Various - Down Home Blues - New York, Cincinnati & The North Eastern States - Tough Enough (4xCD, Comp, RM)

Brand new sealed copy! (As a result, cannot confirm runout)

The definitive collection of blues music from New York City and the north-eastern region from the early 1940s to the early 1960s 

•    The third box set in Wienerworld’s Down Home Blues series that explores the unique regions of the black American blues scene

•    Features 37 artists, many of whom were influential in developing the down home blues scene, including Brownie McGhee, Big Chief Ellis, Alonzo Scales, Cousin Leroy and others

•    A four CD set, packaged in a deluxe digipak with an outer slip case, featuring 110 rare tracks, all digitally remastered, some of which have never been reissued since their original release

•    Includes an 80 page book on the origins of the music and the blues scene in this  region by eminent blues writer and scholar Chris Bentley, complete with essay, rare photos, tracklisting and full sessionography 

The box set contains the down home blues of the territories of the North Eastern States that encompasses two important cities that certainly helped in the development and growth of this blues genre. Mainly from artists who were far more comfortable playing their music within the bars and out-of-town juke joints. The tough little venues that were quite different from the bigger rhythm and blues, jazz orchestrated venues that New York and Northeastern cities had established for those bigger sounds.

This is black American musicians, many with pre-war country blues roots which had evolved with an edge that didn’t have to come out of the Delta and migrate up to the Illinois or Michigan cites during and after the Second World War. Here, many hailed from Florida, Georgia, Alabama and The Carolinas. 110 performances from single solo artists who were lucky enough to get just one, sublime record release, up to the tight small combo groups of musicians whom all produced equally fine intense recordings.

Other titles in the series:
Volume One: Detroit Special (WNRCD5095) the definitive 3CD set from Detroit
Volume Two: Fine Boogie (WNRCD5100) the definitive 5CD set from Chicago

Media Condition:  Near Mint (NM or M-)
Sleeve Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)
Country:    UK  
Released:  2018
Genre:       Blues
Style:         East Coast Blues

Track listing:

1-1. Big Chief Ellis - Big Chief Ellis Blues
1-2. Big Chief Ellis - I Love You Baby
1-3. Skoodle Dum Doo, Sheffield - Tampa Blues
1-4. Skoodle Dum Doo, Sheffield - Gas Ration Blues
1-5. Gabriel Brown - Hold That Train
1-6. Gabriel Brown - I’ll Be Seeing You One Of These Days
1-7. Bob Camp And His Buddies - Gonna Pitch A Boogie
1-8. Bob Camp And His Buddies - Reading Blues
1-9. Irene Wiley (2) - Boa Hog Blues
1-10. Irene Wiley (2) - Irene's Boogie Blues
1-11. Big Chief Ellis - Poor Man’s Blues
1-12. Big Chief Ellis - Mr Radio Announcer
1-13. Fred Dunn - Fred’s Boogie Woogie
1-14. Fred Dunn - Baby Don’t Feel Lowdown
1-15. Hank Kilroy - Awful Shame
1-16. Rosita (Chicken) Lockhart - Be Bop Daddy Blues
1-17. Rosita (Chicken) Lockhart - Mean Mean Woman Blues
1-18. Allen Bunn - Somebody Changed The Lock
1-19. Allen Bunn - You’re A Little Too Slow
1-20. Gabriel Brown - Wrap Me Up Tight
1-21. Gabriel Brown - I Can’t Last Long
1-22. Brownie McGhee - How Can I Love You
1-23. Brownie McGhee - My Bulldog Blues
1-24. John Tinsley, Fred Holland - Truble Blues
1-25. Sonny Terry - Telephone Blues
1-26. Sonny Terry - Tell Me, Tell Me
2-1. Alonzo Scales - My Baby Don’t Allow
2-2. Alonzo Scales - Let Me Home Blues
2-3. Allen Bunn And Trio - The Guy With A "45"
2-4. Allen Bunn And Trio - She'll Be Sorry
2-5. Sunny Jones - Leaving Home Blues
2-6. Sunny Jones - Don’t Want Pretty Women
2-7. Sonny Terry - Black Horse Blues
2-8. Sonny Terry - Going Down Slow
2-9. Doug Quattlebaum - Foolin' Me
2-10. Doug Quattlebaum - Don’t Be Funny Baby - Full version
2-11. Otis Hinton - Emmaline
2-12. Otis Hinton - Walkin’ Down Hill
2-13. Allen Bunn And Trio - Discouraged
2-14. Allen Bunn And Trio - I Got You Covered
2-15. Jimmie Newsome - Playboy
2-16. Jimmie Newsome - I’m Gonna Chunk You Down
2-17. Robert Henry (3) - Something's Wrong With My Loving Machine
2-18. Robert Henry (3) - Miss Anna B
2-19. Doctor Gaddy And His Orchestra - Evil Man Blues
2-20. Doctor Gaddy And His Orchestra - Doctor Gaddy's Blues
2-21. Jimmie Newsome - Do That Thing
2-22. Jimmie Newsome - My Little Child
2-23. Robert Henry (3) - Early In The Morning
2-24. Robert Henry (3) - Old Battle Ax
2-25. Square Walton - Fish Tail Blues
2-26. Square Walton - Pepper Head Woman
3-1. Cousin Leroy - Goin’ Back Home
3-2. Cousin Leroy - Catfish
3-3. Champion Jack Dupree - Sharp Harp
3-4. Alonzo Scales - Hard Luck Child
3-5. Alonzo Scales - We Just Can’t Agree
3-6. Lick, Slick & Slide - I Got Drunk
3-7. Lick, Slick & Slide - I Love My Baby
3-8. Eddie Riff - Ain't That Lovin' You, Baby
3-9. Eddie Riff - My Baby's Gone Away
3-10. Alonzo Scales - My Baby Likes To Shuffle
3-11. Alonzo Scales - She’s Gone
3-12. Bob Gaddy - Paper Lady
3-13. Bob Gaddy - Out Of My Name
3-14. Cousin Leroy - Highway 41
3-15. Cousin Leroy - Will A Match Box Hold My Clothes?
3-16. Mojo Watson - You Know You Don’t Want Me
3-17. Mojo Watson - All Alone
3-18. Cousin Leroy - I’m Lonesome
3-19. Cousin Leroy - Up The River
3-20. Champion Jack Dupree - Dirty Women
3-21. Champion Jack Dupree - Just Like A Woman
3-22. Cousin Leroy - Crossroads
3-23. Cousin Leroy - Waiting At The Station
3-24. Jesse & Buzzy - Without Your Love
3-25. Jesse & Buzzy - Going Back To New Orleans
3-26. Little Red Walter - Aw Shucks Baby
3-27. Little Red Walters - Picking Cotton
3-28. Emright - That Minute There With You
3-29. Emright - One Of These Days
4-1. Kine Morgan - Nobody’s Fool
4-2. Kine Morgan - We’re Goin’ Out To Rock Tonight
4-3. Little Boyd And The Blue Bees - Harmonica Rock
4-4. Little Boyd And The Blue Bees - Don’t Leave Me Baby
4-5. Little Luther - Ever Lovin' Baby
4-6. Little Luther - Cryin' Blues
4-7. Guitar Nubbit - Laura
4-8. Guitar Nubbit - Evil Woman Blues
4-9. Little Boyd - Drinking Blues - Part One
4-10. Little Boyd - Drinking Blues - Part Two
4-11. The Bees (8) - So Jealous
4-12. The Bees (8) - Terror
4-13. Morris Bailey & The Thomas Boys - Tell Me Why
4-14. Morris Bailey & The Thomas Boys - Calendar Hanging On The Wall
4-15. Betty James - I’m A Little Mixed Up
4-16. Betty James - Help Me To Find My Love
4-17. Guitar Nubbit - I’ve Got The Blues
4-18. Guitar Nubbit - New Orleans
4-19. The Bees (8) - Oh Yes
4-20. The Bees (8) - Touch Enough
4-21. Guitar Crusher - I Got To Know
4-22. Guitar Crusher - Cuddle Up
4-23. Little Luther - Steppin’ High
4-24. Little Luther - Du Dee Squat
4-25. Curley Mays - I’m Walkin' On
4-26. Guitar Nubbit - Hard Road
4-27. Guitar Nubbit - Georgia Chain Gang
4-28. Little Luther - Doggin’ Me
4-29. Little Luther - Automatic Baby