Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey

Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey

Box set by various artists
Released	October 7, 2003
Recorded	August 10, 1920 – April 9, 2003
Genre	Blues
Length	6:10:47
Label	Hip-O Records, Sony
Producer	Various, Mark Abramson

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Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey is a 2003 box set released on Hip-O Records. It is the soundtrack to the Martin Scorsese PBS documentary series The Blues.^[2] The box set attempts to present a history of the blues from the dawning of recorded music to the present day. It offers a survey of many different blues subgenres and tangential music styles, as well as a survey of almost all the most notable blues performers over time.

In 2004, the box set won two Grammy Awards for Best Historical Album and Best Album Notes.^[3]^[4] The previous year it was number 2 on the Billboard's Top Blues Albums chart.^[5]

Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey is also the title of a 2003 companion book to the series. Writers/editors include Peter Guralnick, Robert Santelli, Holly George-Warren and Christopher John Farley.^[6]

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Track listing

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Disc one

No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"Shortnin' / Henduck"	Othar Turner & the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band	2:52
2.	"Long John"	Lightning & Group	5:25
3.	"Crazy Blues"	Mamie Smith	3:29
4.	"St. Louis Blues"	W. C. Handy	3:02
5.	"Muddy Water"	Bessie Smith	3:08
6.	"Match Box Blues"	Blind Lemon Jefferson	3:01
7.	"Billy Lyons & Stack-O-Lee"	Furry Lewis	2:36
8.	"Ma Rainey's Black Bottom"	Ma Rainey	3:03
9.	"Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground"	Blind Willie Johnson	3:21
10.	"Savoy Blues"	Louis Armstrong	3:27
11.	"Downtown Blues"	Frank Stokes	3:10
12.	"Frankie"	Mississippi John Hurt	3:24
13.	"Fishing Blues"	Henry Thomas	2:43
14.	"How Long, How Long Blues"	Leroy Carr	3:06
15.	"Canned Heat Blues"	Tommy Johnson	3:38
16.	"Statesboro Blues"	Blind Willie McTell	2:30
17.	"It's Tight Like That"	Tampa Red & Georgia Tom	3:04
18.	"Pine Top's Boogie Woogie"	Pinetop Smith	3:22
19.	"Guitar Blues"	Lonnie Johnson	3:15
20.	"Pony Blues"	Charley Patton	2:59
21.	"Diddie Wah Diddie"	Blind Blake	2:58
22.	"K.C. Moan"	Memphis Jug Band	2:32
23.	"Standing on the Corner (Blue Yodel No. 9)"	Jimmie Rodgers	2:39
24.	"Sittin' on Top of the World"	Mississippi Sheiks	3:04
25.	"Preachin' the Blues"	Son House	3:02
Total length:			1:18:50

Disc two

No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"Devil Got My Woman"	Skip James	3:00
2.	"C.C. Rider"	Lead Belly	2:59
3.	"Baby, Please Don't Go"	Big Joe Williams	3:24
4.	"Dirty Mother for You (Don't You Know)"	Roosevelt Sykes	2:59
5.	"Billie's Blues"	Billie Holiday	2:40
6.	"Cross Road Blues"	Robert Johnson	2:40
7.	"Good Mornin' Little School Girl"	Sonny Boy Williamson I	3:01
8.	"Shake 'Em On Down"	Bukka White	3:01
9.	"Roll 'Em Pete"	Joe Turner & Pete Johnson	2:50
10.	"Catfish Blues"	Robert Petway	2:53
11.	"Going to Chicago Blues"	Count Basie Orchestra with Jimmy Rushing	3:26
12.	"Key to the Highway"	Big Bill Broonzy	3:01
13.	"Me and My Chauffeur Blues"	Memphis Minnie	2:46
14.	"Worried Life Blues"	Big Maceo Merriweather	2:56
15.	"Cross Cut Saw Blues"	Tommy McClennan	2:46
16.	"Evil Gal Blues"	Lionel Hampton Sextet with Dinah Washington	2:54
17.	"Strange Things Happening Everyday"	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	2:52
18.	"Honeydripper Pt. 1"	Joe Liggins	3:05
19.	"Driftin' Blues"	Johnny Moore's Three Blazers featuring Charles Brown	3:14
20.	"Let the Good Times Roll"	Louis Jordan	2:47
21.	"That's All Right Mama"	Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup	2:55
22.	"Call It Stormy Monday"	T-Bone Walker	3:02
23.	"Good Rockin' Tonight"	Wynonie Harris	2:47
24.	"Ain't Nobody's Business, Part One"	Jimmy Witherspoon	2:55
25.	"Double Crossing Blues"	The Johnny Otis Quintette with Little Esther & the Robins	2:46
Total length:			1:13:39

Disc three

No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"Mother Earth"	Memphis Slim	2:42
2.	"Please Send Me Someone to Love"	Percy Mayfield	2:55
3.	"Rocket 88"	Jackie Brenston	2:50
4.	"Dust My Broom"	Elmore James	2:45
5.	"No More Doggin'"	Rosco Gordon	3:09
6.	"Juke"	Little Walter	2:45
7.	"Hound Dog"	Big Mama Thornton	2:50
8.	"Reconsider Baby"	Lowell Fulson	3:10
9.	"The Things That I Used to Do"	Guitar Slim	3:02
10.	"In the Night"	Professor Longhair	2:32
11.	"(I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man"	Muddy Waters	2:51
12.	"Eisenhower Blues"	J. B. Lenoir	2:53
13.	"Blue Monday"	Fats Domino	2:17
14.	"Hard Times"	Ray Charles	2:55
15.	"I Hear You Knocking"	Smiley Lewis	2:44
16.	"Mystery Train"	Elvis Presley	2:27
17.	"Don't Start Me to Talkin'"	Sonny Boy Williamson II	2:34
18.	"Smokestack Lightning"	Howlin' Wolf	3:08
19.	"Who Do You Love?"	Bo Diddley	2:30
20.	"I'm a King Bee"	Slim Harpo	3:04
21.	"Johnny B. Goode"	Chuck Berry	2:42
22.	"Farther Up the Road"	Bobby "Blue" Bland	2:58
23.	"So Many Roads, So Many Trains"	Otis Rush	3:13
24.	"First Time I Met the Blues"	Buddy Guy	2:18
25.	"Big Boss Man"	Jimmy Reed	2:49
Total length:			1:10:03

Disc four

No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"Hide Away"	Freddie King	2:35
2.	"Drivin' Wheel"	Junior Parker	2:37
3.	"Boom Boom"	John Lee Hooker	2:32
4.	"Frosty"	Albert Collins	3:03
5.	"You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had"	Muddy Waters	2:58
6.	"Killing Floor"	Howlin' Wolf	2:50
7.	"Death Letter Blues"	Son House	4:21
8.	"You Gotta Move"	Mississippi Fred McDowell	3:21
9.	"Highway 61 Revisited"	Bob Dylan	3:26
10.	"Hoodoo Man Blues"	Junior Wells	2:05
11.	"Wang Dang Doodle"	Koko Taylor	3:01
12.	"All Your Love"	John Mayall's Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton	3:34
13.	"I've Got a Mind to Give Up Livin'"	Paul Butterfield Blues Band	4:58
14.	"Red House"	Jimi Hendrix	3:51
15.	"Born Under a Bad Sign"	Albert King	2:46
16.	"Mama Talk to Your Daughter"	Magic Sam	2:43
17.	"Tell Mama"	Etta James	2:23
18.	"Ain't Superstitious"	The Jeff Beck Group	4:53
19.	"She Caught the Katy (And Left Me a Mule to Ride)"	Taj Mahal	3:30
20.	"Black Magic Woman"	Fleetwood Mac	2:52
21.	"One Good Man"	Janis Joplin	4:09
Total length:			1:08:28

Disc five

No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"The Thrill Is Gone"	B.B. King	4:03
2.	"Dallas"	Johnny Winter	2:45
3.	"Have You Ever Loved a Woman"	Derek and the Dominos	6:53
4.	"Give Me Back My Wig"	Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers	3:35
5.	"One Way Out"	The Allman Brothers Band	4:57
6.	"Down Home Blues"	Z. Z. Hill	3:59
7.	"Pride and Joy"	Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble	3:40
8.	"Smoking Gun"	Robert Cray	4:00
9.	"Tuff Enuff"	The Fabulous Thunderbirds	3:22
10.	"I'm in the Mood"	John Lee Hooker and Bonnie Raitt	4:31
11.	"Timbarma"	Ali Farka Touré	4:11
12.	"Am I Wrong?"	Keb' Mo'	2:19
13.	"Cherry Red Wine"	Luther Allison	4:23
14.	"Bill"	Peggy Scott-Adams	4:18
15.	"Just Won't Burn"	Susan Tedeschi	4:46
16.	"Voodoo Music"	Los Lobos	3:23
17.	"Round and Round"	Bonnie Raitt	3:39
18.	"Vietnam Blues"	Cassandra Wilson	4:32
19.	"I Pity the Fool"	Robert Cray & Shemekia Copeland	3:40
20.	"Sweet Home Chicago"	Keb' Mo' & Corey Harris	2:51
Total length:			1:19:47

References

^ ^a ^b "Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey - Original soundtrack". AllMusic. Retrieved April 6, 2017.
^ "The Blues". PBS. Retrieved January 27, 2008.
^ "The Grammy Award Winners of 2004". New York Times. February 4, 2004. Retrieved December 14, 2010.
^ "Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey - Original soundtrack | Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved January 27, 2008.
^ "Blues Albums". Billboard. October 18, 2003. Retrieved April 6, 2017.
^ Peter Guralnick; Robert Santelli; Holly George-Warren; Christopher John Farley, eds. (2003). Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey. Amistad / HarperCollins. ISBN 0060525444. Retrieved March 5, 2014.
^ Hoffman, Larry (2003). Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey (CD box set booklet notes). Various Artists. Hip-O Records. B0000393-02.

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