Title: Rough Guide To Barrelhouse Blues
Label: World Music Network
Product Type: VINYL LP

Rough Guide To Barrelhouse Blues Label: World Music Network - Named after the rough and ready bars where labourers gathered to drink and dance, barrelhouse was a raucous form of piano blues that got the juke joints swinging. From early pioneers such as Cow Cow Davenport and Speckled Red to the boogie-woogie legends Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons, this collection charts the rise and incredible influence of this good-time blues.

Tracks:
1.1 Speckled Red - the Dirty Dozen
1.2 Jimmy Yancey - Slow and Easy Blues
1.3 Cripple Clarence Lofton - Strut That Thing
1.4 Will Ezell Heifer - Dust
1.5 Walter Roland - Watcha Gonna Do?
1.6 Skip James - If You Haven't Any Hay Get on Down the Road
1.7 Victoria Spivey - Hoodoo Man Blues
2.1 Cow Cow Davenport - Cow Cow Blues
2.2 Clarence "Pinetop" Smith - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
2.3 Meade Lux Lewis - Honky Tonk Train Blues
2.4 Pete Johnson ; Albert Ammons - Barrelhouse Boogie
2.5 Montana Taylor - Detroit Rocks
2.6 Leroy Carr ; Scrapper Blackwell - Barrelhouse Woman No.2