Title from album spine.

Charley Patton ; with various musicians.

Recorded 1929-1934.

Compact discs.

Accompanying pamphlet: The immortal Charlie Patton : notes / by Bernard Klatzko.

Album originally included book: Charley Patton / John Fahey. London : Studio Vista, 1970.

Contents of program notes bound in album: Masked marvel screams & hollers, does anybody hear? / Dick Spottswood -- Charley Patton : the conscience of the Delta / David Evans -- The Masked Marvel's Mississippi Delta / Paul D. Mitchell with Edward Komara -- The worlds of Charley Patton / Edward Komara -- Charley reconsidered, thirty-five years on / John Fahey -- Going away to a world unknown : song notes and transcriptions / Dick Spottswood -- Appendix. Thematic catalogue of the recorded music of Charley Patton ; Patton indexes ; Patton lists and notes ; "Blues in the round" ; Collecting Patton 78s : conversation with Gayle Dean Wardlow / Edward Komara.

Disc 1. June 1929: Pony blues ; A spoonful blues ; Down the dirt road blues ; Prayer of death ; Screamin' and hollerin' the blues ; Banty rooster blues ; Tom Rushen blues ; It won't be long ; Shake it and break it (But don't let it fall Mama) ; Pea vine blues ; Mississippi boweavil blues ; Lord I'm discouraged ; I'm goin' home (Charley Patton). Snatch it and grab it ; A rag blues ; How come Mama blues ; Voice throwin' blues (Walter Hawkins) -- Disc 2. October 1929: Hammer blues ; I shall not be moved ; High water everywhere ; Rattlesnake blues ; Going to move to Alabama ; Joe Kirby ; Frankie and Albert ; Devil sent the rain blues ; Magnolia blues ; Runnin' wild blues ; Some happy day ; Mean black moan ; Green River blues (Charley Patton). That's my man ; Honey dripper blues no. 2 ; Eight hour woman ; Nickel's worth of liver blues no. 2 (Edith North Johnson) -- Disc 3. October 1929: Some these days I'll be gone ; Elder Greene blues ; Jim Lee ; Mean black cat blues ; Jesus is a dying-bed maker ; When your way gets dark ; Heart like railroad steel ; Circle round the moon ; You're gonna need somebody when you die (Charley Patton). Be true be true blues ; Farrell blues ; Tell me man blues ; Come back Corrina (Henry Sims) -- Disc 4. June 1930: Some summer day ; Bird next bound (Charley Patton). Future blues ; M&O blues (Willie Brown). Walkin' blues ; My black mama ; Preachin' the blues ; Dry spell blues (Son House). All night

long blues ; On the wall ; By the moon and stars ; Long ways from home (Louise Johnson) --

Disc 5. May/June 1930, January/February 1934: Dry well blues ; Moon goingdown (Charley Patton). We all gonna face the rising sun ; Moaner let's go down in the valley ; Jesus got his arms around me ; God won't forsake his own ; I'll be here ; Where was Eve sleeping? ; I know my time ain't long ; Watch and pray (Delta Big Four). Paramount test (HC Speir). High sheriff blues ; Stone pony blues ; Jersey bull blues ; Hang it on the wall ; 34 blues ; Love my stuff ; Poor me ; Revenue man blues (Charley Patton). Troubled 'bout my mother ; Oh death (Patton and Lee). Yellow bee ; Mind reader blues (Bertha Lee) -- Disc 6. Charley's orbit, songs: Booze and blues (Ma Rainey) ; The crowing rooster (Walter Rhodes) ; I will turn your money green (Furry Lewis) ; Ham hound crave (Rube Lacy) ; Bye bye blues ; Maggie Campbell blues ; Big road blues (Tommy Johnson). Kansas City blues (William Harris) ; Rowdy blues ; Mississippi bottom blues (Kid Bailey) ; Cold woman blues (Blind Joe Reynolds) ; Sittin' on top of the world (Mississippi Sheiks) ; Just a spoonful (Charley Jordan) ; Banty rooster (Blind Pete and George Ryan) ; My grey pony (Big Joe Williams) ; Dark road blues (Willie Lofton Trio) ; Blues (unknown convict) ; Sic 'em dogs on ; Po' boy (Bukka White) ; Make me a pallet on the floor (Willie Brown) ; County farm blues (Son House) ; Saddle my pony ; Forty four (The Howlin' Wolf) ; Too close (Roebuck "Pops" Staples & Staple Singers) --

Disc 7. Charley's orbit, interviews: The Howlin' Wolf / interviewed by Pete Welding. Booker Miller / interviewed by Gayle Dean Wardlow. HC Speir / interviewed by Gayle Dean Wardlow. Roebuck "Pops" Staples / interviewed by Chris Strachwitz.