Artist: Lil Green

Title: Lil Green - Why Don't You Do Right: The Career Collection 1940-51

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Format: CD

Release Date: 2023

Label: Acrobat

UPC: 824046347628

Genre: Blues

Album Tracks

1. Cherry Tree Blues
2. Just Rocking
3. What Have I Done
4. Romance in the Dark
5. My Mellow Man
6. Give Your Mama One Big Smile
7. Knockin' Myself Out
8. I Won't Sell My Love
9. Love Me
10. Why Don't You Do Right ?
11. Country Boy Blues
12. What's the Matter with Love?
13. How Can I Go on
14. I'm Going to Copyright Your Kisses
15. You're Just Full of Jive
16. If I Didn't Love You
17. Hello Babe
18. I'm Going to Start a Racket
19. Let's Be Friends
20. I Don't Know What I Will Do
21. If I'm a Fool
22. I Have a Place to Go
23. You Got Me to the Place
24. I'm Wasting My Time on You
25. 99 Blues
1. If You Want to Share Your Love
2. No, Baby, Nobody But You
3. Boy Friend
4. Mr. Jackson from Jacksonville
5. Now What Do You Think?
6. It's Bad with My Man and Me
7. Blowtop Blues
8. Last Go Round Blues
9. That Old Feeling
10. How Come You Do Me Like You Do
11. No Good Man
12. Take Me Back to Little Rock
13. You've Been a Good Ole Wagon
14. I Want a Good Man Bad
15. Outside of That
16. Lonely Woman
17. Aggravatin' Papa
18. Them There Eyes
19. Daddy, Daddy Blues
20. Rock Me Baby
21. I Want a Man
22. Walkin' and Talkin' (And Cryin' My Blues Away)
23. My Be Bop Daddy
24. Running Around in Circles
25. Every Time
26. I've Got That Feeling

Lil Green was one of leading female American blues and R&B singers and songwriters of the 1940s, with a sensuous and sinuous soprano voice, and a fine sense of phrasing and timing that made her one of the most distinctive blues song stylists of her day. Born in Mississippi, she was brought up with the music of the Delta, and performed in the juke joints there in her teens before heading to Chicago where she did all her recording. This 51-track 2-CD collection comprises just about all the A & B sides of her career releases on Bluebird, Victor, Aladdin and Atlantic labels. It includes her Top 10 R&B hit "Let's Be Friends" and her classic songs "Romance In The Dark" and "Why Don't You Do Right", with compositions from Big Bill Broonzy, Joe McCoy and other writers alongside her self-penned material and her versions of many well-known blues and jazz standards. It features performances with Champion Jack Dupree, Big Bill Broonzy, Ransom Knowling, Simeon Henry, Budd Johnson and other noted musicians from the Chicago scene. While not being an absolutely complete or definitive anthology, this collection offers a substantial proportion of here career recordings, and is a fine showcase for her highly individual style. This collection offers a substantial proportion of here career recordings