- 1. GEORGE PERKINS & THE SILVER STARS - Crying In The Streets
- 2. JOHNNY COPELAND - Down On Bended Knees
- 3. EDE ROBINS - Dead
- 4. SAM DEES - Lonely For You Baby
- 5. VIRGIL GRIFFIN & RHYTHM KINGS - Forgotten Lover
- 6. O.V. WRIGHT - Everybody Knows (The River Song)
- 7. JOE MEDWICK - I Cried
- 8. JAMES KELLY DUHON - Heart Breakers (Child Makers)
- 9. LARRY CONEY - More Time (To Explain)
- 10. ELLA BROWN - Love Don't Love Nobody
- 11. DON VARNER - He Kept On Talking
- 12. BILL BRANDON - Rainbow Road
- 13. DORIS ALLEN - Shell Of A Woman
- 14. GEATER DAVIS - Why Does It Hurt So Bad
- 15. BOBBY "BLUE" BAND - Road Of Brokenhearted Men
- 16. DICKY WILLIAMS - In The Same Motel
- 17. ELLA WASHINGTON - Sit Down And Cry
- 18. BOBBY "BLUE" BAND - That Did It
- 19. BETTYE LAVETTE - Let Me Down Easy
- 20. O.V. WRIGHT - He's My Son (Just The Same)
- 21. JUKE BOY BONNER - Carried To The Cleaners And Hung Out To Dry
- 22. PERCY MAYFIELD - Gone Astray
- 23. JOHNNY COPELAND - Ghetto Child
- 24. GAS-HEAD - Why Do You Treat Me Like A Tramp
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Down & Out: The Sad Soul Of The Black South
US-0243
- Released: April 11, 2005
Never has a collection of obscure, raging heartbreak songs like these been issued. These are “done wrong” songs, but they have an edge missing in so much of the period’s R&B and blues. These songs believe in a love so pure, it can only be consummated by murder, suicide, or an act of divine intervention-such is its emotional intensity.
There is just so much bad-assed material here, almost all of it B-sides, discarded tracks, or singles played only on jukeboxes in the bars south of the Mason-Dixon Line.
