tracks 17 bass Ransom Knowling
tracks 2, 4, 15, 18 bass Unknown Artist
tracks 13 drums Sidney Catlett
tracks 5 drums Unknown Artist
tracks 17 ensemble Big Joe And His Rhythm
tracks 1, 12 guitar Charley Jordan
tracks 17 guitar Joe McCoy
tracks 3, 7, 9 guitar Kokomo Arnold
tracks 11, 15 guitar Lonnie Johnson
tracks 16 guitar Peetie Wheatstraw
tracks 2, 4, 18 guitar Unknown Artist
tracks 17 mandolin Charlie McCoy
tracks 13 piano Lil Hardin-Armstrong
tracks 7, 14 piano Peetie Wheatstraw
tracks 10 piano [possibly] Peetie Wheatstraw
tracks 5 piano [probably] Henry Brown
producer Tony Russell
remastered by John R. T. Davies
tracks 5 trombone [possibly] Ike Rodgers
tracks 13 trumpet Jonah Jones
tracks 7 vocals Alice Moore
tracks 13 vocals Peetie Wheatstraw
tracks 17 vocals Peetie Wheatstraw's Buddy
tracks 14 vocals, guitar Charley Jordan
tracks 10 vocals, guitar Kokomo Arnold
tracks 5, 6 vocals, guitar Peetie Wheatstraw
tracks 16 vocals, piano Buck McFarland
tracks 1 to 4, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15, 18 vocals, piano Peetie Wheatstraw
tracks 17 washboard Washboard Sam
Phonographic Copyright (p) Orbis Publishing Ltd.
Copyright (c) Orbis Publishing Ltd.
Made By CD Systems
Issue 82 of the UK version of The Blues Collection
℗ & © Orbis Publishing Ltd, 1996.
Made in EC (according to front of label)
Made in U.K.. (according to hub matrix info)

Recorded between 1931 and 1942
Track 1, 12: Chicago, 28 September 1931;
Track 2, 4 : Chicago, 26 March 1937;
Track 3: New York, 20 February 1936;
Track 5: Chicago, 24 August 1934;
Track 6: New York, 15 March 1932;
Track 7: Chicago, 22 May 1936;
Track 8: Chicago, 18 August 1934;
Track 9: Chicago, 30 March 1937;
Track 10: Chicago, 9 July 1936;
Track 11, 15: New York, 1 April 1938;
Track 13: New York, 28 August 1940;
Track 14: Chicago, 10 September 1934;
Track 15: New York, 20 February 1936;
Track 16: Chicago, 18 July 1935;
Track 17: Chicago, 30 January 1942;
Track 18 Chicago, 2 November 1937.
Rights Society: MCPS
SPARS Code: ADD
Matrix / Runout: BLUNC082 MADE IN U.K. BY CD-SYSTEMS 05769 (Variant 1)
Matrix / Runout: BLUNC082 MADE IN THE U.K. BY CD-SYSTEM 05892 (Variant 2)