Blues

An electric whiz with a sweet slide game... A gang of fantastic acoustic and electric leads... His slide work on resonator is particularly noteworthy.1. DON'T HOLD BACK 2. THE DEEP AND THE DIRTY 3. BEYOND THE SKY 4. UNDERTOW 5. JUST LIKE NEW 6. ELYSIAN...

An eighteen-track mid-price Best of from the King of the Blues. A companion to our recent full price "Best of the Early Years" (CDCHD 1150), this is aimed more at the impulse buyer. Rather than concentrating purely on hits, this set includes several...

An astonishing collection and piece of blues history, this album caresses your ears with some of the finest tunes by the Queen of Blues who, despite her short life, managed to impose her trademark vocal style on generations of blues makers. Featured here...

An anthology collection recorded in 1978 featuring some of the finest acoustic finger style blues players in the idiom. Sam Mitchell recorded several solo albums and also recorded with Rod Stewart and Bert Jansch. Davey Graham is considered the father of...

An American blues singer who helped define the soul blues tradition, Z.Z. Hill was perhaps best known for his 1970?s and 1980?s recordings for the Malaco label and for the track ?Down Home Blues,÷ cited as the best known blues song of the 1980?s. In 1971...

An American blues singer who helped define the soul blues tradition, Z.Z. Hill was perhaps best known for his 1970?s and 1980?s recordings for the Malaco label and for the track ?Down Home Blues,÷ cited as the best known blues song of the 1980?s. In 1971...

An amazing vocalist who also wrote most of her own material, Lou McClinton, professionally known as Lou Mac (or sometimes spelled Lu Mac) was one of the finest R&B singers on the Chicago scene of the mid-1950s. Presented here is her rare classic 1956...

An almost all-instrumental blues guitar release by one of the most acclaimed guitarists of our time. With The Broadcasters, his band of over 25 years, Ronnie's latest 'live' release shows him to be one of the most soulful blues/soul/jazz guitarists...

An all but ubiquitous figure in the colourful and crazy backstory of the nonstop London folk/psych/glam/ theatrical demi-mondes, Dana Gillespie is forever both a challenging artiste and a legendary beauty. Her two1968-69 Decca/London Records albums,...

An album that Junior often cites as his own personal favorite among his releases, this is the man live and raw recorded at Theresa's Tavern, the south-side Chicago bar, where Junior (and many other blues legends) could often be found spending a little...

An album of songs of timely relevance - original and vintage songs which refer to the hard times of recent years - and 'up' Blues. Sometimes you've just got to get into some music and lose your blues and that's what "Shake The Blues" is all about. "Shake...

An album of classic 1920s Blues performed by two of Australia's leading exponents of the genre and reinterpreted for the 21st century. Christa Hughes (ex-Machine Gun Fellatio)has been singing the blues since she could talk and her father Dick Hughes is...