• 1. LIBBY HOLMAN - Am I Blue
• 2. THE INK SPOTS - Whoa Babe
• 3. SISTER O.M. TERRELL - The Gambling Man
• 4. THE INK SPOTS w/ ELLEA FITZGERALD - I'm Making Believe
• 5. BILL "JAZZ" GILLUM - Go Back To The Country
• 6. DINAH SHORE - Blues In The Night
• 7. THE BOSWELL SISTERS - Lawd, You Made The Night Too Long
• 8. KANSAS CITY KITTY & GEORGIA TOM - How Can You Have The Blues
• 9. SMITH BESSIE - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
• 10. MEZZ MEZZROW - Blues In Disguise
• 11. LEE MORESE & HER BLYE GRASS BOYS - Moanin' Low
• 12. EDMOND HALL CELESTE QUARTET - Profundly Blue
• 13. O'NIEL SPENCER - Sweet Patootie
• 14. TAMPA RED - Denver Blues
• 15. BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON - If I Had My Way
• 16. BERHA "CHIPPIE" HILL - Some Cold Rainy Day
• 17. DUKE ELLINGTON & HIS ORCHESTRA - Mood Indigo
• 18. ISSIE RONGOLD - Be On Your Merry Way
• 19. MA RAINEY - Daddy Goodbye Blues
• 20. MILDRED BAILEY - Smoke Dreams
• 21. BENNY GOODMAN'S BOYS - Blue (And Broken Hearted)
• 22. MEMPHIS JUG BAND - Oh Ambulance Man
• 23. GRETA KELLER - Blue Moon
• 24. WALTER HUSTON - September Song

• WISH

  Status Message

Songs of lost love, dire straits, and endless nights of loneliness are offset by songs of hope and promise and some up tempo blues instrumentals. Black and white folk traditions sit comfortably alongside uptown numbers from Hollywood and the Broadway stag