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"The Best MP3s in the Public Domain"

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    There are so many great songs in the public domain arena. We are ripping and specially mastering MP3 files as fast as we can. We hope you enjoy our selections.
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    Swing, Brother, Swing! by Billie Holiday
    jazz, swing/big band
    Magnificent. You know, after all these years, there still isn't a singer in the same ballpark as Billie Holiday. While she's influenced generations of performers,...  more »
    Flaming Youth by Duke Ellington
    jazz, standards, big band
    How hot do you want it? The great Duke Ellington, arguably the most prolific and innovative composer and bandleader in American history, shows what swing...  more »
    Choo Choo by Duke Ellington
    jazz, big band
    No other band has so singularly possessed more charm and sophistication than Duke Ellington and The Washingtonians. "Choo Choo" always paints my imagination with...  more »
    A Good Man is Hard to Find by Bessie Smith
    blues
    Bessie, girl, I can't explain what it is about you. When I listen to "A Good Man is Hard to Find," I find myself gazing...  more »
    Your Mother's Son-In-Law by Billie Holiday
    jazz, vocal
    I love me some Billie Holiday. One of the most creative, charming, and down right sexy voices in music - both past and present. "Your...  more »
    Adam And Eve In The Garden by Bogus Ben Covington
    blues, mississippi blues
    Listen up, I've got the real story of what happened at the Garden of Eden right here. Leave it to a trusty 78 RMP to...  more »
    Stack O' Lee Blues by Ma Rainey
    blues
    Yes indeed, Stack 'O Lee was a bad bad man. And let me tell you Ma Rainey, if I was your man, I would never...  more »
    Clarksdale Moan by Son House
    blues, delta
    Y'all every wondered where Robert Johnson got this chops from? Well it ain't from God. Son House is the touchstone artist of the delta blues,...  more »
    Stop Breakin' Down Blues by Robert Johnson
    blues, delta
    Now looky here, the grandaddy himself has shown back up with some new music titled, "Stop Breakin' Down Blues." You listen up, nobody in the...  more »
     
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    I'd Rather Be Dead and Buried by Bessie Smith
    blues
    Oh Bessie, please say it ain't so. Your swearin' off men for good? The moment I fall in love with your style, powerful yet oozing...  more »
    I'm Wild About That Thing by Bessie Smith
    blues, country blues, delta, dirty south
    Thanks Bessie for posting "I'm Wild About That Thing." You know uncle PD4U has been wild about you since I first heard your timeless music...  more »
    Come Back, Sweet Papa by Louis Armstrong
    jazz, standards
    Lord knows I can never grow tired listening to one of the greatest musicians to walk the earth. This is one of his earlier recordings...  more »
    Times Has Done Got Hard by King Solomon Hill
    country/folk, blues, folk blues
    King Solomon Hill, thanks for the post! Man some of these new indie rockers I have heard of late wish they could play with as...  more »
    Pile Driver Blues by Joe McCoy
    country/folk, blues
    A man can work his whole life and feel like nobody cares if he did or didn't. Coming from a man who did just...  more »
    Little Rock Blues by Pearl Dickson
    urban/R&B, country/folk, folk blues, acoustic blues
    The guitars really dance all over this classic piece of Americana I ripped from the "Memphis Masters" compilation that I recently re-discovered collecting dust over...  more »
    Doctor Medicine by South Memphis Jug Band
    country/folk, blues, folk blues, acoustic blues
    Appalachian style blues coming from one of my personal faves, the South Memphis Jug Band. This is basically an instrumental jam piece with heavy fiddle...  more »
    I'm Going Away Blues by Frank Stokes
    country/folk, blues, acoustic blues
    Frank Stokes is pulling at PD4U's heartstrings with "I'm Going Away Blues." Now this is what the blues is all about. Morose...  more »
    Poor Boy A Long Way From Home by Gus Cannon
    country/folk, blues, acoustic blues, folk blues
    Gus Cannon's story starts off the same way many other poor black aspiring musicians' stories started off. At the turn of the century in...  more »
    Billy Lyons And Stackolee by Furry Lewis
    country/folk, blues, folk blues, acoustic blues
    Better be careful when you gamble away the pay check, cause your women might come out shooting, and that, as you know, always ends in...  more »
    Last Chance Blues by Cannon's Jug Stompers
    country/folk, blues, folk blues, acoustic blues
    "Last Chance Blues" is a rather morose (even for a blues song) account of Cannon's struggles with his reckless woman, and how he must lug...  more »
     
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