It has been many years since Josh White received anything like his due from either Blues or Folk music fans, but there was a time when he was the world's most famous Blues musician and one of the leading lights of the Folk scene. When the recordings that make up the first disc of this set were made, Josh was in the process of introducing the mass of Americans to the existence of acoustic Blues music, and when those on the second were made he was serving as America's Folk-Blues ambassador to Europe. The number of popular artists on both sides of the Atlantic who might never have played music, or received any attention from the public without Josh's influence is beyond counting - though such disparate figures as Harry Belafonte, who started as a Josh White imitator, and John Renbourn, who first learned guitar from a Josh White instruction book, leap to mind.

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Disc One
1. NOBODY KNOWS YOU WHEN YOU'RE DOWN AND OUT
2. SOMETIME w. Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
3. JOHN HENRY
4. BACK WATER BLUES
5. WATERCRESS
6. JOSH AND BILL BLUES w. Bill White
7. DIP HIS FINGER IN THE WATER w. Bill White
8. FRANKIE AND JOHNNY
9. JELLY, JELLY
10. GREEN GRASS GROWING ALL AROUND w. Bill White
11. THE LASS WITH THE DELICATE AIR
12. WALTZING MATILDA
13. EVIL HEARTED MAN
14. I GAVE MY LOVE A CHERRY
15. LORD RANDALL, MY SON
16. MOLLY MALONE
17. THE HOUSE OF THE RISIN' SUN
18. STRANGE FRUIT
19. JIM CROW w. Bill White
Bonus Tracks featuring Libby Holman
20. GOOD MORNING BLUES
21. WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN

Disc Two
1. I'M GONNA MOVE TO THE OUTSKIRTS OF TOWN
2. TAKE A GAL LIKE YOU
3. LIKE A NATURAL MAN
4. HARD TIME BLUES
5. THE FOGGY, FOGGY DEW
6. THE LASS WITH THE DELICATE AIR
7. I WANT YOU AND I NEED YOU
8. FREE AND EQUAL BLUES Parts 1 & 2
9. T.B. BLUES
10. ON TOP OF OLD SMOKEY
11. BARBARA ALLEN
12. LONESOME ROAD
13. WALTZING MATILDA
14. APPLES, PEACHES AND CHERRIES
15. CALL ME DARLING
16. MOLLY MALONE
17. WANDERINGS
18. HE NEVER SAID A MUMBLIN' WORD
19. BLACK GIRL
20. THE BUTTERFLY SONG
21. I AIN'T GOT NOTHING BUT THE BLUES