- Audio CD (Nov 5 2002)
- Number of Discs: 4
- Format: Limited Edition
- Label: RCA
- ASIN: B00006YXE7
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #92,713 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Catfish Blues - Robert Petway | |||
| 2. Baby, Please Don't Go - Big Joe Williams | |||
| 3. Ham an' Eggs - Leadbelly | |||
| 4. Mississippi River Blues - Big Bill Broonzy | |||
| 5. Just A Good Woman Through With The Blues - Trixie Butler | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Telephoning the Blues - Victoria Spivey | |||
| 2. Viola Lee Blues - Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers | |||
| 3. Haven't Got a Dollar to Pay Your House Rent Man - Genevieve Davis | |||
| 4. Saturday Blues - Ishman Bracey | |||
| 5. When I Woke Up This Morning She Was Gone - Jim Jackson | |||
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| Disc: 3 | |||
| 1. That's Chicago's South Side - Sam Theard | |||
| 2. Peetie Wheatstraw - Pete Wheatstraw | |||
| 3. Devil's Island Gin Blues - Roosevelt Sykes | |||
| 4. Black Gal What Makes Your Head So Hard? - Joe Pullum | |||
| 5. I Lost My Baby - Lil Johnson | |||
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| Disc: 4 | |||
| 1. Pearl Harbor Blues - Doctor Clayton | |||
| 2. My Buddy Blues - The Five Breezes | |||
| 3. Worried Life Blues - Big Maceo | |||
| 4. I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water - The Cats & A Fiddle | |||
| 5. Grinder Man Blues - Memphis Slim | |||
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Product Description
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Superb sound quality and sheer entertainment value make this a series by which other musical retrospectives should be measured. Over four discs (available individually as well as in this limited-edition set), the expansive selection of blues-based music from the RCA-Bluebird vaults celebrates artistry that still sounds vital 50 years after it was recorded. Among the highlights are such seminal recordings as "Catfish Blues" by Robert Petway (which Muddy Waters would transform into "Rolling Stone"), "Canned Heat Blues" by Tommy Johnson, "Sweet Little Angel" by Tampa Red (later a signature tune for B.B. King), and "That's All Right" by Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup (which ignited a rock & roll revolution in Elvis Presley's hands). Every cut seems to have been chosen with care, and some of the more obscure rank with the greatest delights: "Memphis" Minnie McCoy's "Selling My Pork Chops" and Washboard Sam's "Soap and Water Blues." As a blues anthology that surveys the roots of rock & roll, the set omits many of the biggest names (who recorded for other labels) and goes lightly on the 12-bar, guitar-driven style that flourished in Chicago after World War II. Yet the variety and vigor of the offerings should strike a responsive chord with casual fan and blues aficionado alike. --Don McLeese
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Some People Are Stupid - REALLY STUPID,
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This review is from: When The Sun Goes Down: The Secret History of Rock and Roll (Audio CD)
This review is a direct response to the person who has given it a solitary star. Well I fit into the category of people who "dont know better" This is the best sounding remastering I have EVER heard. The only things that I can think of that compare are Old Hat CDs (how they got some of the sounds on the Basement CD I dont know), JSPs Carter Family & Jimmmie Rodgers box sets, or many many items that Bear Family have been responsible for. I would like to hear Ace have a go remastering stuff from the dawn of recordings - but mostly their releases pick up (date-wise) just about where this stuff stops. As for Document - well, I rate them VERY highly and buy their stuff and enjoy it - BUT THEY DONT SOUND BETTER THAN THESE. It just isnt the case. I was astonished when I first heard the quality of the remastering on this set. Add to that the incredible sound they have got on the Sonny Boy Williamson's and Leadbelly's "Secret Histort" discs. I havent yet heard the Blind Willie McTell one. How anyone can say that this isnt the way this stuff is supposed to sound is beyond me. And its all been done without taking away ANYTHING from the integrity of the recordings. Have a listen and make your own mind up. The bloke who reviewed this and gave it only 1 star should go back to his medium wave radio.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Fine retrospective for the devoted blues fan,
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This review is from: When The Sun Goes Down: The Secret History of Rock and Roll (Audio CD)
"The Secret History Of Rock And Roll" brings together a hundred original blues classics on four discs.This series is designed to shine a light on the roots of rock & roll music, and the remastering of these many 70-year-old tracks sounds surprisingly good. Among the instantly recognizable tunes, many of which were covered in one form or another by rock bands of the '60s and '70s are Big Joe Williams' "Baby, Please Don't Go", "Walk Right In" by Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers, Huddie Ledbetter's "The Midniht Special", "Statesboro Blues" by Blind Willie McTell, "Good Morning School Girl" by Sonny Boy Williamson, "Canned Heat Blues" by Tommy Johnson, and Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup's "That's All Right" and "My Baby Left Me". This is not really for the casual blues fan, and it isn't supposed to be listened to in one long sitting...even this fine and influential music is not varied enough for that. But if you are seriously interested in early acoustic blues, and its influence on 50s and 60s rock n' roll, this collection ranks among the best.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Great Music + Bad Transfers = SOUNDS TERRIBLE!!!,
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This review is from: When The Sun Goes Down: The Secret History of Rock and Roll (Audio CD)
I keep hearing how great these sound. No disrespect, but people who say this sounds so great don't know what real 78 transfers are supposed to sound like. And that is exactly who these discs are marketed at, the people who don't know the music all that well and will buy bad transfers. I implore you, save your money and spend it on Document Records discs.Document's sound quality is a million times better than these transfers! Take my advice, if you want inferior transfers, by all means buy this album. If you want this music to sound the way it is supposed to sound, buy Document and keep real blues music alive!
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