Sweet Little Angel

There was clearly some serious care taken with this CD, at least as far as the track selection and the careful use of masters. Subtitled "Greatest Hits," this third in a four-volume series mostly lives up to that title and ...

The title for this volume is a bit of a misnomer. While there is easily half a compilation's worth of authentic acoustic material here (including classics by Tommy Johnson, Charley Patton, Willie Brown, and Robert Johnson), the inclusion of tracks ...

These mostly '60s recordings of tough Chicago blues were produced by Samuel Charters and feature James Cotton, Junior Wells, Otis Spann, Buddy Guy, J.B. Hutto, Homesick James, Big Walter Horton, and Johnny Young. They're very successful snapshots of what was ...

From the archives of Decca Records U.K. comes the Blues Scene (1999). This 25-track anthology covers the label's copious contributions to the 1960s renaissance of rhythm & blues-influenced rock. The movement would ultimately seed heavy metal supergroups such as Cream, ...

In the 1960s, lovers of electric blues had a lot to choose from -- not only the Chicago blues, but also the electric blues of Texas, Louisiana, Detroit, and Memphis. Vanguard's electric blues output of the 1960s is the main ...

2009 CD debut of this much-loved and long-deleted ground-breaking double LP of 1971. When Girls Do It contains 28 rip-roaring Blues cuts from across the '60s, with out-and-out rarities and classics from the likes of Buddy Guy, Ike Turner, Jimmy ...

This is one of the most mind-blowing two-disc blues compilations ever. Add in the budget price factor and it simply cannot be beat. This is an excellent primer on the blues guitar. Containing a whopping 50 tracks, it is an ...

Performers include Alonzo Stewart, Joe & Ann, Eskew Reeder's Eskerettes, Willie B., Good Jelly Bess, Preston Jackson. 20 tracks from legendary Louisiana label inc. cool Nashville soul, R&B & New Orleans music w. Alonzo Stewart, Joe & Ann, Eskew Reeder's Eskerettes, ...

This disc cronicles the first 14 releases from the Detroit Blues label No Cover Productions. We started out with the Detroit Blues Band featuring Jim McCarty in 1995 and also released 2 Cd's by James Glass & The Get To ...

A dozen-plus-one tracks drawn from Vanguard Records' '60s-era rediscovery blues catalog, this sampler is OK as far as it goes, but it isn't anything special, save for Skip James' delicate version of his "I'm So Glad," Mississippi John Hurt's gentle ...

Whether or not these two dozen songs inspired the Allman Brothers or not, this would still be a nice collection, and it's surprisingly varied, including not just blues pieces but also some bluegrass and western swing as well. From the ...

Not Now's three-CD set A Bad Case of the Blues perfectly fits the bill for someone just becoming acquainted with the genre. It's hard to go wrong with these 75 tracks highlighting such major bluesmen as John Lee Hooker, Otis ...

This is part of Bluebird's The Secret History Of Rock & Roll series. When Muddy Waters declared that the blues had a child and they named him rock & roll, he knew exactly what he was talking about -- rock & ...

Atlas Records was founded in 1951 by trumpeter Thomas Robinson, who located his headquarters in Harlem just down the street from the Apollo Theatre. Early on Atlas concentrated on releasing explosive jump blues sides before switching predominantly to vocal groups ...

Track Listing: DISC 1: It's a Brand New Boogie; When Things Go Wrong With You; Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is; That's Her Own Business; 1950 Blues; It's Good Like That; Love Her With a Feelin'; New Deal Blues; ...

The R&B Hits of 1951 is a very generous 48-song collection covering most of the relevant bases that one would expect, starting with Wynonie Harris's "Bloodshot Eyes" and ending with Elmore James' "Dust My Broom," and moving through the harmony ...

Amazing value for this 10 CD box collecting legendary blues singers, B.B King, Elmore James, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Nina Simone, Eric Clapton, T-Bone Walker and many more. The box is made up of 10 sleeves housed in a sturdy box. 2001 release.

Volume four in the Evidence Blues Sampler series includes one track each from the label's 16 blues releases over a short six-month period during late 1994 and early 1995. The quality's still relatively high though, thanks to good selection and ...

Featured is African-influenced or -derived music from all over the Americas. Besides the usual santeria, vaudou, merengue, son, punta, cadence, plena and so on are some unexpected charmers: an Antiguan pan soca band that cooks like few steel drum group ...

In the year of blues, amid the Martin Scorsese films and their requisite 30 CDs of material, other labels with substantial blues holdings got in on the act to (over)saturate the market. The good news is that a lot of ...

Ten-CD box set featuring individual CDs from all-time blues legends. Packaged in a slim rigid box with striking cover art. The bluesmen are, John Lee Hooker, BB King, Lightnin' Hopkins, Muddy Waters, Leadbelly, Howlin Wolf, Mississippi John Hurt, Robert Johnson, ...

Budget priced Holland exclusive compilation featuring 16 tracks from Dutch artists such as Cuby + Blizzards, Rob Hoeke, Livin' Blues, Bintangs, Q65, Blues Dimension, Oscar Benton, Indiscrimination, Endatteme Jugband, & many more. Universal. 2003.

Budget priced double disc collection of tracks from the true fathers of the the blues: Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Big Bill Broonzy, Leadbelly, Muddy Waters, BB King, Howlin Wolf, Freddie King and more.

Recording information: 07/11/1951-03/17/1970.

Track Listing: DISC 1: Jingo; Road Runner; Rock N Roll Hoochi Coo; Young Lust; Mona; First Time I Met the Blues; Tie Your Mother Down; Rock This Town; Have a Cigar; Nobody's Child; Thrill Is Gone, The; Evil Ways; Hocus ...