Martin Scorsese Presents the Best of the Blues

[adnan]

The tracklist is absolutely magnificent. Of course there are a few classics left out, but overall it's just the best way to understand and appreciate this sort of music. There's everything here from Robert Johnson's "Crossroad Blues" at the start, through "All Your Love" by The Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton, and ending with Bonnie Raitt's "Round and Round" and a live version of "I Pity the Fool" with Robert Cray and Shemena Copeland.

Everything's here, from the flashiest blues rock to the quietest acoustic blues. If you ever need to get into the blues, here's where you start. Explosive listen, it's all over before you realize. Tremendous disc.

Track Listing:

1.Cross Road Blues - Robert Johnson

2.Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan) - Bessie Smith

3.Devil Got My Woman - Skip James

4.Evil (Is Going On) - Howlin' Wolf

5.Hoochie Coochie Man, (I'm Your) - Muddy Waters

6.Boom Boom - John Lee Hooker

7.Death Letter Blues - Son House

8.Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I) - Ray Charles

9.I'd Rather Go Blind - Etta James

10.Thrill Is Gone, The - B.B. King

11.All Your Love - John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers/Eric Clapton

12.One Good Man - Janis Joplin

13.Red House - The Jimi Hendrix Experience

14.One Way Out - The Allman Brothers Band (live)

15.Pride & Joy - Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble

16.Am I Wrong? - Keb' Mo'

17.Just Won't Burn - Susan Tedeschi

18.Voodoo Music - Los Lobos

19.Vietnam Blues - Cassandra Wilson

20.Round & Round - Bonnie Raitt

21.I Pity The Fool - Robert Cray/Shemeika Copeland (live)

Edited October 14, 2006 by adnan

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The tracklist is absolutely magnificent. Of course there are a few classics left out, but overall it's just the best way to understand and appreciate this sort of music. There's everything here from Robert Johnson's "Crossroad Blues" at the start, through "All Your Love" by The Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton, and ending with Bonnie Raitt's "Round and Round" and a live version of "I Pity the Fool" with Robert Cray and Shemena Copeland.

Everything's here, from the flashiest blues rock to the quietest acoustic blues. If you ever need to get into the blues, here's where you start. Explosive listen, it's all over before you realize. Tremendous disc.

Track Listing:

1.Cross Road Blues - Robert Johnson

2.Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan) - Bessie Smith

3.Devil Got My Woman - Skip James

4.Evil (Is Going On) - Howlin' Wolf

5.Hoochie Coochie Man, (I'm Your) - Muddy Waters

6.Boom Boom - John Lee Hooker

7.Death Letter Blues - Son House

This section is far too short in my opinion, a compilation that gives equal merit to Blues from every decade is simply lying. That's not to say the more modern artists on the disc aren't good.