Blues

EU-only two CD collection. Percy Mayfield is commonly described as 'The Poet Laureate of the Blues', by contemporary writers and historians and he enjoyed a string of hits on the Los Angeles based, Specialty label during the early '50s and then enjoyed a...

EU-only two CD collection. During the early 1970s, Roy Buchanan was feted as the greatest rock guitarist the world had ever known. This superb CD from Jasmine takes a step back into his early career where he spent many years scuffling as a guitar slinger...

EU-only two CD collection from the blues great. This set contains the A and B side of every 78 and 45 released in the period 1952 to 1962. It features original releases from Trumpet, Meteor, Flair, Checker, Modern, Chief, Vee Jay, Fire and Enjoy. The...

EU-only two CD collection from one of the greatest and most popular of R&B singers whose career stretched from the 1930s to the 1980s. Here we concentrate on his singles he released between 1951 and 1960. 48 tracks with 20 chart hits and a string of...

EU-only release. Champion Jack Dupree was one of the most popular, authentic blues artists to tour the UK and Europe on a regular basis beginning in the late 1950s. In fact he became so regular he moved to Halifax and then later lived in Germany and...

EU-only release, a long overdue reissue of 52 tracks recorded by the Chicago based Blues singer, songwriter, and pianist. Features the original recordings of his three best known hits: "Third Degree", "24 Hours" and "Five Long Years" which is now...

EU-only four CD set that features 100 songs by the blues' biggest names from the genre's golden period of 1920-1962. This set contains the artists and songs that changed the musical landscape forever and influenced almost everything that followed. This...

EU-only digitally re-mastered two CD collection. Above all others, it was the great Muddy Waters who linked the country blues of his native Mississippi Delta with the urban blues that were born in Chicago. Waters bought his first electric guitar in 1944...

EU-only digitally remastered collection. A major figure in West Coast blues, the legendary Lowell Fulson had talent for making traditionalist blues more than a simple 12--bar redundancy. He took the smooth, jazz--tinged jump--blues of Texas to...

EU-only collection. The death of Allen Toussaint on November 15th 2015 probably brings to a close the greatest period of musical history in New Orleans. For over 50 years he produced, played on and wrote the greatest volume of classic R&B you could...

EU-only collection. The blues in Chicago and indeed the blues on Chess Records, Chicago's top blues label, had by the late 1950s been dominated by just a handful of artists but by 1957 that would change as a new generation of blues men were getting a...

EU-only collection. Sonny Boy Williamson was an enigma in the modern blues world of the early 1960s, a real true example of the travelling blues man who rambled and hoboed across America playing music, gambling, womanizing and drinking heavily along the...