This CD contains the best of the blues coming out of the mid-West in the late Forties. 26 tracks from The Four Jumps Of Jive, Sippie Wallace with Albert Ammons & His Rhythm Kings, T-Bone Walker, Dinah Washington, Julia Lee, Ammons & His Piano & Rhythm Kings with Mildred Anderson, Myra Taylor, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson & His Orchestra, Ammons Sextet with Earl Coleman, Big Bill Broonzy & His Fat Four, and St. Louis Jimmy.