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Notes & Reviews |
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Boxed Set
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Full title is: Big Blues Box, Vol. 2 Fuel 2000's Big Blues Box, Vol. 2 simply combines three single blues compilations that the label previously released in 2003, The Blues Came from Mississippi, The Blues Came from Texas, and Blues Guitar Heroes, into one set. There is no additional annotation (actually, the single-disc versions had no annotation, either), and aside from skewing the collection to the Mississippi and Texas end of things, no real blues identity is presented here. There are some great tracks mixed in, many of them true classics, like Charley Patton's 'Screamin' and Hollerin' Blues,' Tommy Johnson's deceptively jaunty 'Canned Heat Blues,' and Blind Lemon Jefferson's ancient 'Black Snake Moan,' as well as more modern fare like T-Bone Walker's elegant version of 'Baby Please Don't Go' and a wonderfully loose jump blues turn by Ike Turner on 'Matchbox,' but too often the tracks included are inferior versions of the artist's song, as is the case with Son House here, whose rediscovery version of his 'Death Letter' is hardly his best. There are countless blues anthologies on the market, and this one doesn't particularly distinguish itself, giving off the aura of being haphazardly thrown together in the hopes that it will stick to the wall. There's fine music in this set, to be sure, but it comes with a pretty generic approach all wrapped up in a pretty generic package. ~ Steve Leggett, All Music Guide |
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Tracks and Sound Clips
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Levee Camp Blues - McDowell, Mississippi Fred - 6:08
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Casey Jones - Hurt, Mississippi John - 3:55
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Death Letter - House, Son - 4:08
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Baby Please Don't Go - Williams, Big Joe - 2:05
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Screamin' & Hollerin' Blues - Patton, Charley - 3:04
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That's All Right Mama - Crudup, Arthur "Big Boy" - 2:19
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Steady Rollin' Man - Williamson, Sonny Boy [2] - 3:04
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Canned Heat Blues - Johnson, Tommy [1] - 3:37
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Pony Blues - Nelson, Sonny Boy - 2:06
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Take Your Hand out of My Pocket - Williamson, Sonny Boy [2] - 4:51
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Stop the Train Conductor - Pryor, Snooky - 2:34
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Mississippi Blues - Bailey, Kid - 2:49
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Down on Bended Knees - Copeland, Johnny - 2:36
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Baby Please Don't Go - Walker, T-Bone - 5:02
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Ease My Pain - Winter, Johnny - 2:34
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Rock Me Mama - Hopkins, Lightnin' - 2:44
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Freeze - Collins, Albert [1] - 2:26
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It's Alright - Brown, Clarence [1] "Gatemouth" - 2:36
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All Right Baby - Thornton, Big Mama - 2:57
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Why Don't You Eat Where You Slept Last Night? - Bollin, Zuzu - 2:46
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Black Snake Moan - Jefferson, Blind Lemon - 2:19
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Worried Blues - Hogg, Smokey - 4:02
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Walking the Baby - Green, Clarence - 4:13
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Working Man Blues - Copeland, Johnny - 8:12
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All Your Love (I Miss Loving) - Rush, Otis - 2:53
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Guitar Man - King, Albert - 1:17
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Knocking at Your Door - James, Elmore [1] - 3:06
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Blue Guitar - Hooker, Earl - 2:37
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Matchbox - Turner, Ike - 2:19
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Aw Aw Baby - Lockwood, Robert Jr. - 3:00
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This Is the End - Guy, Buddy - 6:43
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Let's Work Together - Canned Heat - 2:46
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Collins Shuffle - Collins, Albert [1] - 2:58
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Gone Fishin' - Benton, Buster - 2:42
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Someday - McDowell, Mississippi Fred - 3:01
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Something I Can't Do - Stevens, Corey - 4:14
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