New York attracted a number of blues musicians during the '40s and early '50s, and this wonderful, 113-track set collects the biggest names and the best sides to emerge from the scene! Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee are well represented with a total of 28 tracks; then come cuts by the mysterious "Sonny Boy and Lonnie" (thought by blues scholars to be Sonny Boy Smith and Lonnie Johnson), Carolina Slim, Cousin Leroy, Leroy Dallas, Big Chief Ellis, Bob Gaddy, Bobby Harris and more. An urban blues bonanza!