Four Women Blues: Victor/Bluebird Recordings (1997)

About this title: Four Women Blues is the kind of anthology that would be assembled by a specialty label like Document or Story of the Blues, not a major label like RCA. And yet here it is, encompassing rare and unreleased Victor/Bluebird sides by four early female blues artists, mastered wherever possible from the original metal parts. The recordings, made between 1928-1936 and representing the four artists' extant output for the label, are predominately those of Memphis Minnie, a guitar-playing blues woman who was the most successful of the bunch. Her 13 cuts will be the ones that attract most blues ... read more

Tracks:

1. I'm Goin' Back Home [Johnson]
2. Bumble Bee Blues [Memphis Minnie]
3. Meningitis Blues [McCoy]
4. I Never Told a Lie [McCoy]
5. Don't Want No Woman [Johnson]
6. Georgia Skin [McCoy]
7. You Wrecked My Happy Home
8. I'm Waiting on You [McCoy]
9. Keep on Goin' [McCoy]
10. When the Sun Goes Down, Part 2
11. Hustlin' Woman Blues [McCoy]
12. Selling My Pork Chops [McCoy]
13. Doctor, Doctor Blues [McCoy]
14. Hardworking Woman Blues
15. Happy Home Blues
16. Christmas Mornin' Blues [Murphy]
17. Double Trouble Blues [Holmes]
18. Leave My Man Alone [Holmes]
19. Mistreatin' Easy Rider [Holmes]
20. Staggering Blues
21. Ha-Ha Blues
22. School Girl Blues
23. Stranger Blues [Moore]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.