The music that changed everything! Memphis - the iconic city where it happened! And now from Bear Family Records the best of the best from the best!

The Blues - the iconic music that changed everything! Memphis - the iconic city where it happened! And now - the Memphis Blues Box from Bear Family Records® - the best of the best from the best!

An incredible 534 individual tracks on 20 CDs packed into an LP-sized box - total weight almost 10lbs.

Memphis recordings from 1914 to 1969 featuring musicians from the city and region.

Introduction by blues harmonica star and Grammy® winner Charlie Musselwhite.

Biographies of every performer, many newly researched; notes about every song and recording, index and track listing.

Many unseen photographs

Produced and part-written by Martin Hawkins

This magnificent new 20-CD boxed set with its 534 tracks and an accompanying 360-page book traces the blues as recorded in Memphis and by Memphis-area musicians and singers. Starting a hundred years ago with W.C. Handy's tune Memphis Blues, this set includes classic blues, jug band blues and itinerant blues from the 1920s and '30s, the R&B bands and small combos of the 1940s and '50s, and the tougher blues styles recorded up to the close of the 1960s.

The box presents the recorded Memphis Blues as defined by the performers and their recording companies during the years 1914 to 1969 - the period when blues in its various forms was issued on single discs, 78 rpm and then 45 rpm, for consumption largely by the original audience - the people who listened on street corners, in juke joints, at local house parties, or in the bars, night clubs and theaters of Memphis.

The box focuses on how each disc sat within the evolving picture, either contributing something new, reinforcing trends of the moment, or harking back to tradition. At least one side of every relevant 78 or 45 rpm disc issued during the period is included, showing off the Memphis blues as it was offered year on year by artists and record companies.

Living Blues Critics Poll named this release the Best Historical Release/Pre-War Blues Album of 2023!

Track Listing

Disc 1:

• W. C. Handy - Mr. Crump and the Memphis Blues
• Victor Military Band - The Memphis Blues - One Step
• Handy's Memphis Blues Band - Yellow Dog Blues
• Memphis Jug Band - Sun Brimmers
• Memphis Jug Band - Memphis Jug
• Sadie James - What Makes A Bow-Legged Woman Crazy ‘Bout her Knock-Kneed Man?
• Baby' Moore - Drop Down
• Williamson’s Beale Street Frolic Orchestra - Midnight Frolic Drag
• Sadie McKinney - Rock Away
• Ollie Rupert - I Raised My Window And Looked At The Risin’ Sun
• Blind Mamie Forehand - Wouldn't Mind Dying If Dying Was All
• Ollie Rupert - Ain’t Gonna be Your Low Down Dog
• Williamson’s Beale Street Frolic Orchestra - Memphis Scronch
• Furry Lewis - Everybody's Blues
• Memphis Jug Band - Sunshine Blues
• Memphis Jug Band - Memphis Boy
• Beale Street Sheiks - It’s A Good Thing
• Beale Street Sheiks - Beale Town Bound
• Beale Street Sheiks - Mr. Crump Don’t Like It
• Furry Lewis - Billy Lyons and Stack O Lee
• Memphis Jug Band - Kansas City Blues
• Memphis Jug Band vocals Jennie Clayton - I Packed My Suitcase, Started To The Train
• Memphis Jug Band - Beale Street Mess Around
• Will Weldon - Turpentine Blues
• Vol Stevens - Vol Stevens Blues

Disc 2:

• Banjo Joe - My Money Never Runs Out
• Lewis Black - Rock Island Blues
• Walter Rhodes with 'Pet' and 'Can' - The Crowing Rooster
• Lewis Black - Corn Liquor Blues
• Pearl Dickson - Twelve Pound Daddy
• Cannon’s Jug Stompers - Minglewood Blues
• Jim Jackson - I Heard The Voice Of A Pork Chop
• Cannon’s Jug Stompers - Madison Street Rag
• Cannon’s Jug Stompers - Springdale Blues
• Jim Jackson - My Monday Woman Blues
• Memphis Jug Band - Snitchin’ Gambler Blues
• Frank Stokes - Bedtime Blues
• Jim Jackson - My Mobile Central Blues
• Memphis Stompers - Memphis Stomp
• Lemmuel Turner - Jake Bottle Blues
• Memphis Jug Band - Coal Oil Blues
• Memphis Jug Band - Peaches In The Springtime
• ‘Mooch’ Richardson - Mooch Richardson’s Low Down Barrel House Blues
• Jim Jackson - Bootlegging Blues
• Jim Jackson - Policy Blues
• Arthur Petties - Two Time Blues
• McLaughlin's Old Time Melody Makers - Dill Pickles Rag
• Keghouse - Keghouse Blues
• Tom Dickson - Labor Blues

Disc 3:

• ‘Mooch’ Richardson - Helena Blues
• Tom Dickson - Happy Blues
• ‘Mooch’ Richardson - Burying Ground Blues
• Original Washboard Band - Jasper Taylor Blues
• Frank Stokes - Mistreatin’ Blues
• Frank Stokes - It Won’t Be Long Now
• Frank Stokes - Nehi Mamma Blues
• Frank Stokes - I Got Mine
• Jim Jackson - This Morning She Was Gone
• Furry Lewis - I Will Turn Your Money Green
• Furry Lewis - Furry’s Blues
• Frank Stokes - Stomp That Thing
• Furry Lewis - Kassie Jones Pt 1
• Furry Lewis - Cannon Ball Blues
• Furry Lewis - Judge Harsh Blues
• Jim Jackson - I’m Gonna Move To Louisiana
• Frank Stokes - ‘Tain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do
• Frank Stokes - Take Me Back
• Charlie Kyle - Kyle’s Worried Blues
• Charlie Kyle - Walking Blues
• Jim Jackson - Traveling Man
• Cannon’s Jug Stompers - Pig Ankle Strut
• Cannon’s Jug Stompers - Ripley Blues
• Cannon’s Jug Stompers - Hollywood Rag

Disc 4:

• Jim Jackson - Bye, Bye, Policeman
• Robert Wilkins - Rolling Stone
• Robert Wilkins - Jail House Blues
• Cannon’s Jug Stompers - Feather Bed
• Memphis Jug Band - Lindberg Hop
• Memphis Jug Band - Sugar Pudding
• Memphis Jug Band - A Black Woman Is Like A Black Snake
• Memphis Jug Band - On The Road Again
• Memphis Jug Band - Whitewash Station Blues
• Memphis Jug Band - Stealin' Stealin'
• Memphis Jug Band - Jug Band Waltz
• Cannon’s Jug Stompers - Viola Lee Blues
• Cannon’s Jug Stompers - Riley’s Wagon
• Will Shade - Better Leave That Stuff Alone
• Will Shade - She Stabbed Me With An Ice-Pick
• Keg House - Canned Heat Blues
• Hambone Willie Newbern - Nobody Knows (What The Good Deacon Does)
• Hambone Willie Newbern - Shelby County Workhouse Blues
• Hambone Willie Newbern - Roll And Tumble Blues
• Cannon and Woods - Fourth And Beale
• Cannon and Woods - Last Chance Blues
• Memphis Jug Band - What’s The Matter?
• Furry Lewis - John Henry (The Steel Driving Man) Part 1
• Furry Lewis - Black Gypsy Blues
• Speckled Red (Rufus Perryman) - The Dirty Dozen

Disc 5:

• Frank Stokes - South Memphis Blues
• Minnie Wallace - Dirty Butter
• Minnie Wallace - The Old Folks Started It
• Garfield Akers - Cottonfield Blues Pt 1
• Jed Davenport - Cow Cow Blues
• Jenny Pope - Whiskey Drinkin’ Blues
• Robert Wilkins - Alabama Blues
• Robert Wilkins - Long Train Blues
• Robert Wilkins - That's No Way To Get Along
• Jim Jackson, Tampa Red, Georgia Tom, Speckled Red - Jim Jackson’s Jamboree Pt 1
• Hattie Hart - You Wouldn’t, Would You, Papa?
• Frank Stokes - Right Now Blues
• John Estes - Diving Duck Blues
• Douglas Williams Orchestra - Undertaker Blues
• John Estes and James Rachel - Little Sarah
• John Estes - Broken Hearted, Ragged and Dirty Too
• Memphis Jug Band - I Can Beat You Plenty (That Hand You Tried To Deal Me)
• Blind Clyde Church - Number Nine Blues
• Frank Stokes - I’m Going Away Blues
• Frank Stokes - Frank Stokes’ Dream
• Frank Stokes - Memphis Rounders Blues
• Cannon’s Jug Stompers - Going To Germany
• Cannon’s Jug Stompers - Last Chance Blues
• Cannon’s Jug Stompers - Walk Right In
• Memphis Sanctified Singers - He Got Better Things For You

Disc 6:

• Mel Parker with Douglas Williams Orchestra - Leaving Blues
• Douglas Williams Orchestra - The Beale Street Sheik
• Douglas Williams Orchestra - Thrill Me
• Noah Lewis - Chickasaw Special
• Cannon's Jug Stompers - The Rooster’s Crowing Blues
• Cannon's Jug Stompers - Jonestown Blues
• Memphis Jug Band - Memphis Yo Yo Blues
• Memphis Jug Band - K. C. Moan
• Memphis Jug Band - I Whipped My Woman With A Single Tree
• Brother Williams' Memphis Sanctified Singers - I Will Meet You At The Station
• Jed Davenport & his Beale Street Jug Band - Beale Street Breakdown
• Jed Davenport & his Beale Street Jug Band - Jug Blues
• Memphis Minnie - I’m Gonna Bake My Biscuits
• Memphis Minnie - Mister Tango Blues
• Jed Davenport & his Beale Street Jug Band - You Ought To Move Out Of Town
• Jed Davenport & his Beale Street Jug Band - Save Me Some
• Joe Calicott - Fare Thee Well Blues
• Joe Calicott - Traveling Mama Blues
• Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie - What Fault You Find Of Me? Part 1
• Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie - Can I Do It For You ? Part 1
• Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie - She Wouldn’t Give Me None
• Robert Wilkins - I'll Go With Her Blues
• Robert Wilkins - Nashville Stonewall Blues
• Jennie Pope - Tennessee Workhouse Blues
• 'Bozo' Nickerson - What’s The Matter Now? Part 1

Disc 7:

• Jenny Pope - Rent Man Blues
• Jim Thompkins - Bedside Blues
• Jim Jackson - Hesitation Blues
• Memphis Minnie - Bumble Bee
• Memphis Minnie - I’m Talking About You
• Mattie Delaney - Down The Big Road Blues
• Mattie Delaney - Tallahatchie River Blues
• Garfield Akers - Dough Roller Blues
• Madelyn James - Stinging Snake Blues
• Madelyn James - Long Time Blues
• Memphis Jug Band - Everybody’s Talking About Sadie Green
• John Estes - Milk Cow Blues
• Memphis Jug Band - Oh Ambulance Man
• Memphis Jug Band - Cocaine Habit Blues
• Memphis Jug Band - Cave Man Blues
• Memphis Jug Band - It Won’t Act Right
• Memphis Jug Band - Jim Strainer Blues
• Memphis Jug Band - 4th Street Mess Around
• John Estes - What'cha Doin'?
• Minnie McCoy & Joe Johnson - I’m Going Back Home
• Memphis Jug Band - Bumble Bee Blues
• Memphis Jug Band - Meningitis Blues
• White and Hairiston - The New Frisco Train
• Washington White - I Am In The Heavenly Way
• McCoy and Johnson - I Never Told A Lie

Disc 8:

• McCoy and Johnson - Don’t Want No Woman (T'Have T'Give My Money To)
• Minnie McCoy & Joe Johnson - Georgia Skin
• Memphis Jug Band - Aunt Caroline Dyer Blues
• Memphis Jug Band - Stonewall Blues
• John Estes - Stack O' Dollars
• John Estes & James Rachel - Sweet Mama
• Kaiser Clifton - Cash Money Blues
• Kaiser Clifton - She’ll Be Back Someday
• Carolina Peanut Boys - Spider’s Nest Blues
• Memphis Jug Band - Papa’s Got Your Bath Water On
• Charley Nickerson - Going Back To Memphis
• Fleming and Townsend - I’m Blue And Lonesome
• Fleming and Townsend - She’s Just That Kind
• Jimmie Lunceford & his Chickasaw Syncopators - In Dat Mornin'
• Beale Street Rounders - I’m Sittin’ On Top Of The World
• Beale Street Rounders - Talking ‘Bout Yo Yo
• Memphis Minnie - North Memphis Blues
• Memphis Sheiks - He's In The Jailhouse Now
• Gus Cannon with Jug Stompers - Wolf River Blues
• Cannon Jug Stompers - Bring It With You When You Come
• Noah Lewis's Jug Band - Like I Want To Be
• Noah Lewis's Jug Band - Ticket Agent Blues
• Noah Lewis's Jug Band - New Minglewood Blues
• Memphis Sheiks - Round And Round
• Carolina Peanut Boys - This Will Bring You Back
• Carolina Peanut Boys - Move That Thing

Disc 9:

• Noah Lewis's Jug Band - Bad Luck’s My Buddy
• Carolina Peanut Boys - Selling The Jelly
• Memphis Minnie - Tricks Ain’t Walkin No More
• Picaninny Jug Band - Bottle It Up And Go
• Burse and Stephen - Tappin' That Thing
• Jack Kelly & South Memphis Jug Band - Highway No. 61 Blues
• South Memphis Jug Band - Policy Rag
• Will Batts - Country Woman
• Will Batts - Cadillac Baby
• South Memphis Jug Band - Doctor Medicine
• Ramblin Red Lowery - Ramblin' Red's Memphis Yodel No. 1
• Poor Jim with Dan Jackson - Sugar Farm Blues
• Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe - You Got To Move (You Ain't Got To Move) Pt 1
• Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe - Give It To Me In My Hand
• Allen Shaw - Moanin' The Blues
• Memphis Jug Band - Tear It Down, Bed Slats And All
• Charlie Burse with Memphis Jug Band - Bottle It Up And Go
• Charlie Burse with Memphis Jug Band - Insane Crazy Blues
• Memphis Jug Band - Memphis Shakedown
• Gospel Minnie - Let Me Ride
• Sleepy John Estes - Down South Blues
• Sleepy John Estes - Stop That Thing
• Minnie Wallace & her Night Hawks - The Cockeyed World
• Minnie Wallace & her Night Hawks - Let's All Do That Thing
• Memphis Minnie - Hoodoo Lady
• Memphis Minnie - Black Cat Blues

Disc 10:

• Memphis Minnie - You Can’t Rule Me
• Memphis Minnie - Down In The Alley
• Bukka White - Shake 'Em On Down
• Sleepy John Estes - Brownsville Blues
• Sleepy John Estes - Easin' Back To Tennessee
• Memphis Minnie - Good Biscuits
• Little Son Joe - Diggin' My Potatoes
• Little Son Joe - Key To The World
• Memphis Minnie - Call The Fire Wagon
• Little Buddy Doyle - Grief Will Kill You
• Little Buddy Doyle - Hard Scufflin’ Blues
• Charlie Burse & his Memphis Mudcats - Beale Street Holiday
• Charlie Burse & his Memphis Mudcats - Goldie May
• Charlie Burse & his Memphis Mudcats - What’s The matter With The Well?
• Charlie Burse & his Memphis Mudcats - Good Potatoes On The Hill
• Charlie Burse & his Memphis Mudcats - Dawn Of Day Blues
• Charlie Burse & his Memphis Mudcats - Scared To Death
• Swift Jewel Cowboys - Fan It
• Swift Jewel Cowboys - Memphis Blues
• James DeBerry & his Memphis Playboys - You Played A Trick On Me
• James DeBerry & his Memphis Playboys - Oh, Liza!
• James DeBerry & his Memphis Playboys - Single Man Blues
• James DeBerry & his Memphis Playboys - Spider Bite Blues
• James DeBerry & his Memphis Playboys - Nummy Nimmy Not
• James DeBerry & his Memphis Playboys - You Can Go
• James DeBerry & his Memphis Playboys - Insane Jealous Blues
• James DeBerry & his Memphis Playboys - Zugity Zugity Zomp
• Gene Steele - Here's Your Opportunity

Disc 11:

• Gene Steele - Just A Little Of The Blues
• Jack Kelly - You Done Done It
• Jack Kelly - Diamond Buyer Blues
• Jack Kelly - High Behind Blues
• Little Buddy Doyle - Sweet Man Blues
• Jack Kelly - World Wandering Blues
• Charlie Burse & his Memphis Mudcats - You Better Watch Out
• Charlie Burse & his Memphis Mudcats - Too Much Beef
• Charlie Burse & his Memphis Mudcats - Brand New Day Blues
• Charlie Burse & his Memphis Mudcats - Magic Spell Blues
• Charlie Burse & his Memphis Mudcats - Ain’t Gonna Be No Doggone Afterwhile
• Charlie Burse & his Memphis Mudcats - It Makes No Difference Now
• Charlie Burse & his Memphis Mudcats - Memphis Highway Stomp
• Charlie Burse & his Memphis Mudcats - It’s Against The Rule
• Bukka White - Parchman Farm Blues
• Bukka White - Bukka’s Jitterbug Swing
• Bukka White - Special Streamline
• Peter Chatman & his Washboard Band - Last Pair Of Shoes Blues
• Memphis Slim - Beer Drinking Woman
• Memphis Slim - Grinder Man Blues
• Memphis Slim - The Shelby County Blues
• Yank Rachell - Biscuit Baking Woman
• Yank Rachell - Hobo Blues
• Memphis Minnie - In My Girlish Days
• Memphis Minnie - Me And My Chauffeur Blues
• Sleepy John Estes - Lawyer Clark Blues
• The Delta Boys - Don't You Want To Know
• Yank Rachell - Tappin' That Thing

Disc 12:

• James (Beale Street) Clark - Get Ready To Meet Your Man
• Memphis Minnie - Killer Diller
• Memphis Minnie - Fish Man Blues
• James (Beale Street) Clark - Come To Me Baby (What Evil Have I Done)
• Memphis Slim - Rockin' The House
• Al Jackson Band - Long About Three
• B.B. King - Miss Martha King
• Tuff Green Orchestra - Let's Go To The Liquor Store
• Tuff Green Orchestra - I Love My Baby
• B.B. King - Got The Blues
• Tuff Green Orchestra - She Ain't No Good
• Joe Hill Louis - A Jumpin' And A Shufflin'
• Joe Hill Louis - Don't Trust Your Best Friend
• Rufus Thomas - I'm So Worried
• Memphis Eddie - Highway 61
• Lost John Hunter - Cool Down Mamma
• Lost John Hunter - Y M & V Blues
• Joe Hill Louis - Gotta Let You Go
• Mr. Swing with Bobby Plater's Orchestra - Beer Bottle Boogie
• B.B. King - B. B. Boogie
• B.B. King - The Other Night Blues
• Joe Hill Louis - I Feel Like A Million
• Joe Hill Louis - Boogie In The Park
• Tippo Lite's All Stars - Dark Skin Woman Blues
• Tippo Lite's All Stars - Jumping This Morning
• B.B. King - Don’t You Want A Man Like Me
• B.B. King - B. B. Blues
• B.B. King - Fine Looking Woman

Disc 13:

• Roscoe Gordon - Roscoe's Boogie
• Mumbles - Little Boy Blue
• Joe Hill Louis - Walkin’ Talkin’ Blues
• Joe Hill Louis - Goin’ Down Slow
• Jackie Brenston - Rocket “88”
• Ike Turner - Heartbroken And Worried
• Jackie Brenston - Independent Woman
• Roscoe Gordon - Saddled The Cow
• Joe Hill Louis - Big Legged Woman
• Joe Hill Louis - Eyesight To The Blind
• B.B. King - She’s Dynamite
• Lou Sargent Orchestra - She Really Treats Me Wrong
• Rufus Thomas - Night Workin' Blues
• Rufus Thomas - Crazy About You Baby
• Phinus Newborn - Tennessee Bounce
• B.B. King - She’s A Mean Woman
• Dick Cole with Phinus Newborn Orchestra - Fine As Wine
• Mumbles - Black Gal
• Mumbles - Jumpin' Blues
• Willie Nix - Lonesome Bedroom Blues
• Harmonica Frank - Goin Away Walkin
• Harmonica Frank - She's Done Moved
• Jackie Brenston - Juiced
• Roscoe Gordon - Dime A Dozen
• Howlin' Wolf - Moanin’ At Midnight
• Howlin' Wolf - How Many More Years
• Jackie Brenston - Tuckered Out

Disc 14:

• Rosco Gordon - Booted
• B.B. King - 3 o’clock blues
• Howlin' Wolf - Morning At Midnight
• Howlin' Wolf - Riding In The Moonlight
• Howlin' Wolf - Crying At Daybreak
• Howlin' Wolf - My Baby Stole Off
• Roscoe Gordon - Booted
• Billy Love - You’re Gonna Cry
• Doctor Ross - Country Clown
• Robert Bland - Dry Up Baby
• Robert Bland with Roscoe Gordon and Orchestra - Crying
• Roscoe Gordon - Two Kinds Of Women
• Howlin' Wolf - The Wolf Is At Your Door
• Howlin' Wolf - Worried All The Time
• Johnny London - Drivin' Slow
• Howlin' Wolf - Mr. Highway Man
• B.B. King - My Own Fault, Darlin’
• B.B. King - Some Day, Somewhere
• Little Junior Parker & the Blue Flames - Bad Women, Bad Whiskey
• Bill Harvey Orchestra with Bonita Cole - Walk Right In
• Bill Harvey Orchestra with Bonita Cole - I Hear You Knockin'
• Joe Hill Louis - Chocolate Blonde
• Roscoe Gordon - No More Doggin'
• Ike Turner - Trouble And Heartaches
• Roscoe Gordon - New Orleans Wimmen
• Roscoe Gordon - What You Got On Your Mind
• Earl Forest - Trouble And Me
• Earl Forest - I Wronged A Woman

Disc 15:

• Earl Forest with the Beale Streeters - Rock The Bottle
• Earl Forest with the Beale Streeters - Whoopin’ And Hollerin’
• Robert Bland - Drifting From Town To Town
• Johnny Ace - Mid Night Hours Journey
• B.B. King - You Know I Love You
• B.B. King - Boogie Woogie Woman
• Joe Hill Louis - When I Am Gone (She Treats Me Mean And Evil)
• Howlin' Wolf - Saddle My Pony (Gonna Find My Baby Out In The World Somewhere)
• Bonnie & Ike Turner - Looking For My Baby
• Rosco Gordon - Hey Fat Girl
• Rosco Gordon - T Model Boogie
• Rufus Thomas - Decorate The Counter
• Mary Sue (Bonnie Turner) - Love Is A Gamble
• Willie Nix - Truckin' Little Woman
• Ford Nelson Quintet vocal: Frank Brown - Little Annie
• Ford Nelson Quintet - Still Feeling Sad
• Woodrow Adams & 3 B's - Pretty Baby Blues
• Billy Love - Poor Man
• Johnny Ace - My Song
• Joe Hill Louis - Dorothy Mae
• Rosco Gordon with the Beale Streeters - Too Many Women
• Johnny Ace - Angel
• Bobby 'Blue' Bland - I.O.U. Blues
• Rosco Gordon Orchestra - Ain't No Use
• Rosco Gordon Orchestra - Three Cent Love
• Roscoe Gordon - Dream Baby
• Roscoe Gordon - Lucille (Looking For My Baby)

Disc 16:

• Walter Horton - Little Walter's Boogie (tk3)
• Walter Horton - West Winds Are Blowing (tk 1)
• Howlin' Wolf - Oh! Red
• Willie Nix (The Memphis Blues Boy) - Seems Like A Million Years
• Willie Nix (The Memphis Blues Boy) - Baker Shop Boogie
• Walter 'Tang' Smith - Every Monday Morning
• Joe Hill Louis - We All Gotta Go Sometime
• Johnny Ace - Burley Cutie
• Bobby Bland - No Blow No Show
• Roscoe Gordon - Just In From Texas
• Roscoe Gordon - We're All Loaded
• Leslie Louis - Don’t Do It Again
• George Lawson Orchestra - Blue Memphis
• George Lawson Orchestra - Honkin' The Blues
• Johnny Lewis - She’s Taking All My Money
• Johnny Lewis - Jealous Man
• Handy Jackson / Gay Garth - Got My Application Baby
• Handy Jackson / Gay Garth - Trouble (Will Bring You Down)
• Howlin' Wolf - I Love My Baby
• Bonita Cole with Bill Fort Orch - Life Is Like That
• Bill Fort Orchestra - Gatemouth’s Ghost
• Jimmy & Walter - Easy
• Jimmy & Walter - Before Long
• Chicago Sunny Boy - Western Union Man
• Chicago Sunny Boy - On The Floor
• Rufus Thomas - Bear Cat
• Big Memphis Ma Rainey with Onzie Horne Combo - Call Me Anything, But Call Me

Disc 17:

• Big Memphis Ma Rainey with Onzie Horne Combo - Baby, No No!
• D.A. Hunt - Greyhound Blues
• Jimmy DeBerry - Take A Little Chance
• Jimmy DeBerry - Time Has Made A Change
• The Four Cruisers - Beale St. Shuffle
• Little Junior's Blue Flames - Feelin’ Good
• Little Junior's Blue Flames - Fussin’ And Fightin’ Blues
• Rufus Thomas - Save That Money
• Little Milton - Beggin’ My Baby
• Little Junior's Blue Flames - Love My Baby
• Little Junior's Blue Flames - Mystery Train
• Doctor Ross - Come Back Baby
• Memphis Minnie & her Combo - Kissing In The Dark
• Memphis Minnie & her Combo - World Of Trouble
• Moohah - All Shook Out
• Don Hines with Ben Branch Band - Going Crazy
• James Cotton - Straighten Up Baby
• Joe Hill Louis - Hydramatic Woman
• Hot Shot Love - Harmonica Jam
• Billy 'The Kid' Emerson - No Teasing Around
• Little Milton - If You Love Me (Baby)
• Little Milton - Lookin’ For My Baby
• Billy 'The Kid' Emerson - The Woodchuck
• Raymond Hill - The Snuggle
• Billy Love - Hart’s Bread Boogie
• James Cotton - Cotton Crop Blues
• Harmonica Frank - Rockin Chair Daddy
• Elvis Presley, Scotty and Bill - That’s All Right
• Doctor Ross - The Boogie Disease

Disc 18:

• Malcolm Yelvington - Drinkin Wine Spodee O Dee
• Billy 'The Kid' Emerson - When It Rains It Pours
• Elvis Presley, Scotty and Bill - Milkcow Blues Boogie
• Woodrow Adams - Baby You Just Don't Know
• Les Vendor (Joe Hill Louis) - Goin’ Away Blues
• Les Vendor (Joe Hill Louis) - Just Plain Tired
• Sammy Lewis & Willie Johnson Combo - I Feel So Worried
• Billy 'The Kid' Emerson - Red Hot
• Rosco Gordon - Just Love Me Baby
• Eddie Snow - Bring Your Love Back Home
• Elvis Presley, Scotty and Bill - Mystery Train
• Billy 'The Kid' Emerson - Something For Nothing
• Walter Miller with the Saxons - My Last Mile
• Minnie Thomas with Slim Waters Lagoons - What Can The Matter Be?
• Rufus Thomas with the Bearcats - The Easy Livin' Plan
• Rufus Thomas with the Bearcats - I'm Steady Holding On
• Rosco Gordon - The Chicken (Dance With You)
• Carl Perkins - Boppin' The Blues
• Sonny Burgess - Red Headed Woman
• Rosco Gordon - Shoobie Oobie
• Little Milton with Playmates of Rhythm - Love At First Sight
• Little Milton with Playmates of Rhythm - Ooh! My Little Baby
• Levi Seabury & his Band - Motherless Child Blues
• Milliard Lee Orchestra - Waughely’s Boogie
• Carl Perkins - Matchbox
• Rosetta Perry with Milliard Lee Orchestra - Farewell Blues
• Chester Guydon - You Gotta Help Me Some
• Joe Hall with Tuff Green Orch. - Coming Home Pt. 1

Disc 19:

• Little Joe - Glamour Girl
• June Nance - What A Fool I Can Be
• Rosco Gordon - Sally Jo
• Wilbur Steinburg - Mop Bop Boogie
• Willie Mitchell Orchestra vocal: Billy Taylor - Wasting My Time
• Willie Cobbs - You Don't Love Me
• Woodrow Adams - Sad And Blue
• Lightnin' Leon - Repossession Blues
• Billy Garner - Little School Girl
• Eddie Boyd - It's Too Bad
• Billy Yates - Blues Like Midnight
• Cleanhead Cootsie - Big Legs
• Don Hines - I’m So Glad
• Don Hines - Stormy Monday Blues
• Booker T and the Mgs - Green Onions
• Frank Frost - Jelly Roll King
• Frank Frost - Crawlback
• Willie Cobbs - Five Long Years
• Willie Cobbs - Too Sad
• Rufus Thomas - Fine And Mellow
• Willie Cobbs - Lonely Boy (I Need A Woman)
• Willie Cobbs - Big Boss Man
• Donald Hines - You Had To Pay
• Big John - Astronote Blues
• Calvin Newborn - West Memphis Blues
• Willie Sanders and The Binghampton Blues Boys - Cross Cut Saw
• Big Lucky and The Millionaires Band - My Sweetheart Is Like A Gypsy
• Big Lucky Carter with Prince Gabe and The Millionaires - Hurricane Blues
• Earl Forest - Now It’s Alright
• Mills Allen - Here It Is (Instr)

Disc 20:

• Billy Adams - Rock Me Baby
• The Jesters - My Babe
• Reco Collins - Never Let Me Go
• Willie Wilkes - You Don't Know How It Feels To Have The Blues
• Big Amos - He Won’t Bite Me Twice
• Clyde Hopkins - Fatten Pin
• Albert King - Laundromat Blues
• Albert King - Overall Junction
• Junior Parker - Man Or Mouse
• Junior Parker - Just Like A Fish
• Albert King - Crosscut Saw
• Junior Parker - You Can Make It If You Try
• Junior Parker - Country Girl
• Big Amos - I’m Gone
• Bobby Bland - A Touch Of The Blues
• Claude Johnson - I Am Blue And Lonesome
• Claude Johnson - Sitting Here Thinking
• Rufus Thomas - Steady Holding On
• The Three Tuffs - What A Dream
• The Three Tuffs - A Man's A Fool
• Junior Kimbell (Kimbrough) - You Can’t Leave Me
• Big Lucky Carter - Miss Betty Green
• Big Lucky Carter - Goofer Dust
• Big Lucky Carter - I’ve Been Hurt
• Cliff Jackson & Jellean Delk with the Naturals - Frank This Is It
• Cliff Jackson & the Naturals - Nine Below Zero
• Ike & Tina Turner - Crazy 'Bout You Baby
• Ike & Tina Turner - Mean Old World
• Gus Cannon - Walk Right In

Additional Details

Label: Bear Family Records

Genre: Blues

Run Time: 1520 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 12/15/23

UPC: 4000127175151