2-CD Digipac (6-plated) with 112-page booklet, 48 tracks. Total playing time approx. 170 minutes.

Third volume in this series of four 2-CD digipac sets.
Covering the story of acoustic blues from 1960 to 1979.
Country blues recordings, a total of 48 tracks, carefully re-mastered from the best sources available.
112-page booklet with rare photos and in-depth liner notes and bios.
Blues greats like Lightnin' Hopkins, Sleepy John Estes, Mississippi John Hurt, Furry Lewis, and Louisiana Red alongside lesser know artists like Leroy Dallas, Pete Franklin, Tom Shaw, R. C. Smith, a. m. o.

In the late '50s, thanks in large part to young Caucasian blues enthusiasts in love with the pre-war sound and hellbent on tracking down their aging idols to relaunch their careers with fresh high fidelity product, the folk-blues movement began to build up a quick head of steam.

The living pre-war greats came back one by one like conquering heroes: Furry Lewis, Sleepy John Estes, Bukka White, Mississippi John Hurt, Skip James, Son House, all ready to ply their trade anew on the folk circuit and college campuses. They were greeted by fresh-faced young students. Another batch of previously unknown acoustic blues guitarists from the same generation who had been overlooked in pre-war times suddenly came to prominence as well, cutting their debut sides in many cases when they were in their 60s and 70s. Mance Lipscomb, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Robert Pete Williams, and plenty more had every bit as much to offer as their celebrated forebears, even if their names hadn't appeared on scratchy 78s.
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Track Listing

• Lipscomb, Mance - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning
• Lipscomb, Mance - Shake, Shake, Mama
• Hooker, John Lee - Tupelo
• Davis, Rev Gary - Samson And Delilah
• Williams, Robert Pete - I’ve Grown So Ugly
• Hopkins, Lightnin’ - Mojo Hand
• Johnson, Lonnie - Moaning Blues
• Smoky Babe - Hottest Brand Goin’
• Various - Acoustic Blues - Johnson, Herman E I Just Keeps On Wanting You
• Blackwell, Scrapper - Shady Lane
• Anderson, Pink - I Got Mine
• Franklin, Pete - Prison Bound
• Griffith, Shirley - Bye Bye Blues
• Smith, RC - Please Don’t Drive Me Away
• Various - Acoustic Blues - Memphis Willie B Wine Drinking Woman
• Baby Tate - What Have I Done To You
• Dallas, Leroy - She Caught The M & O
• Estes, Sleepy John - Vernita’s Blues
• Various - Acoustic Blues - Short, JD I’m Just Wastin’ My Time
• Muddy Waters - Feel Like Going Home
• Moss, Buddy - Amy
• Young, Johnny - Want My Lovin’
• Gray, Arvella - Corrine, Corrina
• Hurt, Mississippi John - Candy Man
• Davis, Maxwell Street Jimmy - Alberta

• Son House - Empire State Express
• McDowell, Mississippi Fred - Frisco Lines
• Lenoir, JB - If I Get Lucky
• James, Skip - Sickbed Blues
• Burnside, RL - Long Haired Doney
• Lewis, Furry - Old Original Furry Lewis Blues
• Callicott, Joe - Lonesome Katy Blues
• Jackson, John - Rocks And Gravel
• Stovall, Babe - Worried Blues
• Howlin’ Wolf - Ain’t Goin’ Down That Dirt Road #2
• Johnson, Larry - Four Women Blues
• Owens, Jack - I Love My Baby
• Shines, Johnny - Your Troubles Can’t Be Like Mine
• McGhee, Brownie - My Last Suit
• Bonner, Juke Boy - Tired Of The Greyhound Bus
• Tarheel Slim - So Sweet, So Sweet
• Shaw, Tom - Baby Be A Boy Child Named Him After Me
• Taylor, Eddie - Bullcow Blues
• Williams, Bill - Salty Dog
• Guitar Shorty - Jessie Jones
• Brown, Rev Pearly - It’s A Mean Old World To Try To Live In
• Louisiana Red - Dead Stray Dog
• Edwards, David ‘Honeyboy’ - Big Fat Mama
• Townsend, Henry - Can’t You See

Additional Details

Label: Bear Family Records

Genre: Blues

Run Time: 170 mins

Release Date: 04/24/15

UPC: 5397102172311