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It was 1980. Buddy Guy was still out there in the career doldrums. Not starving - certainly not starving, but not accorded his due either by the mainstream music business or those people in the... more

Buddy sounds like he's playing for his life on this 1979 recording from Chicago's South Side institution. He's at his sweaty, soulful, electrifying live best, backed by a hot band as he bends those... more

Resentment and despair leavened with wit and humor…isn't that the blues? It is here as you encounter 103 tracks that vent even as they entertain with dazzling musicianship: "Last Fair Deal Gone Down"... more

This is the master album from one of the most talented Chicago Blues Harmonica players and singers. With superb studio sound and magnificent backing Carey is given the freedom to blow just about some... more

Dependent on residencies for income, early blues pianists had to be adaptable to whatever instrument—in whatever condition—they happened upon in their travels. Ergo St. Louis, Memphis, New Orleans... more

You'll encounter lots of big names and killer cuts among these independent-label blues gems—and also 20 tracks that have never been released 'til now! You get 100 sides in all: Little Mary; Cheatin'... more

Not only was this Mississippi singer/guitarist a revered bluesman, but he famously played a role in the birth or rock 'n' roll, as Crudup super-fan Elvis Presley covered three of his classic cuts:... more

Beale Street was the street. Black man's street. More slickers come off Beale Street than come out of New York. So many slick people came from down that way, learnt how to gamble, learnt how to con,... more

Doesn't matter how many juke joints you visit—you won't hear this many vintage blues classics for that price…104 on 4 CDs! Includes Jimmy's Boogie Jimmy Reed; I'm a King Bee Slim Harpo; Late Hours... more

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... more

This hugely influential harmonica man gets the lion's share of these 64 cuts: "Hard Hearted Woman," "Off the Wall," "Need My Baby," "Little Boy Blue," "Jumpin' Blues," "In the Mood," "Sick & Tired,"... more

There are guitar players. There are great guitar players. And then there is Buddy Guy. He simply transcends genre and musical barriers. Is he not just the best guitar player on the planet'... more

One of the great pianists and songsmiths of prewar blues, Carr managed to record lots of influential sides with guitarist Scrapper Blackwell before alcoholism took his life at age 30. Here are 4 CDs... more

Ucky Peterson sings, composes songs, plays the Hammond organ, is a phenomenal live act but most of all he's one of the greatest blues guitarists of all time with a fantastic technique and soulful... more

This precious link to a lost rural past takes us from Georgia and Alabama up to Indiana and New York, where all-day singing conventions were as much a social gathering as a musical event. Hauntingly... more

Sometimes an artist delivers a project that is so difficult to assign a neat category and so artistically daring that you wonder if it's going to be 'understood' first time out. This fascinating... more

One of the sparks that ignited the British blues boom was Paul Oliver's 1960 book Blues Fell This Morning. It's been cited as a catalyst by countless UK artists; here are 4 CDs of seminal tracks... more

Deitra Farr shot to fame as the singer with Mississippi Heat, a Chicago all star band which rocked it's way around the national and international blues circuit in the early 1990s. This is a timely... more

"Live at the Jazzhaus" (which was recorded and filmed at the Jazzhaus in Freiburg, Germany in November 2010)contains primarily original compositions from his last two studio albums "The Otherside"... more

Blues is everywhere, not just in the Delta or in Chicago, these vintage East Coast blues records have been overlooked again and again. Now's their time to shine: Bad Love; Cold Mama; Mean Old Blues... more

Every fan of blues and roots music should own these vintage sides by these looming giants of country blues. Among the 104 pieces of history here: Walkin' Blues; Special Rider Blues Son House; Devil... more

Denise LaSalle was the absolute Queen of what we loosely call 'Soul/Blues'-sharp lyrics, sharp clothes and tough performances. This superbly recorded 2007 Live Concert with a top notch American band... more