(PR) XM, the nation’s leading satellite radio service, Starbucks Entertainment and Concord Music Group, today announced plans to release a compilation CD featuring music from XM’s popular blues channel on May 15. The Bluesville CD will feature songs from influential blues greats Willie Dixon and Memphis Slim, Lightnin’ Hopkins and Sonny Terry, Odetta, Roosevelt Sykes, Mildred Anderson, Furry Lewis and many other artists heard on XM’s Bluesville channel (XM 74). Co-released by XM, Concord Music Group and Starbucks Entertainment, the Bluesville disc will be available exclusively at Starbucks Company-operated locations in the U.S. and Canada and online at http://www.starbucks.com/hearmusic beginning May 15, 2007.
Bluesville is an impressive collection of unique blues tracks selected to provide listeners a flavor for the music heard 24-hours a day on XM’s Bluesville channel (XM 74), home to the mother of all American music. The CD features "Sitting and Crying the Blues," by Willie Dixon and Memphis Slim, "Got to Move Your Baby," by Lightnin’ Hopkins with Sonny Terry, "Whistling Pines," by Big Joe Williams and "When My Baby Left Me," by Furry Lewis.
Complete Bluesville Track Listing:
1. I’ll Play the Blues for You – Albert King
2. Satellite Baby – Roosevelt Sykes
3. Baby How Long – Sunnyland Slim
4. Don’t Deceive Me (Please Don’t Go) – Mildred Anderson
5. Mean Old Frisco – Jimmy Witherspoon & Kenny Burrell
6. I’ve Been Treated Wrong – Jimmy Witherspoon & T-Bone Walker
7. Hole in the Wall – Floyd Dixon
8. The Blues Never Die – Otis Spann
9. Hard, Oh Lord – Odetta
10. Got to Move Your Baby – Lightnin’ Hopkins with Sonny Terry
11. My Baby Left Me – Furry Lewis
12. Sittin’ and Cryin’ the Blues – Willie Dixon with Memphis Slim
13. If That Ain’t a Reason (for Your Woman to Leave You) – Little Milton
14. Whistling Pines – Big Joe Williams
15. Yesterday is Gone – Jimmy McCracklin
