1. Pinetop Smith - Pine Top's Boogie Woogie
2. Cow Cow Davenport - Cow Cow Blues
3. Will Ezell - Heifer Dust
4. Montana Taylor - Detroit Rocks
5. Charlie Spand - Soon This Morning Blues
6. Roosevelt Sykes - 44 Blues
7. Romeo Nelson - Head Rag Hop
8. Speckled Red - Wilkins Street Stomp
9. Wesley Wallace - No.29
10. Whistlin' Alex Moore - Blue Bloomer Blues
11. Litle Brother Montgomery - Vicksburg Blues
12. Skip James - If You Haven't Any Hay
13. Turner Parrish - Fives
14. Leroy Carr - Blues Before Sunrise
15. Walter Roland - Every Morning Blues
16. Cripple Clarence Lofton - Strut That Thing
17. Meade Lux Lewis - Honky Tonk Train Blues
18. Albert Ammons - Boogie Woogie Blues
19. Champion Jack Dupree - Junker Blues
20. Pete Johnson - Death Day Boogie
21. Big Maceo - Worried Life Blues
22. Jimmy Yancey - Yancey Special
Boogie - Woogie
is a style of piano playing that developed around the turn of the 20th century, and had solid roots in New Orleans, Louisiana. This fast paced twelve-bar blues with a driving rhythm in the left hand spread from Southern black musicians up to the North. This style of music was played in "speakeasies" and in the "rent parties" of the Chicago black communities in the 1920’s and the early 30’s depression years.
The "eight beats to the bar" strumming rhythm style, adapted from blues guitar players, was well established in Chicago by 1920, but the name "boogie woogie" did not come into wide use until Clarence "Pine Top" Smith’s now famous recording.
In addition to Smith, other historic boogie -woogie players include Cripple Clarence Lofton, Speckled Red, Cow Cow Davenport, Jimmy Yancey (who inspired jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi), the younger Meade Lux Lewis, Albert Ammons, and Pete Johnson.
Boogie - Woogie was often referred to as "Barrelhouse Music." The lively style developed as a response from blues pianists to keep pace with the rowdy atmosphere and to be heard above the noise in the barrelhouses in which they performed.
Boogie - woogie became a national craze in the 1930’s and early 40’s but soon subsided. Often heard in big-band arrangements, the most successful version of The Original Boogie Woogie was Tommy Dorsey’s smash hit for Victor, recorded 1938 and reissued 1943. Later, with blues guitar players leading the way, the original boogie-woogie strumming style returned to the South. The style has remained an essential element in the repertoires of blues and country players up to the present day.
