Search - Various Artists :: Blues From the Big House

These songs are as American as the Mississippi River. They were born out of the very rock and earth of this country, as black hands broke the soil, moved it, reformed it, and rivers of stinging sweat poured upon the land under the blazing heat of Southern skies. These songs are mounted upon the passion that this struggle with nature brought forth. Even more importantly, they tell us much of the story of the slave gang, the sharecropper system, the lawless work camp, the chain gang, the pen. Here is the dark, fertile soil that gave rise to the blues. Indeed, these recordings, made in the heart of the Delta where the blues took shape at the turn of the century, provide the background for America's most important song-form.