Videos

Roy Smeck - Wizard of The Strings (1926)

Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1960s)

Lightnin’ Hopkins - Lonesome Road
Lightnin’ Hopkins - Lightnin’s Boogie
Lightnin’ Hopkins - Ain’t It Crazy
Lightnin’ Hopkins - Couldn’t Be Satisfied
Lightnin’ Hopkins - Baby, Scratch My Back
Lightnin’ Hopkins - Hurricane Beulah
Lightnin’ Hopkins - Take Me Back
Lightnin’ Hopkins - Mojo Hand
Lightnin’ Hopkins - Baby, Please Don’t Go
Lightnin’ Hopkins - Lightnin’s Blues

Lead Belly - Three Songs

Big Bill Broonzy

Son House and Bukka White recorded in 1965

Son House - Death Letter Blues

Son House - John The Revelator/Preachin’ The Blues

Son House - I Want To Live So That God Can Use Me

Mixes

Volume One

Honey, Where You Been So Long?:
Volume 1 (22 May 2004 to 15 October 2004)

1. Pink Anderson - Every Day In The Week Blues
2. Charley Jordan - Keep It Clean
3. William Harris - Bullfrog Blues
4. Elizabeth Cotten - Oh Babe It Ain’t No Lie
5. Willie Ford and Lucious Curtis - Payday
6. Aaron ‘Pinetop’ Sparks - Tell Her About Me
7. Leroy Carr - Blues Before Sunrise
8. Ma Rainey - Sleep Talking Blues
9. Sippie Wallace - The Man I Love
10 Leola Manning - Satan Is Busy in Knoxville
11. Tampa Red - Hellish Old Feeling
12. Elvie Thomas - Motherless Child Blues
13. Hollis ‘Fat Head’ Washington - Early In the Morning
14. Barbecue Bob - Easy Rider Don’t You Deny My Name
15. King Solomon Hill - Gone Dead Train
16. Bessie Smith - Them “Had Been” Blues
17. Lonnie Johnson - Death Valley is Just Half Way To My Home
18. Peetie Wheatstraw - 304 Blues
19. Ruth Ladson - Who Do You Be?
20. Sara Martin - I Want Every Bit Of It, I Don’t Like It Second Hand

Volume Two

Honey, Where You Been So Long?:
Volume 2 (16 October 2004 to 6 May 2005 )

1. Rev. Isaiah Shelton - The Liar
2. Memphis Sanctified Singers - He’s Got Better Things For You
3. Blind Jeesie Harris - Been In The Jailhouse
4. Rev. B. J. Hill - Lower My Dying Head
5. Roy Green - A and B Blues
6. Jesse “Babyface�? Thomas - My Heart’s A Rolling Stone
7. Bumble Bee Slim - Feather Bed
8. Bertha “Chippie�? Hill - Pratt City Blues
9. Victoria Spivey - Down Hill Pull
10. Lousie Johnson - All Night Long
11. Hersal Thomas - Suitcase Blues
12. St. Louis Bessie - He Treats Me Like A Dog
13. Lucille Bogan - Skin Game Blues
14. Buddy Woods - Don’t Sell It Don’t Give It Away
15. Doctor Clayton - Honey Stealin’ Blues
16. Pete Harris - Is You Mad At Me
17. Whistlin’ Alex Moore - Them May Not Be My Toes
18. St. Louis Jimmy - That’s All I Think

Ain’t No Method To This Blues’N Soul Madness

by Mark Coltrain for Honey, Where You Been So Long.

contact Mark at markcoleslaw at hotmail.com

1. Willie Trice - New Diddey Wah Diddey
2. Blind James Campbell & His Nashville String Band - Moon May Rise In Blood
3. Margie Day - Take Out Your False Teeth Daddy
4. J.B. Hutto & The Hawks - My Kind Of Woman
5. Snatch & The Poontangs - The Pissed Off Cowboy
6. Cora Fluker - Move Daniel
7. Five Blind Boys Of Mississippi - Will Jesus Be Waiting?
8. Paul Gayten & Annie Laurie - I Ain’t Gonna Let You In
9. Guitar Shorty - Shorty’s Talking Boogie
10. Roy Dunn - She Cook Cornbread For Her Husband
11. Pee Wee Crayton & His Guitar - Poppa Stoppa
12. Lulu Reed - Sick And Tired
13. Tarheel Slim & Little Ann - Two Time Loser
14. Esther Phillips - I’m I The Mood For Love (Moody’s Mood For Love)
15. Slim Gaillard - African Jive
16. Algia Mae Hinton - Going Down The Road
17. Big Mac - Rough Dried Woman
18. The Gladiolas - Run Run Little Joe
19. Billy Stewart - Billy’s Blues
20. Snooks Eaglin - By The River
21. Betty Harris - Nearer To You
22. John Jackson - Knife Blues
23. Freddy King - Sen-Sa-Shun
24. Tommy Youngblood - Tobacco Road
25. Etta Baker - Railroad Bill (1956)

Reader’s Choice

Picked by the readers of Honey, Where You Been So Long - Novemember 2005.

1. Willie Lofton - Dark Road Blues
2. Charley Jordan - Keep It Clean
3. Ishman Bracey - Left Alone Blues
4. Nina Simone - House Of The Rising Sun
5. Blind Willie McTell - Statesboro Blues
6. Slim Harpo - One More Day
7. DeFord Bailey - Up Country Blues
8. Washington Phillips - Denomination Blues
9. Louis Armstrong - Back O’ Town
10. Lightnin’ Hopkins - Catfish Blues
11. Ma Rainey - Black Eye Blues
12. Muddy Waters - Lousiana Blues
13. Henry Thomas - Bull Doze Blues
14. John Fahey - Poor Boy
15. Elmore James - Dust My Broom
16. Howlin’ Wolf - Evil
17. Sonny Terry - Whoopin’ The Blues
18. Bukka White - Special Stream Line
19. Lottie Beamon - Rollin’ Log Blues
20. Hank Williams - Lonesome Lovesick Blues
21. Blind Blake - Diddie Wah Diddie
22. Willie Walker - Dupree Blues
23. Bessie Smith - Gimme A Pigfoot and a Beer
24. Mississippi Sheiks - Stop and Listen
25. Screaming Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You

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

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