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A marvellous collection of four bluesmen all of whom had little in common other than that they recorded briefly and then retreated back into the obscurity from which they came. As the sleeve makes...

The Manchester musician and promoter, Dave Lunt remembers arriving at the Hotel the October evening in 1977 when these recordings were made, having persuaded himself that they would be lucky if only...

There is something hard and uncompromising about the personality of Ishman Bracey, something challenging and direct. It is evident in the known photographs of him when he was in his late twenties,...

It must have been quite an exciting experience to have been at a dance or jook joint where Gus Cannon's Jug Stampers were providing the music, for they can really swing! The two excellent collections...

It must have been quite an exciting experience to have been at a dance or jook joint where Gus Cannon's Jug Stampers were providing the music, for they can really swing! The two excellent collections...

Carson,Fiddlin John Complete 7 CD1. Are You Going to Leave the Old Home - Moonshine Kate 2. The Poor Girl Story - Moonshine Kate 3. My Man's a Jolly Railroad Man - Moonshine Kate 4. I Intend to Make...

Bo's first appearance on record seems to be a Columbia session held in Atlanta, Georgia on November 2, 1928, where he, Charlie and Joe McCoy, and an unknown pianist, backed a singer named Alec...

Ida Cox was one of the most talented of the classic blues singers of the 1920s. With her distinctive and very appealing voice, she was one of the few blues moaners who could sing on the same artistic...

Although Blind John Davis was an active session pianist in the 1930s and 1940s, working with artists like Jazz Gillum, Casey Bill Weldon, Memphis Minnie, and was an architect of the Chicago blues...

This is a revealing and wonderfully honest album of traditional songs, including "If I Had My Way," a ritual first recorded by Blind Willie Johnson decades earlier and lucratively covered by the...

The UK's Document label specializes in the reissuing of material so rare and unusual that most people would never have imagined that it existed in the first place. This unique service to humanity...

Sleepy John Estes was in many ways the personification of the blues. His pleading vocals were always on the point disintegrating into a cry either of help or of joy. His guitar playing, which could...