It’s taking me forever to ready this mix, but it’s finally done. I’ve picked my twenty five favorite blues songs of all time, most of them are pre-war though a few slip into the post war era. The most notable post-war recording is Son House’s Death Letter Blues recorded in 1965 which made the list over his 1941/1942 recordings with Lomax (a record I often call my favorite blues recording of all time) because it was this recording that got me into the blues more so than anything else. It’s so hard to limit your favorite records of all time to twenty five, so a few artists dear to my heart were left off: Rev. Gary Davis, Ida Cox, Elizabeth Cotten, The Gee’s Bend Singers, Blind Willie McTell, Tommy Johnson, Walter Davis, Blind John Davis all missed the cut and I’m sorry, but there’s gotta be room for another twenty five.

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My Favorite Twenty Five Tracklist (not in order or rank):

1. Rev. Isaiah Shelton - The Liar
2. Son House - Death Letter
3. Blind Boy Fuler - Why Don’t My Baby Write To Me?
4. Blind Blake - Dry Bone Shuffle
5. im Clark - Fat Fanny Stomp
6. Ruth Ladson - What Do You Bet?
7. Bertha “Chippie” Hill - Pratt City Blues
8. Doctor Clayton - False Love Blues
9. Louise Johnson - All Night Long
10. Lucille Bogan - They Ain’t Walking No More
11. Sara Martin - Death Sting Me Blues
12. J.T. “Funny Paper” Smith - Heart Bleeding Blues
13. Blind Jessie Harris - Been In The Jailhouse 1
14. harley Patton - You’re Gonna Need Somebody When You Die
15. Blind Willie Johnson - It’s Nobody’s Fault But Mine 1
16. Geechie Wiley & Elvie Thomas - Motherless Child Blues
17. Jessie Derrick - If You’ll Come Back To Hollywood
18. Bessie Smith - Them “Has Been” Blues
19. Sippie Wallace - Murder Is Going To Be My Crime
20. John Henry Barbee - Six Weeks Old Blues
21. Rev. F.W. McGee and His Congregation - Fifty Miles of Elbow Room
22. Victoria Spivey - Down Hill Pull
23. Charley Jordan - Keep It Clean
24. William Harris - Bullfrog Blues
25. Lonnie Johnson - Southland Is Alright With Me

Son House - Death Letter Blues

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