2011 two CD collection. Everybody has to have at least some classic Blues in their collection. It's obligatory. It's a must. Why? Because no other music has had such a profound and potent influence on the world's popular music. Born in slavery, in the Southern States of an emerging nation, who would have thought it? Yet the Blues, through the power of its music and the passion of its performers, pulled itself up and onto the international stage where its place is now assured. And on these two discs are enshrined some of those timeless moments: from the opening bars of Robert Johnson's 'Cross Road Blues' to the closing refrain of Albert King's 'Born Under A Bad Sign', this is a journey through some of the very best that the Blues can offer.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Robert Johnson - Cross Road Blues
2. Mississippi John Hurt - Stack O'Lee
3. Lonnie Johnson - Racketeers Blues
4. Memphis Minnie - Me And My Chauffeur Blues
5. Bessie Smith - Gimme A Pigfoot
6. Bertha "Chippie" Hill - Trouble In Mind
7. Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was The Night
8. Son House - Walking Blues
9. Bukka White - Parchman Farm Blues
10. Big Joe Williams - Baby Please Don'T Go
11. Lucille Bogan - Baking Powder Blues
12. Ma Rainey - Ma Rainey'S Black Bottom
13. Clara Smith - Gin Mill Blues
14. Lead Belly - Midnight Special
15. Sonny Terry And Brownie Mcghee - Walk On
16. Josh White - Free And Equal Blues
17. Count Basie - Blues In The Dark (Feat. Jimmy Rushing)
18. Ida Cox - Any Woman'S Blues
19. Blind Lemon Jefferson - Match Box Blues
20. Blind Willie Mctell - Statesboro Blues
21. Blind Blake - Diddie Wa Diddie
22. Blind Boy Fuller - Truckin' My Blues Away, # 2
23. Alberta Hunter - Downhearted Blues
24. Dinah Shore With Leonard Joy'S Orchestra - Blues In The Night
25. Billie Holiday - Billie'S Blues (I Love My Man)

Disc 2:

1. John Lee Hooker - Dimples
2. Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightnin'
3. Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog
4. Amos Milburn - Chicken Shack Boogie
5. B.B. King - Woke Up This Morning
6. Pete Johnson With Joe Turner - Roll 'Em Pete
7. Fats Domino - The Fat Man
8. Elmore James - Dust My Broom
9. Otis Rush - All Your Love (I Miss Loving)
10. Earl Hooker - Blue Guitar
11. Lowell Fulson - Reconsider Baby
12. Ruth Brown - 5 10 15 Hours
13. Little Walter Juke - My Babe
14. Jimmy Reed - Shame, Shame, Shame
15. Little Junior'S Blue Flames - Mystery Train
16. Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - That'S All Right
17. Billy Boy Arnold - I Wish You Would
18. Bobby Parker - Blues Get Off My Shoulder
19. Smiley Lewis - I Hear You Knockin'
20. Roy Milton & His Solid Senders - R.M. Blues
21. Sonny Boy Williamson - Don'T Start Me Talkin'
22. T - Bone Walker - T - Bone Shuffle
23. Albert Ammons - Shout For Joy
24. Big Bill Broonzy - All By Myself
25. Albert King - Born Under A Bad Sign