VA - Rough Guide To Ragtime Blues (2017)

Ragtime had a profound influence on many early blues performers who strived to reproduce its complicated piano sounds on the guitar. With its faster rhythm and good-time feel, this danceable style was performed with mesmerizing skill by blues greats such as Blind Blake, Reverend Gary Davis and Blind Boy Fuller.

Track List:

1 Blind Willie McTell - Southern Can Is Mine (3:08)
2 Willie Walker - South Carolina Rag (Take 2) (3:06)
3 Blind Boy Fuller - Piccolo Rag (2:48)
4 Luke Jordan - Cocaine Blues (3:14)
5 Robert Wilkins - Old Jim Canan's (2:56)
6 Blind Blake - Blind Arthur's Breakdown (2:59)
7 Papa Charlie Jackson - Drop That Sack (2:28)
8 Bo Carter - Your Biscuits Are Big Enough For Me (2:06)
9 Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe - Guitar Rag (3:06)
10 Dick Justice - Old Black Dog (2:55)
11 Beale Street Sheiks - Mr. Crump Don't Like It (2:38)
12 William Moore - Ragtime Millionaire (3:07)
13 Pillie Bolling - Shake Me Like A Dog (3:01)
14 Charlie McCoy - I've Been Blue Ever Since You Went Away (3:14)
15 Allen Brothers - Salty Dog Blues (3:05)
16 Blind Lemon Jefferson - Beggin' Back (2:49)
17 Big Bill Broonzy - Guitar Rag (2:52)
18 The Two Charlies - Pork Chop Blues (3:02)
19 Mississippi John Hurt - Got The Blues Can't Be Satisfied (2:49)
20 Charley Patton - Shake It And Break It (But Don't Let It Fall Mama) (3:04)
21 Troy Ferguson - You Better Keep It At Home (3:02)
22 Reverend Gary Davis - Have More Faith In Jesus (2:59)
23 Buddy Boy Hawkins - Raggin' The Blues (2:26)
24 Geeshie Wiley & Elvie Thomas - Pick Poor Robin Clean (3:09)
25 Cannon's Jug Stompers - Money Never Runs Out (2:44)