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Frank Stokes

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Frank Stokes (January 1, 1888 – September 12, 1955) was a blues musician who is considered by many musicologists to be the father of the Memphis blues guitar style. He was born in Shelby County, Tennessee, in South Memphis' largest vicinity Whitehaven, located two miles north of the Mississippi line. He was raised by his stepfather in Tutwiler, Mississippi, after the death of his parents. Stokes learned to play guitar as a youth in Tutwiler, and

Top songs

  1. Downtown Blues
  2. I Got Mine
  3. How Long
  4. What's The Matter Blues
  5. Memphis Rounders Blues
  6. Take Me Back
  7. Mistreatin' Blues
  8. Right Now Blues
  9. It Won't Be Long Now
  10. Chicken You Can Roost Behind the Moon
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  1. 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do, Pt. 1
  2. I'm Going Away Blues
  3. Frank Stokes' Dream
  4. Bedtime Blues
  5. You Shall
  6. Nehi Mamma Blues
  7. Old Sometime Blues
  8. Stomp That Thing
  9. Mr. Crump Don't Like It
  10. Sweet to Mama
  11. South Memphis Blues
  12. Bunker Hill Blues
  13. Nehi Mama
  14. It's a Good Thing
  15. Blues In "D"
  16. Downtown Blues (Take 1)
  17. It Won't Be Long Now (Take 1)
  18. Unnamed Blues
  19. Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do
  20. Downtown Blues (Take 2)
  21. Wasn't That Doggin' Me
  22. Nehi Mama Blues
  23. Beale Town Bound
  24. It's a Good Thing (Take 1)
  25. Frank Stoke's Dream
  26. Shiney Town Blues
  27. Jumpin on the Hill (Unissued)
  28. 'Taint Nobody's Business If I Do Part 2
  29. It Won't Be Long Now (Take 2)
  30. Frank Stokes/Frank Stokes' Dream
  31. Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do - Part 2 (Part 1 Unissued)
  32. Taint Nobody's Business If I Do - Part 1
  33. 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do - Part II
  34. Jumpin on the Hill
  35. Last Go Round
  36. Tain't Nobody's Buisness If I Do - Part 2 (Take 1 Unissued)
  37. 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do Part.2
  38. Mr
  39. Taint Nobody's Business If I Do - Part 2 (Take 1)
  40. Taint Nobody's Business If I Do - Part 2 (Take 2)
  41. Chicken You Can Roast Behind The Moon
  42. 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do
  43. 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do (Part 1) - Remastered 2002
  44. 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do - Pt. 1
  45. Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do - Part 2 (Take 1)
  46. Mr Crump Don'T Like It
  47. Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do, Pt. 2
  48. 'Taint Nobody's Business If I Do - Part 1
  49. Southern Rag
  50. Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do - Part 1
  51. 'Tain'T Nobody'S Business If I Do Part 2
  52. Labor Blues
  53. Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do - Part 2 (Take 1 Unissued)
  54. 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do (Part 1)
  55. 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do - Part 2
  56. Tain't Nobody's Buisness If I Do, Pt. 1
  57. What's the Matter Blues (Alternate Take)
  58. 'Taint Nobody's Business If I Do - Part 2 (Take 1)
  59. Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do Part 2
  60. Old Sometimes Blues
  61. Devil in the Woodpile
  62. It Won't Be Long (Take 1)
  63. It Won't Be Long Now (Alternate Take)
  64. Downtown Blues (Alternate Take)
  65. Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do, Pt. 2 (Take 1) [#]
  66. 'T Ain't Nobody's Business If I do
  67. It Won't Be Long (Take 2)
  68. 'T Ain't Nobody's Business If I do - Part 2
  69. 'Taint Nobody's Business If I Do - Part 2 (Take 2)
  70. 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do, Pt. 2
  71. 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do—Part 1
  72. Downtown Blues -tk1
  73. Jumpin' on the Hill [#]
  74. Downtown Blues -tk2
  75. Blues In D
  76. Twelve Pound Daddy
  77. 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do - Part 2 (Take 1)
  78. It Won't Be Long -tk2
  79. Jazzin' the Blues
  80. How Long Blues
  81. 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do Part 1
  82. Frank Stokes Dream
  83. Creeper's Blues
  84. Black Gypsy Blues
  85. It Won't Be Long -tk1
  86. Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do, Pt. 2 (Take 1)
  87. 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do Part 2 -tk1
  88. 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do Part 2 -tk2
  89. Jumpin' On the Hill
  90. I Will Turn Your Money Green

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