- Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey
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Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey Box set by Various Released October 7, 2003 Recorded August 1920 - April 2003 Genre Blues Label Hip-O Records/Sony Producer Various, Mark Abramson Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Allmusic [1]
Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey is a 2003 various artists box set released on Hip-O Records. It is the soundtrack to the Martin Scorsese PBS documentary series The Blues.[2] The box set attempts to present a history of the blues from the dawning of recorded music to the present day. It offers a survey of many different blues sub-genres and tangential music styles, as well as a survey of almost all the most notable blues performers over time.
In 2004, the box set won two Grammy Awards for "Best Historical Album" and "Best Album Notes."[3] That same year it was #2 on Billboard's Top Blues Albums chart.[4]
Contents
Track listing
Disc one
- Othar Turner & The Rising Star Fife & Drum Band – "Shortnin'/Henduck"
- Lightnin' Hopkins – “Mojo Hand”
- Mamie Smith – "Crazy Blues"
- W. C. Handy – "St. Louis Blues"
- Bessie Smith – "Muddy Water"
- Blind Lemon Jefferson – "Match Box Blues"
- Furry Lewis – "Billy Lyons & Stack-O-Lee"
- Ma Rainey – "Ma" Rainey's Black Bottom"
- Blind Willie Johnson – "Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground"
- Louis Armstrong – "Savoy Blues"
- Frank Stokes – "Downtown Blues"
- Mississippi John Hurt – "Frankie"
- Leroy Carr – "How Long, How Long Blues"
- Tommy Johnson – "Canned Heat Blues"
- Blind Willie McTell – "Southern Can Is Mine"
- Tampa Red & Georgia Tom – "It's Tight Like That"
- Pinetop Smith – "Pine Top's Boogie Woogie"
- Lonnie Johnson – "Guitar Blues"
- Charlie Patton – "Pony Blues"
- Blind Blake – "Diddie Wah Diddie"
- Memphis Jug Band – "K.C. Moan"
Disc two
- Skip James – "Devil Got My Woman"
- Lead Belly – "C.C. Rider"
- Big Joe Williams – "Baby, Please Don't Go"
- Roosevelt Sykes – "Dirty Mother For You (Don't You Know)"
- Robert Johnson – "Sweet Home Chicago"
- Robert Johnson – "Cross Road Blues"
- Bukka White – "Fixin' To Die Blues"
- Joe Turner & Pete Johnson – "Roll 'Em Pete"
- Robert Petway – "Catfish Blues"
- Count Basie Orchestra with Jimmy Rushing – "Going To Chicago Blues"
- Big Bill Broonzy – "Key to the Highway"
- Memphis Minnie – "Me And My Chauffeur Blues"
- Big Maceo Merriweather – "Worried Life Blues"
- Sister Rosetta Tharpe – "Strange Things Happening Everyday"
- Joe Liggins – "Honeydripper"
- Johnny Moore's Three Blazers featuring Charles Brown – "Driftin' Blues"
- Louis Jordan – "Let the Good Times Roll"
- Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup – "That's All Right Mama"
- T-Bone Walker – "Call It Stormy Monday"
- Wynonie Harris – "Good Rockin' Tonight"
- Jimmy Witherspoon – "Ain't Nobody's Business, Part One"
Disc three
- Memphis Slim – "Mother Earth"
- Percy Mayfield – "Please Send Me Someone to Love"
- Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown – "Okie Dokie Stomp"
- Elmore James – "The Sky Is Crying"
- Rosco Gordon – "No More Doggin'"
- Little Walter – "Juke"
- Big Mama Thornton – "Hound Dog"
- Lowell Fulson – "Reconsider Baby"
- Guitar Slim – "The Things That I Used to Do"
- Professor Longhair – "In The Night"
- Muddy Waters – "(I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man"
- J. B. Lenoir – "Eisenhower Blues"
- Fats Domino – "Blue Monday"
- Ray Charles – "Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I)"
- Smiley Lewis – "I Hear You Knocking"
- Elvis Presley – "Mystery Train"
- Sonny Boy Williamson II – "Don't Start Me To Talkin'"
- Howlin' Wolf – "Smokestack Lightning"
- Bo Diddley – "Who Do You Love?"
- Slim Harpo – "I'm a King Bee"
- Chuck Berry – "Johnny B. Goode"
- Bobby "Blue" Bland – "Farther Up the Road"
- Otis Rush – "So Many Roads, So Many Trains"
- Buddy Guy – "First Time I Met The Blues"
- Jimmy Reed – "Big Boss Man"
Disc four
- Freddie King – "Hide Away"
- Junior Parker – "Drivin' Wheel"
- John Lee Hooker – "Boom Boom"
- Albert Collins – "Frosty"
- Muddy Waters – "You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had"
- Howlin' Wolf – "Killing Floor"
- Son House – "Death Letter Blues"
- Mississippi Fred McDowell – "You Gotta Move"
- Junior Wells – "Hoodoo Man Blues"
- Koko Taylor – "Wang Dang Doodle"
- Paul Butterfield Blues Band – "I've Got A Mind To Give Up Livin'"
- Grateful Dead – "New Minglewood Blues"
- Jimi Hendrix – "Red House"
- Albert King – "Born Under a Bad Sign"
- Etta James – "Tell Mama"
- The Jeff Beck Group – "I Ain't Superstitious"
- Taj Mahal – "She Caught the Katy (And Left Me A Mule To Ride)"
- Fleetwood Mac – "Rattlesnake Shake"
- Janis Joplin – "One Good Man"
- Rolling Stones – "Stray Cat Blues"
Disc five
- B.B. King – "The Thrill Is Gone"
- Johnny Winter – "Dallas"
- Derek and the Dominos – "Have You Ever Loved a Woman"
- Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers – "Give Me Back My Wig"
- Led Zeppelin – "Good Times, Bad Times"
- The Allman Brothers Band – "One Way Out"
- Rory Gallagher – "Country Mile"
- Son Seals – "Hot Sauce"
- Z.Z. Hill – "Down Home Blues"
- Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble – "Pride And Joy"
- Robert Cray – "Smoking Gun"
- John Lee Hooker and Bonnie Raitt - "I'm in the Mood"
- Ali Farka Touré – "Timbarma"
- Keb' Mo' – "Am I Wrong?"
- Luther Allison – "Cherry Red Wine"
- Susan Tedeschi – "Just Won't Burn"
- The White Stripes – "Screwdriver"
- Gov't Mule – "Time To Confess"
- Shemekia Copeland – "Wild, Wild Women"
- Keb' Mo' & Corey Harris – "Sweet Home Chicago"
Footnotes
See also
Categories:- Box set albums
- Television soundtracks
- 2003 compilation albums
- Blues compilation albums
- 2003 soundtracks
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