This set comprises the five Verve LPs produced in mid-1957, which encapsulated 35 songs punctuated by reminiscences............
CD1
1-23: ‘The Bill Broonzy Story’
1. Key To The Highway
2 . Speech
3. Mindin’ My Own Business
4 . Saturday Evening Blues
5 . Speech
6. Southbound Train
7 . Speech
8. Tell Me What Kind Of Man Jesus Is (Ananias)
9. spoken introduction into Swing Low Sweet Chariot
10. Joe Turner Blues
11 . Speech
12. Joe Turner Blues (instrumental)
13. Speech
14. Plowhand Blues
15. Speech
16. Goin’ Down The Road Feelin’ Bad
17. Speech
18. Makin’ My Getaway
19. Speech
20. Stump Blues
21. Speech
22. spoken introduction into See See Rider
23. I’m Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town
CD2
1-24: ‘The Bill Broonzy Story’
1. Speech
2. This Train
3. Speech
4 . Hush Hush
5. Speech
6. spoken introduction into Backwater Blues
7. Slow Blues (instrumental)
8. spoken introduction into It Hurts Me Too
9. spoken introduction into Kansas City Blues
10. spoken introduction into In The Evenin’
11 . Worried Life Blues
12. Trouble In Mind
13. Take This Hammer
14. The Glory Of Love
15. Louise Blues
16. Willie Mae Blues
17. Alberta
18. Old Folks At Home (Swanee River)
19. Crawdad Song
20. John Henry
21 . Just A Dream
22. Frankie And Johnny
23. Bill Bailey Won’t You Please Come Home
24. Hollerin’ The Blues
