| Notes: | Mercury: 314 528 292-2 (On discs: 314 528 293-2, 314 528 294-2, 314 528 295-2, 314 528 296-2, 314 528 297-2, 314 528 298-2, 314 528 299-2, 314 528 300-2)
Program notes by Dick Shurman, Mary Katherine Aldin, Jim O'Neal and Billy Vera (87 p.) inserted in container.
Compilation produced by Jim Fishel and Barbara Micale.
Various performers.
Recorded 1945-1955.
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| Summary: | Discs 1 and 2 subtitled Midwest blues : Post-war roots in Chicago, Kansas City and St. Louis, featuring Dinah Washington, the Four Jumps of Jive (w/ Willie Dixon), Sippie Wallace with Albert Ammons, T-Bone Walker, Julia Lee, Myra Taylor, Mildred Anderson, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Gene Ammons Sextet, Big Bill Broonzy, St. Louis Jimmy, Sunnyland Slim, Ray Snead, Memphis Slim, Robert Jr. Lockwood, Sax Mallard; discs 3 and 4 subtitled Southwest blues : Jukin' between Houston and New Orleans, featuring Jay McShann with Crown Prince Waterford, Jimmy Witherspoon and Walter Brown, Alma "The Lollipop Mama" Mondy, Roy Byrd and his Blues Jumpers, George Miller & his Mid-Driffs, Little Joe Gaines, Hosie Dwine Craven, Lee Graves, Luther Stoneham, L.C. "Lightnin' Jr." Williams, "Smokey" Hogg, Violet Hall, John Hogg, Lightnin' Hopkins, Elmore "Elmo" Nixon.
Discs 5 and 6 subtitled West coast blues: Honkers and shouters strutting on Central Avenue, featuring Jay McShann with Jimmy Witherspoon, Vivian Greene, Smiley Turner, Billy Valentine, Chuck Norris, Frankie Ervin with Austin McCoy, Big Jim Wynn, Meredith Howard, Ike Lloyd, J.D. Edwards, Red Johnson, Johnny Otis, Pat Valdelar, Ray Johnson, Herbert "Woo Woo" Moore, Mel Walker, Joe Liggins, Rollee McGill; discs 7 and 8 subtitled East coast blues: From the Big Apple to Hot 'lanta, featuring Bill Samuels and the Cats 'N Jammers Three, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Helen Humes, the Trenier Twins, Dinah Washington, Junior Tamplin, Joyce Jackson, "Manhattan" Paul Bascomb, Buddy & Ella Johnson, Zilla Mays, Buddy Johnson with Ricky Harper, Archie "Stomp" Gordon, Jay Hawkins, Titus Turner, Arthur Prysock.
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