The Memphis Blues Box: Original Recordings First Released On 78s And 45s, 1914-1969 (CD)

Release Date: 11/24/23-The Blues - the iconic music that changed everything! Memphis - the iconic city where it happened! And now - the Memphis Blues Box from Bear Family Records® - the best of the best from the best!-An incredible 534 individual tracks on 20 CDs packed into an LP-sized box - total weight almost 10lbs.-Memphis recordings from 1914 to 1969 featuring musicians from the city and region.-Introduction by blues harmonica star and Grammy® winner Charlie Musselwhite.-Biographies of every performer, many newly researched; notes about every song and recording, index and track listing.-Many unseen photographs-Produced and part-written by Martin HawkinsThis magnificent new 20-CD boxed set with its 534 tracks and an accompanying 360-page book traces the blues as recorded in Memphis and by Memphis-area musicians and singers. Starting a hundred years ago with W.C. Handy's tune Memphis Blues, this set includes classic blues, jug band blues and itinerant blues from the 1920s and '30s