Seven films shot in Mississippi between 1968 and 1975, about the diverse cultural traditions at the roots of the blues.
Black Delta, Parts I and II; Parchman Penitentiary; Give My Poor Heart Ease — Mississippi Delta Bluesmen; I Ain’t Lyin’ — Folktales from Mississippi; Made in Mississippi — Black Folk Art and Crafts; Two Black Churches.

Sparkling, uproarious ragtime and blues — randy, porno and ooh-er — with Sidney Bechet, Bessie Smith and Jelly Roll Morton.
Lucille “got-fat-from-fuckin” Bogan is the filthiest of the lot: “I got nipples on my titties, big as the end of my thumb, I got somethin’ between my legs’ll make a dead man come.”

Excellent compilation of country blues, 1933-39.
Bo Carter, Scrapper Blackwell, Walter Davis, Black Ace… and less well-known names, like Peanut The Kidnapper and One Arm Slim.
‘One Arm Slim’s piano is rather erratic due to the fact that he is probably using only one hand,’ according to the sleevenotes.

More than a hundred recordings — including fourteen previously unreleased tracks, and two radio shows from 1941 — housed in a hardbound 12-inch album, with a 140-page book of essays and rare photos.

Thoroughly entertaining downhome blues, intricate ragtime, hokum and instrumental guitar stomps.

‘To hear fully the subtlety in Furry’s singing is to gain an insight not only into the singer, but into the creative process of the blues itself,’ wrote Sam Charters. Vocalions and Victors by the Memphis legend.

Bawdy, vaudevillian malarkey, both country and urban, with no messing musically. Stuff like Banana Man, You Put It In I’ll Take It Out, I Had To Give Up Gym, Elevator Papa Switchboard Mama. Crumb cover.

Bumptious sauce recorded for Paramount in 1929 by different lineups including Leroy Carr, Scrapper Blackwell, Tampa Red and Blind Blake, and Bob Robinson on banjo and clarinet. Archetypal Crumb; 180g.