Various Artists - Piano Blues

The story of the Paino Blues is largely one of unsung heroes and a music mostly forgotten but richly varied, intense and exciting.

It's a music forged in the smoky heat of the barrelhouses of the levee, lumber, turpentine and railroad camps of Louisiana and Texas and the whorehouses of New Orleans and other southern cities. Not a polite music; it is rough and ready accompaniment beaten out to the rhythms of drinking, dancing, gambling and dangerous lovemaking. Acrobat. 2003.

State Street Jive - Ivy Smith
Pinetop's Boogie Woogie - Pine Top Smith
Detroit Rocks - Montana Taylor
House Rent Scuffle - Lil Johnson
Rag Head Hop - Romeo Nelson
Mean Blues - Sylvester Palmer
Deep Morgan Blues - Henry Brown
Fanny Lee Blues - Wesley Wallace
Memphis Fives - Lee Green
On the Wall - Louise Johnson
Dices' Blues - Walter Roland
Frisco Hi-Ball Blues - Little Brother Montgomery
East Chicago Blues - Pinetop & Lindberg
Fat Mama Blues - Jabo Williams
Fives - Turner Parrish
Barrelhouse Woman No. 2 - Leroy Carr
Dozing Blues - George Noble
Texas Stomp - Dot Rice
The Cannonball - Roosevelt Sykes
The Flying Crow - Black Ivory King
Chicago in Mind - Albert Ammons
Had a Dream - Cripple Clarence Lofton
At the Window - Jimmy Yancey