Blues from 無精庵

ブルース入門アルバムとしては最適だ。選曲も申し分なく、登場するシンガーも代表的な存在だ。RCAは戦前のブルースでは大レーベルであり、傘下のブルーバードレーベルに残された録音は珠玉の作品群で、ブルーバードビートという言葉も生まるれほどだ。

元のアルバムは1971年に発売された3枚組LP。日本編集でこの時代のオムニバスとしては白眉である。その後、続ブルースの古典という2枚組アルバムも出た。このCDは、最初のブルースの古典に続ブルースの古典から7曲を加えた全49曲の決定版。世界に誇る事ができる日本発のオムニバスアルバムだ。''必携''。

1. Big Road Blues -Tommy Johnson
2. Canned Heat Blues -Tommy Johnson
3. Trouble-Hearted Blues -Ishman Bracy
4. Dark Night Blues -Blind Willie McTell
5. Loving Talking Blues -Blind Willie McTell
6. Drayman Blues -Clifford Gibson
7. She Rolls It Slow -Clifford Gibson
8. The Panama Ltd. -Bukka White
9. I'm About My Loving -Jim Jackson
10. Dry Land Blues -Furry Lewis
11. 'taint Nobody's Business If I Do Part 2 -Frank Stokes
12. Frank Stokes' Dream -Frank Stokes
13. The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair -Sleepy John Estes
14. Poor John Blues -Sleepy John Estes
15. Lawyer Clark Blues -Sleepy John Estes
16. A Hard Pill To Swallow -Son Bonds
17. Don't Want No Woman -Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe
18. Memphis Jug Blues -Memphis Jug Band
19. Going Back To Memphis -Memphis Jug Band
20. Jug Band Waltz -Memphis Jug Band
21. Violka Lee Blues -Cannon's Jug Stompers
22. Going To Germany -Cannon's Jug Stompers
23. Walk Right In -Cannon's Jug Stompers
24. The Spasm -Daddy Stovepipe & Mississippi Sarah
25. Gonna Hit The Highway -Washboard Sam & His Washboard Band

1. Whisky Head Woman -Tommy McClennan
2. Des'e My Blues -Tommy McClennan
3. Baby Please Don't Go -Big Joe Williams
4. Highway 49 -Big Joe Williams
5. Peach Orchaed Mama -Big Joe Williams
6. Catfish Blues -Robert Petway
7. Take A Little Walk With Me -Robert Lockwood
8. Rocks In My Bed -Leroy Carr
9. Six Cold Feet In The Ground -Leroy Carr
10. Devil's Son-In-Law -Peetie Wheatstraw
11. Pete Wheatstraw -Peetie Wheatstraw
12. Vicksburg Blues Part 3 -Little Brother Montgomery
13. Worried Life Blues -Big Maceo
14. Detroit Jump -Big Maceo
15. Hard Working Man Blues -Joe Pullum with Andy Boy
16. Friendless Blues -Big Bill Broonzy
17. The Southern Blues -Big Bill Broonzy
18. Kingfish Blues -Tampa Led
19. Tough Luck -Robert Lee McCoy
20. Good Morning Schoolgirl -John Lee Sonny Boy Williamson
21. Elevator Woman -John Lee Sonny Boy Williamson
22. Eary In The Morning -John Lee Sonny Boy Williamson
23. Key To The Highway -Jazz Gillum
24. That's All Right -Arthur Big Boy Crudup

P-VINE SPECIALから出た戦前ブルース傑作選。ブルース以前の流れからブルースに至る過程を捉えようとした意欲的なアンソロジーで、ブルースだけではなく、その生まれる背景までも捉えようとしている4枚組。

地域別に分類されてはいるが、それが確たるものではないのは、当時の多くのブルースマンが、移動しながら演奏を重ねていたためで、相互に影響を与え合っていたことが、全編を通じて聞くことで理解できるようになっている。

描き出される世界は深い。必携。

PCD-2772-75

DISK1 -Way Down South -Holler,Ballad,Gospel & Early Blues

1. Po' Farmer -Lemuel Jones
2. Tennessee Dog -Jimmie Strothers
3. Texas Traveller -Nathan Frazier & Frank Patterson
4. Guitar Blues -Sylvester Weaver
5. Man Trouble Blues -Jaybird Coleman
6. Mamlish Blues -Ed Bell
7. Don't Put That Thing On Me -Clifford Gibson
8. South California Rag -Willie Walker
9. You Got To Go Down -Blind Gary
10. Careless Love -Blind Boy Fuller
11. Crow Jane -Carl Martin
12. Apaloosa Blues -Bobbie Leecan's Need-More Band
13. Barbecue Blues -Barbecue Bob
14. Atlanta Strut -Blind Willie McTell
15. Low Down Rounder Blues -Peg Leg Howell
16. If It Looks Like Jelly Shakes Like Jelly It Must Be Gelatine -Charley Lincoln
17. Wait And Listen -Fred McMullen
18. Red River Blues -Buddy Moss
19. No No Blues -Curly Weaver
20. No Woman No Nickel (No Nickel One) -Bummble Bee Slim
21. The Gone Dead Train -King Solomon Hill
22. Mother's Prayer -A.C.Forehand and Blind Mamie Forehnd
23. Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room -Rev.F.W.McGee
24. Just Look -Arizona Dranes
25. He Took My Sins Away -Birmingham Jubilee Singers

DISK2 -T For Texas,T For Tennessee -Texas & Memphis Country Blues

1. Dallas Rag -Dallas String Band
2. Worried Down With The Blues -Hociel Thomas
3. John Henry -Henry Thomas
4. What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? -Washington Phillips
5. Jesus Make Up My Dying Bead -Blind Willie Johnson
6. Black Gal What Makes Your Head So Hard? -Joe Pullum
7. Range In My Kichen Blues -Texas Alexander
8. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean -Blind Lemon Jefferson
9. Hungry Wolf -Funny Papa Smith
10. Ramblin' Mind Blues -Ramblin' Thomas
11. Lone Wolf Blues -Oscar Woods
12. Black Ace -Black Ace
13. Poor Boy, Long Ways From Home -Gus Cannon
14. Jim Jackson's Jamboree -Jim Jackson
15. You Shall -Beale Street Sheiks (Stokes And Sane)
16. Kassie Jones - Part I -Furry Lewis
17. That's No Ways To Get Along -Robert Wilkins
18. Highway No.61 Blues -Jack Kelly & His South Memphis Jug Band
19. Lake Michigan Blues -James Yank Rachel
20. Drivin' Duck Blues -Sleepy John Estes
21. Let Me Squeeze Your Lemon -Charlie Pickett
22. Sweet Man Blues -Little Buddy Doyle
23. I Don't Want That Junk Outa You -Memphis Minnie
24. Moanin'The Blues -Allen Shaw
25. Memphis Shakedown -Memphis Jug Band

DISK3 -The Delta -Blues from Mississippi

1. Jail Bird Love Song -Mississippi Sheiks
2. Be True Be True Blues -Henry Sims
3. Lonesome Atlanta Blues -Bobby Grant
4. Mississippi Bo Weavil Blues -Charley Patton
5. Mississippi Bottom Blues -Kid Bailey
6. Dough Roller Blues -Garfield Akers
7. Fare Thee Well Blues -Joe Calicott
8. Devil Got My Woman -Skip James
9. Old Devil -Bo Carter
10. Last Time Blues -Charlie McCoy
11. Leavin' Town Blues -Ishman Bracey
12. Maggie Cambell Blues -Tommy Johnson
13. Lead Pencil Blues (It Just Won't Write) -Johnnie Temple
14. Married Man Blues -Blind Joe (Willie) Reynolds
15. Parchman Farm Blues -Bukka White
16. Future Blues -Willie Brown
17. My Black Mama - Part I & II -Son House
18. Cross Road Blues (take 1) -Robert Johnson
19. 4A Highway -Mr. Freddie
20. Stepfather Blues -Big Joe Williams
21. Don't Go Down Baby -Robert Petway
22. Cotton Patch Blues -Tommy McClennan
23. Little Boy Blue -Robert Lockwood

DISK4 -Any Place But Here -City Blues,Hokum,Jive & All That Jazz

1. Pine Top's Boogie Woogie -Pine Top Smith
2. You Put It In, I'll Take It Out -Papa Charlie Jackson
3. It's Tight Like That -Tampa Red's Hokum Jug Band
4. How Long Blues -Leroy Carr
5. Southern Rag -Blind Blake
6. Back To The Woods Blues -Charlie Spand
7. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom -Ma Rainey
8. I Don't Know -Cripple Clarence Lofton
9. Long Tall Mama -Big Bill Broonzy
10. I'm Gonna Tell My Mama On You -(Big Boy) Teddy Edwards
11. You've Had Your Way -The Pods of Pepper
12. Underneath The Harlem Moon -Washboard Rhythm Kings feat. Leo Watson
13. Oh Red! -State Street Swingers
14. Chant Of The Rain -The Cats & The Fiddle
15. Standing By The Bedside Of A Neighbor -The Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet
16. The Chicken And The Worm -Teddy Bunn And Spencer Williams
17. Got The Blues For The West End -Lonnie Johnson
18. The Dirty Dozen -Speckled Red
19. I Can Tell By The Way You Smell -Walter Davis
20. More Good Whiskey Blues -Peetie Wheatstraw
21. Two Street Blues -Charley Jordan
22. Blue Day Blues -Scrapper Blackwell
23. Mean Old Twister -Kokomo Arnold
24. Bad Luck Blues -John Lee Sonny Boy Williamson
25. Chicago Breakdown -Big Maceo