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House of Blues: Essential Women in Blues

Various Artists - Blues, House Of Blues (Series)
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  • Audio CD (January 28, 1997)
  • Original Release Date: January 28, 1997
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Label: House of Blues
  • ASIN: B000003QY8
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #85,483 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Disc: 1
1. Fool in Love - Marcia Ball, Lou Ann Barton, Angela Strehli
2. Jump for Joy - Koko Taylor
3. I Don't Want No Man - Big Time Sarah
4. Wild Women (Don't Have the Blues) - Ida Cox
5. If I Can't Sell It, I'll Keep Sittin' on It - Ruth Brown
6. Trouble in Mind - Sister Rosetta Tharpe
7. I Got Myself a Workin' Man - Alberta Hunter
8. No! I Ain't Gonna Let You Go - Candye Kane
9. Why Young Men Go Wild - Lavelle White
10. Do Your Duty
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Disc: 2
1. Better Left Unsaid - Michelle Willson
2. Two-Fisted Mama
3. Gabbin' Blues
4. Satisfy Me - Becky Barksdale
5. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - Ma Rainey
6. Black Snake Blues - Sippie Wallace
7. Evil Gal Blues - Dinah Washington
8. Hound Dog - Willie Mae Thornton
9. I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl - Nina Simone
10. Spirit Returns
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Dynamite music, great fun., August 19, 1999
This is without a doubt one of the most enjoyable and fun CD sets I've heard in a long time. I am even ordering two more sets for a friend to give as gifts. It would be hard to pick favorites here, but Ruth Brown, Candye Kane, Alberta Hunter and Bessie Smith would be at the top. Anyone who likes vintage and contemporary blues would do well to buy this set.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Retrospective, December 19, 2001
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This is a great CD set for the Blues afficionato as well as those just getting their feet wet. The songs cover the spectrum from classic to contemporary, and the recording sounds excellent. The closest thing I have to a complaint about it is that it might have been nice if the songs were organized more chronologically so that the musical and stylistic evolutions were more gradual and kinder to the listening ear. Still, this is by far my favorite collection, and my most listened to blues CD.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars USA's Huge Musical Contribution, December 18, 2002
Every time I hear a really great blues recording, like this one, I realize anew that this is where we achieved our finest moment in making a permanent, unassailable contribution to modern music. If you hear other, more modern, and most especially WHITE singers, doing these numbers, they are NOT the ones that did it first. Black Americans are the absolute center of this music and these women, every single one of them, is the real thing, the first modern musical artists. I really liked the idea too of breaking these albums up into special sectors with this one focusing solely on the authentic blues women. The male artists in this genre are very different from the women so it really makes sense to listen to them separately. Sometimes I feel as if the UKers might be leaving us in the dust musically but not when I listen to this album and the others like it, forming the core of America's musical contribution to the best of what we hear today. I think this would make an especially great gift to a friend in another country who thinks our major contribution was Elvis Presley. In fact, it might even make a great gift for Americans who remain oblivious to this national heritage and contribution!
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5.0 out of 5 stars I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS CD
This is one CD I never tire of! Everyone I have turned on to this CD feels the same way! The music is timeless.
Published on December 5, 2006 by Carol A. Colomb-behm

3.0 out of 5 stars Eh
While it's a good sampler cd (as are all the Essential Blues from the House of Blues series), I have one complaint:
The formating of the discs from this pressing seem to be... Read more
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