【レーベル型番 / SAGA 982 992-2】
新品輸入盤CDです。50ｓニューヨークのブルーズ・シーンに焦点を充てたコンピ。この時期シカゴやメンフィス等ではBLUES黄金期だったのは何を今更であるが、ＮＹも勿論シーンは存在した訳でそんなご当地の傑作ばかりを一枚にコンパイル！上級者も唸るレア曲もあり！
【収録曲目】
PART1:NEW YORK DOWN HOME BLUES
1.Why'd you do it?/Ralph Willis
2.Number nine blues/Champion Jack Dupree
3.Dangerous woman with a 45 in her hand/Sonny Terry
4.I love you baby/Sonny Terry
5.Catfish/Cousin Leroy Rozier
6.Too much competition/Tarheel Slim
7.Gimme your bank roll/Square Walton
8.Pepper headed woman/Square Walton
9.A letter to lightnin Hopkins/Brownie McGhee
10.I'm 10.000 years old/Brownie McGhee
11.The blues got me rocking/Champion Jack Dupree
PART2:HATLEM UPTOWN BLUES
12.You better heed my warning/Larry Dale
13.Two more days/Danny Taylor
14.Last night/Jimmy 'Baby Face' Lewis
15.Eatin and sleepin with the blues/Lem Johnson
16.No more lovin'/Annisteen Allen
17.How can you leave a man like this?/LaVern Baker
18.Love contest/Ruth Brown
19.Things have changed/Sticks McGhee
20.Lonesome and mistreated/Honey Brown
21.I'm afraid I love you/Jimmie Newsome
22.Nobody else but you/Les Harris