Scrapper Blackwell - Collection 1928-61 (2xCD) | NEW

Collection 1928-61
Artist: Scrapper Blackwell Format: CD Release Date: 3/12/2021
Label: Acrobat
Number of Discs: 2
UPC: 824046337124
Genre: Blues
Release Date: 3/12/2021
Product ID: ACBT3371.2

Description
Francis "Scrapper" Blackwell was a blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter from South Carolina, who was primarily active during the late 1920s and early 1930s, when he did all his early recordings, but re-emerged during the folk-blues boom of the late '50s and early' 60s to make further recordings. He was very much associated with blues pianist and composer Leroy Carr, by whom he was sometimes overshadowed, but this collection mostly focuses on his work released under his own name or variations of it. This 43-track 2-CD collection comprising releases from 1928 through to 1935 on the Vocalion, Gennett, Champion, Bluebird and Decca labels as Scrapper Blackwell, Francis Blackwell and Frankie Black, including a duet tribute to Leroy Carr with pianist Dot Rice, who appears on some of his other recordings, plus all the titles from his 1960 album "Blues Before Sunrise" and selected titles from his 1961 album "Mr. Scrapper's Blues". The collection therefore looks at his career from a different standpoint from many others, highlighting his talents as a distinctive songwriter and performer on noted songs like "Kokomo Blues", "Trouble Blues" and "Hard Time Blues", but also demonstrating how his style and relevance to the blues endured across the decades.


TracksCredits
- Disc 1 -
1 Kokomo Blues
2 Penal Farm Blues
3 Trouble Blues Pt. 1
4 Trouble Blues Pt. 2
5 Non-Skid Tread
6 Be-Da-Da-Bum
7 Mr. Scrapper's Blues
8 Down and Out Blues
9 Springtime Blues
10 Hard Time Blues
11 Back Door Blues
12 Rambling Blues
13 Sneaking Blues
14 Blue Day Blues
15 Down South Blues
16 Morning Mail Blues
17 Blues That Make Me Cry [Front Door Blues ]
18 D Blues
19 A Blues
20 Motherless Boy Blues
21 Wayback Blues
22 My Old Pal Blues
23 Bad Liquor Blues
24 Alley Sally Blues
- Disc 2 -
1 No Good Woman Blues
2 Texas Stomp
3 Blues Before Sunrise
4 Sally-In-The-Alley-Blues
5 Shady Lane Blues
6 E Blues
7 Goin' to Jail About Her
8 Soft Blues
9 No Good Woman Blues
10 Leaving You Blues
11 Blue 'N Whistling
12 Back Step Blues
13 How Long Blues
14 Goin' Where the Monon Crosses the Yellow Dog
15 Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
16 Little Girl Blues
17 George Street Blues
18 Little Boy Blue
19 Penal Farm Blues

• Condition: NEW
• Format: CD
• Internal ID: 824046337124
• Genre: BLUES
• Format Type: 2XCD