Cover VG, shelf wear, bottom seam unglued, Vinyl VG++ / VG+.

Ma Rainey & the Classic Blues Singers



1970 issue; recorded 1922-1929 plus one by Ida Cox from 1939.



Tracks are:

1. Rough and Tumble Blues (Ma Rainey)

2. Crazy Blues (Mamie Smith)

3. Jelly Jelly Look What You Done Done (Clara Smith)

4. Nobody Rocks Me Like My Baby Do (Martha Copeland)

5. Peddlin' Man (Eliza Brown)

6. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (Ma Rainey)

7. I'm a Mighty Tight Woman (Sippie Wallace)

8. Rules and Regulations (Signed Razor Jim) (Edith Wilson)

9. Cravin' a Man Blues (Lillian Glinn)

10. Hot Springs Blues (Bessie Smith)

11. I've Got What It Takes (But It Breaks My Heart to Give It Away) (Bessie Smith)

12. Fire and Thunder Blues (Mary Dixon)

13. Let's Get It Straight (Liza Brown and Ann Johnson)

14. Black Hearse Blues (Sara Martin)

15. T.B. Blues (Victoria Spivey)

16. Hard Times Blues (Ida Cox)

Collective Personnel besides the blues singers listed next to the tracks includes:

Hot Lips Page (tp) Ed Hall, Garvin Bushell (cl) Willie the Lion Smith, Porter Grainger, Lil Henderson, Fletcher Henderson, Clarence Williams (p) Ollie Powers (d) J.C. Higginbotham, Charlie Green(tb) Johnny Dunn, Ed Allen, Louis Metcalfe (cnt) Sylvester Weaver, Lonnie Johnson, Charlie Christian (g) Lionel Hampton (d).

Incredible selection of classic blues performances featuring top jazz men and the best female blues singers, starting with Ma Rainey.

Terrific and Scarce Classic Blues Import Album in Very Nice Condition.

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