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Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey
Box set by
various artists
ReleasedOctober 7, 2003
RecordedAugust 10, 1920 – April 9, 2003
Genre Blues
Length6:10:47
Label Hip-O Records, Sony
ProducerVarious, Mark Abramson
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic [1]

Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey is a 2003 box set released on Hip-O Records. It is the soundtrack to the Martin Scorsese PBS documentary series The Blues. [2] The box set attempts to present a history of the blues from the dawning of recorded music to the present day. It offers a survey of many different blues subgenres and tangential music styles, as well as a survey of almost all the most notable blues performers over time.

In 2004, the box set won two Grammy Awards for Best Historical Album and Best Album Notes. [3] [4] The previous year it was number 2 on the Billboard's Top Blues Albums chart. [5]

Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey is also the title of a 2003 companion book to the series. Writers/editors include Peter Guralnick, Robert Santelli, Holly George-Warren and Christopher John Farley. [6]

Track listing

[1] [7]

Disc one

No.TitleArtistLength
1."Shortnin' / Henduck" Othar Turner & the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band2:52
2."Long John"Lightning & Group5:25
3." Crazy Blues" Mamie Smith3:29
4." St. Louis Blues" W. C. Handy3:02
5."Muddy Water" Bessie Smith3:08
6." Match Box Blues" Blind Lemon Jefferson3:01
7."Billy Lyons & Stack-O-Lee" Furry Lewis2:36
8."Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" Ma Rainey3:03
9." Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" Blind Willie Johnson3:21
10."Savoy Blues" Louis Armstrong3:27
11."Downtown Blues" Frank Stokes3:10
12."Frankie" Mississippi John Hurt3:24
13." Fishing Blues" Henry Thomas2:43
14." How Long, How Long Blues" Leroy Carr3:06
15."Canned Heat Blues" Tommy Johnson3:38
16." Statesboro Blues" Blind Willie McTell2:30
17." It's Tight Like That" Tampa Red & Georgia Tom3:04
18." Pine Top's Boogie Woogie" Pinetop Smith3:22
19."Guitar Blues" Lonnie Johnson3:15
20." Pony Blues" Charley Patton2:59
21."Diddie Wah Diddie" Blind Blake2:58
22."K.C. Moan" Memphis Jug Band2:32
23." Standing on the Corner (Blue Yodel No. 9)" Jimmie Rodgers2:39
24." Sittin' on Top of the World" Mississippi Sheiks3:04
25."Preachin' the Blues" Son House3:02
Total length:1:18:50

Disc two

No.TitleArtistLength
1." Devil Got My Woman" Skip James3:00
2." C.C. Rider" Lead Belly2:59
3." Baby, Please Don't Go" Big Joe Williams3:24
4."Dirty Mother for You (Don't You Know)" Roosevelt Sykes2:59
5." Billie's Blues" Billie Holiday2:40
6." Cross Road Blues" Robert Johnson2:40
7." Good Mornin' Little School Girl" Sonny Boy Williamson I3:01
8." Shake 'Em On Down" Bukka White3:01
9." Roll 'Em Pete" Joe Turner & Pete Johnson2:50
10."Catfish Blues" Robert Petway2:53
11."Going to Chicago Blues" Count Basie Orchestra with Jimmy Rushing3:26
12." Key to the Highway" Big Bill Broonzy3:01
13." Me and My Chauffeur Blues" Memphis Minnie2:46
14." Worried Life Blues" Big Maceo Merriweather2:56
15." Cross Cut Saw Blues" Tommy McClennan2:46
16."Evil Gal Blues" Lionel Hampton Sextet with Dinah Washington2:54
17." Strange Things Happening Everyday" Sister Rosetta Tharpe2:52
18." Honeydripper Pt. 1" Joe Liggins3:05
19." Driftin' Blues" Johnny Moore's Three Blazers featuring Charles Brown3:14
20." Let the Good Times Roll" Louis Jordan2:47
21." That's All Right Mama" Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup2:55
22." Call It Stormy Monday" T-Bone Walker3:02
23." Good Rockin' Tonight" Wynonie Harris2:47
24." Ain't Nobody's Business, Part One" Jimmy Witherspoon2:55
25." Double Crossing Blues" The Johnny Otis Quintette with Little Esther & the Robins2:46
Total length:1:13:39

Disc three

No.TitleArtistLength
1." Mother Earth" Memphis Slim2:42
2." Please Send Me Someone to Love" Percy Mayfield2:55
3." Rocket 88" Jackie Brenston2:50
4." Dust My Broom" Elmore James2:45
5." No More Doggin'" Rosco Gordon3:09
6." Juke" Little Walter2:45
7." Hound Dog" Big Mama Thornton2:50
8." Reconsider Baby" Lowell Fulson3:10
9." The Things That I Used to Do" Guitar Slim3:02
10."In the Night" Professor Longhair2:32
11." (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man" Muddy Waters2:51
12."Eisenhower Blues" J. B. Lenoir2:53
13." Blue Monday" Fats Domino2:17
14."Hard Times" Ray Charles2:55
15." I Hear You Knocking" Smiley Lewis2:44
16." Mystery Train" Elvis Presley2:27
17." Don't Start Me to Talkin'" Sonny Boy Williamson II2:34
18." Smokestack Lightning" Howlin' Wolf3:08
19." Who Do You Love?" Bo Diddley2:30
20." I'm a King Bee" Slim Harpo3:04
21." Johnny B. Goode" Chuck Berry2:42
22." Farther Up the Road" Bobby "Blue" Bland2:58
23."So Many Roads, So Many Trains" Otis Rush3:13
24."First Time I Met the Blues" Buddy Guy2:18
25." Big Boss Man" Jimmy Reed2:49
Total length:1:10:03

Disc four

No.TitleArtistLength
1." Hide Away" Freddie King2:35
2." Drivin' Wheel" Junior Parker2:37
3." Boom Boom" John Lee Hooker2:32
4."Frosty" Albert Collins3:03
5."You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had" Muddy Waters2:58
6." Killing Floor" Howlin' Wolf2:50
7." Death Letter Blues" Son House4:21
8." You Gotta Move" Mississippi Fred McDowell3:21
9." Highway 61 Revisited" Bob Dylan3:26
10." Hoodoo Man Blues" Junior Wells2:05
11." Wang Dang Doodle" Koko Taylor3:01
12." All Your Love" John Mayall's Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton3:34
13."I've Got a Mind to Give Up Livin'" Paul Butterfield Blues Band4:58
14." Red House" Jimi Hendrix3:51
15." Born Under a Bad Sign" Albert King2:46
16."Mama Talk to Your Daughter" Magic Sam2:43
17." Tell Mama" Etta James2:23
18." Ain't Superstitious" The Jeff Beck Group4:53
19." She Caught the Katy (And Left Me a Mule to Ride)" Taj Mahal3:30
20." Black Magic Woman" Fleetwood Mac2:52
21."One Good Man" Janis Joplin4:09
Total length:1:08:28

Disc five

No.TitleArtistLength
1." The Thrill Is Gone" B.B. King4:03
2."Dallas" Johnny Winter2:45
3." Have You Ever Loved a Woman" Derek and the Dominos6:53
4."Give Me Back My Wig" Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers3:35
5." One Way Out" The Allman Brothers Band4:57
6."Down Home Blues" Z. Z. Hill3:59
7." Pride and Joy" Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble3:40
8." Smoking Gun" Robert Cray4:00
9." Tuff Enuff" The Fabulous Thunderbirds3:22
10." I'm in the Mood" John Lee Hooker and Bonnie Raitt4:31
11."Timbarma" Ali Farka Touré4:11
12."Am I Wrong?" Keb' Mo'2:19
13."Cherry Red Wine" Luther Allison4:23
14."Bill" Peggy Scott-Adams4:18
15." Just Won't Burn" Susan Tedeschi4:46
16."Voodoo Music" Los Lobos3:23
17."Round and Round" Bonnie Raitt3:39
18."Vietnam Blues" Cassandra Wilson4:32
19." I Pity the Fool" Robert Cray & Shemekia Copeland3:40
20." Sweet Home Chicago" Keb' Mo' & Corey Harris2:51
Total length:1:19:47

References

  1. ^ a b "Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey - Original soundtrack". AllMusic. Retrieved April 6, 2017.
  2. ^ "The Blues". PBS. Retrieved January 27, 2008.
  3. ^ "The Grammy Award Winners of 2004". New York Times. February 4, 2004. Retrieved December 14, 2010.
  4. ^ "Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey - Original soundtrack | Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved January 27, 2008.
  5. ^ "Blues Albums". Billboard. October 18, 2003. Retrieved April 6, 2017.
  6. ^ Peter Guralnick; Robert Santelli; Holly George-Warren; Christopher John Farley, eds. (2003). Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey. Amistad / HarperCollins. ISBN  0060525444. Retrieved March 5, 2014.
  7. ^ Hoffman, Larry (2003). Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey (CD box set booklet notes). Various Artists. Hip-O Records. B0000393-02.
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