Best of Blues [Madacy Box Set] (2000)

About this title: Unlike most of the Madacy collections on the market, the Best of Blues set consists of mostly high-quality blues recordings from some of the biggest names in the genre. Many different aspects of the blues are here, from the delicate piano ballads of Billie Holiday and Ray Charles to the rock/blues rave-ups of Rare Earth and John Mayall to the traditional guitar-based work of B.B. King and Buddy Guy. Some incredible songs are unearthed for this collection too, like Charles Brown's guitar workout "Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand," Howlin' Wolf's incredible stop-and-start crawler "Ain't Superstitious ... read more

Tracks:

1. How Blue Can You Get? [Feather/Feather]
2. Bullfrog Blues [Taylor/Vestine/Cook]
3. Blues After Hours [Crayton/Parrish/Tau]
4. Woman Is the Root of All Evil [Hill/Rebennack]
5. Boogie Thang [Murphy]
6. 3:00 in the Morning Blues
7. Low Down Dirty Dog Blues [Otis/Otis]
8. Baby What You Want Me to Do [Reed]
9. Big Fat Mama [McDowell/Traditiona]
10. I Won't Cry Anymore [Myles]
11. Jumping the Blues [Smith]
12. Cow Cow Blues [Davenport]
13. Where Did You Sleep Last Night? [Leadbelly/Tradition]
14. You've Done Lost a Good Thing
15. Mojo Hand [Hopkins]
16. First Time I Met the Blues [Montgomery]
17. Blues Is My Middle Name [Charles]
18. Trouble Blues [Brown]
19. Boogie Woogie Blues [Brown]
20. Big Road Blues [Taylor/Vestine/Cook]
21. Blues in the Ghetto [Crayton]
22. Fanny Mae
23. Barrelhouse Blues
24. Don't Let Him See You Cry
25. Unknown Blues [McDowell]
26. Blue & Disgusted
27. The Bourgeois Blues [Leadbelly/Lomax/Led]
28. Catfish Blues [King/Josea]
29. Just Sitting Down Thinking
30. Every Day I Have the Blues [Memphis Slim]

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