Sonny Boy Williamson I (1914-48) - Complete Recorded Works Vol. 1-5 (1991)
Blues | 5cd | EAC Rip | Flac + Cue + Log | covers
Document DOCD-5055-59 | rec: 1937-47 | 1170Mb
Vol. 1: A comprehensive collection of the highly influential blues pioneer's 25 earliest works, recorded in 1937 and 1938. (Note: This is the Sonny Boy Williamson who was murdered in 1948, not the one who toured England with the Yardbirds in 1963).
Several of these songs, of course, have become blues standards, particularly "Good Morning School Girl," which has been covered countless times (the Yardbirds, Ten Years After, and others), and there's a surprising variety here; "Got the Bottle Up and Gone," for example, has an obvious jug band feel to it that's thoroughly at odds with the haunted sound of "Decoration Blues," or the proto-swamp "Up the Country Blues" (a song that clearly influenced Slim Harpo).