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When Big Maceo Merriweather played, he did so with authority, particularly in the muscular way he rolled his bass figures. When he sang, it was in a world-weary and weathered tone that he supplemented with a harsh false bass that invoked the styles of Charley Patton and Blind Willie Johnson. And when he hooked up with Tampa Red, who introduced him to the recording studio, Big Maceo was off to the races! These 47 tracks represent a decade’s worth of percolating blues (Can’t You Read; So Long Baby; Why Should I Hang Around; Things Have Changed; Texas Stomp; Detroit Jump, and more) plus cuts featuring Tampa Red (She Wants to Sell My Monkey; Better Leave My Gal Alone, and Corrine Blues) and John Brim (Bus Driver).