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Released
  
October 7, 2003

Release date
  
9 September 2003

Genre
  
Blues

Producer
  
Various, Mark Abramson

Label
  
Hip-O Records

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Recorded
  
August 10, 1920 – April 9, 2003

Awards
  
Grammy Award for Best Historical Album, Grammy Award for Best Album Notes

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Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey is a 2003 box set released on Hip-O Records. It is the soundtrack to the Martin Scorsese PBS documentary series The Blues. The box set attempts to present a history of the blues from the dawning of recorded music to the present day. It offers a survey of many different blues subgenres and tangential music styles, as well as a survey of almost all the most notable blues performers over time.

Contents

In 2004, the box set won two Grammy Awards for Best Historical Album and Best Album Notes. In the same year it was number 2 on the Billboard's Top Blues Albums chart.

Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey is also the title of a 2003 companion book to the series. Writers/editors include Peter Guralnick, Robert Santelli, Holly George-Warren and Christopher John Farley.

Disc one

  1. Othar Turner & the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band – "Shortnin' / Henduck"
  2. Lightning & Group – "Long John"
  3. Mamie Smith – "Crazy Blues"
  4. W. C. Handy – "St. Louis Blues"
  5. Bessie Smith – "Muddy Water"
  6. Blind Lemon Jefferson – "Match Box Blues"
  7. Furry Lewis – "Billy Lyons & Stack-O-Lee"
  8. "Ma" Rainey – ""Ma" Rainey's Black Bottom"
  9. Blind Willie Johnson – "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground"
  10. Louis Armstrong – "Savoy Blues"
  11. Frank Stokes – "Downtown Blues"
  12. Mississippi John Hurt – "Frankie"
  13. Henry Thomas – "Fishing Blues"
  14. Leroy Carr – "How Long, How Long Blues"
  15. Tommy Johnson – "Canned Heat Blues"
  16. Blind Willie McTell – "Statesboro Blues"
  17. Tampa Red & Georgia Tom – "It's Tight Like That"
  18. Pinetop Smith – "Pine Top's Boogie Woogie"
  19. Lonnie Johnson – "Guitar Blues"
  20. Charlie Patton – "Pony Blues"
  21. Blind Blake – "Diddie Wah Diddie"
  22. Memphis Jug Band – "K.C. Moan"
  23. Jimmie Rodgers – "Standin' on the Corner (Blue Yodel # 9)"
  24. Mississippi Sheiks – "Sittin' on Top of the World"
  25. Son House – "Preachin' the Blues"

Disc two

  1. Skip James – "Devil Got My Woman"
  2. Lead Belly – "C.C. Rider"
  3. Big Joe Williams – "Baby, Please Don't Go"
  4. Roosevelt Sykes – "Dirty Mother for You (Don't You Know)"
  5. Billie Holiday – "Billie's Blues"
  6. Robert Johnson – "Cross Road Blues"
  7. Sonny Boy Williamson I – "Good Mornin’ Little School Girl"
  8. Bukka White – "Shake 'Em on Down"
  9. Joe Turner & Pete Johnson – "Roll 'Em Pete"
  10. Robert Petway – "Catfish Blues"
  11. Count Basie Orchestra with Jimmy Rushing – "Going to Chicago Blues"
  12. Big Bill Broonzy – "Key to the Highway"
  13. Memphis Minnie – "Me and My Chauffeur Blues"
  14. Big Maceo Merriweather – "Worried Life Blues"
  15. Tommy McClennan – "Cross Cut Saw Blues"
  16. Lionel Hampton Sextet with Dinah Washington – "Evil Gal Blues"
  17. Sister Rosetta Tharpe – "Strange Things Happening Everyday"
  18. Joe Liggins – "Honeydripper Pt. 1"
  19. Johnny Moore's Three Blazers featuring Charles Brown – "Driftin' Blues"
  20. Louis Jordan – "Let the Good Times Roll"
  21. Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup – "That's All Right Mama"
  22. T-Bone Walker – "Call It Stormy Monday"
  23. Wynonie Harris – "Good Rockin' Tonight"
  24. Jimmy Witherspoon – "Ain't Nobody's Business, Part One"
  25. The Johnny Otis Quintette with Little Esther & the Robins – "Double Crossing Blues"

Disc three

  1. Memphis Slim – "Mother Earth"
  2. Percy Mayfield – "Please Send Me Someone to Love"
  3. Jackie Brenston – “Rocket 88”
  4. Elmore James – "Dust My Broom"
  5. Rosco Gordon – “No More Doggin'”
  6. Little Walter – "Juke"
  7. Big Mama Thornton – "Hound Dog"
  8. Lowell Fulson – "Reconsider Baby"
  9. Guitar Slim – "The Things That I Used to Do"
  10. Professor Longhair – "In the Night"
  11. Muddy Waters – "(I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man"
  12. J. B. Lenoir – "Eisenhower Blues"
  13. Fats Domino – "Blue Monday"
  14. Ray Charles – "Hard Times"
  15. Smiley Lewis – "I Hear You Knocking"
  16. Elvis Presley – "Mystery Train"
  17. Sonny Boy Williamson II – "Don't Start Me to Talkin'"
  18. Howlin' Wolf – "Smokestack Lightning"
  19. Bo Diddley – "Who Do You Love?"
  20. Slim Harpo – "I'm a King Bee"
  21. Chuck Berry – "Johnny B. Goode"
  22. Bobby "Blue" Bland – "Farther Up the Road"
  23. Otis Rush – "So Many Roads, So Many Trains"
  24. Buddy Guy – "First Time I Met the Blues"
  25. Jimmy Reed – "Big Boss Man"

Disc four

  1. Freddie King – "Hide Away"
  2. Junior Parker – "Drivin' Wheel"
  3. John Lee Hooker – "Boom Boom"
  4. Albert Collins – "Frosty"
  5. Muddy Waters – "You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had"
  6. Howlin' Wolf – "Killing Floor"
  7. Son House – "Death Letter Blues"
  8. Mississippi Fred McDowell – "You Gotta Move"
  9. Bob Dylan – “Highway 61 Revisited”
  10. Junior Wells – "Hoodoo Man Blues"
  11. Koko Taylor – "Wang Dang Doodle"
  12. John Mayall's Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton – “All Your Love”
  13. Paul Butterfield Blues Band – "I've Got a Mind to Give Up Livin'"
  14. Jimi Hendrix – "Red House"
  15. Albert King – "Born Under a Bad Sign"
  16. Magic Sam – "Mama Talk to Your Daughter"
  17. Etta James – "Tell Mama"
  18. The Jeff Beck Group – "Ain't Superstitious"
  19. Taj Mahal – "She Caught the Katy (And Left Me a Mule to Ride)"
  20. Fleetwood Mac – "Black Magic Woman"
  21. Janis Joplin – "One Good Man"

Disc five

  1. B.B. King – "The Thrill Is Gone"
  2. Johnny Winter – "Dallas"
  3. Derek and the Dominos – "Have You Ever Loved a Woman"
  4. Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers – "Give Me Back My Wig"
  5. The Allman Brothers Band – "One Way Out"
  6. Z. Z. Hill – "Down Home Blues"
  7. Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble – "Pride and Joy"
  8. Robert Cray – "Smoking Gun"
  9. The Fabulous Thunderbirds – "Tuff Enuff"
  10. John Lee Hooker and Bonnie Raitt - "I'm in the Mood"
  11. Ali Farka Touré – "Timbarma"
  12. Keb' Mo' – "Am I Wrong?"
  13. Luther Allison – "Cherry Red Wine"
  14. Peggy Scott-Adams – "Bill"
  15. Susan Tedeschi – "Just Won't Burn"
  16. Los Lobos – "Voodoo Music"
  17. Bonnie Raitt – "Round and Round"
  18. Cassandra Wilson – "Vietnam Blues"
  19. Robert Cray & Shemekia Copeland – "I Pity the Fool"
  20. Keb' Mo' & Corey Harris – "Sweet Home Chicago"

Songs

1Shortnin' / HenduckOtha Turner and The Rising Star Fife and Drum Band2:52
2Long JohnLightnin' Washington & Work Group5:26
3Crazy BluesMamie Smith3:29

References

Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey Wikipedia