VA - Classic Piano Blues: From Smithsonian Folkways (2008)

Storyville nightclubs, Beale Street juke joints, gambling houses, barrelhouse bars in the lumber and turpentine camps of East Texas - these were the places African American piano bluesmen called home. Born of ragtime and hard times, the piano blues migrated with its players from the deep South to the urban North. Classic Piano Blues revisits raucous boogie-woogie and blues legends Memphis Slim, Willie Dixon, Champion Jack Dupree, Speckled Red, Meade "Lux" Lewis, Lead Belly, Little Brother Montgomery, Roosevelt Sykes, James P. Johnson, and more, in 20 tracks drawn from the well of the Folkways Collections.

Tracklist:

01. Memphis Slim - Dedication To Pete Johnson
02. Booker T. Laury - Early In The Morning
03. Speckled Red - How Long Blues
04. James P. Johnson - Yellow Dog Blues
05. Memphis Slim - Key To The Highway
06. Meade Lux Lewis - Medium Blues
07. Champion Jack Dupree - Black Wolf Blues
08. Big Chief Ellis - Dices Blues
09. Lead Belly - Big Fat Woman
10. Sammy Price - Harlem Parlor Blues
11. Henry Brown - Little Drops Of Water
12. Little Brother Montgomery - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
13. Speckled Red - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
14. Willie Dixon - Wish Me Well
15. Henry Townsend - All My Money's Gone
16. Victoria Spivey - You're My Man
17. Champion Jack Dupree - On My Way To See Moe Asch
18. Roosevelt Sykes - Sweet Old Chicago
19. Little Brother Montgomery - No Special Rider Blues
20. James P. Johnson - Hesitation Blues