Some pre-war blues

I read about the Pre-War Blues blog, aka “Honey Where You Been So Long”, http://prewarblues.org/ a long time ago, but only just got around to downloading a few tracks at random. I am never going to be a hardcore blues fanatic, and this is the first time I have heard any really old, acoustic blues, but the tracks by Kid Bailey (“Mississippi Bottom” and “Rowdy Blues”) are great, and Willie Brown’s “M&O Blues” thrilling in its austerity. By accident (it was posted instead of another track by Brown) there is an amazing song “Make Me Know It” by Evelyn Preer, better known as a film actress. Less sure of Blind Will Dukes’ “Dead Shrimp Blues”, apparently recorded in the 1970s, sounds a bit contrived.