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Classic piano blues : from Smithsonian Folkways
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- Smithsonian global sound for libraries
- Format
- Sound Recordings
- Language
- English
- Contributors
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- Leadbelly, 1885-1949, performer
- Memphis Slim, performer
- Speckled Red, 1892-1973, performer
- Brown, Henry, 1906-1981, performer
- Dixon, Willie, 1915-1992, performer
- Dupree, Champion Jack, -1992, performer
- Ellis, Wilbert, 1914-1977, performer
- Gillum, Jazz, 1904-1966, performer
- Johnson, Edith, performer
- Johnson, James P. (James Price), 1894-1955, performer
- Laury, Booker T., 1914-1995, performer
- Lewis, Katherine Handy, 1902-1982, performer
- Lewis, Meade, 1905-1964, performer
- Montgomery, Little Brother, 1906-1985, performer
- Price, Sammy, performer
- Spivey, Victoria, performer
- Sykes, Roosevelt, performer
- Townsend, Henry, performer
- Publication
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- Washington, DC : Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, [2008]
- ℗2008
- Physical Details
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- Streaming sound files
- OCLC
- ocn698166970, ocn228304140
- Credits
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- Various performers
- Originally issued as compact disc.
- Previously released material.
- Program notes by Jeff Place, including bibliography and discography inserted in original container.
- Dedication to Pete Johnson (Memphis Slim) (3:12) -- Early in the morning (Booker T. Laury) (3:06) -- How long blues (Speckled Red) (3:20) -- Yellow dog blues (James P. Johnson and Katherine Handy Lewis) (2:56) -- Key to the highway (Memphis Slim and Jazz Gillum) (2: 54) -- Medium blues (Meade "Lux" Lewis) (2:51) -- Black wolf blues (Champion Jack Dupree) (2:57) -- Dices blues (Big Chief Ellis) (4:54) -- Big fat woman (Lead Belly) (1:10) -- Harlem parlor blues (Sammy Price) Little drops of water (Henry Brown with Edith North Johnson) (3:03) -- Pinetop's boogie woogie (Little Brother Montgomery) (4:08) -- (3:26) -- Wish me well (Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon) (2:10) -- All my money's gone (Henry Townsend) (2:53) -- You're my man (Victoria Spivey) (4:33) -- On my way to see Moe Asch (4:21) -- Sweet old Chicago (Roosevelt Sykes) No special rider blues (3:29) -- Hesitation blues (James P. Johnson) (3:05)