THE RURAL BLUES 2 LP box 1964 NM- Samuel Charters RBF 202 RARE

$

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Vinyl from my personal collection!

This is a box set of 2 12" vinyl LPs

THE RURAL BLUES, 2 LP box, edited by Samuel B. Charters (RBF RF 202, stereo, beige & brown labels, 1964). Includes 8-page booklet. The first and best of Sam Charters' excellent compilations of country blues. There are some songs on here I've never seen anywhere else. Essential listening for anyone interested in the country blues.

Tune listing:

Will Shade: I can't stand it
Hambone Willie Newburn: Shelby county workhouse blues
Robert Johnson: From four until late
Furry Lewis: You can leave, baby
Sleepy John Estes: Milk cow blues
Li'l Son Jackson: Roberta blues
Blind Boy Fuller: Thousand woman blues
Arthur Crudup: If I get lucky
Charlie Picket: Down the highway
Kokomo Arnold: Milk cow blues
Blind Willie Johnson: Take your burden to the Lord
Tommy McClennan: New Highway 51
Blind Willie McTell: Mama t'ain't long fo' day
Charlie Burse: Take your fingers off it
Charlie Lincoln: My wife drove me from my door
Peg Leg Howell: Skin game blues
Lightnin' Hopkins: Goin' back to Florida
Robert Johnson: Standing at the crossroads
Lightnin' Hopkins: One kind favor
Blind Willie Johnson: Nobody's fault but mine
Furry Lewis: Warm up
Bukka White: Bukka's jitterbug
Peg Leg Howell: Coal man blues
Blind Willie McTell: Southern can mama
Papa Charlie Jackson: Airy man blues
Skip James: Little cow and calf is gonna die blues
Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell: New how long how long blues
Sonny Terry & Oh Red with Blind Boy Fuller: Harmonica stomp
Frank Stokes: Shiney town blues
Virgil Perkins: Trouble in mind
Arthur Crudup: Mean old Frisco
Brownie McGhee: Sporting life blues
Virgil Perkins: Solo
Charlie Burse: Tippin' round
Ham Gravy: Mama don't 'low it
Moochie Reeves: Key to the highway

Condition: Vinyl visual Near Mint-, a couple of tiny marks; play-graded NM to VG, an occasional tick from manufacturing, not wear; name written on one side of each record and inside box lid / Box Good, top cover corners split, needs repair. See my positive feedbacks for all the buyers who have been pleased with the condition of my vinyl and CDs!!

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