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- Release Date: February 27, 2001
- Type: Collection (various artists)
- Genre: Blues
Review
Blues musicians from the southeastern U.S. in the 1920s and '30s had a regional guitar sound that prominently featured a driving thumb on the bass strings, while melody was picked out on the high strings, a pattern that may have evolved from earlier Appalachian banjo styles. In general, these so-called Piedmont guitarists seldom used the slide techniques of the Delta players and worked a repertoire heavy with rags and re-constituted string-band tunes. This two-disc collection from Britain's Catfish Records has tracks from some of the more familiar East Coast names, including Blind Boy Fuller ("Shake That Shimmy"), Blind Willie McTell ("Georgia Rag"), Blind Blake ("Champagne Charlie Is My Name"), and Sonny Terry ("Harmonica and Washboard Breakdown"). The real strengths here, however, are the tracks from relatively obscure artists like Pink Anderson ("Gonna Tip out Tonight"), Luke Jordan ("Won't You Be Kind"), or the improbably named Skoodle Dum Doo & Sheffield ("Tampa Blues"). Other highlights include Peg Leg Howell's desperate and pleading "Please Ma'am" and Willie Walker's jaunty "Dupree Blues." While not as deep and ominous sounding as the more famous Delta players, the best of these musicians display dexterity on guitar that was unequaled elsewhere in country blues. ~ Steve Leggett, All Music GuideTracks
CD 1
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Crow Jane | Julius Daniels, |
(3:36) | |
| My Mamma Was a Sailor | Julius Daniels | (3:26) | |
| Georgia Stomp | (2:43) | ||
| Shake That Shimmy | Blind Boy Fuller, |
(2:45) | |
| Poor and Ain't Got a Dime | (3:00) | ||
| Blood Red River Blues | Josh White | (2:49) | |
| Gonna Tip Out Tonight | Pink Anderson, |
(3:12) | |
| Won't You Be Kind? | Traditional | Luke Jordan | (3:03) |
| Long and Tall | Kokomo Arnold | Kokomo Arnold | (2:48) |
| Georgia Rag | Blind Willie McTell | (3:05) | |
| Waycross Georgia Blues | Barbecue Bob | (3:08) | |
| Next Door Man | Buddy Moss, Curley Weaver, |
(3:06) | |
| Tricks Ain't Walking No More | Blind Willie McTell, Curley Weaver | (3:12) | |
| You Got to Give Me Some of It | Buddy Moss, Josh White | (3:10) | |
| Daddy Don't Care | Buddy Moss | Buddy Moss | (3:17) |
| Me and My Dog Blues | Brownie McGhee | Bull City Red, Brownie McGhee | (2:44) |
| Let's Have a New Deal | Carl Martin | (2:44) | |
| Champagne Charlie Is My Name | Blind Blake | (2:29) | |
| Please Ma'am | Peg Leg Howell | (3:01) | |
| Ball and Chain Blues | Peg Leg Howell | Jim Hill, Peg Leg Howell | (3:02) |
| Georgia Crawl | Eddie Anthony, Henry "Rubberlegs" Williams | Eddie Anthony, Henry "Rubberlegs" Williams | (3:23) |
| Ragtime Millionaire | William Moore | (3:09) | |
| Barbershop Rag | William Moore | (2:57) |
CD 2
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| South Carolina Rag | (3:09) | ||
| Dupree Blues | (3:30) | ||
| Poor Jane Blues | (2:57) | ||
| Rollin' Dough Blues | (2:52) | ||
| Royal Palm Special Blues | Eddie Anthony | (3:06) | |
| Long, Tall, Disconnected Mama | Eddie Anthony | (3:09) | |
| Decatur Street Drag | (3:13) | ||
| Chain Gang Trouble | Charley Lincoln | (3:00) | |
| Jealous Hearted Blues | Charley Lincoln | (3:36) | |
| Rag Baby | Willie Baker | (3:19) | |
| Rolling Mama | |||
| Poor Stranger Blues | Curley Weaver, |
(2:58) | |
| Hot Jelly Roll Blues | (2:53) | ||
| Ghost Woman Blues | (2:57) | ||
| Come on in Here Mama | (3:14) | ||
| Trembling Bed Spring Blues | (2:46) | ||
| Harmonica and Washboard Breakdown | Sonny Terry | Sonny Terry | (2:37) |
| Georgia Skin | Sylvester Weaver, Walter Beasley | (2:56) | |
| Southern Man Blues | Sylvester Weaver, Walter Beasley | (2:53) | |
| Unknown Blues | (3:04) | ||
| Brownie Blues | (2:59) | ||
| Mama, You Gotta Get It Fixed | (3:04) | ||
| Tampa Blues | (2:51) |
