On this day in music history:

The Very Best of Badfinger by Badfinger (2000)

Screamin’ and Hollerin’ the Blues by Charley Patton (2001)

The Very Best of Badfinger

Album by Badfinger,

released October 23, 2000.

Track list: No Matter What; Day After Day; Baby Blue; Name of the Game; Maybe Tomorrow; Come and Get It; Rock of All Ages; Carry on Til Tomorrow; Midnight Caller; We’re for the Dark; I’ll Be the One; Without You; I’d Die Babe; It’s Over; When I Say; Dennis; Lonely You; Love Time; Meanwhile Back at the Ranch/Should I Smoke.

Screamin’ and Hollerin’ the Blues

Album boxset by Charley Patton,

released October 23, 2001.

Track list: Pony Blues; A Spoonful Blues; Down The Dirt Road Blues; Prayer Of Death Part 1; Prayer Of Death Part 2; Screamin’ And Hollerin’ The Blues; Banty Rooster Blues; Tom Rushen Blues; It Won’t Be Long; Shake It And Break It (But Don’t Let It Fall Mama); Pea Vine Blues; Mississippi Boweavil Blues; Lord I’m Discouraged; I’m Goin’ Home; Snatch It And Grab It (Walter “Buddy Boy” Hawkins); A Rag Blues (Walter “Buddy Boy” Hawkins); How Come Mama Blues (Walter “Buddy Boy” Hawkins); Voice Throwin’ Blues (Walter “Buddy Boy” Hawkins); Hammer Blues (take 1; uniss.); I Shall Not Be Moved (take 1; uniss.); High Water Everywhere; Part I; High Water Everywhere; Part II; I Shall Not Be Moved; Rattlesnake Blues; Going To Move To Alabama; Hammer Blues (take 2); Joe Kirby; Frankie And Albert; Devil Sent The Rain Blues; Magnolia Blues; Running Wild Blues; Some Happy Day; Mean Black Moan; Green River Blues; That’s My Man (Edith North Johnson); Honey Dripper Blues No. 2 (Edith North Johnson); Eight Hour Woman (Edith North Johnson); Nickel’s Worth Of Liver Blues No. 2 (Edith North Johnson); Some These Days I’ll Be Gone (take 1; uniss.); Elder Greene Blues (take 2; uniss.); Jim Lee; Part I; Jim Lee; Part II; Mean Black Cat Blues; Jesus Is A Dying-Bed Maker; Elder Greene Blues (take 1); When Your Way Gets Dark; Some These Days I’ll Be Gone (take 2); Heart Like Railroad Steel; Circle Round The Moon; You’re Gonna Need Somebody When You Die; Be True Be True Blues (Henry ‘Son’ Sims); Farrell Blues (Henry “Son” Sims); Tell Me Man Blues (Henry “Son” Sims); Come Back Corrina (Henry “Son” Sims); Some Summer Day; Bird Nest Bound; Future Blues (Willie Brown); M&O Blues (Willie Brown); Walkin’ Blues (Son House); My Black Mama; Part I (Son House); My Black Mama; Part II (Son House); Preachin’ The Blues; Part I (Son House); Preachin’ The Blues; Part II (Son House); Dry Spell Blues Part I (Son House); Dry Spell Blues Part II (Son House); All Night Long Blues (Louise Johnson); On The Wall (Louise Johnson); All Night Long Blues; uniss. (Louise Johnson); By The Moon And Stars (Louise Johnson); Long Ways From Home (Louise Johnson); Dry Well Blues; Moon Going Down; We All Gonna Face The Rising Sun (Delta Big Four); Moaner Let’s Go Down In The Valley (Delta Big Four); Jesus Got His Arms Around Me (Delta Big Four); God Won’t Forsake His Own (Delta Big Four); I’ll Be Here (Delta Big Four); Where Was Eve Sleeping? (Delta Big Four); I Know My Time Ain’t Long (Delta Big Four); Watch And Pray (Delta Big Four); Paramount Test 1; 4/19/30 headlines (HC Speir); Paramount Test 2; 4/12/30 headlines (HC Speir); High Sheriff Blues; Stone Pony Blues; Jersey Bull Blues; Hang It On The Wall; 34 Blues; Love My Stuff; Poor Me; Revenue Man Blues; Troubled Bout My Mother; Oh Death; Yellow Bee (Bertha Lee); Mind Reader Blues (Bertha Lee); Booze And Blues (Ma Rainey); The Crowing Rooster (Walter Rhodes); I Will Turn Your Money Green (Furry Lewis); Ham Hound Crave (Rube Lacy); Bye Bye Blues (Tommy Johnson); Maggie Campbell (Tommy Johnson); Big Road Blues (Tommy Johnson); Kansas City Blues (William Harris); Rowdy Blues (Kid Bailey); Mississippi Bottom Blues (Kid Bailey); Cold Woman Blues (Blind Joe Reynolds); Sitting On Top Of The World (Mississippi Sheiks); Just A Spoonful (Charley Jordan); Banty Rooster (Blind Pete And George Ryan); My Grey Pony (Big Joe Williams); Dark Road Blues (Willie Lofton Trio); Blues (unknown); Sic ‘Em Dogs On (Bukka White); Po’ Boy (Bukka White); Make Me A Pallet on the Floor (Willie Brown); County Farm Blues (Son House); Saddle My Pony (The Howlin’ Wolf); Forty Four (The Howlin’ Wolf); Too Close (Roebuck “Pops” Staples & Staple Singers); Howlin’ Wolf (interview); Booker Miller (interview); HC Speir (interview); Roebuck “Pops” (interview).