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The 2010 issue of Mississippi Blues by Sonny Landreth on the Fuel 2000 imprint is not a new album, nor is it a representative compilation of his ... More

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This posthumous album (Frank Floyd died in 1984) stands as a tribute to the kind of talent that simply can't exist any more. Floyd came up on the now ... More

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I first discovered "Harmonica" Frank as I delved into the curious and ribald world of risque blues. Mr. Floyd is responsible for some of the biggest ... More

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Three years after William Lee Ellis gained the attention of the world's blues community with his stellar third album and Yellow Dog Records debut, ... More

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A companion volume to Testament's Down Home Slide compilation, this brings together 21 previously unreleased tracks from that label's vaults and a ... More

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John Lee Hooker's brief association with the Specialty label doesn't immediately come to mind as do his recordings for, say, Modern, Chess, Vee Jay, ... More

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This brief set collects a dozen tracks recorded by John Lee Hooker in Detroit between the years 1948 and 1952, most of which are done solo with ... More

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With his country blues rhythms and approach, John Lee Hooker did as much as anyone to bring the country blues into the urban landscape without any ... More

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Johnson's third album for M.C. is his strongest outing to date, with more than its share of interesting little wrinkles. With the exception of one ... More

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This album is a joy indeed -- a journey inside the blues and down the Mississippi Delta. Johnson's always been an expressive singer, and in such a ... More

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At the time these tracks were cut, 1967 and 1968, R.L. Burnside was working on a plantation in Coldwater, MS, cutting silage. Folklorist George ... More

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A 1961 Chess album restored to digital print by MCA that's filled with 1951-1952 gems from the Hook's heyday. Chess originally bought "Mad Man Blues" ... More

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This third volume of raw, Southern (or Southern-style) blues, largely of the early electric sort, concentrates on recordings done in the early '50s ... More

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Dedicated to "the women we love to hate," this blues collection provides 15 songs that hound, bedraggle, and question the fairer sex from a worked-up ... More

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"Rambler's Blues," the shuffling hip-shaker that opens Charlie Musselwhite's The Well, is the most autobiographical statement he's ever made -- until ... More

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David Kimbrough, Jr., the son of Junior Kimbrough, started a career following in his father's footsteps, but was derailed by addictions and ... More

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Corey Harris takes a decidedly anthropological and academic approach to the blues, deeply researching its variants and origins, even making several ... More

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Rhino's double-disc 1991 set The Ultimate Collection (1948-1990) falls just short of the promise of its title, losing its focus toward the end of the ... More

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Although they were together off and on in different stints since they formed as the Nighthawks in 1962, blues trio Frank Frost(harmonica, piano, ... More

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Although he first gained attention as one-quarter of the great Detroit vocal group the Chairmen of the Board ("Give Me Just a Little More Time," etc. ... More

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Watermelon Slim has a fresh contemporary vision of country blues, a personal one that still allows listeners to feel right at home, and while he hasn ... More

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