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Key Information
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| Record Label: |
Yazoo |
| Genre: |
Blues |
| Subgenre: |
Country Blues |
| Release Date: |
April 23, 1996 |
| Album Duration: |
69m:48s |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Song List: Disc 1
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1. If I Had My Way I'd Tear This Building Down - Blind Willie Johnson
2. Cocaine Blues - Luke Jordan
3. Bow Wow Blues - The Allen Brothers
4. Jive Man Blues - Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon
5. Jonah in the Wilderness - Henry Thomas
6. South Carolina Rag - Willie Walker
7. Whitewash Station - Memphis Jug Band
8. Automobile Ride Through Alabama - Red Henderson
9. Dirty Dozen No. 2, The - Speckled Red
10. 'Tain't None O' Your Business - Butterbeans & Susie
11. It's a Good Thing - The Beale Street Sheiks
12. She's a Hum Dum Dinger - Jimmie Davis
13. Papa's on the House Top - Leroy Carr
14. Let That Liar Alone - Rev. Edward W. Clayborn
15. Back in My Home Town - Frank Hutchinson
16. Track Linin - T.C.I. Section Crew
17. Atlanta Strut - Blind Willie McTell
18. Arkansas Hard Luck Blues - Lonnie Glosson
19. How Can You Have the Blues? - Kansas City Kitty & Georgia Tom
20. Pickin' Off Peanuts - Seven Foot Dilly & His Dill Pickles
21. Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out - Pine Top Smith
22. When I Stopped Running I Was at Home - The Dixieland Jug Blowers
23. Frankie Jean - Memphis Minnie |
| More Information |
| Details: |
THE ROOTS OF RAP is a compilation of blues, country, gospel and other songs from the 1920s and 1930s with spoken cadences that pre-dated, and influenced, rap music. Compilation producers: Richard Nevins, Don Kent. Recorded in the 1920s and 1930s. Includes liner notes by Don Kent. |
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