Wienerworld presents a new box set belonging to of their essential series Down Home Blues The box includes three cd’s with twenty-nine artists who contributed to the development of blues in the south eastern states The recordings cover a period of approximately twenty years, from 1940 to 1960, with eighty-three songs, all them perfectly and carefully remastered with a professional staff of sound engineers who have produced a spectacular sound Some of the songs have been gathered thanks to the valuable help of blues record collectors from both sides of the Atlantic, who have given their contribution and make possible to be heard for the first time This deluxe digi-pack box also includes a seventy-eight-page book by blues historian Chris Bentley, together with priceless photographs of that time as well as some of the musicians featured in this collection, most of them rather unknown now Down Home Blues: Miami, Atlanta & The Southeastern States also pays homage to those recording companies who bet their money to record from the most genuine country blues to the early sounds of electrified blues A superb collection with impressive dark bluesmen like Frank Edwards born in Washington, Georgia in 1909 who published many recordings for Regal and OKeh labels and died at ninety-three years old in Greenville, South Carolina, Curley Weaver who began to record in 1928 until 1949, David Wylie who lived and recorded in Atlanta until his death in 1985, Poor Jim coming from North Carolina who is only known for publishing a couple of records for Cam And Free Records, John Lee born in Alabama in 1915 well known for his songs Baby Please Don’t Go and Slappin’ The Boogie, Marylin Scott, the only woman in this collection, with unknown birth and death dates but with a productive career with more than ten albums released, Rudy Greene who was born in 1926 and during his forty-year career published more than twelve records, Richard Armstrong who possibly only released one recording or John Bullard a Florida bluesman who completes the first CD and the list continues to complete the twenty-nine names, many of them not familiar to the blues lover The rest of musicians included are Frank Edwards, John Ferguson, Ray Charles, Earl Hooker, Charlie Harding, Willie Baker, Jerry McCain, Tommy Malone, Bill Reese, Jimmy Wilson, Eddie Hope, Robert Willis, Shorty Long, Sonny Boy Williams, Crook Jr, Clifford King, Dan Harrison, Johnny Shaw, Leroy Dallas, Danny Boy Thomas and Little Willie Brown This is a magnificent valuable three albums set that should not go unnoticed for most blues fans, because it is a testimonial of an important part of the history and development of postwar blues in one of the really rich blues music areas but, at the same time, not very popular among blues lovers