Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey (2003)

About this title: This five-disc, 116-track box set presents a sweeping history of the blues from its emergence in the early 1900s clear through to its various contemporary guises, and includes samples of country blues in all of its regional variations, as well as cuts from string bands, jug bands, jazz combos, gritty Chicago blues outfits, and a look at how rock artists like Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix incorporated the blues into their distinctive styles. Intelligently gathered and arranged, it treats the blues both from a historical perspective and from a working assumption that the form is still alive and ... read more

Tracks:

1. Shortnin'/Henduck [Turner/Traditional]
2. Long John [Traditional]
3. Crazy Blues [Bradford/Traditiona]
4. St. Louis Blues [Handy]
5. Muddy Water [A Mississippi Moon] [DeRose/Richman/Tren]
6. Match Box Blues [Jefferson]
7. Billy Lyons & Stack-O-Lee [Traditional]
8. "Ma" Rainey's Black Bottom [Rainey]
9. Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground [Johnson]
10. Savoy Blues [Ory]
11. Downtown Blues [Sane/Stokes]
12. Frankie [Hurt/Traditional]
13. Fishin' Blues [Thomas]
14. How Long, How Long Blues [Carr]
15. Canned Heat Blues [Johnson]
16. Statesboro Blues [McTell]
17. It's Tight Like That [Dorsey/Whittaker]
18. Pinetop's Boogie Woogie [Smith]
19. Guitar Blues [Johnson/Lang]
20. Pony Blues [Patton/Traditional]
21. Diddie Wah Diddie [Blind Blake]
22. K.C. Moan [Blackman]
23. Standin' on the Corner [Blue Yodel No. 9] [Rodgers]
24. Sitting on Top of the World [Chatmon/Vinson]
25. Preachin' the Blues [House]
26. Devil Got My Woman [James]
27. C.C. Rider [Leadbelly/Tradition]
28. Baby Please Don't Go [Williams]
29. Dirty Mother for You [Sykes]
30. Billie's Blues [Holiday]
31. Cross Road Blues [Johnson]
32. Good Mornin' Little School Girl [Williamson]
33. Shake 'Em on Down [White/Traditional]
34. Roll 'Em Pete [Johnson/Turner]
35. Catfish Blues [Petway]
36. Going to Chicago Blues [Basie/Rushing]
37. Key to the Highway [Broonzy/Segar]
38. Me and My Chauffeur Blues [Memphis Minnie]
39. Worried Life Blues [Merriweather]
40. Cross Cut Saw Blues [McClennon]
41. Evil Gal Blues [Feather/Hampton]
42. Strange Things Happening Everyday [Traditional/Tharpe]
43. Honeydripper, Pt. 1 [Liggins]
44. Driftin' Blues [Brown/Moore/William]
45. Let the Good Times Roll [Theard/Moore]
46. That's All Right Mama [Crudup]
47. Call It Stormy Monday [Walker]
48. Good Rockin' Tonight [Brown]
49. Ain't Nobody's Business, Pt. 1 [Grainger/Robbins]
50. Double Crossing Blues [Otis]
51. Mother Earth [Chatman/Simkins]
52. Please Send Me Someone to Love [Mayfield]
53. Rocket 88 [Brenston]
54. Dust My Broom [James/Johnson]
55. No More Doggin' [Gordon/Taub]
56. Juke [Jacobs]
57. Hound Dog [Leiber/Stoller]
58. Reconsider Baby [Fulson]
59. The Things That I Used to Do [Guitar Slim [Eddie]
60. In the Night [Byrd]
61. (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man [Dixon]
62. Eisenhower Blues [Lenoir]
63. Blue Monday [Bartholomew/Domino]
64. Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I) [Charles]

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