Complete Vintage Recordings of Furry Lewis: 1927-1929

RELEASE
1997
LABEL
Document
GENRES
Blues, Country Blues, Acoustic Blues, Piedmont Blues, Folk-Blues, Blues Revival, Regional Blues, Songster, Acoustic Memphis Blues, East Coast Blues

Album Review

This release supplants both the Yazoo In His Prime and the Wolf Records 1990 Complete Works collections released earlier. This time everything that Lewis recorded for Victor and Vocalion during those extraordinary two years of work during the 1920's has been gathered together, including both parts of "Kassie Jones." The sound has been improved as well, and the notes are decent if, as is usual with Document, unexceptional. But this is one instance where Document's release of the complete works of an artist are preferable to Yazoo's picking and choosing.
Bruce Eder, Rovi

Track Listing

  1. Everybody's Blues
  2. Mr. Furry's Blues
  3. Sweet Papa Moan
  4. Rock Island Blues
  5. Jelly Roll
  6. Billy Lyons and Stack O'Lee
  7. Good Looking Girl Blues
  8. Why Don't You Come Home Blues
  9. Falling Down Blues
  10. Big Chief Blues
  11. Mean Old Bed Bug Blues
  12. Furry's Blues
  13. I Will Turn Your Money Green [Take 1][#]
  14. I Will Turn Your Money Green [Take 2]
  15. Mistreatin' Mama
  16. Dry Land Blues
  17. Cannon Ball Blues
  18. Kassie Jones, Pt. 1
  19. Kassie Jones, Pt. 2
  20. Judge Harsh Blues [Take 1][#]
  21. Judge Harsh Blues [Take 2]
  22. John Henry (The Steel Driving Man), Pt. 1
  23. John Henry (The Steel Driving Man), Pt. 2
  24. Black Gypsy Blues
  25. Creeper's Blues