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Box of the Blues

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    61 Highway – Mississippi Fred McDowell 03:11
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    See See Rider – Herb Quinn, Jewell "Babe" Stovall 02:53
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    I Could Hear My Name A-Ringin' – Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Memphis Slim 03:39
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    Cheating and Lying Blues – Robert Nighthawk 04:58
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    Lonesome Whistle – Robert Lockwood, Jr., Johnny Shines 03:45
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    Broken Hearted Blues – Etta Baker 04:52
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    I'm Gonna Make You Happy – Buster Brown 03:35
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    Dooleyville Blues – Bill "Boogie Bill" Webb 02:08
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    One Kind Favor – Cephas & Wiggins 02:55
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    Blues for Martin Luther King – Otis Spann 03:39
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    Wind Howlin' Blues – David Honeyboy Edwards 03:17
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    Dying Crapshooter's Blues – Blind Willie McTell 03:10
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    Screamin' and Cryin' – Big Joe Williams 03:17
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    Candy Man – Mississippi John Hurt 02:58
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    The Red Cross Store – Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry 03:26
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    One More Mile – Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown 04:15
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    My Eyes Keep Me in Trouble – Carey Bell 04:51
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    Give Me Flowers While I'm Livin' – Champion Jack Dupree 05:00
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    Cool Blues Walk – Eddy Clearwater 05:30
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    Port Arthur Blues – Phillip Walker 04:36
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    Nobody But You – Johnny Copeland 03:47
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    Jukin' – Willie Cobbs 06:24
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    Johnny's Jump [#] – Johnny Young 02:21
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    Goin' Out West, Pts. 1 and 2 – Larry Davis 05:57
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    Walking by Myself – Jimmy Rogers 03:07
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    Blues and My Guitar – Lowell Fulson 04:44
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    Eighteen Year Old Girl – J.B. Hutto 04:17
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    I'm from Mississippi – Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson & the Magic Rockers 04:54
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    This Is the Blues – Lonesome Sundown 02:41
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    The Man from Mars – Smokey Wilson 05:44
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    Change in My Pocket – Anson Funderburgh & the Rockets 02:54
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    Blue House – Marcia Ball 03:27
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    Meanest Woman – Geoff Muldaur 03:48
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    Make Some Changes – Andrew "Jr. Boy" Jones 03:49
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    Down South Blues – Tarbox Ramblers 04:03
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    How Long – The Chris Duarte Group 05:20
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    I'm the Toughest Girl Alive – Candye Kane 03:08
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    Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning – Corey Harris 02:54
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    Frankie and Albert – Rory Block 02:27
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    What That Means to Me – Duke Robillard 02:51
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    Let Me Live – Roomful of Blues 03:52
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    Lovin' Someone Else – Little Jimmy King & The Memphis Soul Survivors 05:35
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    John Hardy – George Thorogood 03:23
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    One Night Affair – The Smokin' Joe Kubek Band, Bnois King, Little Milton, Smokin' Joe Kubek 05:38
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    Shifting Sand – Michelle Wilson 04:41
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    A Good Day for the Blues – Ruth Brown 04:35
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    Outskirts of Town – Wilson Pickett 03:25
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    Live and Let Live – Terry Evans, Bobby King 04:41
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    Roadblock – Johnny Adams 04:51
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    I Can Take You to Heaven Tonight – Otis Clay 04:37
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    Got to Get Myself Some Money – Solomon Burke 04:58
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    Nowhere to Hide – Paul Kelly 03:28
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    What Can I Do (Somebody Tell Me) – Little Buster & the Soul Brothers 03:58
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    Two Wrongs – Theryl DeClouet 03:51
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    I Stepped in Quicksand – Charles Brown 05:27
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    Ain't No Business Like Your Business – Ann Peebles 04:42
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    Promised Land – The Holmes Brothers 03:36
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    You Don't Know Nothin' About Love – Tracy Nelson, Irma Thomas 04:46
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    Bring It on Home Daddy – Ted Hawkins 03:05
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    Out of the Dark – Walter "Wolfman" Washington 05:54

Rounder's four-CD Box of the Blues is, by looking at its inclusion of tracks, seemingly an ambitious proposition. But looks can be deceiving. Compiled and introduced by vice president of AR Scott Billington -- a man whose credentials, when it comes to fighting for and preserving blues traditions, are unassailable -- these discs become a kind of theme-oriented blur of Rounder's substantial catalog holdings. Billington's schemata are quirky, sometimes ironic, and sometimes downright scary and profound as the set's first and second discs' "61 Highway" and "One More Mile" attest. The first CD concentrates its energies on the revelation of blues as it came up from the Mississippi Delta in the music of Fred McDowell, Johnny Shines, Etta Baker, Blind Willie McTell, John Hurt, and others and mutated up north to Chicago with Otis Spann, Robert Nighthawk, and others. On disc two, the blues becomes a more regional concern as expressed by everyone from Gatemouth Brown to Jack Dupree to Willie Cobbs and J.B. Hutto. Texas and News Orleans are prominently featured. And disc four, being a mishmash of current styles, has its merits even if the strategy is hard to decipher -- perhaps it is only that Billington put his favorite cuts on the disc, which would make it plenty valid even if it is a careening listen. But "Change in the Pocket" is erratic in its presentations of traditional purveyors of the music from George Thorogood and Corey Harris to the Tarbox Ramblers and Roomful of Blues. Here everything feels willy-nilly and reeks of some kind of revisionism. But still, three out of four isn't bad and the price is right, too. This is no Grammy-deserving compilation, but there are some amazing things on it -- even if it feels like Rounder patting itself on the back and trying to cash in on Martin Scorsese's Presents the Blues series on PBS. Thom Jurek, Rovi

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  • Online Item #: 11430164
  • Store Item Number (DPCI): 244-03-9974
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