Various Artists - Electric Blues 1939-54 (English) 1 / Various (CD)

Volume One of Four. Booklet in English. EU-only three CD collection compiled and annotated by renowned Blues expert, Bill Dahl. Bear Family Records is telling the story from the beginning of electric Blues into the new millennium. In the 1930s, the invention of Gibson's ES-150 - the first electric guitar - changed popular music forever. The first generation of Blues pioneers played acoustic instruments, but with the invention of amplification, guitar and harmonica players could be heard over the piano, drums and horns. Music was revolutionized. Here's the complete story from jazz-inspired jump numbers in the late 1930s to hard-driving blues/rock from the States and Great Britain in the 1960s, '70s, and beyond.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Floyd's Guitar Blues
2. Mean Old World
3. Strange Things Happening Every Day
4. Drifting Blues
5. Ain't That Just Like a Woman
6. That's All Right
7. Let Me Play with Your Poodle
8. Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just As Bad)
9. Better Cut That Out
10. Ramblin' Bill
11. I Can't Be Satisfied
12. Boogie Chillen
13. Blues After Hours
14. Mary Is Fine
15. Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee
16. Hit the Road
17. Who's Been Jivin' You
18. Black Angel Blues (Sweet Black Angel)
19. My Special Friend Blues
20. Every Day I Have the Blues (Lonely Heart Blues)
21. Rock Awhile
22. Bon Ton Roula
23. Rollin' and Tumblin', Pt. 1
24. Slippin' and Slidin'
25. Rockin' All Day (Rockin' and Reelin')
26. Love Don't Love Nobody

Disc: 2

1. That's All Right
2. Midnight Boogie
3. Black Night
4. Rock Little Baby
5. Why Should I Cry?
6. Rocket '88'
7. How Many More Years?
8. Boogie Woogie Nighthawk
9. Baby Let's Go Down to the Woods
10. Kansas City Blues
11. Pontiac Blues
12. Dust My Broom
13. I'm in the Mood
14. Cold Cold Feeling
15. Ramblin' on My Mind
16. Please Send My Baby Back
17. Trust in Me
18. Juke
19. Me and My Chauffeur Blues
20. Five Long Years
21. Lonesome Train
22. Hound Dog
23. Chocolate Pork Chop Man
24. Woke Up This Morning
25. Evening Sun
26. Cryin' Shame

Disc: 3

1. Messin' Up
2. Please Love Me
3. Forty Cups of Coffee
4. Ice Cream Man
5. Losing Hand
6. Hydramatic Woman
7. Feelin' Good
8. One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer
9. Tiger Man
10. Blues with a Feeling
11. Piggly Wiggly
12. TV Mama
13. The Things That I Used to Do
14. Shim Sham Shimmy
15. Dirty Work at the Crossroad
16. You Don't Have to Go
17. I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
18. Sloppy Drunk
19. Shake That Thing
20. Wine, Women, Whiskey
21. I'm Gonna Murder My Baby
22. Pet Cream Man
23. Reconsider Baby
24. Don't Have to Worry (Jumpin' in the Heart of Town)
25. The Boogie Disease