About this title: While any collection professing to be a definitive overview of a genre usually falls short of the mark, it's hard to find fault with this excellently researched and compiled four-disc set from the Smithsonian Collection. Running the recorded history of the music chronologically, the first disc explores the early sides by guitarists like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Barbecue Bob, Blind Willie Johnson, and Tommy Johnson, and classic blues singers like Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, and Sippie Wallace. Volume two rounds up sides from Leroy Carr, Mississippi John Hurt, Charley Patton, Memphis Minnie, ...
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Format: CD
Label: Smithsonian
Date: February 1, 1994
UPC:033251053020
Description: Very good in very good packaging. 4 discs. Originally released: 1993. Listened to discs one time. Modest wear to box, but discs are pristine. read more
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