Joe McCoy

About the artist

Kansas Joe McCoy (May 11, 1905 – January 28, 1950) was a Delta blues musician and songwriter. McCoy played music under a variety of stage names but is best known as "Kansas Joe McCoy". Born in Raymond, Mississippi, he was the older brother of the blues accompanist Papa Charlie McCoy. As a young man, McCoy was drawn to the music scene in Memphis, Tennessee where he played guitar and sang vocals during the 1920s. He teamed up with future wife Lizzie Douglas

Top songs

  1. Why Don't You Do Right
  2. Evil Devil Woman Blues
  3. Hey Hey Loretta
  4. Why Don't You Do Right (feat. Peggy Lee)
  5. When The Levee Breaks
  6. Pile Driver Blues
  7. You Know You Done Me Wrong
  8. Look Who's Coming Down The Road
  9. Please Baby
  10. Hey Loretta
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  1. Meat Cutter Blues
  2. Too much going on
  3. Weed Smoker's Dream
  4. Why Don't You Do Right?
  5. If You Take Me Back
  6. What's The Matter With You?
  7. Let's Try It Again
  8. Dry Bones in the Valley
  9. Meat Cutter Blues (Alternate Take)
  10. Going Back Home Blues
  11. The World Is a Hard Place to Live In
  12. I'm Through With You
  13. One in a Hundred
  14. One More Greasing
  15. Joliet Bound
  16. Well, Well
  17. Highway 61
  18. Don't Need No Doctor When I Come To Die
  19. Your Money Can't Buy Me
  20. When I Said Goodbye
  21. Dizzy Little Girl
  22. I'm Going Back Home
  23. The Prodigal's Return
  24. Something Gonna Happen to You
  25. Oh Red's Twin Brother
  26. Twenty Minutes to Hell
  27. I'll Get You Off My Mind
  28. I Love You Baby
  29. If I Be Lifted Up
  30. Too Much Goin' On
  31. Let's Go to Town
  32. We Can't Agree
  33. Hey, Hey Loretta
  34. I'm Alright Now
  35. Who Framed Roger Rabbit - Why Don't You Do Right (3:06)
  36. Main Key to Heaven
  37. That Great Love
  38. It Ain't No Lie
  39. That Will Be Alright
  40. What Will I Do?
  41. Strangers Blues
  42. Who Framed Roger Rabbit - Why Don't You Do Right (perf. by Amy Irving) (3:06)
  43. Pile Drivin' Blues
  44. It Ain't o Lie
  45. When you said goodbye
  46. I Called You This Morning
  47. Baltimore Blues
  48. I'm Wild About Stuff
  49. When The Levee Breads
  50. I Got To Have A Little More
  51. Come over and see me
  52. Got To Go Blues
  53. Greyhound Blues
  54. Well Well
  55. Well Well (J. McCoy)
  56. pile_driver_blues
  57. Weed Smokers Dream
  58. Sleeping By Myself
  59. My Wash Woman's Gone
  60. She put me outdoors
  61. Evil Devil Woman
  62. Going Back Home Blues 1934
  63. My Babe My Babe
  64. Don't want no woman
  65. Shake Mattie
  66. Why Don't You Do Alright
  67. When The Levee Breaks - Big Joe Williams
  68. What's the Matter With You
  69. give It to Me In My Hand
  70. She Wouldn't Give Me None
  71. Pile drivin' blues (feat. Memphis Minnie)
  72. be bop baby
  73. Joe McCoy / Weed Smoker's Dream
  74. What Will I Do
  75. Look Who's Coming Down On The Road
  76. Irish Blessing
  77. Going Back Home Blues - 1934
  78. You Got To Move
  79. The Weed Smoker's Dream (Why Don't You Do Right)
  80. Too Nuch Goin' On
  81. Why Don't You Do Right (arr. B. Cunliffe)
  82. I'm Alright
  83. The Prodigal's Return - The Things I Usta Do I Don't Do No More
  84. Let`s Go to Town
  85. Why Don't You Do Right (perf. by Amy Irving)
  86. Evil Woman Blues
  87. Something's gonna Happen to You
  88. I never told a lie
  89. Sleeping By Myself (Harmon Ray, vcl.)
  90. Bessie Lee Blues

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