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All the Classic Sides 1928-1937

All the Classic Sides 1928-1937
Big Bill Broonzy

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Track Listing

Disc 1:

  1. House Rent Stomp - Big Bill Broonzy
  2. Big Bill Blues - Big Bill Broonzy
  3. Down in the Basement Blues - Big Bill Broonzy
  4. Starvation Blues - Big Bill Broonzy
  5. Somebody's Been Using That Thing - The Famous Hokum Boys
  6. Black Cat Rag - The Famous Hokum Boys
  7. Pig Meat Strut - The Famous Hokum Boys
  8. Guitar Rag - The Famous Hokum Boys
  9. Saturday Night Rub - The Famous Hokum Boys
  10. I Can't Be Satisfied - Big Bill Broonzy, Sammy Sampson
  11. Grandma's Farm - Big Bill Broonzy, Sammy Sampson
  12. Skoodle Do Do - Big Bill Broonzy, Sammy Sampson
  13. Tadpole Blues - Big Bill Broonzy, Sammy Sampson
  14. Bow Leg Baby - Big Bill Broonzy, Sammy Sampson
  15. Skoodle Do Do - Big Bill Johnson
  16. Saturday Night Rub - The Hokum Boys
  17. Pig Meat Strut - The Hokum Boys
  18. Papa's Gettin' Hot - The Hokum Boys
  19. Police Station Blues - Big Bill Broonzy, Sammy Sampson
  20. They Can't Do That - Big Bill Broonzy, Sammy Sampson
  21. No Good Buddy - Big Bill Broonzy, Sammy Sampson, Bill Williams
  22. State Street Woman - Big Bill Broonzy, Sammy Sampson
  23. Meanest Kind of Blues - Big Bill Broonzy, Sammy Sampson
  24. I Got the Blues for My Baby - Big Bill Broonzy, Sammy Sampson
  25. Banker's Blues - Big Bill Johnson
  26. How You Want It Done - Big Bill Johnson

Disc 2:

  1. Worried in Mind Blues - Big Bill Johnson
  2. Too Too Train Blues - Big Bill Johnson
  3. Mistreatin' Mamma - Big Bill Johnson
  4. Big Bill Blues - Big Bill Johnson
  5. Brown Skin Shuffle - Big Bill Johnson
  6. Stove Pipe Stomp - Big Bill Johnson
  7. Beedle Um Bum - Big Bill Johnson
  8. Selling That Stuff - Big Bill Johnson
  9. Mr. Conductor Man - Big Bill Johnson
  10. Too Too Train Blues
  11. Worrying You Off My Mind, Pt. 1
  12. Worrying You Off My Mind, Pt. 2
  13. Shelby County Blues
  14. Mistreatin' Mama Blues
  15. Bull Cow Blues
  16. How You Want It Done
  17. Long Tall Mama
  18. M and O Blues - Big Bill Broonzy
  19. Rukus Juice Blues - Big Bill Broonzy
  20. Friendless Blues
  21. Milk Cow Blues
  22. Hungry Man Blues
  23. I'll Be Back Home Again
  24. Bull Cow Blues, Pt. 2
  25. Serve It to Me Right

Disc 3:

  1. Starvation Blues
  2. Mississippi River Blues
  3. At the Break of Day
  4. I Want to Go Home
  5. Hard Headed Woman
  6. Dying Day Blues
  7. I Want to See My Baby
  8. Serve It to Me Right
  9. Dirty No-Gooder
  10. Let Her Go-She Don't Know
  11. Hobo Blues
  12. Prowlin' Ground Hog
  13. C.C. Rider [Take A]
  14. C.C. Rider [Take B]
  15. Sweet to Mama - State Street Boys
  16. Rustlin' Man - State Street Boys
  17. She Caught the Train - State Street Boys
  18. Midnight Special - State Street Boys
  19. Dozen - State Street Boys
  20. Don't Tear My Clothes - State Street Boys
  21. Southern Blues
  22. Good Jelly
  23. C & A Blues
  24. Something Good
  25. You May Need My Help Someday

Disc 4:

  1. Rising Sun Shine On
  2. Mountain Blues
  3. Bad Luck Blues
  4. I Can't Make You Satisfied
  5. I'm Just a Bum
  6. Keep Your Hands Off Her
  7. Sun Gonna Shine in My Door Someday
  8. Good Liquor Gonna Carry Me Down
  9. Down the Line Blues
  10. Bricks in My Pillow
  11. Tell Me What You Been Doing
  12. Ash Hauler
  13. Evil Women Blues
  14. These Ants Keep Biting Me
  15. Big Billl Blues (These Blues Are Doggin' Me)
  16. You Know I Need Lovin'
  17. Match Box Blues
  18. Low Down Woman Blues
  19. Keep Your Mind on It - The Hokum Boys
  20. Bull Cow Blues, No.3
  21. Married Life's a Pain
  22. Black Mare Blues
  23. Pneumonia Blues
  24. Big Bill's Milk Cow, No. 2
  25. W.P.A. Blues
  26. I'm a Southern Man - Big Bill Broonzy

Disc 5:

  1. Nancy Jane - The Hokum Boys
  2. Lowland Blues
  3. Seven-Eleven (Dice Please Don't Fail Me)
  4. You Know I Got a Reason
  5. Oh Babe (Don't Do Me That Way)
  6. Detroit Special
  7. Falling Rain
  8. Black Widow Spider
  9. Cherry Hill
  10. Out With the Wrong Woman
  11. Don't Tear My Clothes, No. 2 - Chicago Black Swans
  12. You Drink Too Much
  13. Southern Flood Blues
  14. My Big Money
  15. My Woman Mistreats Me
  16. Let's Reel and Rock - Big Bill Broonzy
  17. Come Up to My House - Big Bill Broonzy
  18. Get Back (Black, Brown and White) - Big Bill Broonzy
  19. Terrible Flood Blues - Big Bill Broonzy
  20. Little Bug - Big Bill Broonzy
  21. Horny Frog [Take 1] - Big Bill Broonzy
  22. Horny Frog [Take 2] - Big Bill Broonzy
  23. Mean Old World [Take 1] - Big Bill Broonzy
  24. Mean Old World [Take 2] - Big Bill Broonzy
  25. Barrelhouse When It Rains - Big Bill Broonzy

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #46921 in Music
  • Released on: 2004-01-27
  • Number of discs: 5
  • Formats: Best of, Box set
  • Dimensions: 1.08 pounds

Customer Reviews

****½5
Finally! All of Big Bill Broonzy's classic and hugely influential prewar sides gathered together. 128 sides recorded for labels like Paramount, ARC and Perfect Records, and featuring Big Bill as a solo performer, as well as leading various small combos.

Big Bill Broonzy was one of the major links between country blues and the urban Chicago variety, and artists like Memphis Slim and Muddy Waters recorded entire LPs of his material.
The sound on these five discs is not great, but you probably won't find any better-sounding Big Bill-sides from the 20s and 30s, and this is certainly no second-rate compilation, in spite of the relatively low price and the cartoonish design of the box. On the contrary, it is a well-annotated, carefully remastered overview of the music of Big Bill Broonzy in his prime.