Track Listing

1. We Live a Long Time to Get Old - Jimmy Murphy
2. Cross Road Blues - Robert Johnson
3. When I'm Gone - Joe Hill Louis
4. Death Valley Is Just Half Way to My Home - Lonnie Johnson
5. Whoop 'Em Up, Cindy - Uncle Dave Macon
6. Statesboro Blues - Blind Willie McTell
7. It Won't Be Long - Charley Patton
8. Death Letter Blues - Son House
9. Hard Time Blues - Lane Hardin
10. Indian War Whoop - Hoyt Ming and His Pep Steppers
11. Paddlin' Madeline Blues - Gitfiddle Jim
12. Mandolin Blues - Tennessee Mess Arounders
13. Coo-Coo Bird - Clarence Ashley
14. John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man - The Carter Family
15. Lost Child - The Stripling Brothers
16. Bugle Call Rag - Billy Banks & His Orchestra,
17. Sail Away Lady - Uncle Bunt Stephens
18. Original Stack O' Lee Blues - Papa Harvey Hull, Long "Cleve" Reed,
19. Dark Was the Night - Cold Was the Ground - Blind Willie Johnson

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #113552 in Music
• Released on: 2007-11-26
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Compilation
• Dimensions: .24 pounds

Album Description
Subtitled: Discovering The Roots Of American Music. A compilation of songs as featured in Dust-to-Digital's Desperate Man Blues DVD, chronicling the amazing life in music of Joe Bussard (founder of Fonotone Records). Blues. Gospel. Jazz. Hillbilly. The late 1920s was the Big Bang of the music industry. King of record collectors Joe Bussard tells the story of "America's real music" with passionate enthusiasm in his own inimitable style. The film has an outstanding soundtrack featuring artists Charley Patton, Son House, The Carter Family, Uncle Dave Macon, Blind Willie McTell and a roster of other roots musicians. Jewel case packaging; released by multi Grammy-nominated Dust-to-Digital.