Disc 1: Reet Petite And Gone: The Roots Of Shuffle Blues (1946-1951) |
1-01 | Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five | Salt Pork, West Virginia | Fleecy Moore, Bill Tennyson | Rate |
1-02 | Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five | Reet Petite And Gone | Spencer Lee, Louis Jordan | Rate |
1-03 | Jack McVea And His Orchestra | Two Timin' Baby | Jack McVea, Rabon Tarrant | Rate |
1-04 | Felix Gross | What's Your Style, Baby | Felix Gross | Rate |
1-05 | Gene Coy And His Killer Dillers | Killer Diller | Eugene Coy | Rate |
1-06 | Gene Phillips And His Rhythm Aces | Rock Bottom | Stanley R. Lebowsky, Herb Newman | Rate |
1-07 | Joe Liggins And His Honeydrippers | Drippers' Boogie (Part 1) | Joseph Liggins | Rate |
1-08 | Gene Ammons And His Orchestra | Jug Head Ramble | Allen James | Rate |
1-09 | King Perry And His Sextet | Goin' To The California Blues | Oliver Perry | Rate |
1-10 | Todd Rhodes And His Toddlers | Page Boy Shuffle | Henry Glover | Rate |
1-11 | Calvin Boze And His All Stars | Safronia B | Calvin Boze | Rate |
1-12 | Eddie Chamblee And His Orchestra | Every Shut Eye Ain't Sleep | Stevens, Simpkins | Rate |
1-13 | The Griffin Brothers | Riffin' With Griffin | James Griffin, Edward Griffin | Rate |
1-14 | The Harold Land All Stars | San Diego Bounce | Harold Land | Rate |
1-15 | Jewel King | 3 X 7 = 21 | Dave Bartholomew | Rate |
1-16 | Joe Liggins And His Honeydrippers | Little Joe's Boogie | Joseph Liggins | Rate |
1-17 | Teddy Brannon And His Orchestra | Mixon With Dixon | Teddy Brannon | Rate |
1-18 | T-Bone Walker | The Hustle Is On | H E Owens | Rate |
1-19 | Archibald And His Orchestra | Stack-A-Lee (Parts 1 And 2) | Traditional, Arr. Leon Gross | Rate |
1-20 | The Ray-O-Vacs | My Baby's Gone | B B King, Jules Taub | Rate |
1-21 | Charlie Gonzalez | I'm Free | Charles Gonzalez | Rate |
1-22 | The Griffin Brothers Featuring Margie Day | Stubborn As A Mule | Edward Griffin, Margie Day, Noble Watts, James Griffin | Rate |
1-23 | Jackie Brenston And His Delta Cats | Independent Woman | Jackie Brenston | Rate |
1-24 | James Wayne | Tend To Your Business | James Wayne | Rate |
1-25 | Jimmy McCracklin And His Blues Blasters | Looking For A Woman | Jimmy McCracklin | Rate |
1-26 | Margie Day And The Griffin Brothers' Orchestra | Bonaparte's Retreat | Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart | Rate |
1-27 | Willis Jackson And His Orchestra | Later For The 'Gator | Willis Jackson | Rate |
Disc 2: Drive It Home: The Golden Years Of The Shuffle Blues (1951-1954) |
2-01 | Wynonie Harris | Bloodshot Eyes | Hank Penny, Ruth Hall | Rate |
2-02 | Roy Brown And His Mighty-Mighty Men | Train Time Blues | Roy Brown | Rate |
2-03 | Zuzu Bollin | Why Don't You Eat Where You Slept Last Night | Zuzu Bollin | Rate |
2-04 | Lester Williams | I Can't Lose With The Stuff I Use | Lester Williams | Rate |
2-05 | Big Jay McNeely And His Orchestra | Big Jay Shuffle | Big Jay McNeely | Rate |
2-06 | Lowell Fulson | Guitar Shuffle | Lowell Fulson | Rate |
2-07 | Rosco Gordon | No More Doggin' | Rosco Gordon, Jules Taub | Rate |
2-08 | Little Willie Littlefield | KC Lovin' | Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller | Rate |
2-09 | Lloyd Price And His Orchestra | Lawdy Miss Clawdy | Lloyd Price | Rate |
2-10 | Shirley And Lee | I'm Gone | Leonard Lee, Dave Bartholomew | Rate |
2-11 | Li'l Son Jackson | Get High Everybody | Melvin Jackson | Rate |
2-12 | Jimmie Lee With Jay Franks And His Rockets Of Rhythm | Blue And Lonesome | Papa Cairo, Jules Taub | Rate |
2-13 | Lynn Hope And His Orchestra | Hope, Skip, And Jump | Lynn Hope | Rate |
2-14 | Paul Bascomb And His Band | Mumbles Blues | Leroy Kirkland, Bob Astor, Bobby Lewis | Rate |
2-15 | Rosco Gordon And The Beale Streeters | Too Many Women | David Mattis, Don Robey | Rate |
2-16 | Lester Williams And His Band | Brand New Baby | Lester Williams | Rate |
2-17 | Dave Bartholomew | Country Gal | Dave Bartholomew | Rate |
2-18 | Hal Paige And His Band | Drive It Home | Hal Paige | Rate |
2-19 | Amos Milburn | One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer | Rudolph Toombs | Rate |
2-20 | Smiley Lewis | Little Fernandez | Dave Bartholomew | Rate |
2-21 | Melvin Daniels With King Curtis Orchestra | No More Crying On My Pillow | Curtis Ousley | Rate |
2-22 | Sonny Knight With Orchestra | But Officer | Tim Inocencio, Robert Wainwright | Rate |
2-23 | Jimmy Liggins And His 3-D Music | Drunk | Jimmy Liggins | Rate |
2-24 | Floyd Dixon And His Band | Hey Bartender | Dossie Terry | Rate |
2-25 | B B 'Blues Boy' King And His Orchestra | You Upset Me Baby | B B King, Joe Bihari | Rate |
2-26 | Mike Gordon And The El Tempos | Why Don't You Do Right | Joe McCoy | Rate |
2-27 | Earl Curry | One Whole Year Baby | William Curry | Rate |
2-28 | Eddie Chamblee | La! La! La! Lady | Eddie Chamblee | Rate |
2-29 | Champion Jack Dupree With Instrumental Accompaniment | Drunk Again | Champion Jack Dupree, Bobby Robinson | Rate |
Disc 3: My Boy Lollipop: The Big Three Take Over (1954-1960) |
3-01 | Jimmy McCracklin And His Blues Blasters | Blues Blasters' Boogie | Jimmy McCracklin | Rate |
3-02 | Bill Doggett | Quaker City | Bill Doggett | Rate |
3-03 | Smiley Lewis | Real Gone Lover | Dave Bartholomew, Joseph Robichaux, Ruth Durand | Rate |
3-04 | The Charms | Ling, Ting, Tong | Mable Godwin | Rate |
3-05 | Gene And Eunice With Jonesy's Combo | Ko Ko Mo | Forrest Wilson, Vernon Porter, Eunice Levy | Rate |
3-06 | The Bop-A-Loos | South Parkway Mambo | John Collins | Rate |
3-07 | Johnny Ace And The Johnny Otis Orchestra | Pledging My Love | Fats Washington, Don Robey | Rate |
3-08 | Oscar McLollie And His Honeyjumpers | Convicted | Leon Rene | Rate |
3-09 | Lloyd Lambert And His Band | Heavy Sugar | Robert Blackwell, Lloyd Lambert | Rate |
3-10 | T-Bone Walker | T-Bone Shuffle | T-Bone Walker | Rate |
3-11 | Shirley And Lee | Feel So Good | Leonard Lee | Rate |
3-12 | Barbie Gaye | My Boy Lollipop | Johnny Roberts, Robert Spencer, Morris Levy | Rate |
3-13 | Clarence "Frog Man" Henry | Ain't Got No Home | Clarence Henry | Rate |
3-14 | Smiley Lewis | Someday (You'll Want Me) | Dave Bartholomew | Rate |
3-15 | Sonny Knight With Jack Collier Orchestra | Confidential | Dorinda Morgan | Rate |
3-16 | Roy Wright | You Promised | Roy Wright | Rate |
3-17 | Big Maybelle With Kelly Owens Orchestra | I Don't Want To Cry | Luther Dixon, Charles Jackson | Rate |
3-18 | Donnie Elbert | Have I Sinned | Donnie Elbert, Fred Mendelsohn | Rate |
3-19 | Larry Williams And His Band | High School Dance | | Rate |
3-20 | Fats Domino | I'm In The Mood For Love | Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields | Rate |
3-21 | Doc Bagby | Dumplin's | Doc Bagby, Irving Nahan | Rate |
3-22 | Etta James | The Pick Up | Harold Battiste, Johnson | Rate |
3-23 | Dave Bartholomew | The Shufflin' Fox | Pearl King, Dave Bartholomew | Rate |
3-24 | Bobby Day | Over And Over | Robert Byrd | Rate |
3-25 | Doc Bagby | You're So Delightful | Doc Bagby | Rate |
3-26 | Lloyd Trotman And His Orchestra | Trottin' In | Larry Maxwell, Lloyd Trotman | Rate |
3-27 | Big Jay McNeely And Band With Vocal By Little Sonny | There Is Something On Your Mind | Jay McNeely | Rate |
3-28 | Johnny Adams | I Won't Cry | Dorothy La Bostrie, Joseph Ruffino | Rate |
3-29 | Donnie Elbert | Will You Ever Be Mine | Donnie Elbert | Rate |