The Definitive Blind Willie McTell [Columbia/Legacy]
Blind Willie McTell |
 Released 1994
This double-CD set is a little misleading. It is definitive, but only in terms of McTell's Columbia and Okeh sides -- you won't find "Statesboro Blues" or his other earliest sides here, because they were done for Victor. But the material that is here is all worthwhile, and this is the best single source for McTell's work for those labels (done under a variety of names) from the mid-'30s, very nicely remastered and thoroughly annotated, although producer Lawrence Cohn concedes that even Sony Legacy was unable to locate sources on a handful of songs that McTell is known to have recorded. ~ Bruce Eder, All Music Guide
TRACKS 1. Atlanta Strut
2. Travelin' Blues
3. Come on Around to My House Mama
4. Kind Mama
5. Talkin' to Myself
6. Razor Ball
7. Southern Can Is Mine
8. Broke Down Engine
9. Stomp Down Rider
10. Scarey Day Blues
11. Rough Alley Blues
12. Experience Blues
13. Painful Blues
14. Low Rider's Blues
15. Georgia Rag
16. Low Down Blues
17. Warm It up to Me
18. It's Your Time to Worry
19. It's a Good Little Thing
20. You Was Born to Die
21. Dirty Mistreater
DISC 2 22. Lord Have Mercy If You Please
23. Don't You See How This World Made a Change
24. Savannah Mama
25. Broke Down Engine
26. Broke Down Engine No. 2
27. My Baby's Gone
28. Love Makin' Mama #1
29. Love Makin' Mama #2
30. Death Room Blues [#1]
31. Death Room Blues [#2]
32. Death Cell Blues
33. Lord Send Me an Angel #1
34. Lord Send Me an Angel #2
35. B & O Blues, No. 2 [#1]
36. B & O Blues, No. 2 [#2]
37. Weary Hearted Blues
38. Bell St. Lightnin'
39. Southern Can Mama
40. Runnin' Me Crazy
41. East St. Louis Blues
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