Condition: In Used but Very Good condition. Front cover has wear along the edges. Back cover has wear along the edges, small circular stain and part of store sticker. Inner cover has some minor staining along the sides including one on the center top edge that continues in a exponentially decreased visibility for the fist 20 pages. Front page also has an old stamp for a store. Page 129 has a folded top corner. Page 180 and 181 have some minor dirt spots on the top center of the page. This can be seem in a more minor and/or subtle matter on Page 202 and 203 and Page 38. All other pages clean, with no writing, page rips, or staining. See photos for item condition.

Includes lyrics and sheet music for guitar and piano. Also includes a few essays about the blues and how the music is played.

From Back Cover:

Includes

COUNTRY BLUES SONGBOOK
The shellac of the 20's, 30's and 40's caught the fleeting moment, the spirit of the times; the raunchy ragtime, barrelhouse boogie and the country blues. Some of those records will never be replaced. Some, never will be heard again. Many of those songs are here in printed form for the first time, as an only monument to a pristine era never to happen again. This is a valued collection of the great country blues - as sung and played by the greatest of the country bluesmen - as collected and annotated by Stefan Grossman, Hal Grossman and Stephen Calt:
Aberdeen Mississippi Blues/Booker White
'Bout A Spoonful/Mance Lipscomb 

Alabama Blues/Robert Wilkins
Ain't You Sorry?/Mance Lipscomb 

All Night Long/Skip James 

At Home Blues/Sam "Lightnin' "Hopkins 

Avalon Blues/Mississippi John Hurt 

Awful Fix Blues/Buddy Boy Hawkins 

Banty Rooster Blues/Charlie Patton 

Beer Drinkin' Women/B.K. Turner
Big Chief Blues/Furry Lewis 

Big Leg Blues/Mississippi John Hurt 

Bird Nest Bound/Charlie Patton 

Bob McKinney/Henry Thomas
Bud Russell Blues/Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins 

Bull Frog Blues/William Harris 

Candy Man Blues/Mississippi John Hurt 

Casey Jones/Furry Lewis 

Catfish Blues/Skip James 

Charlie James/Mance Lipscomb 

Coffee Blues/Mississippi John Hurt 

Corinne, Corinna/Mississippi John Hurt

County Farm Blues/Son House
Crossroad Blues/Robert Johnson 

Crow Jane/Skip James
Cypress Grove Blues/Skip James 

Depot Blues/Son House
Devil Got My Woman/Skip James 

Devil in the Lion's Den/Sam Collins 

Dough Roller Blues/Joe Callicott 

Down the Dirt Road/Charlie Patton 

Drunken Spree/Skip James 

Dry Well Blues/Charlie Patton 

Fallin' Down Blues/Robert Wilkins 

Future Blues/Willie Brown 

Get Away Blues/Robert Wilkins 

Hambone Blues/Ed Bell
Hammer Blues/Charlie Patton
Hell Hound On My Trail/Robert Johnson 

Hot Jelly Roll Blues/George Carter 

How Long Buck/Skip James
I'm Satisfied/Mississippi John Hurt 

Jinx Blues/Son House
Knocking Down Windows/Mance Lipscomb 

Long Train Blues/Robert Wilkins 

Married Woman Blues/Joe Calli