Various – Down Home Blues: Detroit – Detroit Special – 3CD

‘Down Home Blues Detroit’ is THE definitive collection of blues music from Detroit-based musicians from the late 1940s to the early 1960s.

Features 21 artists who were influential in developing the Detroit blues scene, including John Lee Hooker, Bo Bo Jenkins, Sam Kelly, Eddie Kirkland, Little Sonny, Detroit Count, Eddie Burns, Baby Boy Warren and many more.

Three CD set, packaged in a deluxe digipak with an outer slip case, features 82 rare tracks, all digitally remastered, with some unissued recordings and others which have not been available for decades.

Includes a 48 page book featuring an essay on the origins of Detroit music by renowned blues researcher and historian Mike Rowe, complete with rare photos, tracklisting and full sessionography.

Track Listing:

CD1:
John Lee Hooker: 1. Miss Lorraine - 3:06   2. Talkin' Boogie - 3:08   L.C. Green: 3. Come Back Sugar Mama - 2:20   4. Little Machine - 2:34   Slim Pickens: 5. Papa’s Boogie - 2:40   Baby Boy Warren: 6. My Special Friend Blues - 2:40   7. Nervy Woman Blues - 2:57   Eddie Burns: 8. Making A Fool Out Of Me - 2:59   9. Squeeze Me Baby - 2:59   Bobo Jenkins: 10. Democrat Blues (Democrat Man) - 3:13   11. Bad Luck And Trouble - 2:45   Calvin Frazier: 12. Lillie Mae (Version 1) - 3:20   13. Rockhouse - 3:03   John Brim: 14. Bus Driver - 2:56   L.C. Green: 15. When The Sun Is Shining - 2:32   16. Hold Me In Your Arms - 2:36   Clarence Posey: 17. Rockin' Chair Boogie - 2:58   Detroit Slim: 18. Nelly Mae - 3:40   Baby Boy Warren: 19. Lonesome Cabin Blues - 3:00   20. Don't Want No Skinny Woman - 3:11   Eddie Burns: 21. Gangster Blues - 2:36   22. Grievin' Blues - 2:47   Sam Kelly: 23. Ramblin' Around Blues - 2:38   Martee Bradley: 24. Now I'll Have To Sing The Blues - 2:17   25. Winter Time Is Comin' - 2:44   Baby Boy Warren: 26. Taxi Driver Blues - 2:35   27. Bad Lover Blues - 3:17

CD2:
John Lee Hooker: 1. Graveyard Blues - 3:15   2. I Love To Boogie - 3:13   L.C. Green: 3. Little School Girl - 2:19   4. Remember Way Back - 3:11   Eddie Burns: 5. Superstition - 2:42   6. Biscuit Baking Woman - 2:35   Baby Boy Warren: 7. Forgive Me Darling - 2:36   8. Please Don't Think I'm Nosey - 2:32   Harvey Hill Jr.: 9. She Fool Me - 2:53   10. Boogie Woogie Woman - 2:40   Calvin Frazier: 11. Lilly Mae (Version 2) - 2:30   Henry Smith: 12. Dog Me Blues - 3:00   Bobo Jenkins: 13. Baby Don't You Want To Go - 2:33   14. Ten Below Zero - 2:13   Baby Boy Warren: 15. I Got Lucky - 3:00   16. Let's Renew Our Love - 3:07   James Walton: 17. Papa Doo - 2:50   Earl Chatman: 18. Loving You Baby - 2:10   Detroit Count: 19. Parrot Lounge - 0:59   20. Detroit Boogie - 2:38 Bobo Jenkins: 21. Seasick And Waterbound - 3:17   Big Jack Reynolds: 22. Pitch A Boogiewoogie - 2:15   Calvin Frazier: 23. Lilly Mae (Version 3) - 2:32   Baby Boy Warren: 24. Mattie Mae - 2:49   25. Santa Fe - 2:28   Little Sonny: 26. Hastings Street After Hours - 2:20   27. Love You Pretty Baby - 2:27   John Lee Hooker: 28. Have Mercy On Me - 3:29

CD3:
Baby Boy Warren: 1. Somebody Put Bad Luck On Me - 2:38   2. Stop Breaking Down - 2:37   Little Sonny: 3. Love Shock - 1:54   4. I'll Love You Baby Until The Day I Die - 2:05   Eddie Kirkland: 5. I'll Move You - 2:37   6. Mercy Blues - 2:55   John Lee Hooker: 7. Miss Sadie Mae - 2:56   8. 609 Boogie - 2:52   Doctor Ross: 9. Cat Squirrel - 2:21   10. The Sunnyland - 2:36   Bobo Jenkins: 11. Nothing But Love - 2:25   12. Tell Me Who - 2:34   Eddie Burns: 13. Orange Driver - 3:26   14. Hard Hearted Woman - 2:33   Little Sonny: 15. I Gotta Find My Baby - 2:32   16. Hear My Woman Calling - 2:38   Baby Boy Warren And His Band: 17. Chuck-a-luck (aka Chicken) - 3:12   18. Baby Boy Blues - 2:48   Eddie Kirkland: 19. Done Somebody Wrong - 3:05   20. I Need You Baby - 2:45   Bob Kelly: 21. She's My Baby - 2:16   Eddie Burns: 22. The Thing To Do - 2:51   Little Sonny: 23. I Hear My Woman Callin' – Alternate - 3:05   Doctor Ross: 24. Industrial Boogie - 2:38   25. Thirty Two Twenty - 2:47   Bobo Jenkins: 26. Baby Don't You Want Me To Go – Alternate - 2:52   27. Ten Below Zero – Alternate - 3:18