• Track Listing

18 moanin’ and shoutin’ tracks from the first ladies of blues, taken from original—and valuable—’78s! Includes These All Night Long Blues Ma Rainey; Kentucky Man Blues Ida Cox; No Man’s Mamma Ethel Waters; I’m Gonna Get You Mamie Smith; Sing Sing Prison Blues Bessie Smith; Thirty-First Street Blues Clara Smith, and more from Trixie Smith, Sara Martin, Rosa Henderson and other early legends.