Artist: Various Artists

Title: If You Take Me Back: Document Shortcuts 2 / Various

Condition:

Format: CD

Release Date: 2005

Label: Document

UPC: 714298900224

Genre: Blues

Album Tracks

1. Fixin' to Die Blues - Bukka White
2. Give It Up - Jewel Paige & Her Brown Brownies
3. Illinois Blues - Skip James
4. Lint Head Stomp - Phebel Wright
5. Rockaway - Jimmy Peters & Ring Dance Singers
6. Signifying Woman - Jazz Gillum
7. Golden Street - Rev. Lonnie Farris & the Gospel Flames
8. New Dirty Dozen - Memphis Minnie
9. Hard Day Blues - Muddy Waters
10. Halam Improvisation - Thyam Sy Griots
11. Don't Let You Deal Down - Fiddlin' John Carson
12. Shake Boogie - Carolina Slim
13. You Need Some Loving - Johnny Dunn & His Band
14. Guitar Swing - the Brown Bombers of Swing
15. Children Go Where I Send You - Harmony Four
16. The Last Scene of the Titanic - Frank Hutchinson
17. If You Take Me Back - Big Joe (McCoy) & His Washboard Band
18. Olds '98' Blues - Johnnie Temple
19. Lonesome Trail Blues - Amos Easton (Bumble Bee Slim)
20. She's Gone - Alonzo Scales
21. Magic Carpet - Blind John Davis

Document's second budget sampler, lovingly put together selections, with no didactic agenda, whose one and only purpose is to offer an hour or so of unmitigated good listening. The compiler of this anthology knows a good record when he hears it, as it offers one stunner after another. If you like variety in American Roots Music, you'll find it here, and guaranteed high quality at the same time.