Mercury: 314 528 292-2 (On discs: 314 528 293-2, 314 528 294-2, 314 528 295-2, 314 528 296-2, 314 528 297-2, 314 528 298-2, 314 528 299-2, 314 528 300-2)

Discs 1 and 2 subtitled Midwest blues : Post-war roots in Chicago, Kansas City and St. Louis, featuring Dinah Washington, the Four Jumps of Jive (w/ Willie Dixon), Sippie Wallace with Albert Ammons, T-Bone Walker, Julia Lee, Myra Taylor, Mildred Anderson, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Gene Ammons Sextet, Big Bill Broonzy, St. Louis Jimmy, Sunnyland Slim, Ray Snead, Memphis Slim, Robert Jr. Lockwood, Sax Mallard; discs 3 and 4 subtitled Southwest blues : Jukin' between Houston and New Orleans, featuring Jay McShann with Crown Prince Waterford, Jimmy Witherspoon and Walter Brown, Alma "The Lollipop Mama" Mondy, Roy Byrd and his Blues Jumpers, George Miller & his Mid-Driffs, Little Joe Gaines, Hosie Dwine Craven, Lee Graves, Luther Stoneham, L.C. "Lightnin' Jr." Williams, "Smokey" Hogg, Violet Hall, John Hogg, Lightnin' Hopkins, Elmore "Elmo" Nixon

Program notes by Dick Shurman, Mary Katherine Aldin, Jim O'Neal and Billy Vera (87 p.) inserted in container

Compilation produced by Jim Fishel and Barbara Micale

Various performers

Recorded 1945-1955