Disc one

1. Charlie Poole
   Charlie Poole
   Charlie Poole was an American old time banjo player and country musician and the leader of the North Carolina Ramblers, an American old-time string band that recorded many popular songs between 1925 to 1930.-Biography:...
   
    with the North Carolina
   North Carolina
   North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...
   
    Ramblers-"Whitehouse Blues" (3:25) (recorded September 20, 1926 in New York City
   New York City
   New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
   
   , New York)
2. Aiken Country String Band-"High Sheriff" (2:53) (recorded September 19, 1927 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina)
3. Frank Hutchison
   Frank Hutchison
   Frank Hutchison was an early country blues and piedmont blues musician.-Biography:...
   
   -"The Last Scene of the Titanic" (3:30) (recorded April 29, 1927 in St. Louis
   St. Louis, Missouri
   St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St...
   
   , Missouri
   Missouri
   Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...
   
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4. Hersal Thomas
   Hersal Thomas
   Hersal Thomas was an American blues pianist and composer. He recorded a number of sides for Okeh Records in 1925 and 1926....
   
   -"Suitcase Blues" (2:36) (recorded c. February 22, 1925 in Chicago
   Chicago
   Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
   
   , Illinois
   Illinois
   Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
   
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5. The Reverend J.M. Gates-"Death's Black Train is Coming" (3:11) (recorded April 24, 1926 in Atlanta, Georgia
   Georgia (U.S. state)
   Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...
   
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6. Dora Carr-"Cow Cow Blues" (2:50) (recorded October 1, 1925 in New York City, New York)
7. Vance's Tennessee Breakdowners-"Washington County Fox Chase" (2:57) (recorded September 22, 1927 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina)
8. Fiddlin' John Carson
   Fiddlin' John Carson
   Fiddlin' John Carson was an American old time fiddler and an early-recorded country musician.-Early life:...
   
   -"I'm Going to Take the Train to Charlotte" (3:05) (recorded August 10, 1928 in Atlanta, Georgia)
9. Ernest V. Stoneman's Trio-Untitled (3:01) (recorded January 1, 1927 in New York City, New York)
10. Whistler and His Jug Band-"Low Down Blues" (2:56) (recorded April 29, 1927 in St. Louis, Missouri)
11. Washington Phillips
    Washington Phillips
    Washington Phillips was a Texan gospel singer and musician. Phillips died in 1954 in Teague, Texas.- Biography :Phillips recorded eighteen songs, all between 1927 and 1929, though only sixteen survived...
    
    -"Paul and Silas in Jail" (2:42) (recorded December 2, 1927 in Dallas, Texas
    Texas
    Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
    
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12. Barbecue Bob
    Barbecue Bob
    Robert Hicks, better known as Barbecue Bob was an early American Piedmont blues musician. His nickname came from the fact that he was a cook in a barbecue restaurant. One of the two extant photographs of Bob show him playing his guitar while wearing a full length white apron and cook's hat.-Early...
    
    -"Blind Pig Blues" (3:02) (recorded April 13, 1928 in Atlanta, Georgia)
13. Austin and Lee Allen-"Chattanooga Blues" (3:04) (recorded November 4, 1927 in Atlanta, Georgia)
14. Sherman Tedder-Untitled (2:57) (recorded February 25, 1928 in Memphis
    Memphis, Tennessee
    Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....
    
    , Tennessee
    Tennessee
    Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...
    
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15. Dallas String Band with Coley Jones-"Hokum Blues" (3:25) (recorded December 8, 1928 in Dallas, Texas)
16. Gladys Bentley
    Gladys Bentley
    Gladys Bentley was an American blues singer during the Harlem Renaissance.-Biography:Bentley was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of American George L. Bentley and his wife, a Trinidadian, Mary Mote...
    
    -"Worried Blues" (2:45) (recorded August 8, 1928 in New York City, New York)
17. Elizabeth Johnson
    Elizabeth Johnson
    Elizabeth A. Johnson is a Christian feminist theologian. She is a Distinguished Professor of Theology at Fordham University, a Jesuit institution in New York City. She is a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Brentwood....
    
    -"Empty Bed Blues, Part One" (3:02) (recorded June 26, 1928 in New York City, New York)
18. Elizabeth Johnson-"Empty Bed Blues, Part Two" (3:22) (recorded June 26, 1928 in New York City, New York)
19. South Georgia Highballers-"Blue Grass Twist" (2:48) (recorded October 5, 1927 in Atlanta, Georgia)
20. Charlie Bowman
    Charlie Bowman
    Charles Thomas Bowman was an American old-time fiddle player and string band leader. He was a major influence on the distinctive fiddle sound that helped shape and develop early Country music in the 1920s and 1930s...
    
     and His Brothers-"Moonshiner and His Money" (3:10) (recorded February 20, 1929 in New York City, New York)
21. Clarence Horton Greene
    Clarence Horton Greene
    Clarence Horton Greene was an American musician and recording artist, noted for his fiddle and guitar work, and a pioneer in country music of the 1920s.-Biography:...
    
     - "Johnson City Blues" (2:57) (recorded October 15, 1928 in Johnson City
    Johnson City, Tennessee
    Johnson City is a city in Carter, Sullivan, and Washington counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee, with most of the city being in Washington County...
    
    , Tennessee)
22. The Reverend Johnny Blakey, assisted by the Sanctified Singers-"Warming By The Devil's Fire" (3:25) (recorded December 6, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois)
23. Papa Too Sweet & Harry Jones
    Harry Jones
    Harold "Harry" Alfred Jones was a Canadian sailor who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.In 1932 he was a crew member of the Canadian boat Santa Maria which won the silver medal in the 8 metre class. He died in Vancouver.-External links:**...
    
    -"(Honey) It's Tight Like That" (2:36) (recorded December 11, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois)
24. Mississippi John Hurt
    Mississippi John Hurt
    John Smith Hurt, better known as Mississippi John Hurt was an American country blues singer and guitarist.Raised in Avalon, Mississippi, Hurt taught himself how to play the guitar around age nine...
    
    -"Big Leg Blues" (2:51) (recorded December 21, 1928 in New York City, New York)
25. Daniels-Deason Sacred Harp Singers-"Hallelujah" (2:58) (recorded October 24, 1928 in Atlanta, Georgia)

1. Herschel Brown and His Happy Five-"Liberty" (2:54) (recorded March 19, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia)
2. Mamie Smith
   Mamie Smith
   -External links:* African American Registry* with photos* with .ram files of her early recordings* NPR special on the selection on "Crazy Blues" to the 2005...
   
   -"My Sportin' Man" (2:58) (recorded March 30, 1929 in New York City, New York)
3. Blues Birdhead-"Mean Low Blues" (3:13) (recorded October 13, 1929 in Richmond
   Richmond, Virginia
   Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. It is an independent city and not part of any county. Richmond is the center of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Greater Richmond area...
   
   , Virginia
   Virginia
   The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...
   
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4. Pink Anderson
   Pink Anderson
   "Pink" Anderson was a blues singer and guitarist, born in Laurens, South Carolina.-Life and career:After being raised in Greenville and Spartanburg, South Carolina, he joined Dr...
   
    and Simmie Dooley-"C.C. & O. Blues" (3:05) (recorded April 14, 1928 in Atlanta, Georgia)
5. The OKeh Atlanta Sacred Harp Singers-"Ortonville" (3:11) (recorded March 18, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia)
6. Slim Doucet-"Dear Black Eyes (Chere Yeux Noirs)" (3:00) (recorded March 20, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia)
7. Roosevelt Sykes
   Roosevelt Sykes
   Roosevelt Sykes was an American blues musician, also known as "The Honeydripper". He was a successful and prolific cigar-chomping blues piano player, whose rollicking thundering boogie-woogie was highly influential.-Career:Born in Elmar, Arkansas, Sykes grew up near Helena but at age 15, went on...
   
   -"Roosevelt Blues" (2:47) (recorded November 16, 1929 in Chicago, Illinois)
8. The Hokum Boys-"Gin Mill Blues" (3:27) (recorded November 16, 1929 in Chicago, Illinois)
9. Joe Falcon, accompanied by Clemo and Ophy Breaux-"Osson" (2:56) (recorded April 18, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia)
10. W.T. Narmour & S.W. Smith-"Sweet Milk and Peaches (Breakdown)" (3:11) (recorded September 25, 1929 in New York City, New York)
11. Gid Tanner
    Gid Tanner
    James Gideon Tanner was an American old time fiddler and one of the earliest stars of what would come to be known as country music. His band, the Skillet Lickers, was one of the most innovative and influential string bands of the 1920s and 1930s...
    
     and the Skillet Lickers, with Riley Puckett
    Riley Puckett
    George Riley Puckett was an American country music pioneer mostly known for being a member of Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers.-Biography:...
    
     & Clayton McMichen
    Clayton McMichen
    Clayton McMichen was an American fiddler and country musician.-Biography:Born in Allatoona, Georgia, McMichen learned to play the fiddle from his father and uncle. He moved to Atlanta with his family in 1913, working as an automobile mechanic. While there, he entered and won several competitions...
    
    -"Soldier's Joy" (2:54) (recorded October 29, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia)
12. Whistlin' Alex Moore
    Whistlin' Alex Moore
    Whistlin' Alex Moore was an American blues pianist, singer and whistler. He is best remembered for his recordings of "Across The Atlantic Ocean" and "Black Eyed Peas and Hog Jowls."-Early life:...
    
    -"They May Not Be My Toes" (3:02) (recorded December 5, 1929 in Dallas, Texas)
13. Mississippi Sheiks
    Mississippi Sheiks
    The Mississippi Sheiks were a popular and influential guitar and fiddle group of the 1930s. They were notable mostly for playing country blues, but were adept at many styles of United States popular music of the time, and their records were bought by both black and white audiences.In 2004, they...
    
    -"The Jazz Fiddler" (3:13) (recorded February 17, 1930 in Shreveport
    Shreveport, Louisiana
    Shreveport is the third largest city in Louisiana. It is the principal city of the fourth largest metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana and is the 109th-largest city in the United States....
    
    , Louisiana
    Louisiana
    Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties...
    
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14. Lonnie Johnson
    Lonnie Johnson
    Alonzo "Lonnie" Johnson was an American blues and jazz singer/guitarist and songwriter who pioneered the role of jazz guitar and is recognized as the first to play single-string guitar solos...
    
    -"I Have To Do My Time" (3:09) (recorded August 5, 1930 in New York City, New York)
15. Tom Darby
    Tom Darby
    Tom Darby is member of the Nevada Broadcasters Association's Hall of Fame, and is currently employed at KKOH 780 AM in Reno as a newscaster and reporter....
    
     and Jimmie Tarlton-"Lonesome Frisco Line" (3:17) (recorded October 31, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia)
16. Roy Harvey
    Roy Harvey
    William Charles Roy Harvey, more commonly known as Roy Harvey, was Lord Mayor of Brisbane City Council, Queensland, Australia from 1982 until 1985. A member of the Australian Labor Party, he spent a total of 27 years on the Council.-History:...
    
     and Leonard Copeland-"Back to the Blue Ridge" (2:55) (recorded June 30, 1930 in Atlanta, Georgia)
17. Buster Carter and Preston Young
    Preston Young
    Preston Young was a football player in the CFL for eight years years. Irvin played defensive back for the Saskatchewan Roughriders, Toronto Argonauts, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Montreal Concordes from 1978-1985. He played college football at Simon Fraser University.-References:...
    
    -"Darn Good Girl" (2:51) (recorded June 26, 1931 in New York City, New York)
18. Bo Carter
    Bo Carter
    Armenter "Bo Carter" Chatmon was an American early blues musician. He was a member of the Mississippi Sheiks in concerts, and on a few of their recordings...
    
    -"West Jackson Blues" (3:17) (recorded June 10, 1930 in San Antonio
    San Antonio, Texas
    San Antonio is the seventh-largest city in the United States of America and the second-largest city within the state of Texas, with a population of 1.33 million. Located in the American Southwest and the south–central part of Texas, the city serves as the seat of Bexar County. In 2011,...
    
    , Texas)
19. Lonnie Johnson and Clara Smith
    Clara Smith
    Clara Smith was an American classic female blues singer. She was billed as the "Queen of the Moaners", although Smith actually had a lighter and sweeter voice than her contemporaries and main competitors.-Career:...
    
     (as Violet Green)-"You Had Too Much" (3:19) (recorded October 31, 1930 in New York City, New York)
20. Silver Leaf Quartet-"Oh! Glory Glory" (3:13) (recorded March 20, 1931 in New York City, New York)
21. Freeny's Barn Dance Band-"Don't You Remember the Time" (3:16) (recorded December 16, 1930 in Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi
    Jackson is the capital and the most populous city of the US state of Mississippi. It is one of two county seats of Hinds County ,. The population of the city declined from 184,256 at the 2000 census to 173,514 at the 2010 census...
    
    , Mississippi
    Mississippi
    Mississippi is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States. Jackson is the state capital and largest city. The name of the state derives from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, whose name comes from the Ojibwe word misi-ziibi...
    
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22. Pelican Wildcats-"Walkin' Georgia Blues" (2:56) (recorded October 27, 1931 in Atlanta, Georgia)
23. Peetie Wheatstraw
    Peetie Wheatstraw
    Peetie Wheatstraw was the name adopted by the singer William Bunch, an influential figure among 1930s blues singers...
    
     (The Devil's Son-in-Law)-"Police Station Blues" (3:03) (recorded March 15, 1932 in New York City, New York)
24. Tindley Quaker City Gospel Singers-"Hallelujah Side" (3:16) (recorded March 8, 1932 in New York City, New York)
25. Will Batts-"Highway #61 Blues" (2:42) (recorded August 3, 1933 in New York City, New York)

1. W. Lee O'Daniel
   W. Lee O'Daniel
   Wilbert Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel, , was a conservative Democratic Party politician from Texas, who came to prominence by hosting a popular radio program. Known for his populist appeal, Pappy O'Daniel was the governor of Texas and later its junior U.S. Senator. He is also the only person ever to have...
   
    and His Light Crust Doughboys
   Light Crust Doughboys
   The Light Crust Doughboys is a quintessential American Western swing band from Texas organized in 1931 by the Burrus Mill and Elevator Company in Saginaw, Texas. The band achieved its peak popularity in the few years leading up to World War II...
   
   -"Doughboys Theme Song #1" (0:41) (recorded c. April 1934 in San Antonio, Texas)
2. W. Lee O'Daniel and His Hillbilly Boys-"Ida (Sweet as Apple Cider)" (3:09) (recorded November 21, 1936 in San Antonio, Texas)
3. W. Lee O'Daniel and His Light Crust Doughboys-"Doughboys Theme Song #2" (0:29) (recorded c. April 1934 in San Antonio, Texas)
4. Blind Willie McTell
   Blind Willie McTell
   Blind Willie McTell , was an influential Piedmont and ragtime blues singer and guitarist. He played with a fluid, syncopated fingerstyle guitar technique, common among many exponents of Piedmont blues, although, unlike his contemporaries, he used exclusively a twelve-string guitar...
   
    & Partner-"Bell Street Lightnin'" (2:52) (recorded September 21, 1933 in New York City, New York)
5. Charlie Patton
   Charlie Patton
   Charlie Patton , better known as Charley Patton, was an American Delta blues musician. He is considered by many to be the "Father of the Delta Blues", and is credited with creating an enduring body of American music and personally inspiring just about every Delta blues man...
   
   -"Jersey Bull Blues" (3:04) (recorded January 30, 1934 in New York City, New York)
6. Walter Roland
   Walter Roland
   Walter Roland was an American blues, boogie-woogie and jazz pianist, guitarist and singer, noted for his association with Lucille Bogan, Josh White and Sonny Scott. Music journalist, Gérard Herzhaft, stated that Roland was "a great piano player.....
   
   -"Every Morning Blues" (2:44) (recorded August 2, 1934 in New York City, New York)
7. Blue Ridge Ramblers-"D Blues" (2:48) (recorded February 14, 1935 in New York City, New York)
8. Breaux Freres-"La valse des yeux bleu (Blue Eyes Waltz)" (3:11) (recorded October 9, 1934 in San Antonio, Texas)
9. Lucille Bogan
   Lucille Bogan
   Lucille Bogan was an American blues singer, among the first to be recorded. She also recorded under the pseudonym Bessie Jackson...
   
    (as Bessie Jackson)-"Skin Game Blues" (2:57) (recorded March 8, 1935 in New York City, New York)
10. Leroy Carr
    Leroy Carr
    Leroy Carr was an American blues singer, songwriter and pianist, who developed a laid-back, crooning technique and whose popularity and style influenced such artists as Nat King Cole and Ray Charles. He first became famous for "How Long, How Long Blues" on Vocalion Records in 1928.-Life and...
    
     with Scrapper Blackwell
    Scrapper Blackwell
    Francis Hillman "Scrapper" Blackwell was an American blues guitarist and singer; best known as half of the guitar-piano duo he formed with Leroy Carr in the late 1920s and early 1930s, he was an acoustic single-note picker in the Chicago blues and Piedmont blues style, with some critics noting...
    
    -"Good Woman Blues" (2:57) (recorded December 14, 1934 in New York City, New York)
11. Josh White
    Josh White
    Joshua Daniel White , better known as Josh White, was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, actor, and civil rights activist. He also recorded under the names "Pinewood Tom" and "Tippy Barton" in the 1930s....
    
     (as Pinewood Tom)-"Sissy Man" (2:49) (recorded March 18, 1935 in New York City, New York)
12. The Rhythm Wreckers-"Blue Yodel #2 (My Lovin' Gal Lucille)" (2:46) (recorded March 27, 1937 in Los Angeles
    Los Ángeles
    Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
    
    , California
    California
    California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
    
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13. The Anglin Twins (Jack and Jim)-"Just Inside The Pearly Gates" (2:25) (recorded November 5, 1937 in San Antonio, Texas)
14. Bumble Bee Slim
    Bumble Bee Slim
    Amos Easton , better known by the stage name Bumble Bee Slim, was an American Piedmont blues musician.-Biography:Easton was born in Brunswick, Georgia, United States...
    
     (Amos Easton)-"Hard Rocks in My Bed" (2:40) (recorded February 6, 1936 in Chicago, Illinois)
15. The Two Charlies-"Tired Feelin' Blues" (3:03) (recorded April 10, 1936 in New York City, New York)
16. Eldon Baker with His Brown County Revellers-"One Eyed Sam" (2:51) (recorded June 5, 1938 in Chicago, Illinois)
17. A'nt Idy Harper with The Coon Creek Girls-"Poor Naomi Wise" (3:36) (recorded June 30, 1938 in Chicago, Illinois)
18. (Kid) Prince Moore-"South Bound Blues" (3:01) (recorded April 10, 1936 in New York City, New York)
19. Big Bill Broonzy
    Big Bill Broonzy
    Big Bill Broonzy was a prolific American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. His career began in the 1920s when he played country blues to mostly black audiences. Through the ‘30s and ‘40s he successfully navigated a transition in style to a more urban blues sound popular with white audiences...
    
    -"C & A Blues" (2:58) (recorded June 20, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois)
20. George Curry-"My Last Five Dollars" (2:36) (recorded November 2, 1938 in Chicago, Illinois)
21. The Nite Owls-"Memphis Blues" (2:21) (recorded June 12, 1938 in Dallas, Texas)
22. The Alley Boys of Abbeville-"Pourquoi tu m'aime pas" (3:46) (recorded June 30, 1939 in Memphis, Tennessee)
23. Reverend Benny Campbell-"Have Mercy on Me" (2:32) (recorded November 8, 1938 in Columbia
    Columbia, South Carolina
    Columbia is the state capital and largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The population was 129,272 according to the 2010 census. Columbia is the county seat of Richland County, but a portion of the city extends into neighboring Lexington County. The city is the center of a metropolitan...
    
    , South Carolina
    South Carolina
    South Carolina is a state in the Deep South of the United States that borders Georgia to the south, North Carolina to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Originally part of the Province of Carolina, the Province of South Carolina was one of the 13 colonies that declared independence...
    
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24. Albert Ammons
    Albert Ammons
    Albert Ammons was an American pianist. Ammons was a player of boogie-woogie, a bluesy jazz style popular from the late 1930s into the mid 1940s.-Life and career:...
    
    -"Shout For Joy" (2:25) (recorded December 30, 1938 in New York City, New York)
25. Jack Kelly-"Flower Blues" (2:30) (recorded July 14, 1939 in Memphis, Tennessee)
26. Cliff Carlisle
    Cliff Carlisle
    Cliff Carlisle was an American country and blues singer. Carlisle was a yodeler and was a pioneer in the use of the Hawaiian steel guitar in country music.-Biography:...
    
     (as Bob Clifford)-"Onion Eating Mama" (2:54) (recorded August 29, 1934 in New York City, New York)
27. Callahan Bros.-"Brown's Ferry Blues #2" (3:06) (recorded April 11, 1935 in New York City, New York)
28. Little Buddy Doyle
    Little Buddy Doyle
    Little Buddy Doyle was an American Memphis and country blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. He was a working associate of Big Walter Horton and Hammie Nixon....
    
    -"Slick Capers Blues" (2:35) (recorded July 1, 1939 in Memphis, Tennessee)
29. Bill "Jazz" Gillum (as Bill McKinley)-"Poor Boy Blues" (2:54) (recorded May 2, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois)

1. Frank Edwards
   Frank Edwards (blues musician)
   Frank Edwards was an American blues guitarist, harmonica player and singer. He was variously billed as Mr. Frank, Black Frank and Mr. Cleanhead.Edwards was born in Washington, Georgia....
   
   -"We Got To Get Together" (2:36) (recorded May 28, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois)
2. Sweet Violet Boys-"You Got To See Mama Ev'ry Night (Or You Can't See Mama At All)" (2:49) (recordcd February 15, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois)
3. The Humbard Family-"I'll Fly Away" (2:49) (recorded April 17, 1940 in Dallas, Texas)
4. Tony Hollins-"Cross Cut Saw Blues" (2:48) (recorded June 3, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois)
5. Peter Cleighton-"Black Snake Blues" (2:51) (recorded July 1, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois)
6. Black Cats and the Kitten-"Step It Up and Go" (2:48) (recorded October 21, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois)
7. Bob
   Bob Atcher
   James Robert Owen "Bob" Atcher was an American country musician.-Biography:Atcher was born in Hardin County, Kentucky, and learned violin and guitar from his father, who was adept at fiddle. He started out on radio in Louisville on WHAS, and was offered spots on a number of other stations in the...
   
    and Randall Atcher-"Papa's Going Crazy, Mama's Going Mad" (2:38) (recorded June 13, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois)
8. Adolf Hofner and His San Antonians-"Cotton-Eyed Joe" (2:29) (recorded February 28, 1941 in Dallas, Texas)
9. Poor Boy Burke-"Old Vets Blues" (2:53) (recorded November 21, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois)
10. Little Son Joe-"Black Rat Swing" (2:52) (recorded December 12, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois)
11. Big Maceo Merriweather
    Big Maceo Merriweather
    Big Maceo Merriweather was an American Chicago blues pianist and singer, active in Chicago in the 1940s.-Career:...
    
    -"Macy Special" (2:42) (recorded February 19, 1945 in Chicago, Illinois)
12. Light Crust Doughboys, with J.B. Brinkley-"It's Funny What Love Will Make You Do" (2:47) (recorded March 3, 1941 in Dallas, Texas)
13. Hank Penny
    Hank Penny
    Herbert Clayton Penny was an accomplished banjo player and practitioner of western swing. He worked as a comedian best known for his backwoods character "That Plain Ol' Country Boy" on TV with Spade Cooley...
    
     and His Radio Cowboys-"Army Blues" (2:36) (recorded June 29, 1941 in Charlotte, North Carolina)
14. James (Beale Street) Clark-"Who But You" (2:38) (recorded October 24, 1945 in Chicago, Illinois)
15. Homer Harris
    Homer Harris
    Homer E. Harris Jr. was a groundbreaking African American athlete who became the first black captain of a Big Ten Conference team....
    
    -"Tomorrow May Be Too Late" (3:05) (recorded September 27, 1946 in Chicago, Illinois)
16. Muddy Waters
    Muddy Waters
    McKinley Morganfield , known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician, generally considered the "father of modern Chicago blues"...
    
     (as McKinley Morganfield)-"Burying Ground Blues" (2:30) (recorded September 27, 1946 in Chicago, Illinois)
17. Bill Monroe
    Bill Monroe
    William Smith Monroe was an American musician who created the style of music known as bluegrass, which takes its name from his band, the "Blue Grass Boys," named for Monroe's home state of Kentucky. Monroe's performing career spanned 60 years as a singer, instrumentalist, composer and bandleader...
    
     and His Blue Grass Boys-"Goodbye Old Pal" (2:23) (recorded February 13, 1945 in Nashville
    Nashville, Tennessee
    Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...
    
    , Tennessee)
18. Gene Autry
    Gene Autry
    Orvon Grover Autry , better known as Gene Autry, was an American performer who gained fame as The Singing Cowboy on the radio, in movies and on television for more than three decades beginning in the 1930s...
    
    -"Dixie Cannonball" (2:40) (recorded September 9, 1946 in Hollywood, California
    California
    California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
    
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19. Bill Landford and The Landfordaires-"Run On For A Long Time" (2:34) (recorded December 15, 1949 in Memphis, Tennessee)
20. Big Joe Williams
    Big Joe Williams
    Joseph Lee Williams , billed throughout his career as Big Joe Williams, was an American Delta blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, notable for the distinctive sound of his nine-string guitar...
    
    -"Baby, Please Don't Go" (2:57) (recorded July 22, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois)
21. Sister Myrtle Fields accompanied by Austin McCoy Trio-"I"m Toiling" (2:43) (recorded January 7, 1950 in Hollywood, California)
22. Willie (Boodle It) Right-"Two By Four Blues" (2:56) (recorded October 7, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois)
23. Bailes Bros.-"You Can't Go Halfway (And Get In)" (2:46) (recorded December 21, 1947, location not listed)
24. Molly O'Day
    Molly O'Day (singer)
    Molly O'Day was an American country music vocalist who had some degree of fame and commercial success in the late 1940s. Despite her short recording career, 5 years, she became a legend in her own lifetime...
    
     and the Cumberland Mountain Folks-"Heaven's Radio" (2:49) (recorded June 20, 1950 in Nashville, Tennessee)
25. Rosetta Howard
    Rosetta Howard
    Rosetta Howard was an American blues singer, who recorded in the 1930s and 1940s.Little is known of her life. She was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and moved into singing by joining in with jukebox selections at the club where she worked. Around 1932 she began singing professionally...
    
    -"Plow Hand Blues" (2:46) (recorded December 20, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois)
26. Memphis Seven-"Grunt Meat Blues" (2:47) (recorded October 4, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois)
27. Deep South Boys-"Until I Found The Lord" (2:25) (recorded December 20, 1947 in Nashville, Tennessee)
28. Brother Porter and Brother Cook-"I Know My Jesus Won't Deny Me" (2:41) (recorded July 11, 1950 in New York City, New York)