Release Date: March 28, 1995.
Recording Time: 74 minutes.
Recording Date: June 1929 - February 1934.
Release Info: Compilation (Yazoo 2010) Studio Recording.
Styles: Acoustic Blues, Country Blues, Delta Blues, Pre-War Blues, Pre-War Country Blues, Pre-War Gospel Blues, Regional Blues, Slide Guitar Blues.
A cornerstone of any blues collection, Charley Patton is where it starts. As compilations go, Founder of the Delta Blues originally started life as a double-record set featuring all of Patton's best-known titles, and soundwise was miles above all previous versions. Its compact disc incarnation here trims the tune list to 24 tracks, but includes all the seminal tracks: "Pony Blues," "High Water Everywhere," "Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues," "A Spoonful Blues," "Shake It and Break It," and the wistful "Poor Me," which was recorded at his final session in 1934, a scant two months before he died. ~ Cub Koda
Credits: Stephen Calt - Liner Notes; Don Kent - Producer; Richard Nevins - Producer, Remastered By (From Original 78s); Charley Patton - Composer, Guitar, Primary Artist, Vocals; Joan Pelosi - Art Direction; Robert Vosgien - Mastered By (Digital).
Tracklist:
01. Down The Dirt Road Blues - Charlie Patton
02. Mississippi Bo Weavil Blues - Charlie Patton
03. Screamin' And Hollerin' The Blues - Charlie Patton
04. Stone Pony Blues - Charlie Patton
05. It Won't Be Long - Charlie Patton
06. Shake It And Break It - Charlie Patton
07. Magnolia Blues - Charlie Patton
08. Dry Well Blues - Charlie Patton
09. High Water Everywhere Part 1 - Charlie Patton
10. High Water Everywhere Part 2 - Charlie Patton
11. Green River Blues - Charlie Patton
12. Bird Nest Bound - Charlie Patton
13. High Sheriff Blues - Charlie Patton
14. A Spoonful Blues - Charlie Patton
15. Moon Going Down - Charlie Patton
16. Pony Blues - Charlie Patton
17. Elder Green Blues - Charlie Patton
18. Banty Rooster Blues - Charlie Patton
19. Some Of These Days - Charlie Patton
20. Tom Rushen Blues - Charlie Patton
21. 34 Blues - Charlie Patton
22. Going To Move To Alabama - Charlie Patton
23. Hammer Blues - Charlie Patton
24. Poor Me - Charlie Patton
25. When Your Ways Get Dark - Charlie Patton
26. Devil Sent The Rain Blues
Recordings from the collections of Richard Nevins, Don Kent, Kip Lornell, Sherwin Dunner, and Pete Whelan.
Digital mastering at CMS Digital, CA.
This is a reissue and remaster of Yazoo 1020 with tracks 7 and 26 being new to this release.