Various - The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of (2CD)
Due for release on 17/04/2006
A double CD packaged in a DVD-size digipak containing 46 of the rarest and greatest blues and country 78s from the 1920s and early '30s. Included are two newly discovered masterpieces by legendary blues figure Son House, "Mississippi County Farm Blues" and "Clarksdale Moan." These have never been heard before and will generate tremendous interest among all blues fans. Likewise, country enthusiasts will be excited to hear the long lost, often believed never issued Georgia Pot Lickers record, both sides featuring duet fiddling by all time greats Lowe Stokes and A. A. Gray. And these are just the beginning of a lineup of super rarities and unissued gems. Many of the tracks, like Luke Jordan's "If I Call You," have never been heard even by the most advanced collectors, thus imbuing this release with loads of charisma and cachet.
Disc: 1
1. FREENY'S BARN DANCE BAND: Croquet Habits
2. SON HOUSE: Mississippi County Farm Blues
3. GEORGIA POT LICKERS: Up Jumped the Rabbit
4. MEMPHIS MINNIE & JOE McCOY: I'm Going Back Home
5. WILMER WATTS & THE LONELY EAGLES: Fightin' In the War With Spain
6. JOHN BYRD: Old Timbrook Blues
7. ERNEST PHIPPS AND HIS HOLINESS SINGERS: A Little Talk With Jesus
8. TOMMY JOHNSON: Slidin' Delta
9. THE THREE STRIPED GEARS: Alabama Blues
10. JACK GOWDLOCK: Rollin Dough Blues
11. KENTUCKY RAMBLERS: Ginseng Blues
12. OLLIS MARTIN: Police and High Sheriff Come Ridin' Down
13. ROY HARVEY & JESS JOHNSTON AND THE WEST VIRGINIA RAMBLERS: John Hardy Blues
14. LONG "CLEEVE" REED & LITTLE HARVEY HULL - The Down Home Boys: Original Stack O' Lee Blues
15. AMEDIE ARDOIN & DENNIS McGEE: Two Step De La Prairie Soileau
16. ANDREW & JIM BAXTER: Operator Blues
17. J.D. HARRIS: The Grey Eagle
18. MEMPHIS JUG BAND: Jim Strainer Blues
19. GRAYSON COUNTY RAILSPLITTERS: Ain't That Trouble In Mind (unissued)
20. DOCK BOGGS: Old Rub Alcohol Blues
21. JAYBIRD COLEMAN: Mistreatin' Mama
22. HENRY WHITTER: It's a Rough Road to Georgia (unissued)
23. REV. B.L. WIGHTMAN WITH LOTTIE KIMBROUGH & CONGREGATION: Live the Life
Disc: 2
1. YANK RACHEL WITH SLEEPY JOHN ESTES & JAB JONES: Sweet Mama
2. CROWDER BROTHERS: We All Love Mother (unissued)
3. SON HOUSE: Clarksdale Moan
4. ASHLEY & FOSTER: Bull Dog Sal (unissued)
5. JESSE "BABYFACE" THOMAS: Down In Texas Blues
6. GEORGIA POT LICKERS: Chicken Don't Roost Too High
7. WILLIAM HARRIS: I'm Leavin' Town (But I Sho' Don't Wanna Go)
8. ASA MARTIN & ROY HOBBS: Wild Cat Rag
9. KING SOLOMON HILL: Whoopee Blues (alternate take)
10. CHUBBY PARKER: Davey Crockett
11. GEESHIE WILEY: Skinny Leg Blues
12. SWEET BROTHERS: I'm Gonna Marry That Pretty Little Girl
13. BLIND ROOSEVELT GRAVES & VAROY GRAVES: I Shall Not Be Moved
14. SMITH & IRVINE: Lonesome Road Blues
15. LUKE JORDON: If I Call You Mama
16. GRAYSON & WHITTER: My Mind Is To Marry (unissued)
17. OSEY HELTON: Green River
18. LOTTIE KIMBROUGH: Don't Speak To Me
19. WADE WARD: Married Man's Blues (unissued)
20. KEN MAYNARD: Sweet Betsey From Pike (unissued)
21. JAYBIRD COLEMAN: Boll Weevil
22. BILL SHEPHERD WITH HAYES SHEPHERD & ED WEBB: Bound Steel Blues
23. MIDDLE GEORGIA SINGING CONVENTION NO. 1: Bells Of Love