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Table of Contents:

• Matchbox blues
• Careless love
• Walk right in
• Low down rounder's blues
• Statesboro blues
• Stealin', stealin'
• You gonna need somebody on your bond
• Alabama woman blues
• Special agent
• Key to the highway
• Fixin' to die
• I'm a guitar king
• Preachin' blues
• I been treated wrong.

Contributors:

Charters, Samuel, 1929-2015

Washboard Sam, 1910-1966

Jefferson, Blind Lemon, 1897-1929

Johnson, Lonnie, 1894-1970

Howell, Peg Leg, 1888-1966

McTell, Blind Willie

Johnson, Blind Willie

Carr, Leroy, 1905-1935

Estes, Sleepy John, 1899-1977

Broonzy, Big Bill, 1893-1958

White, Bukka

McClennan, Tommy

Johnson, Robert, 1911-1938

Cannon's Jug Stompers

Memphis Jug Band

Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Custom compact disc series

Subjects:

Blues (Music) — To 1931

Blues (Music) — 1931-1940

To 1940

Blues (Music)

United States

Performers:

Blind Lemon Jefferson ; Lonnie Johnson ; Cannon's Jug Stompers ; Peg Leg Howell ; Blind Willie McTell ; Memphis Jug Band ; Blind Willie Johnson ; Leroy Carr ; Sleepy John Estes ; Big Bill Broonzy ; Bukka White ; Tommy McClennan ; Robert Johnson ; Washboard Sam.

General Notes:

Smithsonian Folkways: RF 1; F-RF1 on container.
Blues songs.
Compiled and edited by Samuel B. Charters.
Reissued from performances of the 1920s and 1930s.
Originally issued as analog disc on Folkways Records: RF 1, 1959.
Program notes by the editor (4 p.) inserted in outer container.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal; 4 3/4 in.; 1.4 m/s; mass-produced

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical; 1.4 m/s

Digital Characteristics:

audio file; CD audio

Call Numbers:

LPCD 88423

Other Standard Numbers:

Publisher Number, Smithsonian Folkways: RF 1
Publisher Number, Smithsonian Folkways: F-RF1
Publisher Number, RBF: RF-1

OCLC Numbers:

50815762