Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey

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Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey is a 5 CD box with the soundtrack for the documentary film series The Blues , which was produced by Martin Scorsese and released like the CD box in 2003. The 5 CDs offer an overview of the history of the blues from its beginnings to the year of publication. Numerous varieties of the blues and related styles are presented by many important musicians. A total of 116 pieces of music can be heard on the 5 CDs. The box also contains a 60-page booklet with explanatory texts for all songs, many illustrations and an essay by Tom Piazza .

In 2004 the box won two Grammy Awards in the categories "Best Historical Album" and "Best Album Notes". In the same year it reached number 2 on the Billboard Top Blues Albums chart.

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

Track list

CD 1

Othar Turner & The Rising Star Fife & Drum Band - Shortninʼ / Henduck
Lightning & Group - Long John
Mamie Smith - Crazy Blues
Toilet Cell Phone - St. Louis Blues
Bessie Smith - Muddy Water
Blind Lemon Jefferson - Match Box Blues
Furry Lewis - Billy Lyons & Stack-O-Lee
"Ma" Rainey - "Ma" Raineyʼs Black Bottom
Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground
Louis Armstrong - Savoy Blues
Frank Stokes - Downtown Blues
Mississippi John Hurt - Frankie
Henry Thomas - Fishing Blues
Leroy Carr - How Long, How Long Blues
Tommy Johnson - Canned Heat Blues
Blind Willie McTell - Statesboro Blues
Tampa Red & Georgia Tom - It's Tight Like That
Pinetop Smith - Pine Topʼs Boogie Woogie
Lonnie Johnson - Guitar Blues
Charlie Patton - Pony Blues
Blind Blake - Diddie Wah Diddie
Memphis Jug Band - KC Moan
Jimmie Rodgers - Standin 'On The Corner (Blue Yodel # 9)
Mississippi Sheiks - Sittinʼ On Top Of The World
Son House - Preachin 'The Blues

CD 2

Skip James - Devil Got My Woman
Leadbelly - CC Rider
Big Joe Williams - Baby, Please Don't Go
Roosevelt Sykes - Dirty Mother For You (Don't You Know)
Billie Holiday - Billie's Blues
Robert Johnson - Cross Road Blues
Sonny Boy Williamson I. - Good Morninʼ Little School Girl
Bukka White - Shake 'Em On Down
Joe Turner & Pete Johnson - Roll 'Em Pete
Robert Petway - Catfish Blues
Count Basie Orchestra with Jimmy Rushing - Going To Chicago Blues
Big Bill Broonzy - Key To The Highway
Memphis Minnie - Me And My Chauffeur Blues
Big Maceo Merriweather - Worried Life Blues
Tommy McClennan - Cross Cut Saw Blues
Lionel Hampton Sextet with Dinah Washington - Evil Gal Blues
Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Strange Things Happening Everyday
Joe Liggins - Honeydripper Pt. 1
Johnny Mooreʼs Three Blazers featuring Charles Brown - Driftin 'Blues
Louis Jordan - Let The Good Times Roll
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - That's All Right Mama
T-Bone Walker - Call It Stormy Monday
Wynonie Harris - Good Rockin 'Tonight
Jimmy Witherspoon - Ain't Nobody's Business, Part One
The Johnny Otis Quintette with Little Esther & The Robins - Double Crossing Blues

CD 3

Memphis Slim - Mother Earth
Percy Mayfield - Please Send Me Someone To Love
Jackie Brenston - Rocket 88
Elmore James - Dust My Broom
Rosco Gordon - No More Doggin '
Little Walter - Juke
Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog
Lowell Fulson - Reconsider Baby
Guitar Slim - The Things That I Used to Do
Professor Longhair - In The Night
Muddy Waters - (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
JB Lenoir - Eisenhower Blues
Fats Domino - Blue Monday
Ray Charles - Hard Times
Smiley Lewis - I Hear You Knocking
Elvis Presley - Mystery Train
Sonny Boy Williamson II - Don't Start Me To Talkin '
Howlin 'Wolf - Smokestack Lightning
Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love
Slim Harpo - I'm A King Bee
Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode
Bobby "Blue" Bland - Farther Up The Road
Otis Rush - So Many Roads, So Many Trains
Buddy Guy - First Time I Met The Blues
Jimmy Reed - Big Boss Man

CD 4

Freddie King - Hide Away
Junior Parker - Drivin 'Wheel
John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom
Albert Collins - Frosty
Muddy Waters - You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had
Howlin 'Wolf - Killing Floor
Son House - Death Letter Blues
Mississippi Fred McDowell - You Gotta Move
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Junior Wells - Hoodoo Man Blues
Koko Taylor - Wang Dang Doodle
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton - All Your Love
Paul Butterfield Blues Band - I've Got A Mind To Give Up Livin '
Jimi Hendrix - Red House
Albert King - Born Under The Bad Sign
Magic Sam - Mama Talk To Your Daughter
Etta James - Tell Mama
The Jeff Beck Group - Ain't Superstitious
Taj Mahal - She Caught The Katy (And Left Me A Mule To Ride)
Fleetwood Mac - Black Magic Woman
Janis Joplin - One Good Man

CD 5

BB King - The Thrill Is Gone
Johnny Winter - Dallas
Derek and the Dominos - Have You Ever Loved A Woman
Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers - Give Me Back My Wig
The Allman Brothers Band - One Way Out
ZZ Hill - Down Home Blues
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Pride And Joy
Robert Cray - Smoking Gun
The Fabulous Thunderbirds - Tuff Enuff
John Lee Hooker and Bonnie Raitt - I'm In The Mood
Ali Farka Touré - Timbarma
Keb 'Mo' - Am I Wrong
Luther Allison - Cherry Red Wine
Peggy Scott-Adams - Bill
Susan Tedeschi - Just Won't Burn
Los Lobos - Voodoo Music
Bonnie Raitt - Round & Round
Cassandra Wilson - Vietnam Blues
Robert Cray & Shemekia Copeland - I Pity The Fool (Live)
Keb 'Mo' & Corey Harris - Sweet Home Chicago

Web links

Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey at Allmusic (English)
Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey on Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

↑ The Blues on the pages of PBS (English)
↑ ^a ^b Allmusic, see web links
^ The Grammy Award Winners of 2004 , The New York Times , February 9, 2004
↑ Discogs, see web links