Proto-Blues
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This is the music played during the late 1800s and early 1900s from which the Blues evolved.
Armstrong, Howard Louie Bluie Blue Suit 106 Bailey, Deford Harmonica
Showcase Matchbox MSE 218 Cannon, Gus Cannons Jug
Stompers Herwin 208 Cotten, Elizabeth Freight Train Smithsonian/Folkways SF
40009 Davis, Reverand Gary & Pink
Anderson Gospel Riverside OBC-524 Evans, Joe & Arthur
McClain Two Poor Boys Earl BD-616 Fuller, Jesse Frisco Bound Arhoolie R 2009 Graves, Blind
Roosevelt 1929-36 Wolf WSE 110 Howell, Peg Leg & His
Gang Complete Recordings
1928-29 Matchbox MSE 205 Hurt, Mississippi
John The 1928 Sessions Yazoo L-1065 Jackson, Jim Kansas City Blues Agram AB 2004 Jackson, Jim The Best of Jim Jackson
1928-30 Earl BD-613 Jackson, John Blues & Country Dance
Tunes Arhoolie F1025 Jackson, New Orleans
Willie 1926-28 Old Tramp OT-1215 Jackson, Papa
Charlie Fat Mouth 1024-27 Yazoo L-1029 Jones, Coley & the Dallas
String Band Coley Jones & the Dallas
String Band Matchbox MSE 208 Kimbrough, Lottie & Winston
Holmes 1928-29 Wolf WSE 114 Leadbelly Gwine Dig A Hole To Put The
Devil In Rounder CD 1045 Leadbelly Hudie Leadbetter Fantasy 24715 Leadbelly Last Sessions Part
1 Folkways FA 2941
A/B Leadbelly Last Sessions Part
2 Folkways FA 2941
C/D Leadbelly Last Sessions Part
3 Folkways FA 2942
A/B Leadbelly Last Sessions Part
4 Folkways FA 2942
C/D Leadbelly Let It Shine Rounder CD 1046 Leadbelly Recorded in
Concert Playboy Records
PB-119 Leadbelly The Library of
Congress Elektra EKL-301/2 Lipscomb, Mance Texas Songster Vol.
2 Arhoolie F 1023 Miller, Emmett Minstrel Man From
Georgia Columbia/Legacy CK
66999 Mississippi
Sheiks 1930 Vol. 1 Matchbox MSE 1005 Mississippi
Sheiks Stop and Listen Mamlish S-3804 Peg Leg Sam Medicine Show Man Trix 3302 Stokes, Frank Creator of the Memphis
Blues Yazoo L-1060 Stovepipe No. 1 & David
Crockett 1924-30 Blues Documents
BD-2019 Thomas, Henry Texas Worried
Blues Yazoo 1080-1 Various Afro-American Blues & Game
Songs Library of Congress AFS
L4 Various Afro-American Folk
Music Library of Congress AFS
L67 Various Afro-American Spirituals, Work
Songs & Ballads Rounder CD 1510 Various Afro-American Spirituals, Work
Songs, and Ballads Library of Congress AFS
L3 Various Aint Gonna Rain No More:
Blues & Pre-Blues Rounder 2016 Various Alabama Harmonica Kings
1927-30 Wolf WSE 127 Various American Primitive Vol.
2 Revenant 214 Various Black Banjo
Songsters Smithsonian/Folkways SF CD
40079 Various Capn, Youre So
Mean:Negro Songs of Protest, Vol. 2 Rounder 4013 Various Classic African-American
Ballads Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD
40191 Various Country Blues-The First
Generation Matchbox MSE 201 Various Deep River of Song: Black
Appalachia Rounder 1823 Various Earliest Negro Vocal
Groups Document
DOCD-5531 Various Earliest Negro Vocal Groups Vol.
3 Document
DOCD-5355 Various Georgia Sea Island
Songs New World Records NW
278 Various Georgia String Bands
1928-30 RST Document
BD-2002 Various Great Songsters
1927-29 RST Blues Document
BD-2007 Various Jug & Washboard Bands-Vol.
1 Blues Documents
BD-2023 Various Jug Bands RF Records 6 Various Jug, Jook and Washboard
Bands Blues Classics
BC-2 Various Lost Sounds: Blacks & the
Birth of the Recording Industry 1891-1922 Archeophone
772151090-2 Various Music From The South, Vol.
1:Country Brass Folkways FA 2650 Various Negro Prison Camp
Worksongs Folkways FE 4475 Various Negro Songs of
Protest Rounder 4004 Various Never Let the Same Bee Sting You
Twice: Blues, Ballads, Rags & Gospel In The Songster
Tradition Document
DOCD-5678 Various Roots of the
Blues New World Records NW
252 Various Savannah Syncopators: African
Retentions CBS 52799 Various Songsters & Saints: Vocal
Traditions Matchbox
2001/2002 Various Songsters & Saints: Vocal
Traditions Vol. 2 Matchbox MSEX
2003/2004 Various Southern Prison
Blues Everest/Tradition
2066 Various Traveling Through The Jungle:
Negro Fife Testament T-2223 Various Virginia Traditions:
Non-Blues Blue Ridge Institute BRI
001