• Track Listing

The early history of electric blues springs to life in the 160-page book and 77 tracks here: Call It Stormy Monday T-Bone Walker; That’s All Right Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup; Let Me Play with Your Poodle Lightnin’ Hopkins; Ain’t That Just Like a Woman Louis Jordan; I Can’t Be Satisfied Muddy Waters; Boogie Chillen John Lee Hooker; Drinkin’ Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee Stick McGhee; Every Day I Have the Blues Lowell Fulson; That’s All Right Jimmy Rogers; Midnight Boogie Tampa Red; Black Night Charles Brown; Kansas City Blues Robert Nighthawk; Dust My Broom Elmore James; Trust in Me Fats Domino; Pontiac Blues Sonny Boy Williamson; Five Long Years Eddie Boyd; Lonesome Train Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson; Please Love Me B.B. King; Losing Hand Ray Charles; Cryin’ Shame Snooky Pryor; Blues with a Feeling Little Walter; T.V. Mama Joe Turner; You Don’t Have to Go Jimmy Reed; Pet Cream Man J.B. Hutto; The Things That I Used to Do Guitar Slim; Hound Dog Big Mama Thornton, and more! Bear Family.