Blind Willie Mctell : Staesboro Blues: Early Years

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Sell date: 7/2005
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Mfg's Catalog#: 5677
CDC Part#: 1051831
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Full title is: Statesboro Blues: The Early Years 1927-1935


Listeners first got the chance to hear the astonishing guitar skills and spine-tingling singing of Blind Willie McTell in 1927, the year he first stepped into a recording studio (for Victor Records). Here are 69 of the extraordinary tracks that came next (through 1935), recordings that have bewitched blues lovers ever since: Statesboro Blues; Travelin' Blues; Drive Away Blues; Kind Mama; Atlanta Strut; My Baby's Gone; Death Room Blues; Broke Down Engine; Dying Gambler; God Don't Like It; Runnin' Me Crazy; Dirty Mistreater; You Was Born to Die; Georgia Rag; Stomp Down Rider, and more!

 
 Tracks and Sound Clips   Click here for the Windows Media player
 
Writing Paper Blues - 3:11 Play the Windows Media clip
Stole Rider Blues - 3:08 Play the Windows Media clip
Mamma, Tain't Long fo' Day - 3:01 Play the Windows Media clip
Mr. McTell Got the Blues [Take 1][#] - 2:21 Play the Windows Media clip
Mr. McTell Got the Blues [Take 2] - 2:22 Play the Windows Media clip
Three Women Blues - 2:43 Play the Windows Media clip
Dark Night Blues - 2:51 Play the Windows Media clip
Statesboro Blues - 2:32 Play the Windows Media clip
Loving Talking Blues - 2:43 Play the Windows Media clip
Atlanta Strut - 3:10 Play the Windows Media clip
Travelin' Blues - 3:14 Play the Windows Media clip
Come on Around to My House Mama - 3:03 Play the Windows Media clip
Kind Mama - 2:57 Play the Windows Media clip
Teasing Brown - 2:43 Play the Windows Media clip
Drive Away Blues - 3:13 Play the Windows Media clip
This Is Not the Stove to Brown Your Bread - 2:33 Play the Windows Media clip
Love Changing Blues - 3:08 Play the Windows Media clip
Talkin' to Myself - 3:12 Play the Windows Media clip
Razor Ball - 3:20 Play the Windows Media clip
Southern Can Is Mine - 3:15 Play the Windows Media clip
Broke Down Engine Blues - 3:09 Play the Windows Media clip
Stomp Down Rider - 3:08 Play the Windows Media clip
Scarey Day Blues - 3:02 Play the Windows Media clip
Rough Alley Blues - 3:18 Play the Windows Media clip
Experience Blues - 3:13 Play the Windows Media clip
Painful Blues - 2:53 Play the Windows Media clip
Low Rider's Blues - 3:19 Play the Windows Media clip
Georgia Rag - 3:05 Play the Windows Media clip
Low Down Blues - 3:14 Play the Windows Media clip
Rollin' Mama Blues - 2:53 Play the Windows Media clip
Lonesome Day Blues - 3:14 Play the Windows Media clip
Mama, Let Me Scoop for You - 3:12 Play the Windows Media clip
Searching the Desert for the Blues - 3:07 Play the Windows Media clip
Warm It Up to Me - 2:57 Play the Windows Media clip
It's Your Time to Worry [#] - 3:04 Play the Windows Media clip
It's a Good Little Thing - 2:53 Play the Windows Media clip
You Was Born to Die [#] - 2:51 Play the Windows Media clip
Dirty Mistreater [#] - 3:11 Play the Windows Media clip
Lord Have Mercy if You Please - 2:59 Play the Windows Media clip
Don't You See How This World Made a Change - 2:56 Play the Windows Media clip
Savannah Mama - 3:18 Play the Windows Media clip
Broke Down Engine - 3:16 Play the Windows Media clip
Broke Down Engine No. 2 [Take 1][#] - 3:28 Play the Windows Media clip
Broke Down Engine No. 2 [Take 3][#] - 2:54 Play the Windows Media clip
My Baby's Gone - 3:00 Play the Windows Media clip
Love Makin' Mama [Take 1][#] - 2:56 Play the Windows Media clip
Love Makin' Mama [Take 2][#] - 2:53 Play the Windows Media clip
Death Room Blues [Take 1][#] - 2:52 Play the Windows Media clip
Death Room Blues [Take 2][#] - 2:59 Play the Windows Media clip
Death Cell Blues - 3:07 Play the Windows Media clip
Lord, Send Me an Angel [Take 1][#] - 2:58 Play the Windows Media clip
Lord, Send Me an Angel [Take 2][#] - 2:54 Play the Windows Media clip
B & O Blues No. 2 [Take 1] - 3:02 Play the Windows Media clip
B & O Blues No. 2 [Take 2][#] - 2:50 Play the Windows Media clip
Weary Hearted Blues - 3:03 Play the Windows Media clip
Bell Street Lightnin' [#] - 2:55 Play the Windows Media clip
Southern Can Mama - 2:57 Play the Windows Media clip
Runnin' Me Crazy - 3:08 Play the Windows Media clip
East St. Louis Blues [#] - 2:54 Play the Windows Media clip
Ain't It Grand to Be a Christian - 3:11 Play the Windows Media clip
We Got to Meet Death One Day [Take 1] - 3:00 Play the Windows Media clip
We Got to Meet Death One Day [Take 2] - 2:54 Play the Windows Media clip
Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around [#] - 2:46 Play the Windows Media clip
I Got Religion, I'm So Glad [#] - 3:13 Play the Windows Media clip
Dying Gambler - 3:00 Play the Windows Media clip
God Don't Like It - 2:47 Play the Windows Media clip
Bell Street Blues - 2:51 Play the Windows Media clip
Let Me Play with Yo' Yo-Yo [#] - 3:08 Play the Windows Media clip
Lay Some Flowers on My Grave - 3:26 Play the Windows Media clip
Ticket Agent Blues - 3:21 Play the Windows Media clip
Cold Winter Day - 3:10 Play the Windows Media clip
Your Time to Worry - 2:42 Play the Windows Media clip
Cooling Board Blues [#] - 3:19 Play the Windows Media clip
Hillbilly Willie's Blues - 2:42 Play the Windows Media clip
 
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