Various Artists | Slide Guitar Blues | 2CD 202

The use of slide guitar techniques within blues music is usually taken as a given, although the genesis of the form is not the easiest to trace. It is widely agreed that the roots of slide guitar playing lie in Africa. There was also another probable route via the Hawaiian Islands, they developed their `slack key' playing style and began to add the use of metal held along the fretboard. However the story is complicated by the famed composer W.C. Handy who reported witnessing a blues player at a train station using a knife blade along the strings as early as 1903. It's quite likely that all these scenarios fed into the mix, and by the later 1920s blues players were often using the style. Our collection covers a wide period of time from the late 1920s onwards, and features many well known names and highly influential songs.

TRACKLIST: 

DISC 1

1. Elmore James - Dust My Broom
2. Muddy Waters - Rollin' & Tumblin'
3. Robert Johnson - Crossroads Blues
4. Homesick James - Homesick
5. Howlin' Wolf - The Red Rooster
6. Black Ace - Evil Woman
7. Furry Lewis - Pearlee Blues
8. Hound Dog Taylor - My Baby's Coming Home
9. Mississippi Fred McDowell - When You Get Home, Write Me a Few Little Lines
10. Tampa Red - Green and Lucky Blues
11. Eddie Kirkland - Down On My Knees
12. Robert Lockwood Jr. - Little Boy Blue
13. Otis Rush - All Your Love (I Miss Loving)
14. Muddy Waters - You Shook Me
15. Blind Willie Johnson - I Know His Blood Can Make Me Whole
16. Elmore James - Standing at the Crossroads
17. Buddy Woods - Muscat Hill Blues
18. Wild Jimmy Spruill - Kansas City March
19. Blind Willie McTell - Three Women Blues
20. Boyd Gilmore - All in My Dreams

DISC 2

1. Howlin' Wolf - Worried About My Baby
2. Elmore James - The Sun Is Shining
3. Hound Dog Taylor - Take Five
4. Muddy Waters - I Can't Be Satisfied
5. Eddie Kirkland - Don't Take My Heart
6. One String Sam - My Baby, Oooo
7. Shakey Jake - Roll Your Money Maker (With Willie Dixon)
8. Robert Johnson - Travelling Riverside Blues
9. Homesick James - Set a Date
10. Black Ace - I Am the Black Ace
11. Sylvester Weaver - Guitar Rag
12. Hop Wilson - Always Be in Love
13. Sam Myers - Sad, Sad Lonesome Day
14. Blind Willie McTell - Mamma, Tain't Long Fo' Day
15. Fred McMullen - DeKalb Chain Gang
16. John Dudley - Po' Boy Blues
17. Black Ace - Drink On Little Girl
18. Casey Bill Weldon - Believe I'll Make a Change
19. Bukka White - Fixin' to Die Blues
20. Young John Watson - Space Guitar