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Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: The Best of the Blues,Various Artists

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Various Artists
Released 2003

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- 1
- Cross Road Blues
- 02:39
- 1,353 plays

- 2
- Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan)
- 03:08
- 1,006 plays

- 3
- Devil Got My Woman
- 03:00
- 1,122 plays

- 4
- Evil (Is Going On)
- 02:53
- 1,150 plays

- 5
- (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
- 02:50
- 1,367 plays

- 6
- Boom Boom
- 02:32
- 1,569 plays

- 7
- Death Letter Blues
- 04:21
- 1,162 plays

- 8
- Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I)
- 02:54
- 1,328 plays

- 9
- I'd Rather Go Blind
- 02:35
- 1,601 plays

- 10
- The Thrill Is Gone
- 05:25
- 1,653 plays

- 11
- All Your Love
- 03:34
- 1,271 plays

- 12
- One Good Man
- 04:10
- 1,175 plays

- 13
- Red House
- 03:51
- 1,453 plays

- 14
- One Way Out [Live]
- 04:59
- 1,355 plays

- 15
- Pride and Joy
- 03:40
- 1,468 plays

- 16
- Am I Wrong
- 02:19
- 1,549 plays

- 17
- Just Won't Burn
- 04:44
- 1,254 plays

- 18
- Voodoo Music
- 03:22
- 1,258 plays

- 19
- Vietnam Blues
- 04:32
- 1,093 plays

- 20
- Round and Round
- 03:40
- 1,163 plays

- 21
- I Pity the Fool [Live]
- 05:01
- 1,247 plays

album review

A massive media campaign comprising seven documentary films broadcast on public television and released as a DVD box set, plus accompanying soundtrack albums, a 13-part radio series, a companion book, 12 individual artist compilations, and a five-CD box set, The Blues, executive produced by filmmaker Martin Scorsese, threatened to be even more all-pervasive than Ken Burns' Jazz project, after which it was clearly patterned. And you might say it all boiled down to this single-disc distillation, which draws upon the vaults of major labels Universal and Sony. Even if all of that other material didn't make it clear, the absurdity of reducing the blues to a one-hour, 17-track album would be obvious anyway. But the way one judges this disc may depend upon whether it is trying to be "the best of the blues" or "the best of 'The Blues.'" It hasn't much hope of being the former, but as a one-CD sampler of the five-CD set, it does just fine. At the very least, it contains many indisputably classic blues performances by some of the indisputably major blues artists. Purists may object reasonably that it covers a very wide range, from the rural blues of Robert Johnson to the Southern rock of the Allman Brothers Band and the -- what can one call it? -- designer blues of Keb' Mo'. But that is in keeping with the series of films on which the five-CD set and this highlights disc are based. If the album doesn't really work as a collection, despite the individual talents and performances included, that may suggest that "the blues" has long-since become an umbrella term covering many different musical styles, not all of which work well together. And that only demonstrates its pervasive influence. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide