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The Way I Feel
The Best of Roosevelt Sykes & Lee Green
Classic Recordings of the 1920s and 30s

Yazoo 2066; Ordering Information

The Way I Feel features two pioneer piano players of the 1920s at the peak of their powers. Roosevelt Sykes was one of the greatest piano players of all time, displaying a mastery of performing styles from barrelhouse to stride, from boogie woogie to blues. Lee "Porkchop" Green was one of the finest St. Louis stylists, and the greatest single influence on Sykes.
ROOSEVELT SYKES:

1. Roosevelt's Blues
2. The Way I Feel
3. "44" Blues
4. Ten And Four Blues
5. All My Money Gone Blues
6. Lost All I Had Blues
7. Henry Ford Blues
8. Poor Boy Blues

LEE GREEN:

9. Train Number 44
10. Death Alley Blues

11. All My Money Gone
12. Death Bell Blues
13. Maltese Cat
14. Memphis Fives
15. Number 44 Blues
16. The Way I Feel

ROOSEVELT SYKES:

17. 32 - 20 Blues
18. Hard Luck Man Blues
19. Give Me Your Change
20. Kelly's Special
21. No Settled Mind Blues
22. Kelly's 44 Blues
23. You So Dumb
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