Rough Guide To Blues Divas

Artista: Rough Guide to Blues Divas / Various

Formato: COMPACT DISCS

Gravadora/Label: WMN

Catalogo: 1392

Faixas: 1.1 Black Eye Blues
1.2 Bye Bye Baby
1.3 Sweet Georgia Brown
1.4 ?Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
1.5 Dope Head Blues
1.6 Everybody Mess Around
1.7 Jenny’s Ball
1.8 Give Me a Break Blues
1.9 Tired As I Can Be
1.10 Everybody Does It Now
1.11 My Man Is Good for Nothing But Love
1.12 Salty Dog
1.13 Shake Your Cans
1.14 I’m a Mighty Tight Woman
1.15 Get It Fixed
1.16 Do Dirty Blues
1.17 Get ‘Em from the Peanut Man (Hot Nuts)
1.18 Sorrowful Blues
1.19 You Got Ev’rything a Sweet Mama Needs But Me
1.20 The St. Louis Blues
1.21 Break O’Day Blues
1.22 Anybody Here Want to Try My Cabbage?
1.23 Electrician Blues
1.24 Penitentiary
1.25 He Used to Be Your Man But He’s My Man Now

The 1920s ‘classic era’ of recorded blues was dominated by women who lived and performed in the cities. This Rough Guide explores it’s glitzy heyday when singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey became the first real stars of the blues.