I Can't Be Satisfied: Early American Women Blues Singers, Vol. 1: Country

1	Lonesome Day Blues / Ruby Glaze
2	Papa's Got Your Bath Water On / Hattie Hart
3	Black Hand Blues / Hattie Hudson
4	Going Away Blues / Lottie Kimbrough
5	Mind Reader Blues / Bertha Lee
6	Outdoor Blues / Memphis Minnie
7	That Lonesome Rave / Bertha Henderson
8	I Ain't Givin' Nobody None / Mae Glover
9	School Girl Blues / Rosie Mae Moore
10	Dead Drunk Blues / Lillian Miller
11	My Low Down Brown / Lizzie Washington
12	My Back to the Wall / Irene Scruggs
13	Eagles on a Half / Geeshie Wiley
14	Penitentiary / Bessie Tucker
15	Rolling Log Blues / Lottie Kimbrough
16	State of Tennessee Blues / Jennie Clayton
17	Shake It Daddy / Mae Glover
18	Twelve Pound Daddy / Pearl Dickson
19	The Voice of the Blues / Irene Scruggs
20	Be My Kid Blues / Elizabeth Johnson
21	Pick Poor Robin Clean / Geeshie Wiley
22	Yellow Bee / Bertha Lee
23	Down the Big Road Blues / Mattie Delaney

All Music Guide

Required listening, I Can't Be Satisfied, Vol. 1 is the "Country" volume in a two-part series of early American blueswomen (Volume 2 is the "Town" volume). It is an absolutely essential compilation of early country blueswomen, many of whom appear on virtually no other recordings. This definitive archival collection of underdocumented, classic blueswomen and the better known bluesmen who performed with them includes such artists as Ruby Glaze backed by husband Blind Willie McTell and Hattie Hart who performs here with the Memphis Jug Band. Also heard are the only two available tracks by the intense Bertha Lee (Charlie Patton's wife during the last years of his life), "Yellow Bee" and "Mind Reader Blues." The sound quality of these 1920s recordings varies from mild, surface noise to the intense hiss of Geeshie Wiley's "Eagles on a Half," but some listeners will find that the power and rarity of this music outweighs such aesthetic inconveniences. If you want to hear incredible, tough women sing country-blues, get this. Joslyn Layne