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Defense blues -- Keep your hands off her (performed by Leadbelly) -- Too evil to cry (Champion Jack Dupree) --Careless love (Josh White) -- Drifting along blues (Lonnie Johnson) -- Pawnshop blues (Brownie McGhee) -- Lonesome train (Sonny Terry) -- Precious Lord -- You've got to move (The Gospel Keys) -- Moses smote the water (The Thrasher Wonders) -- Does Jesus care? -- Where could I go but to the Lord? (Sister Ernestine Washington with Bunk Johnson's Jazz Band) -- You're driving me crazy (Muggsy Spanier) -- I'd climb the highest mountain -- Take me to the land of jazz (Pee Wee Russell) --Harlem hotcha (Omer Simeon Trio) -- Hesitation blues (James P. Johnson) -- Sister Kate (Joe Sullivan ; Sidney Bechet) -- Topsy (Art Tatum) -- Leave my love alone (Coleman Hawkins) -- Desert sands (Stuff Smith) -- Roll 'em (Mary Lou Williams) -- Blues part 3 (Jazz at the Philharmonic ; Les Paul, guitar).
Blues songs, gospel songs, and jazz instrumentals and songs.
Program notes by Samuel Charters and texts of songs (6 pages illus.) laid in container.
Originally recorded between 1939 and 1947 for Asch and Disc records.