tracks

Mississippi Boweavil Blues
Screamin' And Hollerin' The Blues
Down The Dirt Road Blues
Pony Blues
Banty Rooster Blues
It Won't Be Long
Pea Vine Blues
Tom Rushen Blues
A Spoonful Blues
Shake It And Break It (But Don't Let It Fall Mama)
Prayer Of Death, Pt. 1
Prayer Of Death, Pt. 2
Lord, I'm Discouraged
I'm Goin' Home
Going To Move To Alabama
Elder Greene Blues
Circle Round The Moon
Devil Sent The Rain Blues
Mean Black Cat Blues
Frankie And Albert
Some These Days I'll Be Gone
Green River Blues
Hammer Blues
Magnolia Blues
When Your Way Gets Dark
Heart Like Railroad Steel
Some Happy Day
You're Gonna Need Somebody When You Die
Jim Lee Blues, Pt. 1
Jim Lee Blues, Pt. 2
High Water Everywhere, Pt. 1
High Water Everywhere, Pt. 2
Jesus Is A Dying-Bed Maker
I Shall Not Be Moved
Rattlesnake Blues
Running Wild Blues
Joe Kirby
Mean Black Moan
Dry Well Blues
Some Summer Day, Pt. 1
Moon Going Down
Bird Nest Bound
Jersey Bull Blues
High Sheriff Blues
Stone Pony Blues
34 Blues
Love My Stuff
Revenue Man Blues
Oh Death
Troubled 'Bout My Mother
Poor Me
Hang It On The Wall
Farrell Blues
Come Back Corrina
Tell Me Man Blues
Be True, Be True Blues
Yellow Bee
Mind Reader Blues

notes

Made in China.

Box contains 3 CD's, each in a mini-LP type cardboard sleeve, and a 20-page booklet.

Label as "Complete Blues The Works" on box and booklet.
Label as "Complete Roots" on CD's labels.

Ⓟ Ⓒ 2009 Snapper Music on CD's labels.
Ⓟ 2009 Snapper Music - Ⓒ 2001 Catfish Records on box.

Original recordings transferred Down On The Farm by TDT Sound.
Sound restoration at Mass Masters.

1-1 to 1-14 recorded Friday 14th June 1929 in Richmond, Indiana.
1-15 to 2-18, 3-13 to 3-16 recorded October 1929 in Grafton, Wisconsin.
2-19 to 3-2 recorded circa 28th May 1930 in Grafton, Wisconsin.
3-3 to 3-5 recorded Tuesday 30th January 1934 in New York City.
3-6 to 3-9, 3-17, 3-18 recorded Wednesday 31th January 1934 in New York City.
3-10 to 3-12 recorded Thursday 1st February 1934 in New York City.

On booklet track 4 is missing (typoed as track 5), shifting subsequent tracks one up till track 21.

Track 1-14 printed as "I'm Going Home"
Track 2-5 printed as "When Your Day Gets Dark"
Track 3-10 printed as "Troubled Bout' My Mother"

credits

Guitar – Charly Patton,
Guitar [2nd] – Willie Brown (2) (tracks: 2-19 to 3-2)
Liner Notes – Alex van der Tuuk, Keith Briggs
Producer [Project Producer] – Paul Swinton, Russell Beecher
Technician [Sound Restoration] – Mark Jiggins, Tony Jueno
Violin – Henry Sims (tracks: 1-15 to 2-18, 3-13 to 3-16)
Vocals – Bertha Lee (tracks: 3-9, 3-10, 3-17, 3-18), Charly Patton, (tracks: 1-1 to 3-12), Henry Sims (tracks: 3-13 to 3-16)
Voice [Speech Accompaniment] – Charly Patton, (tracks: 3-17)

companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Snapper Music
Copyright (c) – Snapper Music
Copyright (c) – Catfish Records
Designed At – Reesycle.com
Engineered At – TDT Sounds

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