Various Artists - The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of

Inveterate record collector R. Crumb's artwork for this 2-CD set includes the subtitle "The Dead Sea Scrolls of Record Collecting," and indeed he and his henchmen at the Yazoo label have cooked up quite the collection for US unsuspecting consumers, consisting of 46 of the rarest and greatest blues and country sides from the '20s and '30s! Among the gems: two newly discovered masterpieces from Son House, Mississippi Country Farm Blues and Clarksdale Moan; If I Call You, a Luke Jordan side 'never' heard anywhere; the long-lost Georgia Pot Lickers record featuring duet fiddling by Lowe Stokes and A.A. Gray, and rarities from rural legends Tommy Johnson, Dock Boggs, Clarence Ashley, the Sweet Brothers, Andrew and Jim Baxter and many, many more. Crumb's booklet artwork expounds on the lunacy of record collecting utterly unique!

1) Freeny's Barn Dance Band: Croquet Habits
2) Son House: Mississippi County Farm Blues
3) Georgia Pot Lickers: Up Jumped the Rabbit
4) Memphis Minnie ; Joe McCoy: I'm Going Back Home
5) Wilmer Watts ; the Lonely Eagles: Fightin' in the War with Spain
6) John Byrd: Old Timbrook Blues
7) Ernest Phipps and His Holiness Singers: A Little Talk with Jesus
8) Tommy Johnson: Slidin' Delta
9) The Three Striped Gears: Alabama Blues
10) Jack Gowdlock: Rollin Dough Blues
11) Kentucky Ramblers: Ginseng Blues
12) Ollis Martin: Police and High Sheriff Come Ridin' Down
13) Roy Harvey ; Jess Johnston and the West Virginia Ramblers: John Hardy Blues
14) Long "Cleeve" Reed ; Little Harvey Hull - the Down Home Boys: Original Stack O' Lee Blues
15) Amedie Ardoin ; Dennis McGee: Two Step de la Prairie Soileau
16) Andrew ; Jim Baxter: Operator Blues
17) J.D. Harris: The Grey Eagle
18) Memphis Jug Band: Jim Strainer Blues
19) Grayson County Railsplitters: Ain't That Trouble in Mind (Unissued)
20) Dock Boggs: Old Rub Alcohol Blues
21) Jaybird Coleman: Mistreatin' Mama
22) Henry Whitter: It's a Rough Road to Georgia (Unissued)
23) Rev. B.L. Wightman with Lottie Kimbrough ; Congregation: Live the Life
24) Yank Rachel with Sleepy John Estes ; Jab Jones: Sweet Mama
25) Crowder Brothers: We All Love Mother (Unissued)
26) Son House: Clarksdale Moan
27) Ashley ; Foster: Bull Dog Sal (Unissued)
28) Jesse "Babyface" Thomas: Down in Texas Blues
29) Georgia Pot Lickers: Chicken Don't Roost Too High
30) William Harris: I'm Leavin' Town (But I Sho' Don't Wanna Go)
31) Asa Martin ; Roy Hobbs: Wild Cat Rag
32) King Solomon Hill: Whoopee Blues (Alternate Take)
33) Chubby Parker: Davey Crockett
34) Geeshie Wiley: Skinny Leg Blues
35) Sweet Brothers: I'm Gonna Marry That Pretty Little Girl
36) Blind Roosevelt Graves ; Varoy Graves: I Shall Not Be Moved
37) Smith ; Irvine: Lonesome Road Blues
38) Luke Jordon: If I Call You Mama
39) Grayson ; Whitter: My Mind Is to Marry (Unissued)
40) Osey Helton: Green River
41) Lottie Kimbrough: Don't Speak to Me
42) Wade Ward: Married Man's Blues (Unissued)
43) Ken Maynard: Sweet Betsey from Pike (Unissued)
44) Jaybird Coleman: Boll Weevil
45) Bill Shepherd with Hayes Shepherd ; Ed Webb: Bound Steel Blues
46) Middle Georgia Singing Convention No. 1: Bells of Love