The AMERICA collection provides a glimpse into 20th century American music. With Gospel, Blues and Jazz, black people gave the world the foundations on which most types of Western music - Rhythm & Blues, Soul Music, Rock 'n' Roll, Funk, Rap - were to be built.

Each of our (2 CD) anthologies gets to the very heart of these genres and explains their origins, their rationale and their evolution.

Contents:
CD 1
Ida Cox
1. Graveyard dream blues

Jay Mayo Williams
2. Blues ain't nothing else but!

Pearl Delaney
3. Nobody knows the way I feel this morning

Richard Jones
4. Pratt city blues

Mike Jackson
5. Somebody's been lovin' my babe

Georges Washington Thomas
6. Dead drunk blues

Victoria Regina Spivey
7. Dope head blues

Spencer Williams
8. Cross-eyed blues

Hattie McDaniel
9. I thought I'd do it

Gertrude Pridgett
10. Prove it on me blues

Sippie Wallace
11. I'm a mighty tight woman

Edith Johnson
12. Nickle's worth of liver blues

Lilian Glinn
13. Shreveport blues

Mattie Delaney
14. Down the big road blues

James Blythe
15. Can't be bothered with no sheik

Lucille Anderson
16. Groceries on the shelf

Bernice Edwards
17. Butcher shop blues

James Wiggins
18. I lost my baby

Trixie Butler
19. Just a good woman through with the blues

Billie Holiday
20. Billie's blues

Eugene Powell
21. Happy home blues

Lizzie Douglas
22. Ma Rainey

Joe McCoy
23. Why don't you do right

Mama Yancey
24. Santa Fe blues

Leonard Jeffrey Feather
25. New blowtop blues

Ola Mae Terrell
26. The Gambling man

CD 2
William Lee Conley Broonzy
1. Black, brown & white

Charlie Patton
2. Stone pony blues

John Smith Hurt
3. Stack O'lee blues

Armenter Chatmon
4. Banana in your fruit basket

Clarence Jefferson
5. Black snake moan

Arthur Blake
6. Wabash rag

Tommy Johnson
7. Canned heat blues

Aleck 'Rice' Miller
8. Steady rollin' man

Walter Beasley
9. Bottleneck blues

James Yancey
10. Mournful blues

Alfonzo Johnson
11. A handful of riffs

William Samuel McTier
12. Kill it kid

Eddie James House
13. Depot blues

Nehemiah Curtis James
14. Cypress grove blues

Joseph Lee Williams
15. Crawlin' king snake

Fred McDowell
16. 61 Highway

Joe McCoy
17. If you take me back

Fulton Allen
18. Homesick & lonesome blues

Will Weldon
19. Guitar swing

Robert Johnson
20. Stop breakin' down blues

Sam Hopkins
21. Penitentiary blues

John Lee Curtis
22. Hoodoo hoodoo

Morganfield McKinley
23. Country blues

John Lee Hooker
24. Boogie chillen

Robert Johnson
25. Dust my broom

J B Lenore
26. Mama talk to your daughter