Blues

2013 album from one of the most amazing female Blues/Soul singers alive today. Dana is best known for her role as Sadie in Sony Pictures hit film Across the Universe. Features engaging roots rock songs with provocative, soulfully expressive lyrics.1...

2012 two CD collection. Jimmy Reed was one of the giants of Chicago Blues in the 50's and 60's and was as influential as any other artist from the Windy City. The Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and many more important acts, found inspiration in Jimmy's...

2012 two CD collection from the Blues pianist. Includes all seven of Slim's R&B hits, including chart-topper 'Messin' Around'. This compilation draws on recordings for the Hy-Tone, Miracle, Premium, Mercury, Peacock, United, Vee-Jay, United Artists and...

2012 Release. Rainy days have their own special magic. They can also be a welcome opportunity to switch off and unwind... to take the day at a slower pace... The well-travelled blues musicians know all about such days, about such moods. Their music makes...

2012 release from the veteran Blues guitarist. Johnnie Bassett is a special bluesman, possessing a certain inspired individuality and skill set rarely found these days. In a career dating back to the early 1950s, the spry 76-year-old has earned many...

2012 release containing a pair of original albums, on one CD from the vaults of High Tone Records. Louisiana born guitarist Phillip Walker has a sterling reputation as a contemporary Blues guitarist, with a distinctive sound honed along the Gulf Coast in...

2012 posthumous release from the late Blues great. Hubert Sumlin was a brilliant guitarist and a vast influence on Eric Clapton and Peter Green amongst others. This killer album started with a five week European tour with these musicians before they hit...

2012 four CD set. Bo Carter, was born Arminter Chatmon in 1893 or 1894. He had nine brothers. The house was full of stringed instruments. As the children grew they formed a band, playing square dances and parties. The Mississippi Sheiks (the family band)...

2012 collection from the underappreciated New Orleans legend. In the early 1950's the young James Booker got quickly into the New Orleans R&B studio scene. His first association was with Dave Bartholomew. James also played the piano parts on some Fats...

2012 album from the acclaimed Chicago Blues outfit. Jump Start is jam-packed with Lil' Ed's incendiary slide playing and rough, passionate singing, as the ragged-but-right Blues Imperials cook like mad alongside him. Produced by Williams and Alligator...

2011 two CD compilation from one of the most influential R&B artists of the 20th Century. This collection brings together all of his late '50s attempts to compete in the Rock 'n' Roll era and features some of the earliest productions by Quincy Jones...

2011 two CD compilation from one of the greatest of all American R&B singers. This is the first ever collection to compile all of his singles a and B sides on one double disc set from his first in 1951 to the end of 1960. Includes many of his greatest...