One of the sparks that ignited the British blues boom was Paul Oliver's 1960 book Blues Fell This Morning. It's been cited as a catalyst by countless UK artists; here are 4 CDs of seminal tracks (many quite rare) referenced in it: Falling Rain Blues Lonnie Johnson; Dark Night Blues Blind Willie McTell; Pony Blues Charley Patton; Shake 'Em on Down Bukka White; No Place to Go Walter Davis; Cottonseed Blues Roosevelt Sykes; Dry Spell Blues Pt. 1 Son House; Blue Monday Blues Ida Cox, and more!
19 If You Lose Your Good Gal, Don't Mess with Mine
20 Jack O' Diamond Blues [Take 2] [Take]
21 Stack O' Lee Blues
22 Policy Dream Blues
23 Policy Wheel Blues
24 Four Eleven Forty Four
25 Three Sixty Nine Blues
26 The Clearing House Blues
- Disc 4 -
1 Mississippi Jail House Groan
2 Lonesome Blues
3 Old Rounder's Blues
4 Moon Going Down
5 Smack That Thing
6 I Had to Smack That Thing
7 I Had to Come Back Home Blues
8 Rowdy Blues
9 Barrelhouse When It Rains
10 Blues in the Alley
11 Old Jim Canaan's
12 On the Wall
13 Beaver Slide Rag
14 Low Down Mississippi Bottom Man
15 You Got to Reap What You Sow
16 Sitting on Top of the World
17 Some Summer Day, Pt. 1
18 I'm Still Sitting on Top of the World
19 Mama Blues
20 Friday Moan Blues
21 Violin Blues
22 Shaking Weed Blues
23 Fairasee Woman (Memphis Woman)
24 Spike Driver Blues
25 Waking Blues
One of the sparks that ignited the British blues boom was Paul Oliver's 1960 book Blues Fell This Morning. It's been cited as a catalyst by countless UK artists; here are 4 CDs of seminal tracks (many quite rare) referenced in it: Falling Rain Blues Lonnie Johnson; Dark Night Blues Blind Willie McTell; Pony Blues Charley Patton; Shake 'Em on Down Bukka White; No Place to Go Walter Davis; Cottonseed Blues Roosevelt Sykes; Dry Spell Blues Pt. 1 Son House; Blue Monday Blues Ida Cox, and more!
