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Alan Lomax: Blues Songbook | 
 enlarge | Artist: Alan Lomax
Label: Rounder Select
Category: Music
List Price: $24.98
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 70684
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 1866
UPC: 682161186627
EAN: 0682161186627
ASIN: B0000C9JDA
Release Date: September 30, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Going Down to the River - Alan Lomax, McDowell, Mississip | | • | Rolled and Tumbled | | • | Cherry Ball Blues | | • | Dust My Broom - Alan Lomax, James, Elmore | | • | Boogie Children - Alan Lomax, Hooker, John Lee | | • | Stagolee | | • | Stop All the Buses | | • | Worried Life Blues - Alan Lomax, Estes, Sleepy John | | • | The Pony Blues - Alan Lomax, House, Son | | • | Tangle Eye Blues | | • | Trouble So Hard | | • | Worried Blues - Alan Lomax, Harris, Jimmie D. | | • | Beggin' the Blues | | • | John Henry | | • | Country Blues - Alan Lomax, Boggs, Dock | | • | Cherry Ball Blues - Alan Lomax, James, Skip | | • | I Hate a Man Like You - Alan Lomax, Morton, Jelly Roll | | • | Roll 'Em Pete - Alan Lomax, Johnson, Pete | | • | Kokomo | | • | Life Is Like That - Alan Lomax, Memphis Slim |
Disc 2
| • | I Could Hear My Name A-Ringin' | | • | Dimples in Your Jaws | | • | Catfish Blues | | • | Kill-It-Kid Bag | | • | You're Gonna Need My Help | | • | The Army Blues - Alan Lomax, Edwards, David [2] | | • | Blues de la Prison | | • | I Been Drinking | | • | I Been a Bad, Bad Girl (Prisoner Blues) | | • | I Be's Troubled - Alan Lomax, Waters, Muddy | | • | Boogie Instrumental | | • | Blind Lemon Blues - Alan Lomax, Leadbelly | | • | Sweet Patootie Blues - Alan Lomax, Traditional | | • | The Last Time | | • | Shorty George | | • | Desert Blues - Alan Lomax, Traditional | | • | Joe Turner | | • | Joe Turner | | • | Joe Turner | | • | See That My Grave Is Kept Clean | | • | How Long Blues - Alan Lomax, Ledbetter |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
After the floodgates opened due to 2003's Martin Scorsese-produced PBS series of blues films, most labels scoured their vaults to nab a piece of the action. Dozens of reissues and repackagings hit the shelves, but Rounder, who has released classic blues for decades, eclipsed the field with this wonderful double-disc set. Comprised of field recordings made by John and Alan Lomax from 1935-'78, the scope alone of this album is formidable. Many of the acts are obscure even to blues aficionados, yet icons like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Blind Willie McTell, Son House, Leadbelly, and Mississippi Fred McDowell are peppered throughout the nearly 2 1/2 hour playing time. Although the audio quality varies from excellent to primitive, the astounding remastering makes it all listenable. This is raw, pure, spine-tingling music played with the intense nothing-left-to-lose passion of ordinary people whose impossibly difficult lives are exposed in their voices and performances. Chilling, mysterious, and even playful--sometimes simultaneously--this collection with 40 pages of detailed history, informative track-by-track notes, and forays into Cajun and spiritual side roads is most recommended to established blues fans wishing to further explore the roots of the genre. --Hal Horowitz
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| Customer Reviews:
 Sound quality is just fine! March 6, 2007
moonshiner (Vaasa, Finland)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is one of the best blues collections out there! And sound quality really is fine!! Get it!
 CD problems November 9, 2006
C. Robson (up south)
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
I'm not sure what happened or if it is just my cd, but the sound quality isn't even close to that of some of my oldest records...really sad too because the collection is great.
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