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Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Hip-O Records
Category: Music
This item is no longer available
Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 88142
Format: Box Set, Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 5
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 10 x 6 x 0.8
MPN: 000039302
UPC: 044003952324
EAN: 0044003952324
ASIN: B0000A0VA1
Release Date: September 9, 2003
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Othar Turner & The Rising Star Fife & Drum Band - Shortnin' / Henduck | | • | Lightning & Group - Long John | | • | Mamie Smith - Crazy Blues | | • | W.C. Handy - St. Louis Blues | | • | Bessie Smith - Muddy Water | | • | Blind Lemon Jefferson - Match Box Blues | | • | Furry Lewis - Billy Lyons & Stack-O-Lee | | • | "Ma" Rainey - "Ma" Rainey's Black Bottom | | • | Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground | | • | Louis Armstrong - Savoy Blues | | • | Frank Stokes - Downtown Blues | | • | Mississippi John Hurt - Frankie | | • | Henry Thomas - Fishing Blues | | • | Leroy Carr - How Long How Long Blues | | • | Tommy Johnson - Canned Heat Blues | | • | Blind Willie McTell - Statesboro Blues | | • | Tampa Red & Georgia Tom - It's Tight Like That | | • | Pine Top Smith - Pine Top's Boogie Woogie | | • | Lonnie Johnson - Guitar Blues | | • | Charley Patton - Pony Blues | | • | Blind Blake - Diddie Wah Diddie | | • | Memphis Jug Band - K.C. Moan | | • | Jimmie Rodgers - Standin' On The Corner (Blue Yodel # 9) | | • | Mississippi Sheiks - Sittin' On Top Of The World | | • | Son House - Preachin' The Blues |
Disc 2
| • | Skip James - Devil Got My Woman | | • | Lead Belly - C.C. Rider | | • | Big Joe Williams - Baby Please Don't Go | | • | Roosevelt Sykes - Dirty Mother For You (Don't You Know) | | • | Billie Holiday - Billie's Blues | | • | Robert Johnson - Cross Road Blues | | • | Sonny Boy Williamson - I Good Mornin' Little School Girl | | • | Bukka White - Shake 'Em On Down | | • | Joe Turner & Pete Johnson - Roll 'Em Pete | | • | Robert Petway - Catfish Blues | | • | Count Basie Orchestra with Jimmy Rushing - Going To Chicago Blues | | • | Big Bill Broonzy - Key To The Highway | | • | Memphis Minnie - Me And My Chauffeur Blues | | • | Big Maceo Merriweather - Worried Life Blues | | • | Tommy McClennon - Cross Cut Saw Blues | | • | Lionel Hampton Sextet with Dinah Washington - Evil Gal Blues | | • | Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Strange Things Happening Everyday | | • | Joe Liggins - Honeydripper Pt.I | | • | Johnny Moore's Three Blazers featuring Charles Brown - Drifting Blues | | • | Louis Jordan - Let The Good Times Roll | | • | Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - That's All Right Mama | | • | T-Bone Walker - Call It Stormy Monday | | • | Wynonie Harris - Good Rockin' Tonight | | • | Jimmy Witherspoon - Ain't Nobody's Business, Part One | | • | The Johnny Otis Quintette with Little Esther & The Robins - Double Crossing Blues |
Disc 3
| • | Memphis Slim - Mother Earth | | • | Percy Mayfield - Please Send Me Someone To Love | | • | Jackie Brenston - Rocket 88 | | • | Elmore James - Dust My Broom | | • | Rosco Gordon - No More Doggin' | | • | Little Walter - Juke | | • | Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog | | • | Lowell Fulson - Reconsider Baby | | • | Guitar Slim - The Things That I Used To Do | | • | Professor Longhair - In The Night | | • | Muddy Waters - (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man | | • | J.B. Lenoir - Eisenhower Blues | | • | Fats Domino - Blue Monday | | • | Ray Charles - Hard Times | | • | Smiley Lewis - I Hear You Knockin' | | • | Elvis Presley - Mystery Train | | • | Sonny Boy Williamson II - Don't Start Me To Talkin' | | • | Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightnin' | | • | Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love | | • | Slim Harpo - I'm A King Bee | | • | Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode | | • | Bobby "Blue" Bland - Farther Up The Road | | • | Otis Rush - So Many Roads, So Many Trains | | • | Buddy Guy - First Time I Met The Blues |
Disc 4
| • | Freddie King - Hide Away | | • | Junior Parker - Drivin' Wheel | | • | John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom | | • | Albert Collins - Frosty | | • | Muddy Waters - You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had | | • | Howlin' Wolf - Killing Floor | | • | Son House - Death Letter Blues | | • | Mississippi Fred McDowell - You Gotta Move | | • | Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited | | • | Junior Wells - Hoodoo Man Blues | | • | Koko Taylor - Wang Dang Doodle | | • | John Mayall's Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton - All Your Love | | • | Paul Butterfield Blues Band - I've Got A Mind To Give Up Livin' | | • | Jimi Hendrix - Red House | | • | Albert King - Born Under The Bad Sign | | • | Magic Sam - Mama Talk To Your Daughter | | • | Etta James - Tell Mama | | • | The Jeff Beck - Group Ain't Superstitious | | • | Taj Mahal - She Caught The Katy (And Left Me A Mule To Ride) | | • | Fleetwood Mac - Black Magic Woman | | • | Janis Joplin - One Good Man |
Disc 5
| • | B.B. King - The Thrill Is Gone | | • | Johnny Winter - Dallas | | • | Derek & The Dominos - Have You Ever Loved A Woman | | • | Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers - Give Me Back My Wig | | • | The Allman Brothers Band - One Way Out | | • | Z.Z. Hill - Down Home Blues | | • | Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Pride And Joy | | • | Robert Cray - Smoking Gun | | • | Fabulous Thunderbirds - Tuff Enuff | | • | John Lee Hooker & Bonnie Raitt - I'm In The Mood | | • | Ali Farka Toure - Timbarma | | • | Keb' Mo' - Am I Wrong? | | • | Luther Allison - Cherry Red Wine | | • | Peggy Scott-Adams - Bill | | • | Susan Tedeschi - Just Won't Burn | | • | Los Lobos - Voodoo Music | | • | Bonnie Raitt - Round And Round | | • | Cassandra Wilson - Vietnam Blues | | • | Robert Cray & Shemekia Copeland - I Pity The Fool (Live) | | • | Keb' Mo' & Corey Harris - Sweet Home Chicago |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
This is by far the best and most comprehensive introduction to recorded blues ever assembled, drawing styles, record labels, and eras together with the efficiency of a spider's web. These five discs--tied to the hit-and-miss PBS film series Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues--embrace field hollers, early queens Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, the music's first composer W.C. Handy, Delta slide guitarists, string bands, piano barrelhousers, jazz geniuses Count Basie and Lionel Hampton, Texas hotshots, lyric poets Percy Mayfield and Willie Dixon, Chicago powerhouses from Muddy Waters to Buddy Guy, Howlin' Wolf and howling white boys, soulkittens Etta James and Janis Joplin, juke joint brawlers like Hound Dog Taylor, African torchbearer Ali Farka Toure, modern guitar heroes Stevie Ray Vaughan and Luther Allison, and even recent hit-makers Peggy Scott-Adams and Susan Tedeschi. And that's just a smidgen of the talents represented across more than 100 cuts. Nonetheless, there are grave omissions in disc five, which focuses on contemporary blues. The raw electric sound of present-day Mississippi, embodied by R.L. Burnside and other artists on the Fat Possum label, has done much to open the ears of college-age audiences and should be included. Also absent are the music's most important contemporary innovators: Afro-blues fusionist Corey Harris, psychedelic folk bluesman Otis Taylor and rap-blues proselytizer Chris Thomas King. Still, it's obvious this collection is a work of devotion and intelligence as well as commerce. --Ted Drozdowski
Album Description
Full title - Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues - A Musical Journey. Five-CD deluxe boxed set includes a comprehensive collection of the music from the seven films airing on PBS. A definitive overview of blues, from its earliest recordings over 80 years ago, to contemporary artists and new recordings made specifically for The Blues. Music from the PBS Series The Blues, executive produced by acclaimed filmmaker Martin Scorsese. 116 tracks on 5 CDs, plus 60-page collector's booklet with stunning photos and illuminating essays. Features introductory essay by Martin Scorsese. Gatefold digibox. Hip-O Records. 2003.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey October 10, 2008
Erica van der Reijden (nelson, nz)
If you've seen the movies and got frustrated at the short performances here is your solution. Definitally a great complimentary to the DVDs as now you can also enjoy hearing the music in full.
 Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues May 8, 2008
Mitchell S. Friedman (Walnut Creek, CA)
I owned this previously and I am glad to have it again. It will teach about the blues from their inception at the turn of the 20th century to the present day. All the classic songs that were later done by UK acts are here as well. If you can find it used, it is a better bargain because there is a lot here that is "filler not killer" but if you want to get a blues education, buy this collection.
Excellent Synopsis of the Blues March 18, 2007
D. A. Denst
This collection is an excellent synopsis of the Blues from its earliest roots on the rercording medium to modern times. It also shows how far and wide this genre covers in the musical landscape with its influence on rock-and-roll and jazz. Besides having over 115 songs, there is also a companion booklet that documents every track. I really recommend this collection to anyone not familiar with the Blues, because it can be a great starting point for you to expand on an area you find more interesting, like the Kansas City blues in the 30s, Chicago blues in the 50s, or diverse individuals such as Lead Belly, T-Bone Walker, Howlin' Wolf, John Jee Hooker, and Stevie Ray Vaughn.
Best blues compilation July 13, 2006
T. Singarella (Memphis)
IMO, this 5-disc set is par none the best blues compilation spanning over 50 years. Not everything noteworthy has been included, but it is the best bang for your buck you're going to find anywhere for a wide blues selection from early to recent, and Marty Scorese did a fantastic job in selection. I have given it as a gift several times and it is the gift that keeps on giving. Some very great tunes.
Raw June 19, 2006
Morrissey (Korea)
This box set compliments the film series very well. Musically, the set is wonderful until the middle half of the fourth disc and wans quite considerably on the fifth disc. This is not only a matter of bad taste in choosing appropriate music for these parts of the set, it is merely a matter of musical history: the blues at the time in which these portions of the set cover was simple not very good music.
These portions would have been much better off if they included work by the likes of Carey Bell or RL Burnside instead of The Fabulous Thunderbirds and the Cock Rocker of Blues, Stevie Ray Vaughn.
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