The Classic Years 1927-1940

~ Release by Blind Willie McTell (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Tracklist

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1▼CD: Atlanta 1927-1931
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1Writin' Paper Blues
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1927-10-18)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1927-10-18)
recording of:
Writtn’ Paper Blues (on 1927-10-18)
lyricist and composer:
Blind Willie McTell
3:12
2Stole Rider Blues
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1927-10-18)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1927-10-18)
recording of:
Stole Rider Blues (on 1927-10-18)
lyricist and composer:
Blind Willie McTell
53:09
3Mama, 'tain't Long fo' Day
recorded in:
Atlanta, Georgia, United States (on 1928-10-18)
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1927-10-18)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1927-10-18)
publisher:
Peer Music (“Peermusic—the global independent”)
recording of:
Mama, 't ain't Long fo' Day (on 1928-10-18)
lyricist and composer:
Blind Willie McTell
2:58
4Mr. McTell Got the Blues (take 1)
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1927-10-18)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1927-10-18)
recording of:
Mr. McTell Got the Blues (on 1927-10-18)
lyricist and composer:
Blind Willie McTell
2:21
5Mr. McTell Got the Blues (take 2)
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1927-10-18)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1927-10-18)
recording of:
Mr. McTell Got the Blues (on 1927-10-18)
lyricist and composer:
Blind Willie McTell
2:25
6Three Women Blues
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1928-10-17)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1928-10-17)
recording of:
Three Women Blues (on 1928-10-17)
lyricist and composer:
Blind Willie McTell
2:44
7Dark Night Blues
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1928-10-17)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1928-10-17)
recording of:
Dark Night Blues (on 1928-10-17)
lyricist and composer:
Blind Willie McTell
2:52
8Statesboro Blues
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1928-10-17)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1928-10-17)
part of:
Blues Hall of Fame: Classic of Blues Recording Single (number: 1992)
recording of:
Statesboro Blues (on 1928-10-17)
lyricist and composer:
Blind Willie McTell
publisher:
Peer International Corporation (BMI)
2:31
9Loving Talking Blues
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1928-10-17)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1928-10-17)
recording of:
Loving Talking Blues (on 1928-10-17)
lyricist and composer:
Blind Willie McTell
2:37
10Atlanta Strut
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1929-10-30)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1929-10-30)
recording of:
Atlanta Strut (on 1929-10-30)
lyricist and composer:
Blind Willie McTell
53:10
11Travelin' Blues
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1929-10-30)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1929-10-30)
recording of:
Travelin' Blues (on 1929-10-30)
lyricist and composer:
Blind Willie McTell
3:15
12Come on Around to My House Mama
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1929-10-30)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1929-10-30)
3:03
13Kind Mama
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1929-10-31)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1929-10-31)
recording of:
Kind Mama
lyricist and composer:
Blind Willie McTell
52:58
14Teasing Brown
banjo:
Willie Shorter (on 1929-11-26)
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1929-11-26)
vocals:
Alfoncy Harris (on 1929-11-26) and Bethenea Harris (on 1929-11-26)
2:42
15Drive Away Blues
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1929-11-26)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1929-11-26)
recording of:
Drive Away Blues (on 1929-11-26)
lyricist and composer:
Blind Willie McTell
3:15
16This Is Not the Stove to Brown Your Bread
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1929-11-27)
vocals:
Alfoncy Harris (on 1929-11-27) and Bethenea Harris (on 1929-11-27)
2:33
17Love Changing Blues
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1929-11-29)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1929-11-29)
recording of:
Love Changing Blues (on 1929-11-29)
lyricist and composer:
Blind Willie McTell
3:10
18Talkin' to Myself
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1930-04-17)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1930-04-17)
3:12
19Razor Ball
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1930-04-17)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1930-04-17)
recording of:
Razor Ball (on 1930-04-17)
lyricist and composer:
Blind Willie McTell
53:17
20Southern Can Is Mine
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1931-10-23)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1931-10-23)
recording of:
Southern Can Is Mine (on 1931-10-23)
lyricist and composer:
Blind Willie McTell
3:15
21Broke Down Engine Blues
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1931-10-23)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1931-10-23)
recording of:
Broke Down Engine Blues (on 1931-10-23)
lyricist and composer:
Blind Willie McTell
3:09
22Stomp Down Rider
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1931-10-23)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1931-10-23)
3:08
23Scarey Day Blues
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1931-10-23)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1931-10-23)
recording of:
Scarey Day Blues (on 1931-10-23)
lyricist and composer:
Blind Willie McTell
53:02
2▼CD: Atlanta, New York 1931-1933
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1Rough Alley Blues
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1931-10-23)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1931-10-23) and Ruth Willis (on 1931-10-23)
3:19
2Experience Blues
recorded in:
Atlanta, Georgia, United States (on 1931-10-23)
guitar and spoken vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1931-10-23)
vocal:
Ruth Day
vocals:
Ruth Willis (on 1931-10-23)
53:13
3Painful Blues
guitar and spoken vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1931-10-23)
vocal:
Ruth Day
vocals:
Ruth Willis (on 1931-10-23)
52:54
4Low Rider's Blues
guitar:
Georgia Bill (William Samuel McTier; pseudonym on OKeh for Blind Willie McTell, American Piedmont and ragtime blues singer and guitarist), Blind Willie McTell (on 1931-10-31) and Curley Weaver (on 1931-10-31)
spoken vocals:
Curley Weaver (on 1931-10-31)
vocal:
Georgia Bill (William Samuel McTier; pseudonym on OKeh for Blind Willie McTell, American Piedmont and ragtime blues singer and guitarist)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1931-10-31)
recording of:
Low Rider's Blues (on 1931-10-31)
lyricist and composer:
Blind Willie McTell
3:19
5Georgia Rag
recording of:
Georgia Rag
lyricist and composer:
Blind Willie McTell
3:06
6Low Down Blues
3:14
7Rollin' Mama Blues
recording of:
Rollin’ Mama Blues
lyricist and composer:
Blind Willie McTell
3:06
8Lonesome Day Blues
recording of:
Lonesome Day Blues
lyricist and composer:
Blind Willie McTell
3:17
9Mama, Let Me Scoop for You
3:10
10Searching the Desert for the Blues
recording of:
Searching the Desert for the Blues
composer:
Blind Willie McTell
3:10
11Warm It Up for Me
guitar:
Blind Willie (on 1933-09-14) and Curley Weaver (on 1933-09-14)
vocals:
Blind Willie (on 1933-09-14) and Curley Weaver (on 1933-09-14)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Sony Music Entertainment Inc. (company owned by Sony Corporation of America from 1991–2004, operated worldwide except in JP; normally not a release label) (in 1991)
recording of:
Warm It Up to Me (on 1933-09-14)
lyricist and composer:
Blind Willie McTell
2:57
12It's Your Time to Worry
3:04
13It's a Good Little Thing
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1933-09-14) and Curley Weaver (on 1933-09-14)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1933-09-14) and Curley Weaver (on 1933-09-14)
recording of:
It's a Good Little Thing (on 1933-09-14)
lyricist and composer:
Blind Willie McTell
52:52
14You Was Born to Die
2:51
15Lord Have Mercy If You Please
recording of:
Lord Have Mercy If You Please
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
2:59
16Don't You See How This World Made a Change
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1933-09-18) and Curley Weaver (on 1933-09-18)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1933-09-18) and Curley Weaver (on 1933-09-18)
recording of:
Don't You See How This World Made a Change (on 1933-09-18)
2:55
17Savannah Mama
recording of:
Savannah Mama
lyricist and composer:
Blind Willie McTell
3:17
18Broke Down Engine
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1933-09-18)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1933-09-18)
recording of:
Broke Down Engine
writer:
Blind Willie McTell
arranger:
Bob Dylan
version of:
Broke Down Engine
recording of:
Broke Down Engine
lyricist and composer:
Blind Willie McTell
arranger:
Michael Jerome Browne
3:14
19Broke Down Engine No. 2
guitar and other vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1933-09-18)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1933-09-18)
2:54
20My Baby's Gone
recording of:
My Baby's Gone
lyricist and composer:
Blind Willie McTell
52:59
21Love-Main' Mama
recording of:
Love Makin' Mama
lyricist and composer:
Blind Willie McTell
2:56
22Death Room Blues
recording of:
Death Room Blues
lyricist and composer:
Blind Willie McTell
2:59
23Death Cell Blues
3:10
24Lord, Send Me an Angel
recording of:
Lord, Send Me an Angel
lyricist and composer:
Blind Willie McTell
2:53
3▼CD: New York, Chicago 1933-1935
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1B and O Blues No. 2
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1933-09-21) and Curley Weaver (on 1933-09-21)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1933-09-21)
recording of:
B and O Blues No.2 (on 1933-09-21)
53:03
2B and O Blues No. 2
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1933-09-21) and Curley Weaver (on 1933-09-21)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1933-09-21)
recording of:
B and O Blues No.2 (on 1933-09-21)
2:50
3Weary Hearted Blues
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1933-09-21) and Curley Weaver (on 1933-09-21)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1933-09-21)
recording of:
Weary Hearted Blues (on 1933-09-21)
lyricist and composer:
Blind Willie McTell
3:03
4Bell Street Lightnin'
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1933-09-21) and Curley Weaver (on 1933-09-21)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1933-09-21)
2:54
5Southern Can Mama
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1933-09-21) and Curley Weaver (on 1933-09-21)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1933-09-21)
recording of:
Southern Can Mama (on 1933-09-21)
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
52:57
6Runnin' Me Crazy
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1933-09-21) and Curley Weaver (on 1933-09-21)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1933-09-21)
3:07
7East St. Louis Blues (Fare You Well)
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1933-09-21) and Curley Weaver (on 1933-09-21)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1933-09-21)
recording of:
East St. Louis Blues (Fare You Well) (on 1933-09-21)
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
2:54
8Ain't It Grand to Be a Christian
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1935-04-23)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1935-04-23) and Kate McTell (on 1935-04-23)
recording of:
Ain't It Grand to Live a Christian (on 1935-04-23)
composer:
Willie McTell
3:10
9We Got to Meet Death One Day
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1935-04-23)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1935-04-23)
recording of:
We Got to Meet Death One Day
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
3:00
10We Got to Meet Death One Day
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1935-04-23)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1935-04-23)
recording of:
We Got to Meet Death One Day
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
2:53
11Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around
guitar and spoken vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1935-04-23)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1935-04-23) and Kate McTell (on 1935-04-23)
recording of:
Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around (on 1935-04-23)
writer:
Blind Willie McTell
2:46
12I Got Religion, I'm So Glad
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1935-04-23)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1935-04-23) and Kate McTell (on 1935-04-23)
recording of:
I Got Religion, I'm So Glad (on 1935-04-23)
lyricist and composer:
Gary Atkinson
3:13
13Dying Gambler
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1935-04-23)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1935-04-23) and Kate McTell (on 1935-04-23)
3:01
14God Don't Like It
recorded in:
Chicago, Illinois, United States (on 1935-04-23)
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1935-04-23)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1935-04-23) and Kate McTell (on 1935-04-23)
52:47
15Bell Street Blues
guitar:
Curley Weaver and Blind Willie McTell (on 1935-04-23)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1935-04-23)
recording of:
Bell Street Blues (on 1935-04-23)
2:51
16Let Me Play With Yo' Yo-Yo
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1935-04-23)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1935-04-23)
3:05
17Lay Some Flowers on My Grave
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1935-04-25)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1935-04-25)
recording of:
Lay Some Flowers on My Grave (on 1935-04-25)
lyricist and composer:
Blind Willie McTell
3:24
18Ticket Agent Blues
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1935-04-25)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1935-04-25) and Kate McTell (on 1935-04-25)
53:18
19Cold Winter Day
guitar:
Curley Weaver and Blind Willie McTell (on 1935-04-25)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1935-04-25)
recording of:
Cold Winter Day (on 1935-04-25)
lyricist and composer:
Blind Willie McTell
53:10
20Your Time to Worry
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1935-04-25)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1935-04-25)
2:39
21Cooling Board Blues
guitar:
Curley Weaver and Blind Willie McTell (on 1935-04-25)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1935-04-25)
recording of:
Cooling Board Blues (on 1935-04-25)
lyricist and composer:
Blind Willie McTell
3:18
22Hillbilly Willie's Blues
guitar:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1935-04-25)
vocals:
Blind Willie McTell (on 1935-04-25)
2:45
4▼CD: Atlanta 1940
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1Just as Well Get Ready, You Got to Die / Climbing High Mountains / Tryin' to Get Home
2:57
2Monologue on Accidents
1:56
3Boll Weevil
1:58
4Delia
2:34
5Dying Crapshooter's Blues
3:12
6Will Fox
1:39
7I Got to Cross the River Jordan
4:39
8Monologue on Old Songs / Old Time Religion / Amen
3:08
9Amazing Grace
1:22
10Monologues on: The History of the Blues; Life as Maker of Records; Himself
5:45
11King Edward Blues
1:50
12Murderer's Home Blues
3:06
13Kill-It Kid Rag
2:44
14Chainey
2:50
15I Got to Cross the River of Jordan
1:51

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ASIN:US: B00008Y3UT [info]