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These 55 tracks and 124 pages trace the course of acoustic blues from 1941 all the way up to ’59 (when rock ’n’ roll was plugged in but there was still a strong market for down-home acoustic blues): Black Spider Blues Robert Lockwood; I Be’s Troubled Muddy Waters; If I Get Lucky Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup; Evil-Hearted Woman Blues Johnny Shines; Katie Mae Blues Lightnin’ Hopkins; Evil Hearted Man Josh White; Drinkin’ Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee Stick McGhee; The Blues Is Killing Me Lowell Fulson; San Francisco Bay Blues Jesse Fuller; Willie Mae Blues Big Bill Broonzy; Burning Hell John Lee Hooker; Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning Mississippi Fred McDowell, and more! Bear Family.