Blues

This B.B. "best-of' takes you all the way back: you'll hear his first hit, the 1951 #1 3 O'Clock Blues, plus 19 other early classics. Those include his R&B Top 10s Woke Up This Morning; Please Hurry Home; You Know I Love You; Please Love Me; You Upset Me...

This album-a 1998 Rolling Stone Top 25 all-time blues title-features the guitar and vocal style that helped define Delta blues, generations before it moved north to Chicago. Includes Death Letter; Preachin' Blues; Levee Camp Moan; Downhearted Blues, and...

This album, incredibly, is only the 2nd release blues veteran Little Buster has ever recorded - it's a British reissue of his Jubilee material, feat. great soul/blues played by his back up band the Soul Brothers1. Jealous Love 2. Down in Virginia 3. Just...

This album was Tony Joe White's second for Warner Brothers, produced by Tom Dowd & Jerry Wexler at Muscle Shoals Sound, Alabama and featuring the legendary 'Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section'. 'The Train I'm On' is a stone classic. This is one of "The Swamp...

This album showcases Mark Hummel's Chicago-influenced harp playing on some excellent original tunes, and he reinterprets some classics by Johnny Otis, Jimmy Rogers and Charles Brown. This set is classic Mark Hummel and features West Coast giants Ron...

This album presents what seem to be the two sides of singer Cat-Iron's repertoire: that of the blues musician and that of the converted Christian. As Frederic Ramsey, Jr.. writes, "Cat-Iron might be singing religion, but he [plays] it with the heart of a...

This album presents the distinctive blues born from the hardships of life-especially African-American life-in northern Mississippi. In addition to their music, this collection includes the men's speech: J. D. Short, who died shortly after this recording...

This album presents Stefan playing a variety of country blues and original tunes played solo as well as with friends, i.e. Steve Katz, Danny Kalb, Duck Baker and Tokio Uchida. This is an enhanced CD. a PDF tab/music booklet is included that includes most...

This album presents a variety of blues, and in Brownie McGhee's singing are echoes of work and dance songs, as well as spirituals. Brownie himself once said, "I want to make music the way I know is real," and the blues on this collection exemplify his...

This album opens with a fantastic doo-wop version of the first number 1 Hillbilly- Honky Tonk hit ever "Pistol Packing Mama" by the Hurricanes, followed by Long John Hunter's rendition of Grandpa Jones classic Old Rattler before moving to "A Knockin' At...

This album is the product of a friendship that developed more than three decades ago between two men who, although they grew up near the same Mississippi Delta town of Tchula, never met until they began living in Chicago. Harmonica/vocalist Lester...

This album is a collection of classic recording from the 1920s and 30s featuring many all-time great performances of early American traditional music. These two volumes are a fascinating overview of the American past.1. I Know His Blodd Can Make Me Whole...