Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Sliding Delta - Mississippi John Hurt
2. Candy Man - Mississippi John Hurt
3. Coffee Blues - Mississippi John Hurt
4. Stagolee - Mississippi John Hurt
5. Here I Am Lord Send Me - Mississippi John Hurt
6. Pallet On Your Floor - Mississippi John Hurt
7. Devil Got My Woman - Skip James
8. Hard Time Killing Floor Blues - Skip James
9. Preaching Blues - Son House
10. Death Letter Blues - Son House
11. Empire State Express - Son House
12. Son Blues - Son House
13. Aberdeen Mississippi Blues - Bukka White
14. Louise - Mississippi Fred McDowell
15. If The River Was Whiskey - Mississippi Fred McDowell
16. Walkin' Blues - Muddy Waters
17. I Can't Be Satisfied - Muddy Waters

Disc 2:

1. Levee Camp Blues - Robert Pete Williams
2. Midnight Boogie - Robert Pete Williams
3. On My Way From Texas - Robert Pete Williams
4. Freddie - Mance Lipscomb
5. So Different Blues - Mance Lipscomb
6. God Moves On The Water (The Sinking Of The Titanic) - Mance Lipscomb
7. San Francisco Bay Blues - Jesse Fuller
8. I Double Double Do Love You - Jesse Fuller
9. Samson & Delilah - Reverend Gary Davis
10. I Won't Be Back No More - Reverend Gary Davis
11. Intro/The Train Is Leaving - Brownie McGhee/Sonny Terry
12. Drink Muddy Water - Brownie McGhee/Sonny Terry
13. Long Gone - Brownie McGhee/Sonny Terry
14. Key To The Highway - Brownie McGhee/Sonny Terry
15. My Baby Done Changed The Lock On The Door - Brownie McGhee/Sonny Terry
16. Clean Up At Home - Sleepy John Estes

Disc 3:

1. The Woman I'm Loving, She's Taken My Appetite - Lightnin' Hopkins
2. Baby Please Don't Go - Lightnin' Hopkins
3. Shake That Thing - Lightnin' Hopkins
4. Tupelo - John Lee Hooker
5. Bus Station Blues - John Lee Hooker
6. Let's Make It - John Lee Hooker
7. Great Fire Of Natchez - John Lee Hooker
8. Boom Boom - John Lee Hooker
9. I Can't Quit You Baby/Stop Now Baby - John Lee Hooker
10. How Long - Memphis Slim
11. Black Cat Crossed My Path - Memphis Slim
12. Harlem Bound - Memphis Slim
13. Piano Instrumental - Memphis Slim
14. Blow Wind Blow - Muddy Waters/Otis Spann
15. Flood - Muddy Waters/Otis Spann
16. See See Rider - The Chambers Brothers
17. Blues With A Feeling - Paul Butterfield Blues Band
18. Born In Chicago - Paul Butterfield Blues Band

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19266 in Music
• Released on: 2008-08-05
• Number of discs: 3
• Formats: Compilation, Live
• Dimensions: .41 pounds

From Amazon.com
These three CDs document some of the greatest moments of culture shock in American music. Most of the bluesmen who first came to Newport had never played before audiences so attentive, large, or white. And those listening had never experienced anything like Skip James's blood-chilling whine, Reverend Gary Davis's furious testifying, or Mississippi John Hurt's twirling melodies. Most of the audience, in fact, assumed the bluesmen were dead. As a cinematic sweep of just what made those countercultural gatherings so exciting and diverse, this set is an unqualified success (though the rather arbitrary and ahistorical sequencing by blues subgenre is as puzzling as the omission of specific performance dates). While many tracks have long been available on other compilations, the unreleased cuts, 11 in all, are revelations, especially Muddy Waters and Otis Spann strutting through "Flood" and John Lee Hooker sinking into the scary groove of "Let's Make It." --Roy Kasten