The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of

Various Artists (Artist)

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 4, 2006)
• Original Release Date: April 4, 2006
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Yazoo
• ASIN: B000E6UK9Q
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #121,660 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. FREENY'S BARN DANCE BAND: Croquet Habits

2. SON HOUSE: Mississippi County Farm Blues

3. GEORGIA POT LICKERS: Up Jumped the Rabbit

4. MEMPHIS MINNIE & JOE McCOY: I'm Going Back Home

5. WILMER WATTS & THE LONELY EAGLES: Fightin' In the War With Spain

6. JOHN BYRD: Old Timbrook Blues

7. ERNEST PHIPPS AND HIS HOLINESS SINGERS: A Little Talk With Jesus

8. TOMMY JOHNSON: Slidin' Delta

9. THE THREE STRIPED GEARS: Alabama Blues

10. JACK GOWDLOCK: Rollin Dough Blues

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. YANK RACHEL WITH SLEEPY JOHN ESTES & JAB JONES: Sweet Mama

2. CROWDER BROTHERS: We All Love Mother (unissued)

3. SON HOUSE: Clarksdale Moan

4. ASHLEY & FOSTER: Bull Dog Sal (unissued)

5. JESSE "BABYFACE" THOMAS: Down In Texas Blues

6. GEORGIA POT LICKERS: Chicken Don't Roost Too High

7. WILLIAM HARRIS: I'm Leavin' Town (But I Sho' Don't Wanna Go)

8. ASA MARTIN & ROY HOBBS: Wild Cat Rag

9. KING SOLOMON HILL: Whoopee Blues (alternate take)

10. CHUBBY PARKER: Davey Crockett

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

48 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Dead Sea Scrolls of Neurotic Obsessives!, May 10, 2006

By	Arch Stanton (Bondurant, WY USA) - See all my reviews

This collection of 78 sides from the 20s and 30s contains rarities from the vaults of a handful of America's most obsessive record collectors. The songs themselves deal with things most Americans still face today - digging ginseng, being terrorized by bulldogs, talking with Jesus, loving chicken, etc. The artists are mostly obscure but you don't need to be a Georgia Potlickers completist to appreciate the music.

Well-recorded with minimal surface noise on most tracks (with a few notable exceptions,) the music is also handsomely packaged. As the liner notes detail, some people diligently collect wishbones and some collect hair from elephant tails. We are fortunate that there are still a few madmen combing estate sales and antique shops, looking for "the stuff that dreams are made of." No surprise that the annotation is non-existent but this is an elegant package filled with music that still sparkles and entertains.

35 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Truer Title Can't Be Found, July 10, 2006

By	Doug Brunell "America's Favorite Son" (A little south of Hell) - See all my reviews

This is really the stuff dreams are made of.

I believe there is magic in old blues music. There is something so raw and real about it that today's music can't compete. This two disc collection of old blues and country has the rarest of the rare, and it's worth every cent you'll pay for it.

I haven't taken this off the Bose in weeks. Yes, some of the sound quality suffers because of the source material, but that only adds to the mystique. It's like an AM radio station playing oldies that keeps fading in and out on a rainy night. Kind of comforting. Kind of spooky. Purely supernatural in the most organic of ways.

And let's not even get started on the booklet and R. Crumb art. If you don't understand what makes this collection so good, you'll never be able to comprehend it. You either know or you don't.

Yazoo constantly puts out good stuff ... the kind of stuff they don't make anymore (with the exception of people like Don Haupt, whom I got to see last year and was blown away by). Take this trip into the past. Turn off the lights. Open a window. Let the night in. Listen to that piano sparkle. Hear those lyrics full of jubilant desperation.

If that ain't magic, there is no such thing.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Set has only one flaw, July 22, 2006

By	D. Reichel (KY USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Too bad a track listing sheet w/ release date or recorded date & label info isn't included for every track. Other than that, this is a real work of art.