Down Home Blues Detroit is THE definitive collection of blues music from Detroit-based musicians from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. It features over 20 artists who were influential in developing the Detroit blues scene, including John Lee Hooker, Bo Bo Jenkins, Sam Kelly, Eddie Kirkland, Little Sonny, Detroit Count, Eddie Burns, Baby Boy Warren, Big Ed And His Combo and many more. This three CD set, packaged in a deluxe digipak with an outer slip case, features 82 rare tracks, all digitally remastered, with some unissued recordings and others which have not been available for decades. Includes a 48 page book featuring an essay on the origins of Detroit music by renowned blues researcher and historian Mike Rowe, complete with rare photos, tracklisting and full sessionography.................
Disc: 1
1. Miss Lorraine (John Lee Hooker)
2. Talkin Boogie (John Lee Hooker)
3. Come Back Sugar Mama (L C Green)
4. Little Machine (L C Green)
5. Papas Boogie (Slim Pickens)
6. My Special Friend Blues (Baby Boy Warren)
7. Nervy Woman Blues (Baby Boy Warren)
8. Making A Fool Out Of Me (Eddie Burns)
9. Squeeze Me Baby (Eddie Burns)
10. Democrat Blues (Bo Bo Jenkins)
11. Bad Luck And Trouble (Bo Bo Jenkins)
12. Lillie Mae (Version 1) (Calvin Frazier)
13. Rockhouse (Calvin Frazier)
14. Bus Driver (John Brim)
15. When The Sun Is Shining (L C Green)
16. Hold Me In Your Arms (L C Green)
17. Rockin Chair Boogie (Clarence Posey)
18. Nelly Mae (Detroit Slim)
19. Lonesome Cabin Blues (Baby Boy Warren)
20. Dont Want No Skinny Woman (Baby Boy Warren)
21. Gangster Blues (Eddie Burns)
22. Grievin Blues (Eddie Burns)
23. Ramblin Around Blues (Sam Kelly)
24. Now Ill Have To Sing The Blues (Martee Bradley)
25. Winter Time Is Comin (Martee Bradley)
26. Taxi Driver Blues (Baby Boy Warren)
27. Bad Lover Blues (Baby Boy Warren)
Disc: 2
1. Graveyard Blues (John Lee Hooker)
2. I Love To Boogie (John Lee Hooker)
3. Little School Girl (L C Green)
4. Remember Way Back (L C Green)
5. Superstition (Eddie Burns)
6. Biscuit Baking Woman (Eddie Burns)
7. Forgive Me Darling (Baby Boy Warren)
8. Please Dont Think Im Nosey (Baby Boy Warren)
9. She Fool Me (Harvey Hill Jr)
10. Boogie Woogie Woman (Harvey Hill Jr)
11. Lillie Mae (Version 2)(Calvin Frazier)
12. Dog Me Blues (Henry Smith)
13. Baby Dont You Want To Go (Bo Bo Jenkins)
14. Ten Below Zero (Bo Bo Jenkins)
15. I Got Lucky (Baby Boy Warren)
16. Lets Renew Our Love (Baby Boy Warren)
17. Papa Doo (James Walton)
18. Loving You Baby (Earl Chatman)
19. Parrot Lounge (Detroit Count)
20. Detroit Boogie (Detroit Count)
21. Seasick And Waterbound (Bo Bo Jenkins)
22. Pitch A Boogie Woogie (Big Jack Reynolds)
23. Lillie Mae (Version 3)(Calvin Frazier)
24. Mattie Mae (Baby Boy Warren)
25. Santa Fe (Baby Boy Warren)
26. Hastings Street After Hours (Little Sonny)
27. Love You Pretty Baby (Little Sonny)
28. Have Mercy On Me (John Lee Hooker)
Disc: 3
1. Somebody Put Bad Luck On Me (Baby Boy Warren)
2. Stop Breaking Down (Baby Boy Warren)
3. Love Shock (Little Sonny)
4. Ill Love You Baby Until The Day I Die (Little Sonny)
5. Ill Move You Baby (Eddie Kirkland)
6. Mercy Mercy (Eddie Kirkland)
7. Miss Sadie Mae (John Lee Hooker)
8. 609 Boogie (John Lee Hooker)
9. Cat Squirrel (Doctor Ross)
10. The Sunnyland (Doctor Ross)
11. Nothing But Love (Bo Bo Jenkins)
12. Tell Me Who (Bo Bo Jenkins)
13. Orange Driver (Eddie Burns)
14. Hard Hearted Woman (Eddie Burns)
15. I Gotta Find My Baby (Little Sonny)
16. Hear My Woman Calling (Little Sonny)
17. Chuck-A-Luck (Or Chicken) (Baby Boy Warren)
18. Baby Boy Blues (Baby Boy Warren)
19. Done Somebody Wrong (Eddie Kirkland)
20. I Need You Baby (Eddie Kirkland)
21. Shes My Baby (Bob Kelly)
22. The Thing To Do (Eddie Burns)
23. I Hear My Woman Callin - Alternate (Little Sonny)
24. Industrial Boogie (Doctor Ross)
25. Thirty Two Twenty (Doctor Ross)
26. Baby Dont You Want Me To Go Alternate (Bo Bo Jenkins)
27. Nine Below Zero - Alternate (Bo Bo Jenkins)
