Artist: Various Artists

Title: Down Home Country Blues Classics / Various

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Format: CD

Release Date: 1996

Label: Smithsonian Folkways

UPC: 096297010129

Genre: Blues

Album Tracks

1. Frisco Line - Mississippi Fred McDowell
2. Have You Ever Loved a Woman - Lightning Hopkins
3. Going Down in Georgia on a Horn - John Jackson
4. Cairo Blues - Lil' Son Jackson
5. 'Bout a Spoonful - Mance Lipscomb
6. Drink on Little Girl - Black Ace
7. Country Boy Down in New Orleans - Snooks Eaglin
8. Columbus Mississippi Blues - Bukka White
9. Shake 'Em on Down - Dr. Ross
10. Just Tippin' in - Robert Pete Williams
11. Hump in My Back - Jesse Fuller
12. Brother James - Big Joe Williams
13. I'm Broke and I'm Hungry - Smoky Babe
14. Poor Black Mattie - R.L. Burnside
15. Mercury Blues - K.C. Douglas

This collection of 1960s-era country blues music was released in 1996 as part of Arhoolie's "American Masters Budget Series." Country blues is primarily an acoustic guitar form of the blues, mixing blues elements with country and folk music. The raspy sounds of guitar and harmonica reflect the origins of the genre. The album features individual selections from artists such as Lightnin' Hopkins, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Snooks Eaglin, and Big Joe Williams. Liner notes include a list of each track's original album.