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Blind Willie McTell 1940
BDCD-6001 Blind Willie McTell - 1940 Library of Congress Recordings. Blind Willie McTell, vocal, twelve-string guitar. Genres; Country Blues / Spirituals / Ragtime Guitar / Bottleneck – slide guitar / Georgia Blues. Descriptive booklet notes by Alan Balfour Detailed discography. This album presents what must be one of the most historic recordings in African-American history. The result of this encounter in Atlanta, Georgia, was a recorded interview which shone a spotlight onto the life and music of one of the greatest Country Blues names to have been commercially recorded. Presented here in their entirety is a fascinating insight into the man who inspired among others the Allman Brothers, Taj Mahal, Bob Dylan and many others.

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Big Joe Williams Vol 1 1935 - 1941
Big Joe Williams, was the archetypal itinerant blues singer travelling from his birthplace in Mississippi, where he knew Charley Patton, Tommy McClennan and David Edwards, on to St. Louis where he married blues singer Bessie Mae Smith and then went on to Chicago where for a period of time he shared lodgings with white rock-blues singer-guitarist Mike Bloomfield.

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Memphis Minnie Vol 3 1937

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Memphis Minnie Vol 4 1938 - 1939

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Clifford Gibson 1929 - 1931
Clifford Gibson, vocal, guitar. R.T. Hanen (probably J.D. Short), vocal. Jimmie Rodgers, vocal, guitar. With appearances by Roosevelt Sykes, piano. Genres: St. Louis Country Blues, Country Blues Guitar; Old-Timey. Informative booklet notes by Mike Rowe. Detailed discography. Cllifford Gibson's oeuvre had been committed to wax by 1929, his first year of recording, with eight sides for QRS around June and another twelve sides for Victor in November and December of that year. Called back in 1931 to his hometown of Louisville mainly as an accompanist to Roosevelt Sykes and R. T. Hanen (probably J. D. Short) and, surprisingly, on one take as an accompanist to the white hillbilly Singer Jimmie Rodgers and that was it - almost.

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J T (Funny Paper) Smith 1930 - 1931
J.T. “Funny Paper” Smith (The Holing Wolf) vocal, guitar. Includes two tracks as Magnolia Harris, Howling Smith, vocal duet; accompanied Howling Smith (J.T. Smith), guitar. Includes two tracks as Dessa Foster, Howling Smith, vocal duet; accompanied Howling Smith (J.T. Smith), guitar. Genres: Texas Country Blues, Country Blues Guitar. Informative booklet notes by Teddy Doering. Detailed discography. There are quite a few blues singers/guitarists from Texas who made records in the late 1920s and in the 1930s. What is it that makes “Funny Paper” Smith rank among the outstanding blues artists of his time?

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Charlie McCoy 1928 - 1932
Charley McCoy (also as "Papa"¯ Charlie McCoy), vocal, guitar, mandolin. With appearances by: Walter Vincson, vocal, guitar; Bo Chatmon (Carter); And others. Genre: Mississippi Country Blues. Informative booklet notes by Teddy Doering. Detailed discography. The first recordings of Charlie McCoy show him as an accompanist with his mandolin. They were cut at the beginning of the famous session that produced the Johnson/ Bracey recordings, as a "warming up"¯ so to speak.

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Carolina Slim Complete Recorded Titles 1950 - 1952
Carolina Slim¯ vocal, guitar. Genres; Post-war Country Blues, North Carolina blues, Blues guitar. Informative booklet notes by Keith Briggs. Detailed discography. Ed Harris was a man of many names; like certain other blues singers he seemed to delight in his shifting identity, flitting between styles of performance as easily as he did between pseudonyms. He made a substantial dent on the post war blues market - substantial that is for an itinerant musician of the old school who got his start by working around the tobacco growing region of Durham, North Carolina, for tips.

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Vocal Blues & Jazz Vol 4. 1938 - 1949
Vocal Blues & Jazz CDs

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Vaughn De Leath - Dancing The Devil away (1920-1929)
known as “The First Lady of Radio” Vaugh De Leath successfully sued another singer who had used this moniker, she recorded her last side for Crown records in 1931 and then disappeared into obscurity, dying 12 years later in Buffalo, New York. The extraordinary breadth of her repertoire and flexible style can be heard by the on this CD. 'Dancing The Devil Away' gives us the sessions that she recorded for Thomas Edison throughout the 20s.

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Country Music Pioneers On Edison (1922-1929)
DOCD-1102 Country Music Pioneers on Edison Records (1922-1929) Various Artist Genres: Vintage Country / Old Timey Extensive, informative booklet notes by Lawrence Tedder The first in the series features such artists as Fiddlin' Powers and Family, Posey Rorer and the North Carolina Ramblers, Carson Robison, Vernon Dalhart and many more.

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Jazz and Blues On Edison Volume 1 (1920-1929)
Jazz and Blues on Edison Volume 1 features previously unreleased tracks by such artists as Eva Taylor and Clarence Williams, Rosa Henderson, Mal Hallett, Elsie Clark, The Georgia Melodians.

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