"I Can't Be Satisfied" Early American Women Blues Singers - Town & Country, Vol. 2

"These songs have a vitality in the lyrics, an urge to say something that has disappeared almost completely in modern blues" - Musician Magazine
"There is nothing but blues authenticity here." - New York Times
"Startlingly innovative and interesting music ...priceless cultural history." - Boston GlobeA collection of classic recordings (from the 1920s) featuring the brilliant performances of great early women blues singers. This volume profiles the more sophisticated uptown approach, while Volume 1 features more rural styles. These tracks feature great period small jazz combos behind the vocals, frequently taking exciting instrumental breaks between verses. Many legendary blues performers are represented here including Ma Rainey, Sara Martin, Sippie Wallace, and countless more on 23 different selections. (Yazoo)
Approximately 68 min. Remastered sound. This is the second volume of female singers from Yazoo Records from the 1920's,and is equal to the first. These tracks cover a more big-city sound of blues singing. The first volume had a rural feel to it. This album has a more sophisticated sound,both in the style of singing and the arrangements. The backing on these tracks is fleshed out with horns from small jazz combos and have an overall feel of almost a Louis Armstrong style. Singers relatively known like Victoria Spivey,Sippie Wallace,and Ma Rainey make a showing here. But others,like the fine Clara Smith and Bertha Hill also make an appearrance. The subject matter has not changed all that much from the first volume. Matters of the heart,money,and down and out times are all here. Taken together,these two volumes make up an important area of blues singing that doesn't receive a lot of attention. As I said about the first volume,if you don't own this,your blues library is incomplete. After listening to both of these fine volumes,you will agree. (Stuart Jefferson)trax:

1. Dirty T. B. Blues - Victoria Spivey 2. Strugglin' Woman's Blues - Clara Wallace 3. Everybody Does It Now - Martha Copeland 4. Pay Roll Blues - Lucille Bogan 5. Forget Me Not Blues - Sara Martin 6. Section Hand Blues - Sippie Wallace 7. Good Chib Blues - Edith Johnson 8. Traveling Blues - Ma Rainey 9. Do Dirty Blues - Bertha "Chippie" Hill 10. I Helped You, Sick Man, When You Were Down and Out - Katherine Baker 11. He's Never Gonna Throw Me Down - Sara Martin 12. Blood Hound Blues - Victoria Spivey 13. Dead Drunk Blues - Margaret Johnson 14. Parlor Social De Luxe - Sippie Wallace 15. Bye Bye Baby - Hattie Burleson 16. Winter Blues - Madlyn Davis 17. My Own Man Blues - Ivy Smith 18. Jim Napy - Hattie Burleson 19. How Long - Alberta Brown 20. Trouble in Mind - Bertha "Chippie" Hill 21. Walking Blues - Ma Rainey 22. Mistreating Man Blues - Sara Martin 23. Trouble Everywhere I Roam - Sippie Wallace

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