Warming up to the Lover’s Blues in a Wintry Gray
As we trudge through the dry cold towards a someday end to Winter, here are some songs to warm everyone’s hearts along the way.
Playlist
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John Fahey, “Sunflower River Blues”
from Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes (Remastered)
Fantasy Records - 1998
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Mississippi Sheiks, “The World Is Going Wrong”
from Mississippi Sheiks, Vol. 2 (1930 - 1931)
Document Records - 1991
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Robert Wilkins, “I'll Go With Her Blues”
from The Best There Ever Was: The Legendary Early Blues Performers
Yazoo - 2005
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Pigmeat Pete, “I'll Take It Now”
from Wait for Me: Songs of Love, Lust and Discontent from the 1920s and 1930s
East River Records - 2015
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Papa Charlie Jackson, “Your Baby Ain't Sweet Like Mine”
from The Complete Recorded Works 1924-1934
Master Classics Records - 2011
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Mance Lipscomb, “Cocaine Done Killed My Baby”
from You Got to Reap What You Sow
Arhoolie Records - 1993
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Jerome, “That Naughty Yodel”
from Wait for Me: Songs of Love, Lust and Discontent from the 1920s and 1930s
East River Records - 2015
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Various Artists - Document Records, “Tired of Sleepin' By Myself At Night”
from Piano Blues Vol. 6 (1933-1938)
Document Records - 1999
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Eddie South & His Alabamians, “That's What I Call Keen”
from Eddie South Plays Jazz Violin: The Greatest Hits of the Dark Angel of the Fiddle
Dotted Eighth Records - 2004
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Walter "Fats" Pichon, “Yo Yo”
from Wait for Me: Songs of Love, Lust and Discontent from the 1920s and 1930s
East River Records - 2015
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Tommie Bradley - James Cole Groups, “Where You Been So Long?”
from Tommie Bradley - James Cole Groups 1928-1932
Document Records - 1993
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Jackie Souders and His Orchestra, “Every Little Thing”
from Jazz Is Where You Find It 1924-1930
Timeless Records - 1998
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Noah Lewis, “Like I Want to Be”
from First Recordings With Yank Rachell and Noah Lewis
JSP Records - 2002
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The Missourians, “I've Got Someone”
from Treasury of Jazz No. 13 (Mono Version)
BNF Collection - 1962
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Shortbuckle Roark and Family, “I Truly Understand the You Love Another Man”
from The Rose Grew Round the Briar, Vol. 1: Early American Rural Love Songs
Yazoo - 2005
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Dave Van Ronk, “You've Been a Good Old Wagon but You Done Broke Down”
from Live in Monterey
Omnivore Recordings - 2014
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Stovepipe No. 1 & David Crockett, “Bed Slats”
from Wait for Me: Songs of Love, Lust and Discontent from the 1920s and 1930s
East River Records - 2015
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Kalama's Quartet, “Hapa Haole Hula Girl”
from Early Hawaiian Classics: 1927-1932
Arhoolie Records - 1993
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Henry Thomas, “Don't Leave Me Here”
from Texas Worried Blues: Complete Recorded Works 1927-1929
Yazoo - 1989
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Cedar Creek Sheik, “What a Pity”
from Never Let the Same Bee Sting You Twice - Blues, Ballads, Rags & Gospel In the Songster Tradition
Document Records - 2005
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Slim Jim, “Rabbit Blues”
from Wait for Me: Songs of Love, Lust and Discontent from the 1920s and 1930s
East River Records - 2015
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Elizabeth Johnson, “Sobbin' Woman Blues”
from American Primitive, Vol. II - Pre-War Revenants
Revenant - 2005
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Bogus Ben Covington, “Adam and Eve In the Garden”
from The Rough Guide to Hokum Blues (Reborn and Remastered)
World Music Network - 2018
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Price Family Sacred Singers, “We Are Journeying On”
from The Half Ain't Never Been Told - Early American Rural Religious Music, Vol. 2
Yazoo - 2006
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Charley Patton, “Some These Days I'll Be Gone”
from The Complete Recordings 1929-34, Vol. 2
Acrobat - 2014
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Mississippi John Hurt, “Ain't No Tellin”
from Avalon Blues - The Complete 1928 Okeh Recordings
Mississippi John Hurt - 1996
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The Southern Serenaders, “Alone at Last”
from Louis Armstrong: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Sony