18 moanin' and shoutin' tracks from the first ladies of blues, taken from original-and valuable-'78s! Includes These All Night Long Blues Ma Rainey; Kentucky Man Blues Ida Cox; No Man's Mamma Ethel Waters; I'm Gonna Get You Mamie Smith; Sing Sing Prison Blues Bessie Smith; Thirty-First Street Blues Clara Smith, and more from Trixie Smith, Sara Martin, Rosa Henderson and other early legends.
1) Rules and Regulations Signed Razor Jim - Edith Wilson
2) I'm Gonna Get You - Mamie Smith
3) Thirty-Firtst Street Blues - Clara Smith
4) Sing Sing Prison Blues - Bessie Smith
5) Nobody Knows What a Red Head Mama Can Do - Clementine Smith
6) My Man Blues - Sara Martin
7) If I Lose Let Me Lose (Mama Don't Mind) - Maggie Jones
8) Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning - Margaret Johnson
9) I've Got Somebody Now - Rosa Henderson
10) Papa Papa - Lucille Hegamin
11) Kentucky Man Blues - Ida Cox
12) Cow Cow Blues - Dora Carr
13) I'm Gonna Jazz My Way Straight Through Paradise - Mary Stafford
14) I Ain't Gonna Marry Ain't Gonna Settle Down - Viola McCoy
15) Alabama Bound Blues - Ethel Ridley
16) The World's Jazz Crazy and So Am I - Trixie Smith
17) Those All Night Long Blues - Ma Rainey
18) No Man's Mamma - Ethel Waters