Various Artists - I've Got the Blues, but I'm Too Damn Mean to Cry

2016 CD collection.

Resentment and despair leavened with wit and humor... isn't that the blues? It is here as you encounter 103 tracks that vent even as they entertain with dazzling musicianship: "Last Fair Deal Gone Down" Robert Johnson, "Jailbird Love Song" Mississippi Sheiks, "Trouble and Whiskey" Roosevelt Sykes, "I'm Goin' Home" Charley Patton, "Highway 51 Blues" Curtis Jones, "I'm All Out and Down" Lead Belly, "Jim Crow Blues" Cow Cow Davenport, "Am I Right or Wrong" Son House, "No Place to Go" Walter Davis, "Broken Levee Blues" Lonnie Johnson, "Workhouse Blues" Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell, "Washwoman Blues" Bessie Smith, "Sud Bustin' Blues" Sippie Wallace, "Sarah Jane" Jazz Gillum, "Dynamite Blues" Blind Lemon Jefferson, "Life Is Just a Book" Washboard Sam and more! JSP.