The Essential

Original Release Date:  August 6, 2002

Track Listing

• 1. Shave 'Em Dry
• 2. Piano Stomp
• 3. Early This Morning
• 4. Baking Powder Blues
• 5. Groceries on the Shelf
• 6. I Hate That Train Called the M. and O.
• 7. Changed Ways Blues
• 8. Jookit Jookit
• 9. School-Boy Blues
• 10. That's What My Baby Likes
• 11. Skin Game Blues
• 12. Cold Blooded Murder
• 13. Dice's Blues
• 14. Pot Hound Blues
• 15. Red Cross Blues No. 2
• 16. New Way Blues
• 17. 45 Pistol Blues
• 18. Stump Steady Daddy
• 19. Stew Meat Blues
• 20. Tired as I Can Be
• 21. They Ain't Walking No More
• 22. Alley Boogie
• 23. T. N. and O. Blues
• 24. Hungry Man's Scuffle
• 25. You Got to Die Some Day
• 26. Big Mama
• 27. Lonesome Midnight Blues
• 28. Rolling Water
• 29. Drinking Blues
• 30. Penniless Blues
• 31. Bo Easy Blues
• 32. Sail on Little Girl No. 2
• 33. Coffee Grindin' Blues
• 34. Pay Roll Blues
• 35. T. Model Blues
• 36. Boogan Ways Blues

Credits

• Lucille Bogan: Composer
• Taj Mahal: Composer
• Chris Osborne: Illustrations
• Walter Roland: Composer
• Amos Easton: Composer
• E.A. Smith: Executive Producer
• Modesty Marie Sablan: Design