclaimed, he is a pioneer of the Chicago blues sound and has served as an influence to some of the most notable musicians of his generation. A key influence on Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan, Buddy Guy put the Louisiana hurricane in 1960s electric Chicago blues as a member of Muddy Waters' band and as a house guitarist at Chess Records. A native of the Baton Rouge area, he combined a blazing modernism with a fierce grip on his roots, playing frantic leads heavy with swampy funk on Howlin' Wolf's 'Killing Floor' and Koko Taylor's 'Wang Dang Doodle' as well as on his own Chess sides and the fine series of records he made with harp man Junior Wells. One of the last active connections to the golden age of Chess, Guy still plays with his original fire.

CD 22
01. Katie Mae Blues
02. Play With Your Poodle
03. Automonile
04. 'T' Model Blues
05. Baby Please Don't Go
06. Needed Time
07. Short Haired Woman
08. Mad With You
09. Lightnin' Boogie
10. Give Me Central 209
11. Coffee Blues
12. What's the Matter Now
13. I'm Wild About You Baby
14. Movin' On Out Boogie
15. Policy Game
16. Lightnin' Jump
17. Late in the Evening
18. They Wonder Who I Am
19. Had a Gal Called Sal
20. Blues For My Cookie
CD 23
01. Roosevelt Sykes - 44 Blues
02. Roosevelt Sykes - Under Eyed Woman
03. Roosevelt Sykes - Knock Me Out
04. Roosevelt Sykes - Trouble and Whiskey
05. Roosevelt Sykes - Sykes Advice Blues
06. Roosevelt Sykes - Training Camp Blues
07. Roosevelt Sykes - Sugar Babe Blues
08. Roosevelt Sykes - Jiving the Jive
09. Roosevelt Sykes - Little Sam
10. Roosevelt Sykes - The Honeydripper
11. Son House - Am I Right or Wrong
12. Son House - The Pony Blues
13. Son House - Walkin' Blues
14. Son House - Depot Blues
15. Son House - Country Farm Blues
16. Son House - The Jinx Blues
17. Son House - Levee Camp Blues
18. Son House - Special Rider Blues
19. Son House - Low Down Dirty Dog Blues
20. Son House - American Defense
CD 24
01. Snooks Eaglin - Careless Love
02. Snooks Eaglin - Let Me Go Home, Whisky
03. Snooks Eaglin - Trouble in Mind
04. Snooks Eaglin - St. James Infirmary
05. Snooks Eaglin - Rock Island Line
06. Snooks Eaglin - Sophisticated Blues
07. Snooks Eaglin - I'm Looking For a Woman
08. Snooks Eaglin - Look Down That Lonesome Road
09. Snooks Eaglin - I Got My Questionnaire
10. Snooks Eaglin - One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer
11. Sleepy John Estes - Jack and Jill Blues
12. Sleepy John Estes - Poor Man's Friend
13. Sleepy John Estes - Hobo Jungle Blues
14. Sleepy John Estes - Airplane Blues
15. Sleepy John Estes - Floating Bridge
16. Sleepy John Estes - Need More Blues
17. Sleepy John Estes - Fire Department Blues
18. Sleepy John Estes - New Someday Baby
19. Sleepy John Estes - Liquor Store Blues
20. Sleepy John Estes - Brownsville Blues

John Adam Estes (January 25, 1899 – June 5, 1977), best known as Sleepy John Estes or Sleepy John, was a American blues guitarist, songwriter and vocalist, born in Ripley, Lauderdale County, Tennessee. In 1915, Estes' father, a sharecropper who also played some guitar, moved the family to Brownsville, Tennessee. Not long after, Estes lost the sight of his right eye when a friend threw a rock at him during a baseball game. At the age of 19, while working as a field hand, he began to perform professionally. The venues were mostly local parties and picnics, with the accompaniment of Hammie Nixon, a harmonica player, and James "Yank" Rachell, a guitarist and mandolin player. He would continue to work on and off with both musicians for more than fifty years.
Snooks Eaglin, born Fird Eaglin, Jr. (January 21, 1936 – February 18, 2009), was a New Orleans-based guitarist and singer. He was also referred to as Blind Snooks Eaglin in his early years. His vocal style is reminiscent of Ray Charles; indeed, in the 1950s, when he was in his late teens, he would sometimes bill himself as "Little Ray Charles". Generally regarded as a legend of New Orleans music, he played a wide range of music within the same concert, album, or even song: blues, rock and roll, jazz, country, and Latin. In his early years, he also played some straight-ahead acoustic blues. His ability to play a wide range of songs and make them his own earned him the nickname "the human jukebox." Eaglin claimed in interviews that his musical repertoire included some 2,500 songs. At live shows, he did not usually prepare set lists, and was unpredictable, even to his bandmates. He played songs that came to his head, and he also took requests from the audience. He was universally loved and respected by fellow musicians and fans alike.
Eddie James "Son" House, Jr. (March 21, 1902 – October 19, 1988) was an American blues singer and guitarist. House pioneered an innovative style featuring strong, repetitive rhythms, often played with the aid of slide guitar, and his singing often incorporated elements of southern gospel and spiritual music. House did not learn guitar until he was in his early twenties, as he had been "churchified", and was determined to become a Baptist preacher. He associated himself with Delta blues musicians Charlie Patton and Willie Brown, often acting as a sideman. In 1930, House made his first recordings for Paramount Records during a session for Charlie Patton. However, these did not sell well due to the Great Depression, and he drifted into obscurity. He was recorded by John and Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress in 1941 and '42. Afterwards, he moved north to Rochester, New York, where he remained until his rediscovery in 1964, spurred by the American folk blues revival. Over the next few years, House recorded several studio albums and went on various tours until his death in 1988. His influence has extended over a wide area of musicians, including Robert Johnson, John Hammond, Alan Wilson (of Canned Heat), Bonnie Raitt, The White Stripes, and John Mooney.
Roosevelt Sykes (January 31, 1906 – July 17, 1983) was an American blues musician, also known as "The Honeydripper". He was a successful and prolific cigar-chomping blues piano player, whose rollicking thundering boogie-woogie was highly influential. Born in Elmar, Arkansas, Sykes grew up near Helena but at age 15, went on the road playing piano with a barrelhouse style of blues. Like many bluesmen of his time, he travelled around playing to all-male audiences in sawmill, turpentine and levee camps along the Mississippi River, gathering a repertoire of raw, sexually explicit material. His wanderings eventually brought him to St. Louis, Missouri, where he met St. Louis Jimmy Oden.
Sam John Hopkins (March 15, 1912 – January 30, 1982) better known as Lightnin’ Hopkins, was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional pianist, from Houston, Texas. Rolling Stone magazine included Hopkins at number 71 on their list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. Robert "Mack" McCormick stated, "Hopkins is the embodiment of the jazz-and-poetry spirit, representing its ancient form in the single creator whose words and music are one act". Born Sam John Hopkins in Centerville, Texas, Hopkins' childhood was immersed in the sounds of the blues and he developed a deeper appreciation at the age of 8 when he met Blind Lemon Jefferson at a church picnic in Buffalo, Texas. That day, Hopkins felt the blues was "in him" and went on to learn from his older (somewhat distant) cousin, country blues singer Alger "Texas" Alexander. Hopkins had another cousin, the Texas electric blues guitarist, Frankie Lee Sims, with whom he later recorded. Hopkins began accompanying Blind Lemon Jefferson on guitar in informal church gatherings. Jefferson supposedly never let anyone play with him except for young Hopkins, who learned much from and was influenced greatly by Blind Lemon Jefferson thanks to these gatherings. In the mid 1930s, Hopkins was sent to Houston County Prison Farm for an unknown offense. In the late 1930s Hopkins moved to Houston with Alexander in an unsuccessful attempt to break into the music scene there. By the early 1940s he was back in Centerville working as a farm hand.

CD 25
01. T-Bone Walker - They Call It Stormy Monday
02. T-Bone Walker - It's a Low Down Dirty Deal
03. T-Bone Walker - Bobby Sox Blues
04. T-Bone Walker - Mean Old World
05. T-Bone Walker - Evening
06. T-Bone Walker - Long Skirt Baby Blues
07. T-Bone Walker - Midnight Blues
08. T-Bone Walker - I'm Still in Love With You
09. T-Bone Walker - Low Down Dirty Shame (Married Woman Blues)
10. T-Bone Walker - T-Bone Jumps Again
11. Jimmy Witherspoon - I'm Just a Lady's Man
12. Jimmy Witherspoon - Love My Baby
13. Jimmy Witherspoon - Love and Friendship
14. Jimmy Witherspoon - Geneva Blues aka Evil Woman
15. Jimmy Witherspoon - I'm Just Wandering (Part 1)
16. Jimmy Witherspoon - I'm Just Wandering (Part 2)
17. Jimmy Witherspoon - Good Jumping aka Jump Children
18. Jimmy Witherspoon - Thelma Lee Blues
19. Jimmy Witherspoon - The Doctor Knows His Business aka Doctor Blues
20. Jimmy Witherspoon - Slow Your Speed
CD 26
01. Charley Patton - High Water Everywhere Pt. 1
02. Charley Patton - Hang It on the Wall
03. Charley Patton - Prayer of Death Pt. 1
04. Charley Patton - Sic Em Dogs On
05. Charley Patton - Watch and Pray
06. Charley Patton - Snatch and Grab It
07. Charley Patton - M and O Blues
08. Charley Patton - Dark Road Blues
09. Charley Patton - Country Farm Blues
10. Charley Patton - Forty Four
11. Snooky Pryor - Snooky and Moody's Boogie
12. Snooky Pryor - Telephone Blues
13. Snooky Pryor - Boogy Fool
14. Snooky Pryor - Stop the Train, Conductor
15. Snooky Pryor - Walking Boogie
16. Snooky Pryor - Uncle Sam, Don't Take My Man
17. Snooky Pryor - Rough Treatment
18. Snooky Pryor - Stockyard Blues
19. Snooky Pryor - Keep What You Got
20. Snooky Pryor - Let Me Ride Your Mule
CD 27
01. Lowell Fulson - I Wanna Make Love to You
02. Lowell Fulson - Rock'em Dead
03. Lowell Fulson - You Better Rock This Morning
04. Lowell Fulson - Rollin' Blues
05. Lowell Fulson - Someday Baby
06. Lowell Fulson - It Tooks a Long Time
07. Lowell Fulson - That's Alright
08. Lowell Fulson - It's a Long Time
09. Lowell Fulson - Loving You
10. Lowell Fulson - Lonely Hours
11. The Four Blazes - Stop Boogie Woogie
12. The Four Blazes - Snag the Britches
13. The Four Blazes - Raggedy Ride
14. The Four Blazes - Perfect Woman
15. The Four Blazes - Night Train
16. The Four Blazes - Never Start Living
17. The Four Blazes - Women, Women
18. The Four Blazes - Drunken Blues
19. The Four Blazes - My Hat's on the Side of My Head
20. The Four Blazes - Mary Jo

Jimmy Witherspoon (August 8, 1920 – September 18, 1997) was an American jump blues singer. James Witherspoon was born in Gurdon, Arkansas. He first attracted attention singing with Teddy Weatherford's band in Calcutta, India, which made regular radio broadcasts over the U. S. Armed Forces Radio Service during World War II. Witherspoon made his first records with Jay McShann's band in 1945. In 1949, recording under his own name with the McShann band, he had his first hit, "Ain't Nobody's Business," a song which came to be regarded as his signature tune. In 1950 he had hits with two more songs closely identified with him: "No Rollin' Blues", "Big Fine Girl", as well as "Failing By Degrees" and "New Orleans Woman" recorded with the Gene Gilbeaux Orchestra which included Herman Washington and Don Hill on the Modern Records label. These were recorded from a live performance on May 10, 1949 at a "Just Jazz" concert Pasadena, CA sponsored by Gene Norman. Another classic Witherspoon composition is "Times Gettin' Tougher Than Tough"
Aaron Thibeaux "T-Bone" Walker (May 28, 1910 – March 16, 1975) was a critically acclaimed American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, who was one of the most influential pioneers and innovators of the jump blues and electric blues sound. He is the first musician recorded playing blues with the electric guitar. In 2003, Rolling Stone ranked him at #47 on their list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". He was born in Linden, Texas, of African American and Cherokee descent. Walker's parents, Movelia Jimerson and Rance Walker, were both musicians. His stepfather, Marco Washington, taught him to play the guitar, ukulele, banjo, violin, mandolin, and piano.
Charlie Patton (between April 1887 and 1891 – April 28, 1934), better known as Charley Patton, was an American Delta blues musician. He is considered by many to be the "Father of the Delta Blues", and is credited with creating an enduring body of American music and personally inspiring just about every Delta blues man (Palmer, 1995). Musicologist Robert Palmer considers him among the most important musicians that America produced in the twentieth century. Many sources, including musical releases and his gravestone, spell his name “Charley” even though the musician himself spelled his name "Charlie".
Snooky Pryor (September 15, 1921 – October 18, 2006) was an American Chicago blues harmonica player. He claimed to have pioneered the now-common method of playing amplified harmonica by cupping a small microphone in his hands along with the harmonica, although on his earliest records in the late 1940s and early '50s he did not utilize this method. James Edward Pryor was born in Lambert, Mississippi and developed a Delta blues style influenced by both Sonny Boy Williamson I and Sonny Boy Williamson II. He moved to Chicago around 1940. While serving in the U.S. Army he would blow bugle calls through the powerful PA system, which led him to experiment with playing the harmonica that way. Upon discharge from the Army in 1945, he obtained his own amplifier, and began playing harmonica at the outdoor Maxwell Street market, becoming a regular in the Chicago blues scene.
Lowell Fulson (March 31, 1921 – March 7, 1999) was a big-voiced blues guitarist and songwriter, in the West Coast blues tradition. Fulson was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He also recorded for business reasons as Lowell Fullsom and Lowell Fulsom. After T-Bone Walker, Fulson was the most important figure in West Coast blues in the 1940s and 1950s. According to some sources, Fulson was born on a Choctaw reservation in Oklahoma. Fulson stated that he was of Cherokee ancestry through his father, but he also claimed Choctaw ancestry. At the age of eighteen, he moved to Ada, Oklahoma, and joined Alger "Texas" Alexander for a few months in 1940, but later moved to California, forming a band which soon included a young Ray Charles and tenor saxophone player, Stanley Turrentine. He recorded for Swing Time Records in the 1940s, Chess Records (on the Checker label) in the 1950s, Kent Records in the 1960s, and Rounder Records (Bullseye) in the 1970s.
The Four Blazes were an American R&B vocal and instrumental group formed in Chicago and popular in the 1940s and 1950s. They were also occasionally billed as The Five Blazes and (probably just on record labels) as the "Blasers" or the "Flames." The group was formed in 1940 by drummer Paul Lindsley "Jelly" Holt, an experienced Chicago musician who had previously been a member of the Five Rhythm Rocketeers. The Rocketeers had a residency at the Grand Terrace Ballroom, and linked up with Earl Hines for a European tour in 1939. When they returned, the Rocketeers broke up and Holt formed a new band, The Four Blazes. The other original members were Jimmy Bennett and William "Shorty" Hill on guitars and mandolin, and Prentice Butler on bass.

CD 28
01. Alabama Bound
02. Fort Worth and Dallas Blues
03. Leavin' Blues
04. Midnight Special
05. T.B. Woman Blues
06. New York City
07. Shorty George
08. John Hardy
09. Bourgeois Blues
10. Good Morning Blues
11. Easy Rider
12. Pretty Flower in Your Backyard
13. Black Snake Moan
14. See See Rider
15. Roberta Pt. 1
16. Pigmeat
17. Grey Goose
18. Pick a Bale of Cotton
19. Where Did You Sleep Last Night?
20. Death Letter Blues Pt. 1
CD 29
01. Professor Longhair - Go to the Mardi Gras
02. Professor Longhair - In the Night
03. Professor Longhair - Hey Little Girl
04. Professor Longhair - Walk Your Blues Away
05. Professor Longhair - Willie Mae
06. Professor Longhair - Professor Longhair Blues
07. Professor Longhair - Misery
08. Professor Longhair - Looka, No Hair
09. Professor Longhair - Cuttin' Out
10. Professor Longhair - Baby, Let Me Hold Your Hand
11. Junior Parker - Feelin' Good
12. Junior Parker - Mystery Train
13. Junior Parker - Sittin' at the Bar
14. Junior Parker - Sittin' at the Window
15. Junior Parker - Sittin', Drinkin' and Thinkin'
16. Junior Parker - Dirty Friend Blues
17. Junior Parker - Backtracking
18. Junior Parker - I Wanna Ramble
19. Junior Parker - There Better Be No Feet
20. Junior Parker - Fussin' and Fightin' Blues
CD 30
01. Alberta Hunter - Down Hearted Blues
02. Alberta Hunter - Why Did You Pick Me Up When I Was Down
03. Alberta Hunter - Don't Pan Me
04. Alberta Hunter - Jazzin' Baby Blues
05. Alberta Hunter - You Can't Have It All
06. Alberta Hunter - You Shall Reap Just What You Sow
07. Alberta Hunter - Taint Nobody's Business
08. Alberta Hunter - If You Want to Keep Your Daddy
09. Alberta Hunter - Chirping the Blues
10. Alberta Hunter - Some Day Sweetheart
11. Ivory Joe Hunter - Heaven Came Down to earth
12. Ivory Joe Hunter - If May Sound Silly
13. Ivory Joe Hunter - I Need You
14. Ivory Joe Hunter - You Mean Everything to Me
15. Ivory Joe Hunter - Shooty Booty
16. Ivory Joe Hunter - Yes, I Want You
17. Ivory Joe Hunter - I Just Want to Love You
18. Ivory Joe Hunter - I'll Never Leave You, Baby
19. Ivory Joe Hunter - All About the Blues
20. Ivory Joe Hunter - She's Gone

Huddie William Ledbetter (January 20, 1888 – December 6, 1949) was an iconic American folk and blues musician, and multi-instrumentalist, notable for his strong vocals, his virtuosity on the twelve-string guitar, and the songbook of folk standards he introduced. He is best known as Lead Belly. Though many releases list him as "Leadbelly", he himself spelled it "Lead Belly". This is also the usage on his tombstone, as well as of the Lead Belly Foundation. In 1994 the Lead Belly Foundation contacted an authority on the history of popular music, Colin Larkin, editor of the Encyclopedia of Popular Music, to ask if the name "Leadbelly" could be altered to "Lead Belly" in the hope that other authors would follow suit and use the artist's correct appellation.
Professor Longhair (December 19, 1918 – January 30, 1980; born Henry Roeland Byrd, also known as Roy "Bald Head" Byrd and as Fess) was a New Orleans blues singer and pianist. Professor Longhair is noteworthy for having been active in two distinct periods, both in the heyday of early rhythm and blues, and in the resurgence of interest in traditional jazz after the founding of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. The journalist Tony Russell, in his book The Blues – From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray, stated "The vivacious rhumba-rhythmed piano blues and choked singing typical of Fess were too weird to sell millions of records; he had to be content with siring musical offspring who were simple enough to manage that, like Fats Domino or Huey "Piano" Smith. But he is also acknowledged as a father figure by subtler players like Allen Toussaint and Dr. John.
Junior Parker (May 27, 1932 – November 18, 1971) was an American Memphis blues singer and musician. He is best remembered for his unique voice which has been described as "honeyed," and "velvet-smooth". He was posthumously inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2001. One music journalist noted, "For years Junior Parker deserted downhome harmonica blues for uptown blues-soul music". Junior Parker was born in either Clarksdale, Mississippi, or West Memphis, Arkansas. He sang in gospel groups as a child, and played on the various blues circuits beginning in his teenage years. His biggest influence as a harmonica player was Sonny Boy Williamson, with whom he worked before moving on to work for Howlin' Wolf in 1949. Around 1950 he was a member of Memphis's ad hoc group, the Beale Streeters, with Bobby 'Blue' Bland and B.B. King.
Alberta Hunter (April 1, 1895 – October 17, 1984) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and nurse. Her career had started back in the early 1920s, and from there on, she became a successful jazz and blues recording artist, being critically acclaimed to the ranks of Ethel Waters and Bessie Smith. In the 1950s, she retired from performing and entered the medical field, only to successfully resume her singing career in her 1980s.
Ivory Joe Hunter (October 10, 1914 – November 8, 1974) was an American rhythm and blues singer, songwriter, and pianist. After a series of hits on the US R&B chart starting in the mid 1940s, he became more widely known for his hit recording, "Since I Met You Baby" (1956). He was billed as The Baron of the Boogie, and also known as The Happiest Man Alive. His musical output transgressed from R&B to blues, boogie-woogie, and country, and Hunter made a name in all of those genres. Uniquely, he was honored at the Monterey Jazz Festival and the Grand Ole Opry.

CD 31
01. Down Hearted Blues
02. Gulf Coast Blues
03. Oh Daddy Blues
04. Baby Won't You Please Come Home
05. Aggravatin Papa
06. Beale Street Mama
07. Keeps on A-Rainin' (Papa, He Can't Make No Time)(
08. Taint Nobody's Bizness If I Do
09. Mama's Got the Blues
10. Outside of That
11. Lady Luck Blues
12. Yodling Blues
13. Bleeding Hearted Blues
14. Midnight Blues
15. If You Don't, I Know Who Will
16. Nobody in Town Can Bake a Sweet Jelly Roll Like Mine
17. Jail House Blues
18. Sam Jones Blues
19. Cemetery Blues
20. Graveyard Dream Blues
CD 32
01. Sonny Boy Williamson I - Black Gal Blues
02. Sonny Boy Williamson I - Bad Luck Blues
03. Sonny Boy Williamson I - My Black Name Blues
04. Sonny Boy Williamson I - Stop Breaking Down
05. Sonny Boy Williamson I - Train Fare Blues
06. Sonny Boy Williamson I - Chack Up on My Baby Blues
07. Sonny Boy Williamson I - Hoo Doo Hoo Doo
08. Sonny Boy Williamson I - Shake the Boogie
09. Sonny Boy Williamson I - Welfare Store Blues
10. Sonny Boy Williamson I - Better Cut That Out
11. Sonny Boy Williamson II - Don't Start Me To Talkin'
12. Sonny Boy Williamson II - Keep It to Yourself
13. Sonny Boy Williamson II - Fattening Frogs For Snakes
14. Sonny Boy Williamson II - Wake Up Baby
15. Sonny Boy Williamson II - Your Funeral and My Trial
16. Sonny Boy Williamson II - Cross My Heart
17. Sonny Boy Williamson II - I Don't Know
18. Sonny Boy Williamson II - All My Love in Vain
19. Sonny Boy Williamson II - Dissatisfied
20. Sonny Boy Williamson II - 99
21. Sonny Boy Williamson II - The Key (to Your Door)
CD 33
01. Furry Lewis - Everybody's Blues
02. Furry Lewis - Sweet Papa Moan
03. Furry Lewis - Kassie Jones Pt. 1
04. Furry Lewis - Billy Lyons and Stack-O-Lee
05. Furry Lewis - Judge Harsh Blues
06. Furry Lewis - John Henry
07. Furry Lewis - Black Gypsy Blues
08. Furry Lewis - I Will Turn Your Money Green
09. Furry Lewis - Jelly Roll
10. Furry Lewis - Good Looking Girl Blues
11. Furry Lewis - Mistreatin' mama
12. Furry Lewis - Furry's Blues
13. Furry Lewis - Mean Old Bed Bug Blues
14. Furry Lewis - Big Chief Blues
15. Furry Lewis - Why Don't You Come Home Blues
16. Robert Lockwood - Dust My Broom
17. Robert Lockwood - Pearly B
18. Robert Lockwood - Aw Aw baby
19. Robert Lockwood - Sweet Woman From Maine
20. Robert Lockwood - You've Gotta Stop This Mess

Robert Lockwood Jr., also known as Robert Junior Lockwood, (March 27, 1915 – November 21, 2006) was an American Delta blues guitarist, who recorded for Chess Records among other Chicago labels in the 1950s and 1960s. He is best known as a longtime collaborator with Sonny Boy Williamson II and for his work in the mid-1950s with Little Walter. He was born in Turkey Scratch, a hamlet west of Helena, Arkansas. He started playing the organ in his father's church at the age of 8. The famous bluesman Robert Johnson lived with Lockwood's mother for 10 years off and on after his parents' divorce. Lockwood learned from Johnson not only how to play guitar, but timing and stage presence as well. Because of his personal and professional association with the music of Robert Johnson, he became known as "Robert Junior" Lockwood, a nickname by which he was known among fellow musicians for the rest of his life, although he later frequently professed his dislike for this appellation.
Furry Lewis (March 6, 1893 - September 14, 1981) was an American country blues guitarist and songwriter from Memphis, Tennessee. Lewis was one of the first of the old-time blues musicians of the 1920s to be brought out of retirement, and given a new lease of recording life, by the folk blues revival of the 1960s. Walter E. Lewis was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, United States, but his family moved to Memphis when he was aged seven. Lewis acquired the nickname "Furry" from childhood playmates. By 1908, he was playing solo for parties, in taverns, and on the street. He was also invited to play several dates with W. C. Handy's Orchestra.
Willie "Sonny Boy" Williamson (possibly December 5, 1912 – May 25, 1965) was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter, from Mississippi. He is acknowledged as one of the most charismatic and influential blues musicians, with considerable prowess on the harmonica and highly creative songwriting skills. He recorded successfully in the 1950s and 1960s, and had a direct influence on later blues and rock performers. He should not be confused with another leading blues performer, John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson, who died in 1948.
Sonny Boy Williamson (John Lee Curtis Williamson, March 30, 1914 – June 1, 1948) was an American blues harmonica player and singer, and the first to use the name Sonny Boy Williamson. He was born near Jackson, Tennessee in 1914. His original recordings were considered to be in the country blues style, but he soon demonstrated skill at making harmonica a lead instrument for the blues, and popularized it for the first time in a more urban blues setting. He has been called "the father of modern blues harp". While in his teens he joined Yank Rachell and Sleepy John Estes playing with them in Tennessee and Arkansas, and in 1934 settled in Chicago.
Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an American blues singer. Nicknamed The Empress of the Blues, Smith was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s. She is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era and, along with Louis Armstrong, a major influence on subsequent jazz vocalists. The 1900 census indicates that Bessie Smith was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee in July 1892. However, the 1910 census recorded her birthday as April 15, 1894, a date that appears on all subsequent documents and was observed by the entire Smith family. Census data also contributes to controversy about the size of her family. The 1870 and 1880 censuses report three older half-siblings, while later interviews with Smith's family and contemporaries did not include these individuals among her siblings.

CD 34
01. Earl Hooker - Sweet Black Angel
02. Earl Hooker - Earl's Boogie Woogie
03. Earl Hooker - Goin' Down the Line
04. Earl Hooker - Guitar Rag
05. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put a Spell on You
06. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Yellow Coat
07. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - If You Are But a Dream
08. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - You Made Me Love
09. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Orange Colored Sky
10. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Hong Kong
11. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Baptize Me in Wine
12. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Not Anymore
13. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Hear Voices
14. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - The Whammy
15. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Little Demon
16. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Poor Folks
17. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Your Kind of Love
18. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Ashes
19. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
20. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Ol' Man River
CD 35
01. Big Joe Turner - Blues in the Night
02. Big Joe Turner - Sun Risin' Blues
03. Big Joe Turner - S.K. Blues Part 1
04. Big Joe Turner - Nobody in Mind
05. Big Joe Turner - Blues on Central Avenue
06. Big Joe Turner - Ice Man
07. Big Joe Turner - Cry Baby Blues
08. Big Joe Turner - Rebecca
09. Big Joe Turner - It's the Same Old Story
10. Big Joe Turner - Chewed Up Grass
11. Eddie Cleanhead Vinson - Too Many Women Blues
12. Eddie Cleanhead Vinson - Just a Dream
13. Eddie Cleanhead Vinson - King For a Day Blues
14. Eddie Cleanhead Vinson - Railroad Porter's Blues
15. Eddie Cleanhead Vinson - Gonna Send You Back Where I Got You From
16. Eddie Cleanhead Vinson - When I Get Drunk
17. Eddie Cleanhead Vinson - Oil Man Blues
18. Eddie Cleanhead Vinson - Ever-Ready Blues
19. Eddie Cleanhead Vinson - I've Been So Good
20. Eddie Cleanhead Vinson - Bonus Pay
CD 36
01. Roy Milton - Cryin' and Singin' the Blues
02. Roy Milton - I Want a Little Girl
03. Roy Milton - My Blue Heaven
04. Roy Milton - 'Taint Me
05. Roy Milton - Groovy Blues
06. Roy Milton - Waking Up Blues
07. Roy Milton - Sympathetic Blues
08. Roy Milton - Playboy Blues
09. Roy Milton - Rhythm Cocktail
10. Roy Milton - Bye Bye Blues
11. Amos Milburn - Chicken Shack Boogie
12. Amos Milburn - I'm Still a Fool For You
13. Amos Milburn - All Is Well
14. Amos Milburn - My Happiness Depends on You
15. Amos Milburn - I Know You Love Me
16. Amos Milburn - One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer
17. Amos Milburn - Bad Bad Whiskey
18. Amos Milburn - Let's Have a Party
19. Amos Milburn - Down the Road Apiece
20. Amos Milburn - Trouble in Mind

Earl Hooker (January 15, 1929 – April 21, 1970) was an American Chicago blues guitarist, perhaps best known for his slide guitar playing. Considered a "musician's musician", Hooker performed with blues artists such as Sonny Boy Williamson II, Junior Wells, and John Lee Hooker (a cousin) as well as fronting his own bands. An early player of the electric guitar, Hooker was influenced by the modern urban styles of T-Bone Walker and Robert Nighthawk. As a band leader, he recorded several singles and albums, in addition to recording with well-known artists. His "Blue Guitar", a popular Chicago area slide-guitar instrumental single, was later overdubbed with vocals by Muddy Waters and became the popular "You Shook Me".
Jalacy Hawkins (July 18, 1929, Cleveland, Ohio – February 12, 2000, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France), best known as Screamin' Jay Hawkins was an American musician, singer, and actor. Famed chiefly for his powerful, operatic vocal delivery and wildly theatrical performances of songs such as "I Put a Spell on You", Hawkins sometimes used macabre props onstage, making him one of the few early shock rockers. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Hawkins studied classical piano as a child and learned guitar in his twenties. His initial goal was to become an opera singer (Hawkins has cited Paul Robeson as his musical idol in interviews), but when his initial ambitions failed he began his career as a conventional blues singer and pianist.
Big Joe Turner (born Joseph Vernon Turner Jr., May 18, 1911 – November 24, 1985) was an American blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri. According to the songwriter Doc Pomus, "Rock and roll would have never happened without him." Although he came to his greatest fame in the 1950s with his pioneering rock and roll recordings, particularly "Shake, Rattle and Roll", Turner's career as a performer stretched from the 1920s into the 1980s. Turner was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson (December 18, 1917 – July 2, 1988) was an American jump blues, jazz, bebop and R&B alto saxophonist and blues shouter. He was nicknamed Cleanhead after an incident in which his hair was accidentally destroyed by lye contained in a hair straightening product. Vinson was born in Houston, Texas. He was a member of the horn section in Milton Larkin's orchestra, which he joined in the late 1930s. At various times, he sat next to Arnett Cobb, Illinois Jacquet, and Tom Archia, while other members of the band included Cedric Haywood and Wild Bill Davis. After exiting Larkin's employment in 1941, Vinson picked up a few vocal tricks while on tour with bluesman Big Bill Broonzy. He then moved to New York and joined the Cootie Williams Orchestra from 1942 to 1945, recording such tunes as "Cherry Red". Vinson struck out on his own in 1945, forming his own large band, signing with Mercury Records, and enjoying a double-sided hit in 1947 with his R&B chart-topper "Old Maid Boogie", and the song that would prove to be his signature number, "Kidney Stew Blues".
Roy Milton (July 31, 1907 – September 18, 1983) was an American R&B and jump blues singer, drummer and bandleader. Milton's grandmother was a Chickasaw. He was born in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, United States, and grew up on an Indian reservation before moving to Tulsa, Oklahoma. He joined the Ernie Fields band in the late 1920s as singer and, later, drummer. Moving to Los Angeles, California in 1933, he formed his own band, the Solid Senders, with Camille Howard on piano. He performed in local clubs and began recording in the 1940s, his first release being "Milton's Boogie" on his own record label. His big break came in 1945, when his "R.M. Blues", on the new Juke Box label, became a hit, reaching number 2 on the Billboard R&B chart and #20 on the pop chart. Its success helped establish Art Rupe's company, which he shortly afterwards renamed Specialty Records.
Amos Milburn (April 1, 1927 – January 3, 1980) was an African American rhythm and blues singer and pianist, popular during the 1940s and 1950s. He was born and died in Houston, Texas. One commentator noted, "Milburn excelled at good-natured, upbeat romps about booze and partying, imbued with a vibrant sense of humour and double entendre, as well as vivid, down-home imagery in his lyrics." Born in Houston, one of thirteen children, by the age of five years Milburn was playing tunes by piano. He enlisted in the United States Navy when he was fifteen and earned thirteen battle stars in the Philippines, before returning to Houston and organizing a sixteen-piece band playing in Houston clubs, and participating with the Houston jazz and blues musicians. He was a polished pianist and performer and during 1946 attracted the attention of a woman who arranged a recording session with Aladdin Records in Los Angeles, California. Milburn's relationship with Aladdin lasted eight years during which he produced more than seventy-five sides.

CD 37
01. Robert Nighthawk - Cying Won't Help You
02. Robert Nighthawk - Seventy-Four
03. Robert Nighthawk - Nighthawk Boogie
04. Robert Nighthawk - Kansas City
05. Robert Nighthawk - Bricks in My Pillow
06. Robert Nighthawk - Maggie Campbell
07. Robert Nighthawk - Feel So Bad
08. Robert Nighthawk - You Missed a Good Man
09. Robert Nighthawk - The Moon Is Rising
10. Robert Nighthawk - Take It Easy, Baby
11. Johnny Otis - Good Ole Blues
12. Johnny Otis - Mean Ole Gal
13. Johnny Otis - Hangover Blues
14. Johnny Otis - Thursday Night Blues
15. Johnny Otis - I Gotta Guy
16. Johnny Otis - Get Together Blues
17. Johnny Otis - Double Crossing Blues
18. Johnny Otis - Head Hunter
19. Johnny Otis - Going to See My Baby
20. Johnny Otis - New Orleans Shuffle
CD 38
01. Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown - Midnight Hour
02. Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown - Ain't That Dandy
03. Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown - Dirty Work at the Crossroads
04. Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown - Hurry Back Good News
05. Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown - Okie Dokie Stomp
06. Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown - Sad Hour
07. Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown - Gate's Salty Blues
08. Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown - Just Before Dawn
09. Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown - Depression Blues
10. Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown - For Now So Long
11. Blue Lu Barker - Trombone Man Blues
12. Blue Lu Barker - Here's a Little Girl
13. Blue Lu Barker - A Little Bird Told Me
14. Blue Lu Barker - What Did You Do to Me?
15. Blue Lu Barker - Leave My Man Alone
16. Blue Lu Barker - Now You're Down in the Alley
17. Blue Lu Barker - When the Wagon Comes
18. Blue Lu Barker - Loan Me Your Husband
19. Blue Lu Barker - Bow Legged Daddy
20. Blue Lu Barker - Love That Man
CD 39
01. Big Maceo - Worried Life Blues
02. Big Maceo - County Jail Blues
03. Big Maceo - Can't You Read
04. Big Maceo - Tuff Luck Blues
05. Big Maceo - It's All Up to You
06. Big Maceo - Poor Kelly Blues
07. Big Maceo - My Last Go Round
08. Big Maceo - I Got the Blues
09. Big Maceo - Ramblin' Mind Blues
10. Big Maceo - Why Should I Hang Around
11. Blind Willie McTell - Georgia Rag
12. Blind Willie McTell - Rough Alley Blues
13. Blind Willie McTell - Low Rider's Blues
14. Blind Willie McTell - Painful Blues
15. Blind Willie McTell - Experience Blues
16. Blind Willie McTell - Low Down Blues
17. Blind Willie McTell - Lonesome Day Blues
18. Blind Willie McTell - mama, Let Me Scoop For You
19. Blind Willie McTell - Rollin' Mama Blues
20. Blind Willie McTell - Searching the Desert For the Blues

Robert Lee McCollum (November 30, 1909 – November 5, 1967) was an American blues musician, who played and recorded under the pseudonyms Robert Lee McCoy and Robert Nighthawk. Born in Helena, Arkansas, he left home at an early age to become a busking musician, and after a period wandering through southern Mississippi, settled for a time in Memphis, Tennessee where he played with local orchestras and musicians, such as the Memphis Jug Band. A particular influence during this period was Houston Stackhouse, from whom he learnt to play slide guitar, and with whom he appeared on the radio in Jackson, Mississippi.
Ioannis Alexandres Veliotes (December 28, 1921 – January 17, 2012), better known as Johnny Otis, was an American singer, musician, composer, and record producer. Born in Vallejo, California, he is commonly referred to as the "Godfather of Rhythm and Blues". Otis was the child of Greek immigrants Alexander J. Veliotes, a Mare Island longshoreman and grocery store owner, and his wife, the former Irene Kiskakes, a painter. He was the older brother of Nicholas A. Veliotes, former U.S. Ambassador to Jordan (1978–1981) and to Egypt (1984–1986). Otis grew up in a predominantly black neighborhood in Berkeley, California, where his father owned and operated a neighborhood grocery store. Otis became well known for his choice to live his professional and personal life as a member of the African-American community. He has written, "As a kid I decided that if our society dictated that one had to be black or white, I would be black."
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown (April 18, 1924 — September 10, 2005) was an American musician from Louisiana and Texas. He is best known for his work as a blues musician, but embraced other styles of music, having "spent his career fighting purism by synthesizing old blues, country, jazz, Cajun music and R&B styles". He was an acclaimed multi-instrumentalist, who played an array of musical instruments such as guitar, fiddle, mandolin, viola as well as harmonica and drums. He won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album in 1982 for his album, Alright Again! He is regarded as one of the most influential exponents of blues fiddle and has had enormous influence in American fiddle circles. Brown's two biggest musical influences were Louis Jordan and T-Bone Walker.
Blue Lu Barker (November 13, 1913 – May 7, 1998) was an American jazz and blues singer. Her better known recordings included "Don't You Feel My Leg" and "Look What Baby's Got For You." She was born Louisa Dupont, in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, and often sang and performed with her husband Danny Barker, a regular of the New Orleans music scene. The recording of "A Little Bird Told Me" by Barker was released by Capitol Records as catalog number 15308. It first reached the Billboard chart on 31 December 1948 and lasted five weeks on the chart, peaking at #16. Barker was inducted into the Louisiana Blues Hall of Fame in 1997, one year before she died in New Orleans at the age of 84.
Big Maceo Merriweather (March 31, 1905 – February 23, 1953) was an American Chicago blues pianist and singer, active in Chicago in the 1940s. Born Major Merriweather (or Merewether) in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, he was a self-taught pianist. In the 1920s he moved to Detroit, Michigan and began playing parties and clubs. In 1941, a desire to record led him to Chicago where he met and befriended Tampa Red. Red introduced him to Lester Melrose of Bluebird Records, who signed him to a recording contract. His first record was "Worried Life Blues" (1941), which promptly became a blues hit and remained his signature piece. Other classic piano blues recordings such as "Chicago Breakdown", "Texas Stomp", and "Detroit Jump" followed. His piano style developed from players like Leroy Carr and Roosevelt Sykes, as well as from the Boogie-woogie style of Meade Lux Lewis and Albert Ammons. He in turn influenced other musicians like Henry Gray, who credits Merriweather to helping him launch his career as a blues pianist.
Blind Willie McTell (born William Samuel McTier May 5, 1898 – August 19, 1959), was an influential Piedmont and ragtime blues singer and guitarist. He played with a fluid, syncopated fingerstyle guitar technique, common among many exponents of Piedmont blues, although, unlike his contemporaries, he came to exclusively use twelve-string guitars. McTell was also an adept slide guitarist, unusual among ragtime bluesmen. His vocal style, a smooth and often laid-back tenor, differed greatly from many of the harsher voice types employed by Delta bluesmen, such as Charlie Patton. McTell embodied a variety of musical styles, including blues, ragtime, religious music, and hokum.

CD 40
01. Mississippi Fred McDowell - I'm Going Down the River
02. Mississippi Fred McDowell - When the Train Comes Along
03. Mississippi Fred McDowell - Shake 'em on Down
04. Mississippi Fred McDowell - Worried Mind
05. Mississippi Fred McDowell - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning
06. Mississippi Fred McDowell - What's the Matter Now?
07. Mississippi Fred McDowell - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
08. Mississippi Fred McDowell - You Done Told Everybody
09. Mississippi Fred McDowell - Wished I Was in Heaven Sitting Down
10. Mississippi Fred McDowell - 61 Highway
11. Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man Blues
12. Mississippi John Hurt - Blessed Be the Name
13. Mississippi John Hurt - Nobody's Dirty Business
14. Mississippi John Hurt - Louis Collins
15. Mississippi John Hurt - Praying on the Old Camp Ground
16. Mississippi John Hurt - Spike Driver Blues
17. Mississippi John Hurt - Avalon Blues
18. Mississippi John Hurt - Ain't No Telling
19. Mississippi John Hurt - Blues Harvest Blues
20. Mississippi John Hurt - Got the Blues
CD 41
01. Lightnin' Slim - Rock Me Mama
02. Lightnin' Slim - Bad Luck
03. Lightnin' Slim - New Orleans Bound
04. Lightnin' Slim - Bugger Bugger Boy
05. Lightnin' Slim - I'm a Rollin' Stone
06. Lightnin' Slim - Hoodoo Man
07. Lightnin' Slim - I'm Grown
08. Lightnin' Slim - Nothing But the Devil
09. Lightnin' Slim - Tom Cat Blues
10. Lightnin' Slim - Wintertime Blues
11. J.B. Lenoir - I Have Married
12. J.B. Lenoir - How Much More
13. J.B. Lenoir - Let's Roll Pt. 1
14. J.B. Lenoir - The Mojo Pt. 1
15. J.B. Lenoir - Slow Down Woman
16. J.B. Lenoir - Louise
17. J.B. Lenoir - When I Was Young
18. J.B. Lenoir - Bassology
19. J.B. Lenoir - Play a Little While
20. J.B. Lenoir - Livin' in the White House
CD 42
01. Jimmy Rushing - Good Morning Blues
02. Jimmy Rushing - See See Rider
03. Jimmy Rushing - Take Me Back, Baby
04. Jimmy Rushing - Sent For You Yesterday
05. Jimmy Rushing - Roll 'em Pete
06. Jimmy Rushing - My Friend Mr. Blues
07. Jimmy Rushing - Every Day
08. Jimmy Rushing - Sometimes I Think I Do
09. Jimmy Rushing - Take Me With You, Baby
10. Jimmy Rushing - Evenin'
11. Tampa Red - You Missed a Good Man
12. Tampa Red - She Want to Sell My Monkey
13. Tampa Red - She's Love Crazy
14. Tampa Red - Hard Road Blues
15. Tampa Red - Let Me Play With Your Poodle
16. Tampa Red - Crying Won't Help You
17. Tampa Red - Sweet Little Angel
18. Tampa Red - But I Forgive You
19. Tampa Red - So Much Trouble
20. Tampa Red - Big Stars Falling Blues

Fred McDowell (January 12, 1904 – July 3, 1972) known by his stage name; Mississippi Fred McDowell, was an American Hill country blues singer and guitar player. McDowell was born in Rossville, Tennessee. His parents, who were farmers, died when McDowell was a youth. He started playing guitar at the age of 14 and played at dances around Rossville. Wanting a change from plowing fields, he moved to Memphis in 1926 where he started to work in the Buck-Eye feed mill where they processed cotton into oil and other products. He also had a number of other jobs and played music for tips. Later in 1928 he moved south into Mississippi to pick cotton. He settled in Como, Mississippi, about 40 miles south of Memphis, in 1940 or 1941, and worked steadily as a farmer, continuing to perform music at dances and picnics. Initially he played slide guitar using a pocket knife and then a slide made from a beef rib bone, later switching to a glass slide for its clearer sound. He played with the slide on his ring finger.
John Smith Hurt , better known as Mississippi John Hurt (July 3, 1893 or March 8, 1892 — November 2, 1966) was an American country blues singer and guitarist. Raised in Avalon, Mississippi, Hurt taught himself how to play the guitar around age nine. Singing in a loud whisper, to a melodious finger-picked accompaniment, he began to play local dances and parties while working as a sharecropper. He first recorded for Okeh Records in 1928, but these were commercial failures, and Hurt drifted out of the recording scene, where he continued his work as a farmer. After a man discovered a copy of one of his recordings, "Avalon Blues", which gave the location of his hometown, there became increased interest in his whereabouts. Tom Hoskins, a blues enthusiast, would be the first to locate Hurt in 1963. He convinced Hurt to relocate to Washington, D.C., where he was recorded by the Library of Congress in 1964. This rediscovery helped further the American folk music revival, which had led to the rediscovery of many other bluesmen of Hurt's era. Hurt entered the same university and coffeehouse concert circuit as his contemporaries, as well as other Delta blues musicians brought out of retirement. As well as playing concerts, he recorded several studio albums for Vanguard Records.
Lightnin' Slim (March 13, 1913 - July 27, 1974) was an African-American Louisiana blues musician, who recorded for Excello Records and played in a style similar to its other Louisiana artists. Lightnin' Slim was born Otis V. Hicks in St. Louis, Missouri, moving to Baton Rouge, Louisiana at the age of thirteen. Taught guitar by his older brother Layfield, Slim was playing in bars in Baton Rouge by the late 1940s. He debuted on J. D. "Jay" Miller's Feature Records label in 1954 with "Bad Luck Blues" ("If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all"). Slim then recorded for Excello Records for twelve years, starting in the mid 1950s, often collaborating with his brother-in-law, Slim Harpo and with harmonica player Lazy Lester. Slim took time off from the blues for a period of time and ended up working in a foundry in Pontiac, Michigan, which resulted in him suffering from constantly having his hands exposed to high temperatures. He was re-discovered by Fred Reif in 1970, in Pontiac, where he was living in a rented room at Slim Harpo's sister's house. Reif soon got him back performing again and a new recording contract with Excello, this time through Bud Howell, the present President of the company. His first gig was a reunion concert at the 1971 University of Chicago Folk Festival with Lazy Lester, whom Reif had brought from Baton Rouge in January 1971.
J. B. Lenoir (March 5, 1929 – April 29, 1967) was an African American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter, active in the 1950s and 1960s Chicago blues scene. Although his name is sometimes mispronounced like the French "lan WAH", Lenoir himself pronounced his name a "la NOR". The initials "J.B." had no specific meaning; his given name was simply "J.B." Lenoir's guitar-playing father introduced him to the music of Blind Lemon Jefferson, whose music became a major influence. During the early 1940s, Lenoir worked with blues artists Sonny Boy Williamson II and Elmore James in New Orleans. Lenoir would eventually find musical influence in Arthur Crudup and Lightnin' Hopkins. In 1949, he moved to Chicago and Big Bill Broonzy helped introduce him to the local blues community. He began to perform at local nightclubs with musicians such as Memphis Minnie, Big Maceo Merriweather, and Muddy Waters, and became an important part of the city's blues scene. He began recording in 1951 the J.O.B. and Chess Records labels. His recording of "Korea Blues" was licensed to and released by Chess, as having been performed by 'J. B. and his Bayou Boys'. His band included pianist Sunnyland Slim, guitarist Leroy Foster, and drummer Alfred Wallace.
James Andrew Rushing (August 26, 1901 – June 8, 1972), known as Jimmy Rushing, was an American blues shouter and swing jazz singer from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, best known as the featured vocalist of Count Basie's Orchestra from 1935 to 1948. Rushing was known as "Mr. Five by Five" and was the subject of an eponymous 1942 popular song that was a hit for Harry James and others -- the lyrics describing Rushing's rotund build: "he's five feet tall and he's five feet wide". He joined Walter Page's Blue Devils in 1927, then joined Bennie Moten's band in 1929. He stayed with the successor Count Basie band when Moten died in 1935. Rushing was a powerful singer who had a range from baritone to tenor. He could project his voice so that it soared over the horn and reed sections in a big-band setting. Basie claimed that Rushing "never had an equal" as a blues vocalist. George Frazier, author of Harvard Blues, called Rushing's distinctive voice "a magnificent gargle". His best known recordings are probably "Going to Chicago" with Basie, and "Harvard Blues", with a famous saxophone solo by Don Byas.
Tampa Red (January 8, 1904 – March 19, 1981), born Hudson Woodbridge but known from childhood as Hudson Whittaker, was an American Chicago blues musician. Tampa Red is best known as an accomplished and influential blues guitarist who had a unique single-string slide style. His songwriting and his silky, polished "bottleneck" technique influenced other leading Chicago blues guitarists, such as Big Bill Broonzy and Robert Nighthawk, as well as Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Mose Allison and many others. In a career spanning over 30 years he also recorded pop, R&B and hokum records. His best known recordings include the "classic compositions 'Anna Lou Blues', 'Black Angel Blues', 'Crying Won't Help You', 'It Hurts Me Too', and 'Love Her with a Feeling'".

CD 43
01. Big Mama Thornton - Partnership Blues
02. Big Mama Thornton - I'm All Fed Up
03. Big Mama Thornton - Let Your Tears Fall Baby
04. Big Mama Thornton - They Call Me Big Mama
05. Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog
06. Big Mama Thornton - Walking Blues
07. Big Mama Thornton - I've Searched the World Over
08. Big Mama Thornton - I Smell a Rat
09. Big Mama Thornton - Nightmare
10. Big Mama Thornton - I Ain't No Fool Neither
11. Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Let That Liar Alone
12. Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Sit Down
13. Sister Rosetta Tharpe - What's the News
14. Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Singin' in My Soul
15. Sister Rosetta Tharpe - The Natural Facts
16. Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Two Little Fishes and Five Loaves of Bread
17. Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Nobody's Fault But Mine
18. Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Nobody Know Nobody Care
19. Sister Rosetta Tharpe - All Over This World
20. Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Four or Five Times
CD 44
01. Sunnyland Slim - Mud Kicking Woman
02. Sunnyland Slim - Brown Skin Woman
03. Sunnyland Slim - I'm Just a Lonesome man
04. Sunnyland Slim - Back to Korea Now
05. Sunnyland Slim - You've Got to Stop This Mess
06. Sunnyland Slim - Sunnyland Special
07. Sunnyland Slim - Leaving Your Town
08. Sunnyland Slim - I Done You Wrong
09. Sunnyland Slim - Orphan Boy Blues
10. Sunnyland Slim - When I Was Young
11. Sunnyland Slim - Hit the Road Again
12. Johnny Shines - Ramblin'
13. Johnny Shines - Fishtail
14. Johnny Shines - Cool Drive
15. Johnny Shines - Ain't Doin' No Good
16. Johnny Shines - Evening Shuffle
17. Johnny Shines - Evening Sun
18. Johnny Shines - No Name Blues
19. Johnny Shines - Brutal Hearted Woman
20. Johnny Shines - Gonna Call the Angel
CD 45
01. Huey 'Piano' Smith - Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu
02. Huey 'Piano' Smith - Little Chickee Wah Wah
03. Huey 'Piano' Smith - Hush Your Mouth
04. Huey 'Piano' Smith - Don't You Know Yockomo
05. Huey 'Piano' Smith - Havin' a Good Time
06. Huey 'Piano' Smith - Beatnik Blues
07. Huey 'Piano' Smith - Well I'll Be John Brown
08. Huey 'Piano' Smith - Everybody's Wailin'
09. Huey 'Piano' Smith - Mean Mean Man
10. Huey 'Piano' Smith - Little Liza Jane
11. Frankie Lee Sims - Lucy Mae Blues
12. Frankie Lee Sims - Long Gone
13. Frankie Lee Sims - Jelly Roll Baker
14. Frankie Lee Sims - I Done Talked and I Done Talked
15. Frankie Lee Sims - Cryin' Won't Help You
16. Frankie Lee Sims - Don't Take It Out on Me
17. Frankie Lee Sims - Raggedy and Dirty
18. Frankie Lee Sims - Frankie's Blues
19. Frankie Lee Sims - Married Woman
20. Frankie Lee Sims - Lucy Mae Blues Pt. 2

Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton (December 11, 1926 – July 25, 1984) was an American rhythm and blues singer and songwriter. She was the first to record the hit song "Hound Dog" in 1952. The song was #1 on the Billboard R&B charts for seven weeks in 1953. The B-side was "They Call Me Big Mama," and the single sold almost two million copies. Three years later, Elvis Presley recorded his version, based on a version performed by Freddie Bell and the Bellboys. In a similar occurrence, she wrote and recorded "Ball 'n' Chain," which became a hit for her. Janis Joplin later recorded "Ball and Chain," and was a huge success in the late 1960s.
Thornton was born in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. Her introduction to music started in a Baptist church, where her father was a minister and her mother a church singer. She and her six siblings began to sing at very early ages. Thornton left Montgomery at age 14 in 1941, following her mother's death. She joined Sammy Green's Georgia-based Hot Harlem Revue. Her seven-year tenure with them gave her valuable singing and stage experience, and enabled her to tour the South. In 1948, she settled in Houston, Texas, where she hoped to further her career as a singer She was also a self-taught drummer and harmonica player, and frequently played each instrument onstage.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe (March 20, 1915 – October 9, 1973) was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and recording artist. A one-of-a-kind pioneer of 20th-century music, Tharpe attained great popularity in the 1930s and 1940s with her gospel recordings that were a unique mixture of spiritual lyrics and early rock and roll accompaniment. As the first recording artist to impact the music charts with her spiritual recordings, Tharpe became the first superstar of gospel music and also became known as "the original soul sister." She was a treasured early influence on iconic figures such as Elvis Presley, Little Richard and Johnny Cash. Willing to cross the line between sacred and secular by performing her inspirational music of 'light' in the 'darkness' of the nightclubs and concert halls with big bands behind her, Tharpe's witty, idiosyncratic style also left a lasting mark on more conventional gospel artists, such as Ira Tucker, Sr., of the Dixie Hummingbirds. While she offended some conservative churchgoers with her forays into the world of pop music, she never left gospel music.
Albert "Sunnyland Slim" Luandrew (September 5, 1906 – March 17, 1995) was an American blues pianist, who was born in the Mississippi Delta, and later moved to Chicago, Illinois, to contribute to that city's post-war scene as a center for blues music. Chicago's broadcaster and writer, Studs Terkel, said Sunnyland Slim was "a living piece of our folk history, gallantly and eloquently carrying on in the old tradition." Sunnyland Slim was born on a farm in Quitman County, near Vance, Mississippi (some sources erroneously give this date as 1907). He moved to Memphis, Tennessee in 1925, where he performed with many of the popular blues musicians of the day. His stage name came from a song he composed about the Sunnyland train that ran between Memphis and St. Louis, Missouri. In 1942 he followed the great migration of southern workers to the industrial north in Chicago.
Johnny Shines (April 26, 1915 – April 20, 1992) was an American blues singer and guitarist. According to the music journalist Tony Russell, "Shines was that rare being, a blues artist who overcame age and rustiness to make music that stood up beside the work of his youth. When Shines came back to the blues in 1965 he was 50, yet his voice had the leonine power of a dozen years before, when he made records his reputation was based on". He was born John Ned Shines in Frayser, Memphis, United States. He spent most of his childhood in Memphis, Tennessee playing slide guitar at an early age in local “jukes” and for tips on the streets. He was "inspired by the likes of Charley Patton, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Lonnie Johnson, and the young Howlin' Wolf", but he was taught to play the guitar by his mother. Shines moved to Hughes, Arkansas in 1932 and worked on farms for three years putting his musical career on hold. It was a chance meeting with Robert Johnson, his greatest influence, that gave him the inspiration to return to music. In 1935, Shines began traveling with Johnson, touring the south and heading as far north as Ontario where they appeared on a local radio program. The two went their separate ways in 1937, one year before Johnson's death. Shines played throughout the southern United States until 1941 when he settled in Chicago. There Shines found work in the construction industry but continued to play in local bars.
Huey "Piano" Smith (born January 26, 1934, New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American rhythm and blues pianist whose sound was influential in the development of rock and roll. His piano playing incorporated the boogie styles of Pete Johnson, Meade Lux Lewis, Albert Ammons; the jazz style of Jelly Roll Morton and the piano playing of Fats Domino. Allmusic journalist, Steve Huey, also noted "At the peak of his game, Smith epitomized New Orleans R&B at its most infectious and rollicking, as showcased on his classic signature tune, "Don't You Just Know It." Smith was born in New Orleans' Garden District, and was influenced by New Orleans' piano innovator, Professor Longhair. He became known for his shuffling right-handed break on the piano that influenced other Southern players.
Frankie Lee Sims (April 30, 1917, New Orleans, Louisiana – May 10, 1970, Dallas, Texas) was an American singer-songwriter and electric blues guitarist. He released nine singles during his career, one of which, "Lucy Mae Blues" (1953) was a regional hit. Two compilation albums of his work were released posthumously. Sims was the cousin of another Texas blues musician, Lightnin' Hopkins, and he worked with several other prominent blues musicians, including Texas Alexander, T-Bone Walker, King Curtis and Albert Collins. Sims is regarded as one of the important figures in post-war Texas country blues.

CD 46
01. Willie Dixon - Don't Let That Music Die
02. Willie Dixon - I Ain't Gonna Be Your Monkey Man
03. Willie Dixon - Monkey Tree Blues
04. Willie Dixon - Since My Baby Gone
05. Willie Dixon - No One to Love Me
06. Willie Dixon - Hard Notch Boogie Beat
07. Willie Dixon - If the Sea Wa Whiskey
08. Willie Dixon - Got You on My Mind
09. Willie Dixon - Tell That Woman
10. Willie Dixon - Come Here Baby
11. Floyd Dixon - Dallas Blues
12. Floyd Dixon - Moonshine
13. Floyd Dixon - Real Lovin' Mama
14. Floyd Dixon - Prairie Dog Blues
15. Floyd Dixon - Shuffle Blues
16. Floyd Dixon - Blues for Cuba
17. Floyd Dixon - Telephone Blues
18. Floyd Dixon - Lovin'
19. Floyd Dixon - Let's Dance
20. Floyd Dixon - Opportunity Blues
CD 47
01. Kokomo Arnold - Backfence Picket Blues
02. Kokomo Arnold - Fool Man Blues
03. Kokomo Arnold - Long And Tall
04. Kokomo Arnold - Sally Dog
05. Kokomo Arnold - Cold Winter Blues
06. Kokomo Arnold - Sister Jane Cross The Hall
07. Kokomo Arnold - Wild Water Blues
08. Kokomo Arnold - Laugh And Grin Blues
09. Kokomo Arnold - Mean Old Twister
10. Kokomo Arnold - Red Beans And Rice
11. Billy Boy Arnold - My Heart Is Crying
12. Billy Boy Arnold - I Wish You Would
13. Billy Boy Arnold - I Ain't Got You
14. Billy Boy Arnold - Here's My Picture
15. Billy Boy Arnold - You Got Me Wrong
16. Billy Boy Arnold - Prisoner's Plea
17. Billy Boy Arnold - Every Day, Every Night
18. Billy Boy Arnold - No, No, No, No, No
19. Billy Boy Arnold - Rockinitis
20. Billy Boy Arnold - I Was Fooled
CD 48
01. Sonny Terry - Bye Bye Baby Blues
02. Sonny Terry - I Don't Care How Long
03. Sonny Terry - Blues And Worried Man
04. Sonny Terry - Harmonica Blues
05. Sonny Terry - Somebody's Been Talkin'
06. Sonny Terry - Harmonica Stomp
07. Sonny Terry - Twelve Gates To The City
08. Sonny Terry - You Got To Have Your Dollar
09. Sonny Terry - Don't Want No Skinny Woman
10. Sonny Terry - Blowing The Blues
11. Eddie Taylor - Bad Boy
12. Eddie Taylor - Big Town Playboy
13. Eddie Taylor - Find My Baby
14. Eddie Taylor - Stroll Out West
15. Eddie Taylor - E.T. Blues
16. Eddie Taylor - Don't Knock At My Door
17. Eddie Taylor - I'm Gonna Love You
18. Eddie Taylor - Leave This Neighborhood
19. Eddie Taylor - I'm Sitting Here
20. Eddie Taylor - Ride'em On Down

CD 49
01. Memphis Slim - Really Got The Blues
02. Memphis Slim - Mother Earth
03. Memphis Slim - I Guess I'm A Fool
04. Memphis Slim - Havin' Fun
05. Memphis Slim - Marack
06. Memphis Slim - Tia Juana
07. Memphis Slim - Reverend Bounce
08. Memphis Slim - I'm Crying
09. Memphis Slim - Blues For My Baby
10. Memphis Slim - Slim's Blues
11. Tommy McClennan - Baby, Don't You Want To Go
12. Tommy McClennan - You Can't Mistreat Me
13. Tommy McClennan - Shake 'Em On Down
14. Tommy McClennan - Bottle It Up And Go
15. Tommy McClennan - Brown Skin Girl
16. Tommy McClennan - I'm Going Don't You Know
17. Tommy McClennan - My Baby's Gone
18. Tommy McClennan - Whiskey Head Woman
19. Tommy McClennan - It's Hard To Be Lonesome
20. Tommy McClennan - Highway 51
CD 50
01. Bobby 'Blue' Bland - It's My Life, baby
02. Bobby 'Blue' Bland - Honey Bee
03. Bobby 'Blue' Bland - Lost Lover Blues
04. Bobby 'Blue' Bland - Time Out
05. Bobby 'Blue' Bland - Million Miles From Nowhere
06. Bobby 'Blue' Bland - You've Got Bad Intentions
07. Bobby 'Blue' Bland - I Don't Believe
08. Bobby 'Blue' Bland - You Did Me Wrong
09. Bobby 'Blue' Bland - Last Night
10. Bobby 'Blue' Bland - Wise Man's Blues
11. Charles Brown - Driftin' Blues
12. Charles Brown - Trouble Blues
13. Charles Brown - In The Evening When The Sun Goes Down
14. Charles Brown - Get Yourself Another Fool
15. Charles Brown - Black Night
16. Charles Brown - Hard Times
17. Charles Brown - Cryin' Mercy
18. Charles Brown - Evening Shadows
19. Charles Brown - Fool's Paradise
20. Charles Brown - Merry Christmas, Baby
CD 51
01. Sippie Wallace - I'm A Mighty Tight Woman
02. Sippie Wallace - Murder's Gonna Be My Crime
03. Sippie Wallace - Suitcase Blues
04. Sippie Wallace - Special Delivery Blues
05. Sippie Wallace - The Flood Blues
06. Sippie Wallace - Dead Drunk Blues
07. Sippie Wallace - A Man For Every Day In The Week
08. Sippie Wallace - Jack Of Diamond Blues
09. Sippie Wallace - A Jealous Woman Like Me
10. Sippie Wallace - The Mail Train Blues
11. Peetie Wheatstraw - Devil's Son-In-Law
12. Peetie Wheatstraw - Shake That Thing
13. Peetie Wheatstraw - Gangster's Blues
14. Peetie Wheatstraw - Come Over And See Me
15. Peetie Wheatstraw - Cake Alley
16. Peetie Wheatstraw - Shack Bully Stomp
17. Peetie Wheatstraw - Tight Time Project
18. Peetie Wheatstraw - Working On The Project
19. Peetie Wheatstraw - Weeping Willow Blues
20. Peetie Wheatstraw - Peetie Wheatstraw Stomp