Inveterate record collector R. Crumb's artwork for this 2-CD set includes the subtitle "The Dead Sea Scrolls of Record Collecting," and indeed he and his henchmen at the Yazoo label have cooked up quite the collection for US unsuspecting consumers, consisting of 46 of the rarest and greatest blues and country sides from the '20s and '30s! Among the gems: two newly discovered masterpieces from Son House, Mississippi Country Farm Blues and Clarksdale Moan; If I Call You, a Luke Jordan side 'never' heard anywhere; the long-lost Georgia Pot Lickers record featuring duet fiddling by Lowe Stokes and A.A. Gray, and rarities from rural legends Tommy Johnson, Dock Boggs, Clarence Ashley, the Sweet Brothers, Andrew and Jim Baxter and many, many more. Crumb's booklet artwork expounds on the lunacy of record collecting utterly unique!
5 Wilmer Watts & the Lonely Eagles: Fightin' in the War with Spain
6 John Byrd: Old Timbrook Blues
7 Ernest Phipps and His Holiness Singers: A Little Talk with Jesus
8 Tommy Johnson: Slidin' Delta
9 The Three Striped Gears: Alabama Blues
10 Jack Gowdlock: Rollin Dough Blues
11 Kentucky Ramblers: Ginseng Blues
12 Ollis Martin: Police and High Sheriff Come Ridin' Down
13 Roy Harvey & Jess Johnston and the West Virginia Ramblers: John Hardy Blues
14 Long "Cleeve" Reed & Little Harvey Hull - the Down Home Boys: Original Stack O' Lee Blues
15 Amedie Ardoin & Dennis McGee: Two Step de la Prairie Soileau
16 Andrew & Jim Baxter: Operator Blues
17 J.D. Harris: The Grey Eagle
18 Memphis Jug Band: Jim Strainer Blues
19 Grayson County Railsplitters: Ain't That Trouble in Mind (Unissued)
20 Dock Boggs: Old Rub Alcohol Blues
21 Jaybird Coleman: Mistreatin' Mama
22 Henry Whitter: It's a Rough Road to Georgia (Unissued)
23 Rev. B.L. Wightman with Lottie Kimbrough & Congregation: Live the Life
- Disc 2 -
1 Yank Rachel with Sleepy John Estes & Jab Jones: Sweet Mama
2 Crowder Brothers: We All Love Mother (Unissued)
3 Son House: Clarksdale Moan
4 Ashley & Foster: Bull Dog Sal (Unissued)
5 Jesse "Babyface" Thomas: Down in Texas Blues
6 Georgia Pot Lickers: Chicken Don't Roost Too High
7 William Harris: I'm Leavin' Town (But I Sho' Don't Wanna Go)
8 Asa Martin & Roy Hobbs: Wild Cat Rag
9 King Solomon Hill: Whoopee Blues (Alternate Take)
10 Chubby Parker: Davey Crockett
11 Geeshie Wiley: Skinny Leg Blues
12 Sweet Brothers: I'm Gonna Marry That Pretty Little Girl
13 Blind Roosevelt Graves & Varoy Graves: I Shall Not Be Moved
14 Smith & Irvine: Lonesome Road Blues
15 Luke Jordon: If I Call You Mama
16 Grayson & Whitter: My Mind Is to Marry (Unissued)
17 Osey Helton: Green River
18 Lottie Kimbrough: Don't Speak to Me
19 Wade Ward: Married Man's Blues (Unissued)
20 Ken Maynard: Sweet Betsey from Pike (Unissued)
21 Jaybird Coleman: Boll Weevil
22 Bill Shepherd with Hayes Shepherd & Ed Webb: Bound Steel Blues
23 Middle Georgia Singing Convention No. 1: Bells of Love
Inveterate record collector R. Crumb's artwork for this 2-CD set includes the subtitle "The Dead Sea Scrolls of Record Collecting," and indeed he and his henchmen at the Yazoo label have cooked up quite the collection for US unsuspecting consumers, consisting of 46 of the rarest and greatest blues and country sides from the '20s and '30s! Among the gems: two newly discovered masterpieces from Son House, Mississippi Country Farm Blues and Clarksdale Moan; If I Call You, a Luke Jordan side 'never' heard anywhere; the long-lost Georgia Pot Lickers record featuring duet fiddling by Lowe Stokes and A.A. Gray, and rarities from rural legends Tommy Johnson, Dock Boggs, Clarence Ashley, the Sweet Brothers, Andrew and Jim Baxter and many, many more. Crumb's booklet artwork expounds on the lunacy of record collecting utterly unique!
