Compiled, produced, and annotated by Barry Lee Pearson and Jeff Place, Classic Harmonica Blues from Smithsonian Folkways is the 21st album in the acclaimed Classic series. The album spans six decades of harmonica-based blues music and features 20 tracks, including eight previously un- released recordings from the Smithsonian Folklife Festival dating back as far as 1977. Songs that will be familiar to jamband fans include “Good Morning Little Schoolgirl” (originally recorded by Sonny Boy Williamson and featured on the Grateful Dead’s debut album), “Minglewood Blues” (a standard reworked several times by the Dead) and “One Way Out” (originally recorded by Elmore James and popularized in the 1970s by the Allman Brothers).
The collection features harmonica luminaries…
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.. such as Doctor Ross, Eddie Burns, Jazz Gillum, Sonny Terry and encompasses several stylistic categories and geographic regions — including jug band, Piedmont, and Midwestern styles.
1. Theme Song Doctor Ross, the Harmonica Boss 2:54
2. Heart in Sorrow Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee 2:58
3. Take Your Fingers Off It Will Shade, Charlie Burse, and Gus Cannon 2:52
4. Nine Below Zero Eddie Burns 3:33
5. Bye Bye Bird Charlie Sayles 3:09
6. Gillum Blues Jazz Gillum 2:13
7. Crow Jane Blues Sonny Terry 1:58
8. Dog Days of August John Cephas and Phil Wiggins 4:09
9. Minglewood Blues John Sebastian and the J Band (with Annie Raines) 3:41
10. Good Morning Little School Girl Doctor Ross, the Harmonica Boss 3:36
11. Sweet Home Chicago Phil Wiggins and the Robert Johnson Tribute Band 4:15
12. One Way Out Eddie Burns 2:25
13. Boogie Baby Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee 2:30
14. Low Down Blues Neal Pattman 3:07
15. Hooka Tooka Chambers Brothers 2:25
16. Train Piece Charlie Sayles 5:07
17. Chicago Breakdown Doctor Ross, the Harmonica Boss 3:40
18. I Feel So Good Warner Williams and Jay Summerour 2:00
19. Barbara Allen Blues Roscoe Holcomb 1:26
20. Custard Pie Sonny Terry and unknown washboard band 2:48
