The Great Blues Men

by Various

Release Details

Year: 1987
Format: Vinyl — LP, Compilation
Country: US
Label: Vanguard
Catalog #: VMS 73104
Tracks: 13

Genres

Blues

Styles

Country Blues Piedmont Blues Chicago Blues Delta Blues Texas Blues

Tracklist

A1Set A Date
2:44
A2Dusty Road
3:05
A3Corinna
2:45
A4Nineteen Years Old
4:55
A5San Francisco Bay Blues
2:40
A6Blues In G
3:33
A7If I Had My Way (Samson And Delilah)
3:05
B1Moanin' The Blues
3:15
B2Stormy Monday Blues
4:19
B3Dynaflow Blues
2:35
B4Empire State Blues
3:01
B5Mountain Blues
3:04
B6It's All Right, Baby
2:30

Notes

Label: colour is Peach Vanguard mid-line series (P) MCMLXXII Vanguard Recording Society, Inc. Recorded in USA Cover: (C)(P)1972, 1984, 1987 Vanguard Records. The performances in this historic anthology come from four sources: John Hammond's 1938 Spirituals to Swing concert in New York's Carnegie Hall (Terry and Turner), the Newport Folk Festivals from 1959 to 1965 (Hooker, Estes, Waters Fuller, Lipscomb, Davis, House and Terry), Vanguard's groundbreaking 1965 Chicago sessions conducted by Sam