tracks

Traveling Riverside Blues
Dynaflow Blues
Hellhound On My Trail
Country Blues
Celebrated Walkin' Blues
Rosalie
My Black Mama Pt. II
Government Fleet Blues
Gypsy Woman
High Water Everywhere Pt. I
C.C. Rider
Terrorized
Oh Baby
Lay My Burden Down
Mali Dje
Tupelo Blues
Amandrai
Down Child
Ananamin (It's Been So Long)
My Babe

notes

Track 1 recorded Dallas, June 20, 1937. Originally ARC unissued; first release on King Of The Delta Blues Singers Columbia, CL1654. Originally released 1961 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Track 2 recorded Chicago, December, 1965. Originally on Chicago/The Blues/Today! Vol. 3, Vanguard 79218.
Track 3 recorded Dallas, June 20, 1937. Originally ARC 7-09-56. Originally released 1937 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Track 4 recorded Stovall, Mississippi, August 26-31, 1941. Originally Library of Congress AAFS 18.
Track 5 recorded Hollywood, California August 18, 1967. Originally on Taj Mahal, Columbia 2779. Originally released 1967 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Track 6 recorded Stovall, Mississippi, July 24, 1942. Originally Library of Congress.
Track 7 recorded Grafton, Wisconsin, May 28, 1930. Originally Paramount 13042.
Track 8 recorded at Klack's Store, Lake Cormorant, Mississippi, August 24-31, 1941. Originally Library of Congress.
Track 9 recorded Chicago, 1947. Originally Aristocrat 1302.
Track 10 recorded Grafton, Wisconsin, October, 1929. Originally Paramount 12909.
Track 11 recorded New York, January 23, 1935. Originally ARC unissued; first release as Folkways FP24.
Track 12 recorded Prairie Point, Mississippi, April 19, 2003. First issue.
Track 13 recorded 1967. Originally on Mississippi Delta Blues Vol. 1: Blow My Blues Away, Arhoolie Records 1041. Copyright 1994 Fat Possum Records, LLC.
Track 14 recorded Senatobia, Mississippi, June 9, 2001. First issue.
Track 15 recorded Niafunke, Mali, 1999. Originally on Niafunke, World Circuit WCD 054.
Track 16 recorded Detroit, April, 1959. Originally on The Country Blues Of John Lee Hooker, Original Blues Classics 542. Originally released 1959 Riverside Records.
Track 17 recorded London, 1988. Originally on Ali Farka Toure, World Circuit WCD 007.
Track 18 recorded Detroit, 1953. Originally Modern 923.
Track 19 recorded Bamako, Mali, August 16, 2001. First issue.
Track 20 recorded St. Ann's Warehouse, Brooklyn, November 9, 2001. First issue.

credits

A&R [Coordination, The Blues] – Darren Salmieri, Patti Matheny
A&R [Director, The Blues], Producer [The Blues] – Andy McKaie
A&R, A&R [The Blues] – Jerry Rappaport
A&R, Producer [The Blues], A&R [Director, The Blues] – Steve Berkowitz
Art Direction [The Blues] – Adam Owett, Christopher Austopchuk, Howard Fritzson, Vartan (4)
Co-producer – Richard Hutton
Design [Blues "Guitar Man" Icon] – Ellen Nygaard
Design [The Blues] – Jo Hay, Margery Greenspan
Executive Producer [The Blues] – Jeff Jones, Pat Lawrence
Executive-Producer – Jody Patton, Paul G. Allen, Ulrich Felsberg
Executive-Producer, Liner Notes [The Film And The Music], Compilation Producer – Martin Scorsese
Liner Notes [The Music], Compilation Producer – Peter Guralnick
Mastered By – Joseph M. Palmaccio
Mastered By [Additional] – Mark Wilder
Other [Business Affairs] – Chuck Fleckenstein, Rhonda Malmlund, Robin Schwartz, Susan Jacobs
Other [Packaging Manager] – Bridget McGoldrick
Other [Production Assistant], Research [Photo] – Dan Luskin
Other [Project Consultant] – Rob Barnett (4)
Other [Project Coordinatot, The Blues] – Michele Horie
Other [Project Manager, The Blues] – John Jackson (11), Rhonda Shields
Photography [Back Of Booklet] – Daphne A. McWilliams
Photography [Cover, Tray Card] – America By Air Stock Footage Libraries, John W. Work Field Collection
Photography [P. 11] – MCA Records Archive
Photography [P. 12 (Bottom Right)] – Ray Flerlage
Photography [P. 12 (Left)] – David Gahr
Photography [P. 12 (Top Right)] – Val Wilmer*
Photography [P. 7] – Frank Driggs
Photography [PP. 13, 15, 17] – Arthur Jafa
Photography [PP. 5, 17 (Bottom)] – Dimitrious Kambouris
Photography [PP. 9, 16] – James Fraher
Photography [Spine Sheet] – Chansley Entertainment Archives
Producer [Series], A&R, A&R [The Blues] – Alex Gibney
Producer [The Blues] – Jeffrey Peisch
Producer, A&R – Margaret Bodde
Research [A&R] – Didier Deutsch,
Research [Photo] – Geary Chansley, Ryan Null, Salimah El-Amin

companies

Mastered At – Sony Music Studios, New York City
Recorded At – St. Ann's Warehouse, Brooklyn, NY

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