Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey

Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey
Box set by Various
Released	October 7, 2003
Recorded	August 1920 - April 2003
Genre	Blues
Label	Hip-O Records/Sony
Producer	Various, Mark Abramson

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Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey is a 2003 various artists 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 sub-genres 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] That same year it was #2 on Billboard's Top Blues Albums chart.^[4]

Track listing

Disc one

1. Othar Turner & The Rising Star Fife & Drum Band – "Shortnin'/Henduck"
2. Lightnin' Hopkins – “Mojo Hand”
3. Mamie Smith – "Crazy Blues"
4. W. C. Handy – "St. Louis Blues"
5. Bessie Smith – "Muddy Water"
6. Blind Lemon Jefferson – "Match Box Blues"
7. Furry Lewis – "Billy Lyons & Stack-O-Lee"
8. Ma Rainey – "Ma" Rainey's Black Bottom"
9. Blind Willie Johnson – "Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground"
10. Louis Armstrong – "Savoy Blues"
11. Frank Stokes – "Downtown Blues"
12. Mississippi John Hurt – "Frankie"
13. Leroy Carr – "How Long, How Long Blues"
14. Tommy Johnson – "Canned Heat Blues"
15. Blind Willie McTell – "Southern Can Is Mine"
16. Tampa Red & Georgia Tom – "It's Tight Like That"
17. Pinetop Smith – "Pine Top's Boogie Woogie"
18. Lonnie Johnson – "Guitar Blues"
19. Charlie Patton – "Pony Blues"
20. Blind Blake – "Diddie Wah Diddie"
21. Memphis Jug Band – "K.C. Moan"

Disc two

1. Skip James – "Devil Got My Woman"
2. Lead Belly – "C.C. Rider"
3. Big Joe Williams – "Baby, Please Don't Go"
4. Roosevelt Sykes – "Dirty Mother For You (Don't You Know)"
5. Robert Johnson – "Sweet Home Chicago"
6. Robert Johnson – "Cross Road Blues"
7. Bukka White – "Fixin' To Die Blues"
8. Joe Turner & Pete Johnson – "Roll 'Em Pete"
9. Robert Petway – "Catfish Blues"
10. Count Basie Orchestra with Jimmy Rushing – "Going To Chicago Blues"
11. Big Bill Broonzy – "Key to the Highway"
12. Memphis Minnie – "Me And My Chauffeur Blues"
13. Big Maceo Merriweather – "Worried Life Blues"
14. Sister Rosetta Tharpe – "Strange Things Happening Everyday"
15. Joe Liggins – "Honeydripper"
16. Johnny Moore's Three Blazers featuring Charles Brown – "Driftin' Blues"
17. Louis Jordan – "Let the Good Times Roll"
18. Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup – "That's All Right Mama"
19. T-Bone Walker – "Call It Stormy Monday"
20. Wynonie Harris – "Good Rockin' Tonight"
21. Jimmy Witherspoon – "Ain't Nobody's Business, Part One"

Disc three

1. Memphis Slim – "Mother Earth"
2. Percy Mayfield – "Please Send Me Someone to Love"
3. Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown – "Okie Dokie Stomp"
4. Elmore James – "The Sky Is Crying"
5. Rosco Gordon – "No More Doggin'"
6. Little Walter – "Juke"
7. Big Mama Thornton – "Hound Dog"
8. Lowell Fulson – "Reconsider Baby"
9. Guitar Slim – "The Things That I Used to Do"
10. Professor Longhair – "In The Night"
11. Muddy Waters – "(I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man"
12. J. B. Lenoir – "Eisenhower Blues"
13. Fats Domino – "Blue Monday"
14. Ray Charles – "Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I)"
15. Smiley Lewis – "I Hear You Knocking"
16. Elvis Presley – "Mystery Train"
17. Sonny Boy Williamson II – "Don't Start Me To Talkin'"
18. Howlin' Wolf – "Smokestack Lightning"
19. Bo Diddley – "Who Do You Love?"
20. Slim Harpo – "I'm a King Bee"
21. Chuck Berry – "Johnny B. Goode"
22. Bobby "Blue" Bland – "Farther Up the Road"
23. Otis Rush – "So Many Roads, So Many Trains"
24. Buddy Guy – "First Time I Met The Blues"
25. Jimmy Reed – "Big Boss Man"

Disc four

1. Freddie King – "Hide Away"
2. Junior Parker – "Drivin' Wheel"
3. John Lee Hooker – "Boom Boom"
4. Albert Collins – "Frosty"
5. Muddy Waters – "You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had"
6. Howlin' Wolf – "Killing Floor"
7. Son House – "Death Letter Blues"
8. Mississippi Fred McDowell – "You Gotta Move"
9. Junior Wells – "Hoodoo Man Blues"
10. Koko Taylor – "Wang Dang Doodle"
11. Paul Butterfield Blues Band – "I've Got A Mind To Give Up Livin'"
12. Grateful Dead – "New Minglewood Blues"
13. Jimi Hendrix – "Red House"
14. Albert King – "Born Under a Bad Sign"
15. Etta James – "Tell Mama"
16. The Jeff Beck Group – "I Ain't Superstitious"
17. Taj Mahal – "She Caught the Katy (And Left Me A Mule To Ride)"
18. Fleetwood Mac – "Rattlesnake Shake"
19. Janis Joplin – "One Good Man"
20. Rolling Stones – "Stray Cat Blues"

Disc five

1. B.B. King – "The Thrill Is Gone"
2. Johnny Winter – "Dallas"
3. Derek and the Dominos – "Have You Ever Loved a Woman"
4. Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers – "Give Me Back My Wig"
5. Led Zeppelin – "Good Times, Bad Times"
6. The Allman Brothers Band – "One Way Out"
7. Rory Gallagher – "Country Mile"
8. Son Seals – "Hot Sauce"
9. Z.Z. Hill – "Down Home Blues"
10. Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble – "Pride And Joy"
11. Robert Cray – "Smoking Gun"
12. John Lee Hooker and Bonnie Raitt - "I'm in the Mood"
13. Ali Farka Touré – "Timbarma"
14. Keb' Mo' – "Am I Wrong?"
15. Luther Allison – "Cherry Red Wine"
16. Susan Tedeschi – "Just Won't Burn"
17. The White Stripes – "Screwdriver"
18. Gov't Mule – "Time To Confess"
19. Shemekia Copeland – "Wild, Wild Women"
20. Keb' Mo' & Corey Harris – "Sweet Home Chicago"

Footnotes

1. ^ Allmusic review
2. ^ PBS: The Blues
3. ^ New York Times, February 4, 2004, The Grammy Award Winners of 2004
4. ^ Billboard Chart

See also

• The Blues Radio Series