Many a British music fan has used this classic 60s comp as a blues primer. Selected and annotated by the blues scholar Paul Oliver, it starts with Fra Fra tribesmen and ends with Memphis Minnie. This 2003 reissue includes a bonus disc of varying interest but you won't be buying it for that so.....

• 1-1 Yarum Praise Songs
• 1-10 Georgia Crawl
• 1-11 Dangerous Woman
• 1-12 Gator Wobble
• 1-13 In The House Blues
• 1-14 Shake It Down
• 1-15 Pratt City Blues
• 1-16 What It Takes To Bring You Back
• 1-17 Midnight Hour Blues
• 1-18 East St. Louis Blues
• 1-19 Good Whiskey Blues
• 1-2 Stack O' Lee Blues
• 1-20 W.P.A. Blues
• 1-21 Sorry Feeling Blues
• 1-22 Little Queen Of Spades
• 1-23 Parchman Farm Blues
• 1-24 Me And My Chauffeur Blues
• 1-3 Travelin' Blues
• 1-4 Stone Pony Blues
• 1-5 Black Snake Moan
• 1-6 Pig Meat Papa
• 1-7 Broken Yo-Yo
• 1-8 Broke And Hungry Blues
• 1-9 It Won't Be Long Now
• 2-1 I Want Some Of Your Pie
• 2-10 I Ain't Superstitious
• 2-11 Killing Floor
• 2-12 One Good Man
• 2-13 Black Magic Woman / Gypsy Queen
• 2-14 Highway 61 Revisited
• 2-15 Texas Flood
• 2-16 Dangerous Mood
• 2-17 Cry A While
• 2-18 Ride On
• 2-2 Million Lonesome Women
• 2-3 Wild Cow Moan
• 2-4 All By Myself
• 2-5 Roll 'Em Pete
• 2-6 Bald Headed Woman
• 2-7 You Shook Me
• 2-8 Mannish Boy
• 2-9 She Caught The Katy And Left Me A Mule To Ride