The Blues: The Best of 1920–1996

Album by Various Artists

Blues

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Black Snake Moan
    2:52
  2. 2.
    Frankie
    3:23
  3. 3.
    Mother’s Children Have a Hard Time
    3:24
  4. 4.
    Roosevelt Blues
    2:48
  5. 5.
    Me and My Whiskey
    3:08
  6. 6.
    Diddle‐Da‐Diddle
    2:59
  7. 7.
    Got the Blues for Murder Only
    3:24
  8. 8.
    Sitting on Top of the World
    3:15
  9. 9.
    Pigmeat Is What I Crave
    2:51
  10. 10.
    Police Station Blues
    3:05
  11. 11.
    B & O Blues No. 2 #1
    3:01
  12. 12.
    Revenue Man Blues
    2:42
  13. 13.
    Rukus Juice and Chittlin’
    2:52
  14. 14.
    Dead Cats on the Line
    2:47
  15. 15.
    Blues Before Sunrise
    3:31
  16. 16.
    I Keep On Drinking (to Drive My Blues Away) Part 2
    3:04

Disc 2

  1. 1.
    Welfare Blues
    3:25
  2. 2.
    Mister Tom Hughes’ Town
    3:04
  3. 3.
    Cross Road Blues
    2:40
  4. 4.
    Boogie Woogie Prayer, Part 1
    2:21
  5. 5.
    Roll ’Em Pete
    2:49
  6. 6.
    I’m a Stranger Here
    2:55
  7. 7.
    Parchman Farm Blues
    2:39
  8. 8.
    Death of Blind Boy Fuller
    2:59
  9. 9.
    Key to the Highway
    3:00
  10. 10.
    Cross Cut Saw Blues
    2:51
  11. 11.
    Junker Blues
    2:42
  12. 12.
    Macy Special
    2:43
  13. 13.
    Hard Day Blues
    2:51
  14. 14.
    If the Sea Was Whiskey
    3:04
  15. 15.
    Baby Please Don’t Go
    2:48
  16. 16.
    Contrary Mary
    2:39

Disc 3

  1. 1.
    Crazy Blues
    3:27
  2. 2.
    St. Louis Blues
    3:12
  3. 3.
    Furniture Man… Part 1
    3:07
  4. 4.
    Midnight Weeping Blues
    2:57
  5. 5.
    Shave ’Em Dry, Part 1
    2:52
  6. 6.
    Sam the Hot Dog Man
    3:02
  7. 7.
    Me and My Chauffeur Blues
    2:45
  8. 8.
    Bad Whiskey Blues
    2:37
  9. 9.
    When I Been Drinking
    3:17
  10. 10.
    Come On Daddy (Let’s Go Play Tonight)
    2:13
  11. 11.
    Stop Talkin’ and Start Walkin’
    2:31
  12. 12.
    Gabbin’ Blues (Don’t Run My Business)
    2:39
  13. 13.
    Come On In My Kitchen
    2:49
  14. 14.
    Little Esther’s Blues
    6:51
  15. 15.
    Amtrak Blues
    3:22

Disc 4

  1. 1.
    Bulldog Blues
    2:29
  2. 2.
    Death Letter
    4:20
  3. 3.
    Dust My Broom
    3:05
  4. 4.
    Statesboro Blues
    2:58
  5. 5.
    Killing Floor
    4:12
  6. 6.
    Mean Mistreater
    3:54
  7. 7.
    Spoonful
    4:57
  8. 8.
    Shuggie’s Boogie
    5:31
  9. 9.
    Cleanhead’s Blues
    4:58
  10. 10.
    She’s Nineteen Years Old
    5:27
  11. 11.
    Got Love If You Want It
    3:56
  12. 12.
    Tin Pan Alley (Roughest Part of Town)
    9:13
  13. 13.
    Momma, Where’s My Daddy?
    3:07
  14. 14.
    France Blues
    3:22

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