I Can't Be Satisfied: Early American Women Blues Singers, Vol. 2: Town (1997)

About this title: Although this second volume of I Can't Be Satisfied features a more uptown approach to the blues than the first volume, which centered on the rural aspects, this selection of American women blues singers from the 1920s is only a small degree removed from those roots, and the presence of small jazz combos and striking horn leads on these sides augments that Deep South country blues pedigree way more than it transforms it into the halls of urbane sophistication. These tracks are still undeniably the blues, and the jazz trappings can't disguise that fact. After all, having the blues in town isn ... read more

Tracks:

1. Dirty T.B. Blues [Spivey]
2. Strugglin' Woman's Blues
3. Everybody Does It Now
4. Pay Roll Blues
5. Forget Me Not Blues [Cooksey/Leecan]
6. Section Hand Blues
7. Good Chib Blues
8. Traveling Blues [Parth]
9. Do Dirty Blues
10. I Helped You, Sick Man, When You Were Down and Out
11. He's Never Gonna Throw Me Down
12. Blood Hound Blues [Spivey]
13. Dead Drunk Blues [Cooksey/Leecan]
14. Parlor Social De Luxe [Ellington/Mills/Tre]
15. Bye Bye Baby
16. Winter Blues
17. My Own Man Blues
18. Jim Nappy [Burleson]
19. How Long [Browne/Mowat/Romeo]
20. Trouble in Mind [Jones]
21. Walking Blues [Rainey]
22. Mistreatin' Man Blues
23. Trouble Everywhere I Roam [Wallace/Thomas]

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