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21 July 2007
2 hours of blues. Uptown, downtown, and lowdown, here's a couple hours of blues, for your Saturday cruise.
1. Count Basie - Good Morning Blues [1st take] (3:14)
2. Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan with Dizzy Gillespie And His Orchestra / No Smokes Blues (2:28)
3. Billie Holiday - I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues (2:53)
4. Sidney Bechet - Really The Blues / Tommy Ladnier & His Orchestra (3:39)
5. Etta James - I'd Rather Go Blind (2:34)
6. Koko Taylor - I Don't Care Who Knows (2:14)
7. Bessie Smith - St. Louis Blues (3:11)
8. The Mills Brothers - Basin Street Blues (3:13)
9. Sidney Bechet - Sidney's Blues / S. Bechet & His New Orleans Feetwarmers (3:03)
10. Bessie Smith - Me And My Gin (2:50)
11. Nina Simone - Gin House Blues (3:08)
12. Count Basie - The Blues I Like To Hear (3:09)
13. Cassandra Wilson - Hellhound On My Trail (4:34)
14. Nina Simone - Blues For Mama (4:00)
15. Ray Charles - RAY CHARLES - Them That Got (1961) (2:49)
16. Cassandra Wilson - Death Letter (4:14)
17. Joe Williams - Going To Chicago Blues (4:52)
18. Billie Holiday - Billie's Blues (2:41)
19. Sarah Vaughan - Sassy's Blues (5:39)
20. Diane Schuur - Deedles' Blues (3:36)
21. Joe Williams - Sawmill Blues (5:31)
22. Duke Ellington - Five O'Clock Whistle (3:20)
23. Ella Fitzgerald - Rocks In My Bed (3:58)
24. Art Tatum - Trio Blues (5:05)
25. Sarah Vaughan - Mean To Me (2:41)
26. Duke Ellington - I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) (3:21)
27. Illinois Jacquet - Try Me One More Time (2:58)
28. Diane Schuur - Stormy Monday Blues (3:04)
29. Tuck & Patti - High Heel Blues (4:57)
30. Duke Ellington - I Don't Know What Kind Of Blues I Got (3:17)
31. Ella Fitzgerald - I Ain't Got Nothing But The Blues (4:41)
32. Bessie Smith - Black Mountain Blues (3:08)
33. Eddie Boyd - Five Long Years (3:24)
34. Victoria Spivey - Black Snake Blues (3:02)