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A budget-priced box set, Broke, Black & Blue delivers multiple surprises within its 100 songs of prewar blues. Arranged chronologically by Joop Visser, the set admirably covers the first 22 years of recorded blues, 1924 to 1946, from vaudeville and Delta to boogie-woogie and jump blues. It's a swell gift for anyone wanting to learn more about the history of blues. But old-timers will be pleased, too, as special attention has been paid to culling rare and idiosyncratic tracks by the well-known and the obscure. The first three discs present single tracks by artists as diverse as the Memphis Jug Band, De Ford Bailey, Tommy Joh
A budget-priced box set, Broke, Black & Blue delivers multiple surprises within its 100 songs of prewar blues. Arranged chronologically by Joop Visser, the set admirably covers the first 22 years of recorded blues, 1924 to 1946, from vaudeville and Delta to boogie-woogie and jump blues. It's a swell gift for anyone wanting to learn more about the history of blues. But old-timers will be pleased, too, as special attention has been paid to culling rare and idiosyncratic tracks by the well-known and the obscure. The first three discs present single tracks by artists as diverse as the Memphis Jug Band, De Ford Bailey, Tommy Johnson, Son House, Skip James, Peetie Wheatstraw, Lonnie Johnson, and Bukka White, alongside unknowns such as Isaiah "The Mississippi Moaner" Nelson, Barbecue Bob and Laughing Charley, Ed Andrews, Chicken Wilson, and Bumble Bee Slim. On the fourth disc, this convention is jettisoned to luxuriate in a series of very rare sides of lovely, oddly subdued boogie-woogie and jump blues by Jimmie Gordon, Johnny Temple, and Lee Brown. --Mike McGonigal
Album Description
Budget-priced four disc box focusing on the formative period of the blues at the start of the 20th century. Features plenty of previously unreleased material and includes tracks by Blind Blake, Barbecue Bob, Mississippi John Hurt, Frank Stokes, Tommy Johnson, Victoria Spivey, Son House, Kokomo Arnold, Cripple Clarence Lofton and others. Contains a total of 100 tracks. Comes housed in a sturdy, full color CD-sized slipcase box with each disc in a separate standard jewel case. 1999 release.
Album Details
100 Tracks; Over Four Hours of Music; 44-Page Fully Illustrated Booklet. 'Broke Black and Blue' Tries to Follow the Development of Recorded Blues During Its First 20 Odd Years. Features: Blind Blake, Barbecue Bob, Mississippi John Hurt and Others.
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Manufacturer: Proper Box UK
Release date: 8 November 1999
Number of discs: 4
EAN: 0604988990720 UPC: 604988990720
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