Martin Scorsese

Uma estupenda coleção que justifica a frase de Martin Scorsese encontrada nos encartes de todos os CDs: ‘Se você já conhece o blues, então essa seleção de músicas vai te dar uma razão para voltar a ouví-lo. Se você nunca ouviu o blues, eu lhe prometo isto: sua vida esta prestes a mudar para melhor.’

Em 1903, o compositor com formação em música clássica W. C. Handy (William Christopher Handy) encontrou na estação de trem de Tutwiler, no Estado de Mississipi, um negro tocando em sua guitarra, com a ajuda de uma navalha, a música mais estranha que ele já tinha ouvido. Mais tarde, em Memphis, gravou ‘Yellow Dog Blues’, semelhante a aquela estranha música que ouvira e que ficou para sempre em seus ouvidos, hoje todos o apontam como o ‘pai do blues’. Handy não inventou nada, mas foi o primeiro a compor e publicar a música que hoje conhecemos como blues, e os prêmios do gênero chamam-se ‘W.C. Handy Awards’. Um século depois daquele mágico encontro em uma solitária plataforma de uma estação de trem, o Congresso dos Estados Unidos classificando o blues como um tesouro nacional, oficialmente declarou o ano de 2003 como o ‘Ano do Blues’.

Além das inúmeras festividades, Martin Scorsese aproveitou para lançar o seu projeto mais ambicioso: sete filmes documentários para contar a história do blues, produzidos por ele e cada um deles dirigido por um diretor, todos, como Scorsese, fãs incondicionais do blues.

'Feel Like Going Home' (diretor - Martin Scorsese)

'The Soul of a Man' (diretor - Wim Wenders)

'The Road to Memphis' (diretor - Richard Pearce)

'Warming by the Devil's Fire' (diretor - Charles Burnett)

'Godfathers and Sons' (diretor - Marc Levin)

'Red, White & Blues' (diretor - Mike Figgis)

'Piano Blues' (diretor - Clint Eastwood)

Além de lançar um disco com a trilha sonora de cada filme, Scorsese lançou uma caixa com 5 discos e um livreto contando a história do blues de forma cronológica. As suas raízes africanas; as músicas cantadas nas plantações de algodão, em que o líder cantava um verso e os demais repetiam com o ritmo marcado por suas enxadas; gravações da década de 20; as primeiras cantoras; os primeiros compositores; guitarristas do Delta; o blues de Chicago; pianistas; jazzistas tocando blues; poetas; o blues acústico; o elétrico. Não satisfeito, Scorsese lançou ainda uma série de discos dos maiores artistas da história do blues. Elegeu 12 que resumiriam um pouco da história deste estilo: Robert Johnson, Son House, Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Keb' Mo', The Allman Brothers, B.B. King, J.B. Lenoir, Taj Mahal e Bessie Smith. Como o projeto foi criado baseado no gosto pessoal de Scorsese, claro que houve ausências significativas.

Martin Scorsese - CD - 01

Billy Lyons & Stack-O-Lee - Furry Lewis
Canned Heat Blues - Tommy Johnson
Crazy Blues - Mamie Smith
Dark Was The Night Cold Was The Ground - Blind Willie Johnson
Diddie Wah Diddie - Blind Blake
Fishing Blues - Henry Thomas
Frank Stokes Downtown Blues
Frankie - Mississippi John Hurt
Guitar Blues - Lonnie Johnson
How Long How Long Blues - Leroy Carr
Its Tight Like That - Tampa Red & Georgia Tom
K.CMoan - Memphis Jug Band
Ma Raineys Black Bottom - Ma Rainey
Match Box Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
Muddy Water - Bessie Smith
Pine Tops Boogie Woogie - Pine Top Smith
Pony Blues - Charley Patton
Preachin The Blues - Son House
Savoy Blues - Louis Armstrong
Shortnin-Henduck - Othar Turner & The Rising Star Fife & Drum Band
Sittin On Top Of The World - Mississippi Sheiks
Standin On The Corner - Jimmie Rodgers
Statesboro Blues - Blind Willie McTell
StLouis Blues - W.CHandy

Martin Scorsese - CD - 02

Aint Nobodys Business Part One - Jimmy Witherspoon
Baby Please Dont Go - Big Joe Williams
Billies Blues - Billie Holiday
C.c. Rider - Lead Belly
Call It Stormy Mondayt - Bone Walker
Catfish Blues - Robert Petway
Cross Cut Saw Blues - Tommy Mcclennon
Cross Road Blues - Robert Johnson
Devil Got My Womans - Kip James
Dirty Mother For You - Roosevelt Sykes
Double Crossing Blues - Johnny Otis Quintette With Litt
Drifting Blues - Johnny Moores Three Blazers (featurin
Evil Gal Blues - Lionel Hampton Sextet And Dinah Washi
Going To Chicago Blues - Count Basie Orchestra And Jim
Good Mornin Little School Girl - Sonny Boy Williamson
Good Rockin Tonightwy - Nonie Harris
Honey Dripper - Joe Liggins
Key To The Highway - Big Bill Broonzy
Let The Good Times Roll - Louis Jordan
Me And My Chauffeur Blues - Memphis Minnie
Roll Em Pete - Joe Turner & Pete Johnson
Shake Em On Down - Bukka White
Shortin Hunduckothar - Turner & The Rising Star Fif
Strange Things Happening Everyday - Sister Rosetta Thar
Thats All Right Mama - Arthur Big Boy Crudup
Worried Life Blues - Big Maceo Merriweather

Martin Scorsese - CD - 03

.Jimmy Reed - Big Boss Man
Big Mam Thornton - Hound Dog
Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love
Bobby Blue Bland - Farther Up The Road
Buddy Guy - First Time I Met The Blues
Chuck Berry - Johnny BGoode
Elmore James - Dust My Broom
Elvis Presley - Mystery Train
Fats Domino - Blue Monday
Guitar Slim - The Things That I Used To Do
Howlin Wolf - Smokestack Lightnin
J.BLenoir - Eisenhower Blues
Jackie Brenston - Rocket
Little Walter - Juke
Lowell Fulson - Reconsider Baby
Memphis Slim - Mother Earth
Muddy Waters - (Im Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
Otis Rush - So Many Roads So Many Trains
Percy Mayfield - Please Send Me Someone To Love
Professor Longhair - In The Night
Ray Charles - Hard Times
Rosco Gordon - No More Doggin
Slim Harpo - Im A King Bee
Smiley Lewis - I Hear You Knockin
Sonny Boy Williamson II - Dont Start Me To Talkin

Martin Scorsese - CD - 04


Aint Superstitious - The Jeff Beck Group
All Your Love - John Mayalls Bluesbreakers And Eric Clapton
Black Magic Woman - Fleetwood Mac
Boom Boom - John Lee Hooker
Born Under The Bad Sign - Albert King
Death Letter Blues - Son House
Drivin Whee - Junior Parker
Frosty - Albert Collins
Hide Away - Freddie King
Highway Revisited - Bob Dylan
Hoodoo Man Blues - Junior Wells
Ive Got A Mind To Give Up Livin - Paul Butterfield Bl
Killing Floor - Howlin Wolf
Mama Talk to Your Daughter - Magic Sam
One Good Man - Janis Joplin
Red House - Jimi Hendrix
She Caught the Katy - Taj Mahal
Tell Mama - Etta James
Wang Dang Doodle - Koko Taylor
You Cant Lose What You Aint Never Had - Muddy Waters
You Gotta Move - Mississippi Fred McDowell

Martin Scorsese - CD - 05


Am I Wrong - Keb Mo
Bill - Peggy Scott-Adams
Cherry Red Wine - Luther Allison
Dallas - Johnny Winter
Down Home Blues - Z.Z. Hill
Give Me Back My Wig - Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserocke
Have You Ever Loved a Woman - Derek & The Dominos
I Pity the Fool (live) - Robert Cray & Shemekia Copelan
Im In the Mood - John Lee Hooker & Bonnie Raitt
Just Wont Burn - Susan Tedeschi
One Way Out - The Allman Brothers Band
Pride And Joy - Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Round & Round - Bonnie Raitt
Smoking Gun - Robert Cray
Sweet Home Chicago - Keb Mo & Corey Harris
The Thrill is Gone - B.B. King
Timbarma - Ali Farka Toure
Tuff Enuff - Fabulous Thunderbirds
Vietnam Blues - Cassandra Wilson
Voodoo Music - Los Lobos

Martin Scorsese - B.B.King








Aint Nobody Home
Dont Answer The Door
Dont You Lie To Me
Everyday I Have The Blues
How Blue Can You Get
Ill Survive
Inflation Blues
Paying The Cost To Be The Boss
Playin With My Friends
Sneakin Around
The Thrill Is Gone
Three Oclock Blues

Martin Scorsese - Bessie Smith








A Good Man Is Hard To Find
Back Water Blues
Careless Love
Down Hearted Blues
Gimme A Pigfoot And A Bottle Of Beer
I Aint Goin To Play No Second Fiddle
Me And My Gin
Muddy Water
Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl
Nobody Knows You When Youre
On Revival Day
Send Me To The Lectric Chair
St. Louis Blues
Taint Nobodys Bizness If I Do
The Yellow Dog Blues

Martin Scorsese - Eric Clapton








All Your Love (John Mayalls Bluesbreakers)
Crossroads (Derek And The Dominos)
Have You Ever Loved A Woman (Derek And The )Dominos
Im So Glad (Cream)
Mean Old World (Eric Clapton And Duane Allm)an
Rockin Daddy (Howlin Wolf)
Rollin And Tumblin (Cream)
Sleeping In The Ground (Blind Faith)
Spoonful (Cream)
Steppin Out (John Mayalls Bluesbreakers)

Martin Scorsese - J.B. Lenior








Dont Dog Your Woman
Dont Touch My Head
Eisenhower Blues
Five Years
Give Me One More Shot
Good Looking Woman
If You Love Me
Korea Blues
Low Down Dirty Shame
Mama What about Your Daughter
Mama Talk To Your Daughter
Natural Man
Sitting Down Thinking
Voodoo Boogie
When I am Drinking

Martin Scorsese - Jimi Hendrix








Blue Window
Blue Window (Edit)
Come On (Let The Good Times Roll)
Country Blues
Georgia Blues
Hear My Train A Comin
Its Too Bad
Midnight Lightning
My Friend
Red House
Voodoo Chile

Martin Scorsese - keb Mo








A Letter To Tracy
Am I Wrong
Come On In My Kitchen
Crapped Out Again
Dangerous Mood
Dirty Low Down And Bad
Dont Try To Explain
Every Morning
Henry
Im On Your Side
It Hurts Me Too
Love Blues
Love In Vain
Peace Of Mind
Perpetual Blues Machine
Soon As I Get Paid

Martin Scorsese - Muddy Waters








(Im Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
Burying Ground Blues
Country Blues Number One
Got My Mojo Working
I Cant Be Satisfied
I Just Want To Make Love To You
Long Distance Call
Louisiana Blues
Mannish Boy
Rock Me
Rollin & Tumblin Part One
Rollin Stone
The Blues Had A Baby And They Named It Rock And Roll
Trouble No More
You Cant Lose What You Aint Never Had
You Shook Me

Martin Scorsese - Robert Johnson








32-20 Blues
Come on in My Kitchen
Cross Road Blues
From Four Until Late
Hellhound on My Trail
Hot Tamales
I Believe Ill Dust My Broom
Kind Hearted Woman Blues
Last Fair Deal Gone Down
Love in Vain
Malted Milk
Ramblin on My Mind
Stop Breakin Down Blues
Sweet Home Chicago
Traveling Riverside Blues
Walkin Blues

Martin Scorsese - Son House








Death Letter
Dry Spell Blues
Empire State Express
Grinnin In Your Face
John The Revelator
Levee Camp Blues
Levee Camp Moann
My Black Mama
Pearline
Pony Blues
Preachin Blues
Preachin Bluess
Special Rider Blues
Walking Blues

Martin Scorsese - Taj Mahal








Aint That A Lot Of Love
Bound To Love Me Some (Live)
Checkin Up On My Baby
Chevrolet
Corrina
Dust My Broom
Fishin Blues
Freight Train (Live)
Going Up To The Country
Leaving Trunk
Queen Bee
She Caught The Katy (And Left Me A Mule To Ride)
Six Days On The Road
Statesboro Blues
Youre Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond

Martin Scorsese - The Allman Brothers








Cant Lose What You Never Had
Dimples (live)
Done Somebody Wrong (Live)
Hoochie Coochie Man
Im Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town (Edit)
Im Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town (Live)
Need Your Love So Bad
One Way Out (Live)
Statesboro Blues (Live)
Stormy Monday (Live)
Troubleno More
You Dont Love Me (Edit)
You Dont Love Me (Live)








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