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Essential Pioneer Blues
1. CD1 - Rural & Old School
1-1 Robert Johnson: Cross Road Blues 2:41
1-2 Mississippi John Hurt: Stack O'Lee 2:57
1-3 Lonnie Johnson (2): Racketeers Blues 3:13
1-4 Memphis Minnie: Me And My Chauffeur Blues 3:02
1-5 Bessie Smith: Gimme A Pigfoot 3:29
1-6 Bertha "Chippie" Hill: Trouble In Mind 2:43
1-7 Blind Willie Johnson: Dark Was The Night 3:20
1-8 Son House: Walking Blues 2:59
1-9 Bukka White: Parchman Farm Blues 2:41
1-10 Big Joe Williams: Baby Please Don’t Go 3:24
1-11 Lucille Bogan: Baking Powder Blues 3:00
1-12 Ma Rainey: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom 3:11
1-13 Clara Smith: Gin Mill Blues 3:07
1-14 Leadbelly: Midnight Special 3:07
1-15 Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee: Walk On 2:53
1-16 Josh White: Free And Equal Blues 4:23
1-17 Count Basie: Blues In The Dark 3:05
1-18 Ida Cox: Any Woman’s Blues 3:35
1-19 Blind Lemon Jefferson: Match Box Blues 3:01
1-20 Blind Willie McTell: Statesboro Blues 2:30
1-21 Blind Blake: Diddie Wa Diddie 2:59
1-22 Blind Boy Fuller: Truckin’ My Blues Away, # 2 2:48
1-23 Alberta Hunter: Downhearted Blues 2:51
1-24 Dinah Shore, Leonard Joy Orchestra: Blues In The Night 3:11
1-25 Billie Holiday: Billie’s Blues (I Love My Man) 4:13
27. CD2 - Urban & Rockin'
2-1 John Lee Hooker: Dimples
2-2 Howlin' Wolf: Smokestack Lightnin'
2-3 Big Mama Thornton: Hound Dog
2-4 Amos Milburn: Chicken Shack Boogie
2-5 B.B. King: Woke Up This Morning
2-6 Pete Johnson, Big Joe Turner: Roll 'Em Pete
2-7 Fats Domino: The Fat Man
2-8 Elmore James: Dust My Broom
2-9 Otis Rush: All Your Love (I Miss Loving)
2-10 Earl Hooker: Blue Guitar
2-11 Lowell Fulson: Reconsider Baby
2-12 Ruth Brown: 5 10 15 Hours
2-13 Little Walter & His Jukes: My Babe
2-14 Jimmy Reed: Shame, Shame, Shame
2-15 Little Junior's Blue Flames: Mystery Train
2-16 Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup: That’s All Right
2-17 Billy Boy Arnold: I Wish You Would
2-18 Bobby Parker (2): Blues Get Off My Shoulder
2-19 Smiley Lewis: I Hear You Knockin'
2-20 Roy Milton & His Solid Senders: R.M. Blues
2-21 Sonny Boy Williamson (2): Don’t Start Me Talkin'
2-22 T-Bone Walker: T-Bone Shuffle
2-23 Albert Ammons: Shout For Joy
2-24 Big Bill Broonzy: All By Myself
2-25 Albert King: Born Under A Bad Sign