805520021517

75 Year Anniversary Edition

Charley Patton

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Format: 3CD

Cat No: PROPERBOX151

Release Date:  04 May 2009

Label:  Proper Box

Packaging Type:  Box Set

No of Units:  3

Barcode:  805520021517

Genres:  Blues  

  • Description

    The Definitive Charley Patton – 75th Anniversary Edition

    This year marks the 75th anniversary of the 'Father of the Delta Blues', Charley Patton. Patton was not the first Mississippi Bluesmen to record but he was without doubt the most important. Through his songbook and performances the Blues in the Delta became a major movement and many of the greatest artists from that region owe a great debt to Charley Patton. Son House, Robert Johnson, Tommy Johnson, Howlin' Wolf and just about any other Delta Blues artist from the first half of the last century all have Patton to thank for his groundbreaking work.

    Although he was definitely a pioneer Patton himself had influences and on this set we not only look at those artists that followed in his wake but also his contemporaries and those that came before him. Patton borrowed music or lyrics from many artists including Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Blind Lemon Jefferson, the Mississippi Sheiks, Blind Willie Johnson, Jim Jackson and many more.

    This 60 track set contains many of Patton's best known songs as well as the sources for those songs and covers or variants by those artists that came after him. Also included is the DVD, 'Talkin' Patton', that contains interviews with musicians, musicologists. Blues scholars and Delta historians and contains brand new footage of Dockery's, the legendary plantation where Patton was raised and where many people believe the Delta Blues truly blossomed as an art form.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Mississippi Boweavil Blues - Charley Patton
      • 2. Bo Weevil Blues - Bessie Smith
      • 3. Screamin' & Hollerin' The Blues - Charley Patton
      • 4. Down South Blues - Alberta Hunter
      • 5. Down The Dirt Road Blues - Charley Patton
      • 6. Big Road Blues - Tommy Johnson
      • 7. Pony Blues - Charley Patton
      • 8. Black Horse Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
      • 9. Banty Rooster Blues - Charley Patton
      • 10. The Crowing Rooster - Walter Rhodes
      • 11. Pea Vine Blues - Charley Patton
      • 12. Come On In My Kitchen - Robert Johnson
      • 13. Tom Rushen Blues - Charley Patton
      • 14. Booze and Blues - Ma Rainey
      • 15. A Spoonful Blues - Charley Patton
      • 16. Just A Spoonful - Charley Jordan
      • 17. Shake It And Break It - Charley Patton
      • 18. I Don't Know Cripple - Clarence Lofton
      • 19. Going To Move To Alabama - Charley Patton
      • 20. Jim Jackson's Kansas City Blues - Jim Jackson
      • 21. Elder Greene Blues - Charley Patton
      • 22. I'm Alabama Bound - Papa Charlie Jackson
      • 23. Frankie & Albert - Charley Patton
      • 24. Leaving Home - Charlie Poole
      • 25. Some These Days I'll Be Gone - Charley Patton
      • 26. Some Of These Days - Ethel Waters

      Disc 2

      • 1. Hammer Blues - Charley Patton
      • 2. Mountain Top Blues - Bessie Smith
      • 3. You're Gonna Need Somebody When You Die - Charley Patton
      • 4. You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond - Blind Willie Johnson
      • 5. High Water Everywhere Pt. 1 - Charley Patton
      • 6. Tallahatchie River Blues - Mattie Delaney
      • 7. Jesue Is A Dying-Bed Maker - Charley Patton
      • 8. Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed - Blind Willie Johnson
      • 9. Running Wild - Charley Patton
      • 10. Running Wild - Cow Cow Davenport
      • 11. Some Summer Day - Charley Patton
      • 12. Sitting On Top Of The World - Mississippi Sheiks
      • 13. Moon Going Down - Charley Patton
      • 14. Crying At Daybreak - Howlin' Wolf
      • 15. Bird Nest Bound - Charley Patton
      • 16. Bird Nest Blues - Ardell Bragg
      • 17. Jersey Bull Blues - Charley Patton
      • 18. Bull Cow Blues - Big Bill Broonzy
      • 19. 34 Blues - Charley Patton
      • 20. Forty Four - Howlin' Wolf
      • 21. Oh Death - Charley Patton
      • 22. Oh Death - Charlie Monroe
      • 23. Poor Me - Charley Patton
      • 24. Cryin' Blues - Hound Head Henry
      • 25. Yellow Bee - Charley Patton & Bertha Lee
      • 26. Bumble Bee - Memphis Minnie

      Disc 3

      • 1. Mama's Got The Blues - Bessie Smith
      • 2. Bye Bye Blues - Tommy Johnson
      • 3. Clarksdale Moan - Son House
      • 4. Mississippi Bottom Blues - Kid Bailey
      • 5. Banty Rooster - Blind Pete & Partner
      • 6. On The Wall - Louise Johnson
      • 7. Hitch Me To Your Buggy - Casey Bill Weldon
      • 8. Water Coast Blues - David Edwards
      • 9. The Pony Blues - Son House
      • 10. Louise, Louise Blues - Johnny Temple
      • 11. Rowdy Blues
      • 12. Down The Big Road Blues - Mattie Delaney
      • 13. Future Blues - Willie Brown
      • 14. Maggie Campbell - Tommy Johnson
      • 15. The Jinx Blues - Poor Boy Lofton
      • 16. Dark Road Blues - Sonny Boy Nelson
      • 17. Pony Blues - Sonny Boy Nelson
      • 18. If You Haven't Any Hay - Skip James
      • 19. Saddle My Pony - Howlin' Wolf
      • 20. Texas Blues - Marshall Owens
      • 21. Turpentine Blues - Casey Bill Weldon
      • 22. Spoonful - Papa Charlie Jackson
      • 23. My Black Mama Pt. 1 - Son House
      • 24. M & O Blues - Willie Brown

      Disc 4

      • 1. DVD: A Spoonful Blues - Charley Patton
      • 2. DVD: Screamin' & Hollerin' The Blues - Charley Patton
      • 3. DVD: Banty Rooster Blues - Charley Patton
      • 4. DVD: Rollin' And Tumblin' - Muddy Waters
      • 5. DVD: Some Summer Day - Charley Patton
      • 6. DVD: When Your Way Gets Dark - Bob Brozman
      • 7. DVD: Down The Dirt Road Blues - Charley Patton
      • 8. DVD: High Water Everywhere Pt. 1 - Charley Patton
      • 9. DVD: Mississippi Boweavil Blues - Charley Patton
      • 10. DVD: Pony Blues - Bob Brozman