Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

The latest addition to this website is our ‘Listen Here’ page – a page devoted to great music. There are several different genres we could have presented here, but for now we will start with traditional blues and possibly develop more pages somewhere down the road. I hope you enjoy it. If you’re interested in further study, there are plenty of terrific sites that specialize in promoting and selling this music. Just check out our ‘Links’ page under ‘Music’.

*   The songs here are for evaluation purposes only.
For legal reasons, they are not presented in their entirety and have been formatted for reduced sound quality. The Rosewater Foundation is a non-profit organization and doesn’t make any money from the selling of this material. We take no legal liability for its misuse. We strongly recommend that if you enjoy these artists, you support them by buying their albums. Thanks.

Barbeque Bob

Big Bill Broonzy

Blind Blake

Blind Boy Fuller

Blind Willie Johnson

Blind Willie McTell

Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry

Bukka White

 

Charley Jordan

 

Charlie Patton

 

Curley Weaver

 

David Van Ronk

 

Dr. Ross

 

Frank Stokes

 

Frankie 'Half Pint' Jaxon

 

Georgia Tom

 

 

Hattie Hart

Henry Thomas

Jesse Fuller

Josh White

Leroy Carr

 

Lightnin' Hopkins

 

Lonnie Johnson

 

Lottie Kimbrough

 

Mance Lipscomb

 

Memphis Minnie

 

Mississippi John Hurt

 

Pink Anderson

 

Professor Longhair

 

Rev. Gary Davis

 

Robert Johnson

 

Robert Wilkins

 

Roosevelt Sykes

 

Sam Chatmon

 


Sam Collins

 

Scrapper Blackwell

 

Skip James

 

Sleepy John Estes

 

Speckled Red

Tampa Red

Various Artists

Willie Dixon