The use of slide guitar techniques within blues music is usuallytaken as a given, although the genesis of the form is not theeasiest to trace. It is widely agreed that the roots of slide guitarplaying lie in Africa. There was also another probable route viathe Hawaiian Islands, they developed their ‘slack key’ playingstyle and began to add the use of metal held along the fretboard.However the story is complicated by the famed composer W.C.Handy who reported witnessing a blues player at a train stationusing a knife blade along the strings as early as 1903. It’s quitelikely that all these scenarios fed into the mix, and by the later1920s blues players were often using the style. Our collectioncovers a wide period of time from the late 1920s onwards, andfeatures many well known names and highly influential songs.

• - 1 -

  • 1. Dust My Broom - Elmore James
  • 2. Rollin' & Tumblin' - Muddy Waters
  • 3. Crossroads Blues - Robert Johnson
  • 4. Homesick - Homesick James
  • 5. The Red Rooster - Howlin' Wolf
  • 6. Evil Woman - Black Ace
  • 7. Pearlee Blues - Furry Lewis
  • 8. My Baby's Coming Home - Hound Dog Taylor
  • 9. When You Get Home, Write Me a Few Little Lines - Mississippi
  • 10. Green and Lucky Blues - Tampa Red
  • 11. Down On My Knees - Eddie Blues Man' Kirkland
  • 12. Little Boy Blue - Robert Lockwood Jr.
  • 13. All Your Love (I Miss Loving) - Otis Rush
  • 14. You Shook Me - Muddy Waters
  • 15. I Know His Blood Can Make Me Whole - Blind Willie Johnson
  • 16. Standing At the Crossroads - Elmore James
  • 17. Muscat Hill Blues - Buddy Woods
  • 18. Kansas City March Wild - Jimmy Spurill
  • 19. Three Women Blues - Blind Willie McTell
  • 20. All In My Dreams - Boyd Gilmore

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  • 1. Worried About My Baby - Howlin' Wolf
  • 2. The Sun is Shining - Elmore James
  • 3. Take Five - Hound Dog Taylor
  • 4. I Can't Be Satisfied - Muddy Waters
  • 5. Don't Take My Heart - Eddie Blues Man' Kirkland
  • 6. My Baby, Oooo - One String Sam
  • 7. Roll Your Money Maker - Shakey Jake (With Willie Dixon)
  • 8. Travelling Riverside Blues - Robert Johnson
  • 9. Set a Date - Homesick James
  • 10. I Am the Black Ace - Black Ace
  • 11. Guitar Rag - Sylvester Weaver
  • 12. Always Be In Love - Hop Wilson
  • 13. Sad, Sad Lonesome Day - Sam Myers
  • 14. Mamma, Tain't Long Fo' Day - Blind Willie McTell
  • 15. Dekalb Chain Gang - Fred McMullen
  • 16. Po' Boy Blues - John Dudley
  • 17. Drink On Little Girl - Black Ace
  • 18. Believe I'll Make a Change - Casey Bill Weldon
  • 19. Fixin' To Die Blues - Bukka White
  • 20. Space Guitar - Young John Watson