Title: You’re Gonna Miss Me Label: Jasmine This collection of 30 tracks is subtitled, The Complete Singles Collection As & Bs 1951-1958. Guitar Slim (it sounded better than Eddie Jones, his…
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Title: Like Never Before/Dancing the Blues Label: Floating World An important blues singer and multi-instrumentalist who has done a lot to retain and grow the popularity in the blues genre over…
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Title: On My Merry Way: The Earliest Sessions of the Guitar King 1954-1962 Label: Jasmine A critical influence on all guitar-toting artists interested in both blues and rock. You ask Eric…
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Title: The Chicago Super Blues Revisited Label: Jasmine The Super Blues record releases were basically two session albums from the late 60s via the Chess label. The first, from 1968, featuring…
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Title: Lightnin’ Hopkins Label: Vinyl Lovers This LP has already been issued by Smithsonian/Folkways and was called The Roots of Lightnin’ Hopkins. Recorded back in 1959, this LP was one of…
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Title: The Complete Aladdin/Peacock Singles As & Bs 1947-1961 Label: Jasmine Many would listen to Brown’s music and think, “Ah, yes, the blues,” but Brown himself wasn’t keen on being tagged…
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Title: Midnight Special Label: Soul Jam This CD collection features iconic songs that would influence a host of talented musicians from The Beatles to Johnny Cash and from Pete Seeger himself…
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Title: Blues Hit Big Town Label: Delmark An incredible collection of important Chicago blues tracks, recorded in 1953 (Side A) and 1954 (Side B) from Wells which also features the likes…
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Title: Blues After Hours Label: Vinyl Lovers Many years ago, when I first heard John Lennon playing a lap steel guitar on the George Harrison song, For You Blue, using a…
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Title: Hawk Squat Label: Delmark To many guitarists out there but especially those who worked as slider guitar aficionados, Elmore James was a godly figure, holding his talent up as a…
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Title: Heart Song Label: Brutal Honest Apparently, this lady stems from Austin, Texas and natives of that fine and unique State will have to forgive me because I never realised that…
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Title: John Lee Hooker Label: Hoodoo Hooker really knew the blues. He also talked the blues during his songs which was a stylistic approach that brought him great success. His approach to…
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Title: Hell of a Spell/Nuevo Wave Live/Texas Hero Label: RetroWorld Sahm was a talented guy who had a wide appreciation of music: as long as it broadly rotated around his home…
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Title: Moanin’ In The Moonlight Label: Vinyl Lovers He was a big man, in terms of sheer bulk (there was 300 pounds of the Wolf) and in height (all six for…
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Title: Heads Up!: The First Fourteen Singles Label: Jasmine King was at the height of his fame during the 60s period when he and his blues guitar produced a series of…
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Title: Kicking Back Label: BGP The R&B sax work of Houston was heard in many places and on many labels. In fact, if you had a CCTV camera within every independent…
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Title: The Secret Handshake & Password Label: Floating World Muldaur is one of those familiar names that seems to be everywhere and, in fact, he’s been around multiple scenes in his…
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Title: Electric King Label: Floating World Think Freddie King and think finger picks and a thumb because that core technique is what made this particular King a standout figure in the 60s, as…
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Title: Live the Life & Chicago Blues Label: Floating World Ah, Otis. What a guy and what a blues piano player. Part of, what some might declare, the blues band, Muddy Waters’ outfit from…
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Title: The Kings of Rhythm Volume 1: Jump, Jive And Wail Label: Edsel This is a four album compilation on CD, packed into a nicely presented clamshell box with each album…
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Title: Super Black Blues Label: Ace Unlike many blues recordings, this LP seemed to have been created because of the wishes of the white man, not in spite of him. The…
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Title: More Shattered Dreams, Funky Blues 1968-1984 Label: BGP During the 30s and 40s, when black musicians migrated from the South in numbers, the simplicity of their country blues did its…
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Title: Cat’s Meow Label: Ace Gillespie has been in the business for some time. She released her first album in 1968, aged just 15. I’ve lost count of the albums she…
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Title: Jamaican Sound System Classics 1941-1962 Label: Fantastic Voyage Fantastic Voyage continue their Jamaican Sound System Classics series which began way back in 2011. This is the fourth in the series…
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Title: “Stone Down Blues” with Johnny Otis and Shuggie Otis Label: BGP Well this is an interesting one. Interesting because we almost lost it. When Kent originally released this LP, as…
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Title: Blues of Desperation Label: Provogue Is it just me or does Bonamassa’s vocal style resemble that of The Who’s Roger Daltrey? There is the same vocal compression resident during crescendos.…