Album · Compilation

The Blues: The Best of 1920–1996

Released 200061 tracks · 204:13EnglishSony Music Entertainment (Canada) Inc.

Tracks

#	Title	Sung by
1.1	Black Snake Moan	Blind Lemon Jefferson	2:52
1.2	Frankie	Mississippi John Hurt	3:23
1.3	Mother’s Children Have a Hard Time	Blind Willie Johnson	3:24
1.4	Roosevelt Blues	Roosevelt Sykes	2:49
1.5	Me and My Whiskey	Barbecue Bob	3:09
1.6	Diddle‐Da‐Diddle	Georgia Cotton Pickers	3:00
1.7	Got the Blues for Murder Only	Lonnie Johnson	3:25
1.8	Sitting on Top of the World	Walter Vinson	3:15
1.9	Pigmeat Is What I Crave	Bo Carter	2:51
1.10	Police Station Blues	Peetie Wheatstraw	3:05
1.11	B & O Blues No. 2 #1	Blind Willie McTell	3:02
1.12	Revenue Man Blues	Charley Patton	2:42
1.13	Rukus Juice and Chittlin’	Will Shade	2:53
1.14	Dead Cats on the Line	Tampa Red, Georgia Tom, Thomas A. Dorsey	2:47
1.15	Blues Before Sunrise	Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell	3:31
1.16	I Keep On Drinking (to Drive My Blues Away) Part 2	Bumble Bee Slim	3:05
2.1	Welfare Blues	Josh White	3:26
2.2	Mister Tom Hughes’ Town	Lead Belly	3:05
2.3	Cross Road Blues	Robert Johnson	2:41
2.4	Boogie Woogie Prayer, Part 1	The Boogie Woogie Boys	2:22
2.5	Roll ’Em Pete	Joe Turner	2:50
2.6	I’m a Stranger Here	Blind Boy Fuller	2:56
2.7	Parchman Farm Blues	Bukka White	2:39
2.8	Death of Blind Boy Fuller	Brownie McGhee	2:59
2.9	Key to the Highway	Big Bill Broonzy	3:01
2.10	Cross Cut Saw Blues	Tony Hollins	2:51
2.11	Junker Blues	Champion Jack Dupree	2:42
2.12	Macy Special	Big Maceo Merriweather	2:43
2.13	Hard Day Blues	Muddy Waters	2:51
2.14	If the Sea Was Whiskey	Big Three Trio	3:04
2.15	Baby Please Don’t Go	Big Joe Williams	2:49
2.16	Contrary Mary	Lightnin’ Hopkins	2:40
3.1	Crazy Blues	Mamie Smith	3:27
3.2	St. Louis Blues	Bessie Smith	3:12
3.3	Furniture Man… Part 1	Victoria Spivey	3:07
3.4	Midnight Weeping Blues	Robert Hicks, Nellie Florence	2:58
3.5	Shave ’Em Dry, Part 1	Lucille Bogan	2:52
3.6	Sam the Hot Dog Man	Lil Johnson	3:02
3.7	Me and My Chauffeur Blues	Memphis Minnie	2:46
3.8	Bad Whiskey Blues	Merline Johnson	2:37
3.9	When I Been Drinking	Rosetta Howard	3:17
3.10	Come On Daddy (Let’s Go Play Tonight)	Pearl Traylor	2:14
3.11	Stop Talkin’ and Start Walkin’	Annie Laurie	2:32
3.12	Gabbin’ Blues (Don’t Run My Business)	Big Maybelle	2:40
3.13	Come On In My Kitchen	Jo-Ann Kelly	2:50
3.14	Little Esther’s Blues	Little Esther	6:51
3.15	Amtrak Blues	Alberta Hunter	3:22
4.1	Bulldog Blues	Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee	2:29
4.2	Death Letter	Son House	4:21
4.3	Dust My Broom	Rising Sons	3:06
4.4	Statesboro Blues	Taj Mahal	2:58
4.5	Killing Floor	Nick Gravenites	4:12
4.6	Mean Mistreater	Johnny Winter	3:54
4.7	Spoonful	Willie Dixon	4:57
4.8	Shuggie’s Boogie	Shuggie Otis	5:32
4.9	Cleanhead’s Blues	Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson	4:58
4.10	She’s Nineteen Years Old	Muddy Waters	5:27
4.11	Got Love If You Want It	The Fabulous Thunderbirds	3:57
4.12	Tin Pan Alley (Roughest Part of Town)	Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble	9:13
4.13	Momma, Where’s My Daddy?	Keb’ Mo’	3:08
4.14	France Blues	Alvin Youngblood Hart	3:22

Source: MusicBrainz release group f4554685-f213-4d59-b0b4-6c2f18bff0db (CC0). Cover: Cover Art Archive.