Blues Vinyl Records

Featuring Christine Perfect (better known as the future Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac) the British ensemble Chicken Shack offers up a solid set of blues-influenced rock on their 1968 LP, fully titled 40 Blue Fingers Freshly Packed And Ready To Serve.

This LP was a promising debut, especially noteworthy for Stan Webb's Freddie King-inspired guitar playing and Christine Perfect's vocals. Webb does justice to his mentor with two instrumentals, King's San-Ho-Zay and his own Webbed Feet, and Christine proves the ideal counterpart: one of the few pianists paying homage to King's longtime collaborator Sonny Thompson.

It remains their finest work; Perfect left the band in 1969 when she married John McVie of Fleetwood Mac. Pianist Paul Raymond, bassist Andy Silvester, and drummer Dave Bidwell all left in 1971 to join Savoy Brown.

The album - with a nice spare sound, typical of Mike Vernon's Blue Horizon label- will be enjoyed again, this time on audiophile vinyl.

* 180 grams audiophile vinyl

Track Listing:
1. The Letter
2. Lonesome Whistle Blues
3. When the Train Comes Back
4. San-Ho-Zay
5. King of the World
6. See See Baby
7. First Time I Met the Blues
8. Webbed Feet
9. You Ain't No Good
10. What You Did Last Night

Musicians:
John Mayall
Aynsley Dunbar, drums
Peter Green, lead guitar
John McVie, bass
Johnny Almond
Alan Skidmore, horns (5,7,13)
Ray Warleigh (5,7,13)


Track Listing:
1. A Hard Road
2. It's Over
3. You Don't Love Me
4. The Stumble
5. Another Kind Of Love
6. Hit The Highway
7. Leaping Christine
8. Looking Back
9. Dust My Blues
10. There's Always Work
11. The Same Way
12. The Supernatural
13. Top Of The Hill
14. Someday After A While (You'll Be Sorry) (Bonus Track)
15. Living Alone (Bonus Track)
16. So Many Roads (Bonus Track)
17. Mama, Talk To Your Daughter(Bonus Track)
18. Out Of Reach (Bonus Track)
19. Alabama Blues (Bonus Track)
20. Sitting In The Rain (Bonus Track)
21. Greeny (Bonus Track)
22. Missing You (Bonus Track)
23. Curly (Bonus Track)
24. Rubber Duck (Bonus Track)
25. Please Don't Tell (Bonus Track)
26. Your Funeral And My Trial (Bonus Track)
27. It Hurts Me Too (Bonus Track)
28. Double Trouble (Bonus Track)
29. Jenny
30. Picture On The Wall (Bonus Track)

No doubt Jimmie Lee Robinson offers a delightful taste of traditional blues. His work through the years with such stalwarts as Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Freddie King, Elmore James and Jimmy Reed have made their impressions on the man called The Lonely Traveler just as he has been credited with inspiring them.

On All My Life you'll hear standby classics like a haunting, slowed-down version of Muddy Waters' Forty Days and Forty Nights with eerie harmonica accompaniment by Madison Slim. And Jimmie Lee even covers a non-blues favorite with What a Wonderful World. His live version of that song at a 1999 concert in Blue Heaven Studios - the converted church that is home to APO Records - brought tears to scores of the 400 in attendance.

But All My Life is also packed with Jimmie Lee originals like the title track, which was once covered by John Mayall, where Jimmie Lee pleads with the woman of his dreams to return all the respect and love he's paid to her. That track is also a perfect showcase for the classic Jimmie Lee growling vocals and the spurs jangling from his boots as the only percussion.

Unlike his first APO release, Remember Me, an almost entirely-solo effort, Jimmie Lee is joined on most of the All My Life tracks by APO artist and noted-guitarist Jimmy D. Lane and journeyman harp player Madison Slim, whose knack for acoustic blues is highlighted on this release.

Jimmie Lee has gained national attention for his protest of the destruction of Chicago's famed Maxwell Street, said to be the birthplace of Chicago blues and the neighborhood where Jimmie Lee grew up. He fasted for 81 straight days, shunning solid food as if it was the wrecking ball he so badly wants to stop. His efforts were even documented on the front page of the New York Times.

Track Listing:
1. Forty Days and Forty Nights
2. I'll Be Around
3. Love My Baby
4. The Sun Is Shining
5. Driftin' Blues
6. The Girl I Love
7. Ludella
8. All My Life
9. I'm Ready
10. What A Wonderful World
11. Too Late
12. If I Get Lucky

Side A:

1. My Black Mama - Part 1 (Son House)
2. My Black Mama - Part 2 (Son House)
3. Preachin’ The Blues - Part1 (Son House)
4. Preachin’ The Blues - Part 2 (Son House)
5. Dry Spell Blues - Part 1 (Son House)
6. Dry Spell Blues - Part 2 (Son House)
7. Walkin’ Blues (Son House)

Side B:

1. Mississippi Jail House Groan (Rube Lacy)
2. Ham Hound Crave (Rube Lacy)
3. Mississippi Bottom Blues (Kid Baley)
4. Rowdy Blues (Kid Baley)
5. M & O Blues (Willie Brown)
6. Future Blues W (Willie Brown)

Side C:

1. Cottonfield Blues - Part 1 (Garfield Akers)
2. Cotton field Blues - Part 2 (Garfield Akers)
3. Dough Roller Blues (Garfield Akers)
4. Jumpin’ And Shoutin’ Blues (Garfield Akers)
5. Fare Thee Well Blues (Joe Callicott)
6. Travelling Mama Blue (Joe Callicott)

Side D:

1. Bedside Blues (Jim Thompkins)
2. Outside Woman Blues (Blind Joe “Willie” Reynolds)
3. Nehi Blues (Blind Joe “Willie” Reynolds)
4. Married Man Blues (Blind Joe “Willie” Reynolds)
5. Third Street Woman Blue (Blind Joe “Willie” Reynolds)

Arthur Williams was born in Tunica, Mississippi in 1937, was raised in Chicago and made his recording debut backing Frank Frost on Jewel Records in 1966. In 1972, he moved to his current home of St. Louis. He still performed but his recording career was dormant as he concentrated on a day job. In the 1990s, he appeared on a few records and put out a few of his own. But no release before this one has captured such an in-person feeling. The dynamics on this direct-to-disc recording are almost frightening.

Track Listing:
1. I’m A King Bee
2. Since I Met You Baby
3. Go On To School
4. I’m Gonna Get My Baby
5. Cummins Prison Farm
6. Hug And Squeeze You

Lending strong support for Willie's recording debut is one of the brightest new blues lights to emerge in recent years, Susan Tedeschi, whose Just Won't Burn album has spent an unprecedented 41 weeks on the Billboard Blues Chart! The man behind Willie's emergence is none other than the great Mighty Sam McClain, a living R&B legend if there ever was one. Sam co-produced the album (along with Joe Harley) and also contributes his patented brand of soul singing and songwriting. Along with Jimmy D. Lane, who joins in on one track with his blazing guitar, At Last On Time proves the wisdom of the phrase better late than never!

Track Listing:
1. Love Call
2. Fever
3. Can't Go Wrong Woman
4. Big Mary's House
5. They Call Me Weepin' Willie / Mighty Mighty
6. Glory Train
7. At Last, On Time
8. Dirty Old Man
9. Weepin Willie Boogie
10. Love Me If You Want To
11. Let The Good Times Roll

Side B:
1. Stonewall Street Blues
2. State Street Men Blues
3. Down The Country
4. Back Biting Bee Blues
5. Wilson Dam
6. Buck-Town Blues
7. Black Dog Blues
8. One Time Blues

1. Trouble In Mind
2. Corrine Corrina
3. Cool Driver
4. They're Red Hot
5. Crossroads
6. Lost A Good Woman
7. Evening Sun
8. Peace In Hell
9. Send Your Man To War
10. Come On In My Kitchen
11. Blues Come To Texas
12. Moon Is Rising
13. Hey Bobba Re Bop
14. Terraplane
15. I Make You Happy

1. The Ballad Of John Henry
2. Stop!
3. Last Kiss
4. Jockey Full Of Bourbon
5. Story Of A Quarryman
6. Lonesome Road Blues
7. Happier Times
8. Feelin' Good
9. Funkier Than A Mosquito's Tweeter
10. The Great Flood
11. From The Valley
12. As The Crow Flies

Just awarded the Breakthrough Artist of the Year Award at the U.K.’s prestigious Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards, bluesrock guitar hero and singer-songwriter Joe Bonamassa is set to release his tenth full-length solo album, BLACK ROCK, on March 22, 2010. This album was recorded at, and named for, Black Rock Studios in Santorini, Greece. “With this album, we wanted to explore a ‘world’ feeling, and this was the inspiration behind going to record in Greece and using some of the best Greek musicians to add a little flavor to a couple of the tracks. But it’s by no means a ‘world’ album. We wanted Joe’s usual youthful and energetic tones to play alongside the worldly vibes of the Greek bouzouki and clarino,” said producer Kevin Shirley. Bonamassa says, “It was the kind of record Kevin and I wanted to make. We needed to rock again a bit like on my first album. I wrote the whole thing there.” Also Joe signed up Blues legend B.B. King for a duet on his new album. The song they perform together is a rendition of the Willie Nelson-penned song, “Night Life,” which appeared on King’s 1967 album BLUES IS KING. Shirley says about the experience, “This is a rollicking Stonesy-vibe version of the Willie Nelson song on which B.B. King duets with Joe, both vocally and on his famous Lucille guitar. What a joy and an honor to work with the legend who is possibly the pivot point and unifying musician between Blues and Rock.” Other tracks appearing on BLACK ROCK include Jeff Beck’s “Spanish Boots,” Leonard Cohen’s poetic “Bird On A Wire,” Otis Rush’s “Three Times A Fool,” Bobby Parker’s “Steal Your Heart Away,” Blind Boy Fuller’s “Baby, You Gotta Change Your Mind,” John Hiatt’s “I Know A Place,” and James Clark’s “Look Over Yonders Wall,” as well as the originals “When The Fire Hits The Sea,” “Quarryman's Lament,” “Wandering Earth,” “Athens To Athens,” and “Blue and Evil.”

The songs on this album are especially significant because they represent the only existing recordings of John Hurt prior to the early 1960s when he was “rediscovered” by blues revivalists. In 1928, an unknown Mississippi sharecropper named John Hurt, played regular barn dances behind a white fiddle player who soon recommended Hurt to Okeh Records for recording. Okeh took the fiddle player’s advice and recorded two sessions with Hurt, one in Memphis and one in NYC, of which only a single (Nobody’s Dirty Business / Frankie) was ever recorded and promptly forgotten. Hurt spent the next 35 years sharecropping, and working for the railroad (where he learned songs like “Spike Driver Blues”, a variation on “John Henry”). “Avalon Blues”, an ode to his home town, was a song Hurt wrote during his recording session in NYC in 1928 and also the song that led to his rediscovery. Mississippi John Hurt today is one of the most appreciated of the Delta blues musicians, perhaps because his unique style makes him particularly accessible to modern audiences. Hurt, who died in 1966, lived just long enough to see his music finally appreciated by a wider audience.

Track Listing:
1. Frankie

Jimmy, whose evocative and earthy guitar sound embodies Chicago Blues, is recognized as a writer of Chicago blues songs second only to Willie Dixon and is regarded as one of the greatest Chicago blues singers by fans and musical legends alike, including Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, who credits Jimmy as being one of his three greatest musical influences along with Muddy Waters and Chuck Berry.

As the musical genre Jimmy pioneered is gaining mass popularity in the nineties, Jimmy's classic guitar work has been heard by millions in television commercials featuring songs such as Rock Me by Muddy Waters and I Ain't Superstitious by Howlin' Wolf.

Jimmy is joined on this album by an all-star group comprised of the legendary pianist Johnnie Johnson, who was the backbone of all Chuck Berry's greatest hits, harmonica virtuoso Carey Bell, bassist Dave Myers, drummer Ted Harvey and lead guitarist Jimmy D. Lane. This recording won a W.C. Handy Award for the Best Traditional Blues Album in 1995.

Track Listing:
1. I'm Tired Of Crying Over You
2. Blue Bird
3. Walkin' By Myself
4. Rock Me
5. I Lost A Good Woman
6. Howlin' For My Darling
7. Why Are You So Mean To Me
8. Blues Falling
9. Lemon Squeezer
10. That Ain't It (Baby I Need Your Love)
11. Smokestack Lighting
12. Blue And Lonesome
13. Big Boss Man

Side A:

1. Boogie Chillen
2. I'm In The Mood
3. Crawling King Snake
4. Queen Bee
5. Hobo Blues
6.Weeping Willow

Side B:

1. Cold Chills
2. Hoogie Boogie
3. Whistlin' And Moanin' Blues
4. Sally Mae
5. House Rent Boogie
6. Anybody Seen My Baby

Lured to professional boxing by the mythic Joe Louis whom he had met in Chicago, Champion Jack Dupree was once better known for his KO skills than his musical skills. He later resumed his early passion for music and began playing his straight, in-your-face blues tunes, often singing about life's hardships, addiction and drug use. After serving in World War II, he became a major source of inspiration to the blues revival scene in the U.K. in the early '60s, and Blues From The Gutter, originally released in 1958, perfectly mirrored the raunchy blues attitude of the young beatniks of the fast growing British cities.

Track Listing:
1. T.B. Blues
2. Can't Kick The Habit
3. Evil Woman
4. Nasty Boogie
5. Walking The Blues
6. Junker's Blues
7. Bad Blood
8. Goin' Down Slow
9. Frankie & Johnny
10. Stack-O-Lee

Brain Cycles' is Radio Moscow's second album, a new psychedelic trip into the musical territory originally charted by artists such as Randy Holden, Groundhogs, Peter Green and Flower Travellin' Band, just to name a few.

After releasing their debut-produced by Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys-and a full year on the road, Parker Griggs has headed back into the studio to cut the long awaited follow-up. On 'Brain Cycles,' he once again plays all the instruments (guitar, drums, and percussion) and assumes vocal duties as well as production credits, while the bass guitar is in the hands of young Zach Anderson.

Conceived as an homage to the thrilling days of yesteryear, when vinyl was king and analog stereo ruled the world, 'Brain Cycles' is a guilty pleasure best experienced at maximum volume while wearing headphones, if you want your brain to catch the waves! Radio Moscow will be back on the road all 2009.

Track Listing:
1. I Just Dont Know
2. Broke Down
3. Escape
4. No Good Woman
5. Brain Cycles
6. 250 Miles
7. Hold On Me
8. Black Boot
9. City Lights
10. No Jane

Both audiophile LP and CD versions reflect what the two top bibles of high-end audio decree as an impeccable production that has come to be regarded as a high-fidelity reference. Matched with Ian's very personal songs, delivered in a voice that draws you in close in confidence, Breaking Silence is one of the very few recordings of recent years that by reproducing a pure analogue sound, has attained true audiophile status.

Tracks were recorded at Nightingale Studio on a Studer 820, 24-track machine, 30 IPS, non-dolby, at the elevation of +6/250 nu using Ampex 499 tape.

Included among the mics used on the recording dates were: Nuemann M-49, AKG C-12, Telefunken 251, Sheffield C-9 and a custom built tube direct box on the bass. Janis' vocal was recorded using a Telefunken U-47 and a Mastering Lab mic preamp, linked with series-one Monster Cable direct to the back of the multi-track machine with no EQ or Limiting.

The album was mixed at Bill Schnee Studio to an Ampex ATR 1/2 machine, at 30 IPS, non-dolby, at the elevation of +3/250 nu on Ampex 499 tape. The reverb on the album was an EMT tube plate used along with natural room sounds captured in the recording. During the mixing of the album, Some People's Lives was recorded direct to two-track using the same vocal chain as above and Telefunken 251's on the piano. Take number two was used as the album cut. The album was mixed using Mastering Lab modified Tannoy SGM-10's powered by Sherwood-Sax mono-block tube amps.

Produced, engineered and mixed by Jeff Balding. Mastered by Doug Sax.

Track Listing:
1. All Roads To The River
2. Ride Me Like A Wave
3. Tatoo
4. What About The Love
5. His Hands
6. Walking On Sacred Ground
7. This Train Still Runs
8. Through The Years
9. This House
10. Some People's Lives
11. Breaking Silence

“The Beale Street Sheiks” was the moniker used by Memphis guitar duo Frank Stokes and Dan Sane for their Paramount recordings (made in Chicago in 1927 and 1929). Stokes (1887-1955) was one of the earliest Memphis bluesmen, and his distinct vocal and guitar style, has been imitated by many bluesmen since. Not only did he have a truly distinct style, but his repertoire was one of the most enormous and diverse in the history of blues, and his songs have become a living history of a bygone era. Although W.C. Handy is often cited as the father of Memphis blues, many scholars believe Frank Stokes to be its true originator.

Track Listing:
Side A:

1. You Shall
2. It’s A Good Thing
3. Sweet To Mama
4. Half Cup Of Tea
5. Beale Town Bound
6. Last Go Round
7. Jazzin’ the Blues
8. You Shall
9. It’s a Good Thing
10. Mr. Crump Don’t Like It

Side B:

1. Chicken You Can Roost Behind the Moon
2. Blues in “D”
3. Ain't Goin’ to Do Like I Used To Do
4. Hunting Blues
5. Rockin’ on the Hill Blues
6. Fillin’ in Blues, Pt. 1
7. Fillin’ in Blues, Pt. 2
8. Wasn’t That Doggin’ Me
9. Jumpin’ on the Hill

Side B:

1. Bluebird, Bluebird
2. See See Rider
3. Worrying My Mind
4. Til the Gin Gets Here
5. Bunion Stew
6. You Got to Work to Get Your Pay
7. Go Down Old Hannah
8. Hear My Black Dog Bark

Dyer was born and raised in the small east Texas town of Tool. He was given a guitar at age 5 but didn't learn to play until he was 18 and had moved to Austin, Texas. It was there that he began to study music seriously, attacking the guitar, and exploring his until-then untapped singing and songwriting powers.

While attending Texas State in San Marcos, Texas, Dyer formed a band, Breedlove, with guitarist Tyrone Vaughan (son of Jimmie Vaughan), drummer Jason White, keyboardist Ezra Reynolds and bassist Josh Dawkins. The group developed a dedicated following and released Reach Out in 1996 before disbanding in 1998.

From there, Dyer moved to New York City and began writing commercial music jingles, having songs placed in marketing campaigns for Budweiser, Chevrolet, Dr. Pepper and Campbell's Soup. While there, Lenny Kravitz, who had just begun a Warner Bros. imprint called Roxie Records, signed Dyer and produced his What Lies Beneath record in 2004, the first release on the label. Kravitz co-wrote four of the songs with Dyer and also played guitar on the record.

After touring for a year behind What Lies Beneath, Dyer moved to St. Louis and started a family. In 2007, he returned to Austin where he'd reunited with friend David Boyle, who recorded and produced Dyer in his converted-church studio for the self-titled Dan Dyer. The record was released in 2008 on Fat Caddy Records. From the chain gang-inspired sound of Love Chain to the gospel-tinged I Walk On Gilded Splinters and Stewart Copeland-esque syncopations of Play On Little Children, Dyer and Boyle weave a diverse fabric that extends beyond conventional musical boundaries.

Track Listing:
1. Prisoner Of Fear
2. Howling Wind
3. Come Home
4. Come Home Pt. 2
5. Reach Out

Greenleaf, of Houston, Texas, has a background steeped in both blues and gospel. She's been influenced by the likes of Koko Taylor, Aretha Franklin, Rosetta Tharpe, Sam Cooke and Charles Brown, and she includes intricate patches of jazz and soul in her performances.

Greenleaf came to the life of professional performing quite late, considering how much talent she has to offer. She worked as a school counselor and occasionally sang rather informally for children's and educational benefits. She and her band played a small show at a hospice in celebration of Houston blues legend Teddy Cry Cry Reynolds' birthday. Afterwards, Reynolds told Greenleaf of how he'd known her parents, both gospel musicians, and how she was not only very talented but also had a duty to continue the family legacy of performing. So insistent was Reynolds that he solicited the opinion of his old friend Katie Webster, the Swamp Boogie Queen. Webster confirmed Reynolds' assessment and encouraged Greenleaf to seriously pursue a life in music, even giving her newfound protégé rules for forming and leading a band.

In 2005, Greenleaf and Blue Mercy represented Houston in the International Blues Challenge, an annual contest in Memphis that features the world's best-unsigned blues bands. Greenleaf and Blue Mercy finished first out of 84 bands from 32 states and eight countries. What's more, Blue Mercy's guitarist, John Richardson, earned the Albert King award for Most Promising Guitarist. From there, the gigs came steadily, and the group's been booked solid ever since.

Greenleaf also served for three years as president of the Houston Blues Society, becoming the first woman elected to that post. As president, she produced the Willie Mae Thorton Blues Festival, bringing in such talent as Texas Johnny Brown, I.J. Gosey, Koko Taylor, Bernard Allison, Mel Waiters and others.

Track Listing:
1. Crazy
2. Love Treasure
3. Double Dealing
4. The Backdoor Man (You Want To Be)
5. Resolutions

There was an almost religious quality to the way John Lee Hooker saw himself as a musician: the way a preacher is a vessel for the Word of God, John Lee Hooker was a vessel for the blues. After running away from a life of back breaking labor in the cotton fields of Mississippi at the age of 14, Hooker drifted from town to town until he ended up in the booming city of Detroit, in the early 1940s. Although Detroit‟s blues scene was small compared to that of Chicago, it wasn‟t long until young John Lee from Mississippi was a big man on campus. The five tracks on side A were recorded in Detroit between 1949 and 1950 and feature stereo recordings of mainly solo performances by John Lee Hooker. The five tracks on Side B, also recorded in Detroit, are mono recordings primarily from 1954 and feature Hooker in a band format backed by tenor sax, piano and drums.

Track Listing:
Side A:

1. Driftin’ From Door To Door
2. She Left Me On My Bended Knee
3. Let Your Daddy Ride
4. Turn Over A New Leaf
5. Don’t You Remember Me

Side B:

1. Hug And Squeeze You
2. I Love You Baby
3. The Syndicate
4. Boogie Woogie All Night Long
5. Good Rockin’ Mama

An extremely rare album of instrumental guitar, originally released as a private pressing in 1965, (while Taussig was living in “Berkley”, right on the cusp of the sixties revolution) and then forgotten until the album was finally saved from the black hole of music with a re-release on CD in 2006. While this album is a faithful slice of American roots, folk, traditional rags and blues, Taussig is not a mere student of these styles, rather he brings a contemporary approach and a darkly sarcastic humour to the music that is all his own. In the vein of guitarists like John Fahey, Taussig is extremely proficient on his instrument (he even wrote a book called “Instrumental Techniques of American Folk Guitar”), but never bound by mere technique. An important piece in the puzzle of the American folk revival. This is its first ever vinyl reissue.

Track Listing:
Side A:
1. Baby Let Me Lay It On You / That'll Never Happen No More
2. Blues For Zone VII
3. Dark Town Strutters Ball
4. R.R.Bill & Co
5. Rev's Rag
6. Sugar Babe, Your Papa Cares For You

Side B:
1. National Ragtime Stomp
2. Rondo To Death
3. Monte's Blues
4. Dorian Sonata
5. St Louis Tickle
6. Fate Is Only Once

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Track Listing:
1. Death Letter Blues
2. Pearline
3. Louise McGhee
4. John The Revelator
5. Empire State Express
6. Preachin' Blues
7. Grinnin' In Your Face
8. Sundown
9. Levee Camp Moan
10. Death Letter Blues (alternate take)
11. Levee Camp Moan (alternate take )
12. Grinnin' In Your Face (alternate take )
13. JohnThe Revelator (alternate take )
14. Preachin' Blues (alternate take )
15. President Kennedy
16. A Down The Staff
17. Motherless Children
18. Yonder Comes My Mother
19. Shake It and Break It
20. Pony Blues
21. Downhearted Blues

On the cover is Michelangelo's 'The Creation Of Man,' where God reaches out his hand: the intentions of the makers of Fathers And Sons could hardly be more illustrative. The enigmatic message of this album is clearly that these prodigal sons, these one-time gods of the Chicago blues, are to be given a helping hand to their comeback. And this was sorely needed, for although the Chess label had achieved good sales figures one year previously with the LP Electric Mud, they didn't really produce a convincing blues session. In order not to land once again in the pseudo-psychedelic outback with distorted electronic sound and wah-wah effects, the two legendary artists Muddy Waters and Otis Spann were joined by the three musicians who made up the Butterfield Blues Band. With this artistic core of fathers and sons and a few choice side musicians, the resulting blues recording rolled along without a hitch. A whole set of pieces were set down, enough to fill an LP, and a 30-minute live session adds further luster to the excellent studio recordings. The characteristic crisp and raw Waters studio sound is followed by a charismatic stage show which bubbles and boils with a red-hot blues atmosphere.

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Track Listing:
1. All Aboard
2. Mean Disposition
3. Blow Wind Blow
4. Can’t Lose What You Ain’t Never Had
5. Walkin Thru The Park
6. Forty Days And Forty Nights
7. Standin ‘Round Crying
8. I’m Ready; Twenty Four Hours
9. Sugar Sweet
10. Long Distance Call
11. Baby Please Don’t Go
12. Honey Bee
13. The Same Thing
14. Got My Mojo Working Pts. 1 and 2

Limited Edition, HQ-180g vinyl pressed at Record Technologies, Inc. (RTI)

Track Listing:
1. Rock This House
2. Tricky Woman
3. Slick Chick
4. Angel Child
5. Chicago Bound
6. St. Louis
7. You DonÆt Know
8. YouÆre So Sweet (Real Audio sample)
9. Blue And Lonesome
10. She Loves Another Man
11. Out On The Road

As this appealing set indicates, he can pull more from this simple instrument than just about anyone else. - Downbeat

This very authentic session is full of soul and quiet fire. - Monthly Detroit

Track Listing:
1. Everybody's Fishin'
2. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
3. Relaxin'
4. We Gonna Move To Kansas City
5. Walter's Swing
6. Hobo Blues
7. Stop Clownin'
8. Need My Baby
9. La Cucaracha
10. Worried Life
11. Put The Kettle On

1. Baby I'm Gonna Miss You
2.Half A Stranger
3. Shake Holler And Run
4. Down Child
5. Gonna Boogie

Side B:

1. Bad Boy
2. Rock House Boogie
3. Let's Talk It Over
4. Baby You Ain't No Good
5. Lookin' For A Woman

Produced by: Jack White


Track Listing:
A1. Gastown
B1. The River Song

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Track Listing:
1. Get Back Home In The USA
2. TB Is Killing Me
3. Cold Chills
4. I Had A Dream Last Night
5. Love Affair
6. Little Rain
7. When My First Wife Left Me
8. Big Boss Lady
9. Back To Your Mother
10. Boogie Chillen’
11. Sitting Here Thinking
12. I Wanna Ramble
13. Hi-Heel Sneakers
14. I’m So Worried Baby
15. I’m Going Upstairs
16. Crazy ‘Bout You

APO owner Chad Kassem first heard the harmonica player in the early 1980s at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City - when Kassem was still flipping burgers and not even thinking about the music business - and was amazed at how few recordings Little Hatch had made (one at the time, The Little Hatchet LP in 1972).

Little Hatch (who was once nicknamed Little Walter Jr. but changed it becuase his music deserved a name of its own), made this unplanned and unrehearsed recording for Kassem's APO label at Blue Heaven Studios when Hatch found himself as a spectator during another recording session. He couldn't help himself and cut loose while the tape rolled along with the masterful guitar accompaniment of longtime associate Bill Dye.

In about three hours, Little Hatch completed 15 cuts, most on the first take. The result was traditional, raw, dirty blues at its finest with hamonica and slide guitar. The acoustics of the grand old church make it sound like Little Hatch is, indeed, playing just for you on your back porch or in your living room.

So go on back to the porch. Pull up that chair and take a listen.

Track Listing:
1. Rock Me baby 2. Woke Up This Morning 3. She's Nineteen Years Old 4. Fannie Mae 5. Baby, Scratch My Back 6. Buzz On 7. Your Friends 8. I Got A Woman 9. Glory Glory

Compared to the much-lauded Midnight at the Movies, Harlem River Blues is more mature and increasingly nuanced, while still embracing the raw voice and clean sound of previous standout tracks like “Mama’s Eyes.” Harlem River Blues kicks off red-hot with the title track’s choir of backing singers and electric guitar, slow dances through a decrepit tenement on “One More Night in Brooklyn,” and swings à la Jerry Lee Lewis on “Move Over Mama.” “Working for the MTA” is a modern day railway ballad, embracing the labor movement in classic folk singer style over some heartbreaking pedal steel from Calexico’s Paul Niehaus.

With percussive guitar, killer standup bass lines by Bryn Davies (Patty Griffin, Guy Clark) and a guest appearances from Jason Isbell and Ketch Secor from Old Crow Medicine Show, this record hums along like a 6 train jumpin’ the tracks and heading straight for the Tennessee state line.

Track Listing:
1. Harlem River Blues
2. One More Night In Brooklyn
3. Move Over Mama
4. Working for the MTA
5. Wanderin’
6. Slippin’ and Slidin’
7. Christchurch Woman
8. Learning to Cry
9. Ain’t Waitin’
10. Rogers Park
11. Harlem River Blues (Reprise)

Born in Kenner, Louisiana, Henry arrived in Chicago in 1946, fresh from a stint in the Philippines during World War II. Strongly influenced by ivories master Big Maceo, Henry's rapidly escalating talents were soon in heavy demand. After starting out with Little Hudson's Red Devil Trio, Henry appeared on classic sides by Jimmy Reed, Bo Diddley, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, Billy Boy Arnold and Morris Pejoe before joining Howlin' Wolf's combo in 1956 for a 12-year run.

Although Henry's ability on the 88s is renowned worldwide, his warm expressive vocals may come as something of a revelation. There's more than a hint of Henry's Louisiana roots in his music. The brilliant piano style of Henry Gray once represented the very best Chicago had to offer. You know, some things never change. Henry cut 5 songs solo on this direct-to-disc. He plays a Steinway Concert Grand 9' model D.

Track Listing:
1. Out On The Road
2. I Ain't Goin' For That
3. Watch Yourself
4. How Long Blues
5. Let Me Go

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Track Listing:
1. Snatch It Back and Hold It
2. Ships On the Ocean
3. Good Morning Little School Girl
4. Hound Dog
5. In The Wee Hours of the Morning
6. Hay Lawdy Mama
7. Hooddoo Man Blues
8. Early in the Morning
9. We're Ready
10. Do You Love Me, Baby
11. Chiltin Con Carne
12. Yonders Wall

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Track Listing:
1. Messin' With the Hook
2. The Feelin' Is Gone
3. Send Me Your Pillow
4. Sittin' Here Thinkin'
5. Meet Me in the Bottom
6. Alimonia Blues
7. Driftin' Blues
8. You Talk Too Much
9. Burnin' Hell
10. Bottle Up and Go
11. The World Today
12. I Got My Eyes On You
13. Whiskey and Wimmen
14. Just You and Me
15. Let's Make It
16. Peavine
17. Boogie Chillen No. 2

Tate was born in Macon, Georgia, in 1939 and moved with his family to Philadelphia as a young boy. In his teens, he joined a north Philadelphia gospel group, the Gainors, that also featured to-be star Garnet Mimms. The group recorded in the early 1960s for Mercury Records and Cameo Records before Tate left to become the featured singer of organist Bill Doggett's group.

In the mid-'60s, Mimms urged producer Jerry Ragovoy to check out Tate, and from 1966 to 1969 Tate and Ragovoy recorded about 10 singles, the first for the Utopia label, the rest for Verve. "Ain't Nobody Home" (1966), "Look At Granny Run Run" (1966) and "Stop" (1967), all written or co-written by Ragovoy, each charted R&B Top 20. But to rock audiences, Tate was best known as the original performer of "Get It While You Can," which became one of Janis Joplin's signature tunes. Tate's debut album, Get It While You Can, was released in 1966 to tremendous acclaim. Rolling Stone called the album "a spectacular showcase of suave, muscular good-powered singing, heavily influenced by Sam Cooke, with a joyous, shrieking falsetto that became Tate's trademark."

Tate recorded a few more singles for Lloyd Price's label, Turntable, before reuniting briefly with Ragovoy for sessions on Atlantic. After one more single on Epic in 1974, Tate all but vanished. Despite his success, he was unhappy with how the music business was treating him, never having seen any royalties.

Tate sold securities in the New Jersey and Philadelphia areas into the 1980s when he succumbed to substance abuse and endured a very tumultuous period of homelessness and personal loss. He turned his life around and began work as a minister and counselor in the early 1990s. Then in 2001, a musician Tate had toured with back in the 1960s saw him in a supermarket and within hours Tate's old producer, Jerry Ragovoy, was calling, resulting in a return to the studio for the Grammy-nominated Rediscovered. He followed up with Howard Tate Live in 2006, A Portrait Of Howard - with guests Lou Reed, Carla Bley and Larry Goldings - in 2007 and Blue Day in 2008.

Music luminaries have recognized and celebrated Tate's trademark voice throughout the years, with Elvis Costello calling him "the missing link between Jackie Wilson and Al Green." Among the well-known musicians that have covered songs originally recorded by Tate are Joplin ("Get It While You Can"), Jimi Hendrix ("Stop"), Hugh Masekela ("Stop"), B.B. King ("Ain't Nobody Home"), Ry Cooder ("Look At Granny Run Run") and Grand Funk Railroad ("Look At Granny Run Run").

Track Listing:
1. Look At Granny Run Run
2. Sweet Sixteen
3. Louisiana 1927
4. I’ll Be Home
5. Dear Lord
6. Ain’t Nobody Home

Tate was born in Macon, Georgia, in 1939 and moved with his family to Philadelphia as a young boy. In his teens, he joined a north Philadelphia gospel group, the Gainors, that also featured to-be star Garnet Mimms. The group recorded in the early 1960s for Mercury Records and Cameo Records before Tate left to become the featured singer of organist Bill Doggett's group.

In the mid-'60s, Mimms urged producer Jerry Ragovoy to check out Tate, and from 1966 to 1969 Tate and Ragovoy recorded about 10 singles, the first for the Utopia label, the rest for Verve. Ain't Nobody Home (1966), Look At Granny Run Run (1966) and Stop (1967), all written or co-written by Ragovoy, each charted R&B Top 20. But to rock audiences, Tate was best known as the original performer of Get It While You Can, which became one of Janis Joplin's signature tunes. Tate's debut album, Get It While You Can, was released in 1966 to tremendous acclaim. Rolling Stone called the album a spectacular showcase of suave, muscular good-powered singing, heavily influenced by Sam Cooke, with a joyous, shrieking falsetto that became Tate's trademark.

Tate recorded a few more singles for Lloyd Price's label, Turntable, before reuniting briefly with Ragovoy for sessions on Atlantic. After one more single on Epic in 1974, Tate all but vanished. Despite his success, he was unhappy with how the music business was treating him, never having seen any royalties.

Tate sold securities in the New Jersey and Philadelphia areas into the 1980s when he succumbed to substance abuse and endured a very tumultuous period of homelessness and personal loss. He turned his life around and began work as a minister and counselor in the early 1990s. Then in 2001, a musician Tate had toured with back in the 1960s saw him in a supermarket and within hours Tate's old producer, Jerry Ragovoy, was calling, resulting in a return to the studio for the Grammy-nominated Rediscovered. He followed up with Howard Tate Live in 2006, A Portrait Of Howard - with guests Lou Reed, Carla Bley and Larry Goldings - in 2007 and Blue Day in 2008.

Music luminaries have recognized and celebrated Tate's trademark voice throughout the years, with Elvis Costello calling him the missing link between Jackie Wilson and Al Green. Among the well-known musicians that have covered songs originally recorded by Tate are Joplin (Get It While You Can), Jimi Hendrix (Stop), Hugh Masekela (Stop), B.B. King (Ain't Nobody Home), Ry Cooder (Look At Granny Run Run) and Grand Funk Railroad (Look At Granny Run Run).

Track Listing:
1. Look At Granny Run Run
2. Sweet Sixteen
3. Louisiana 1927
4. I’ll Be Home
5. Dear Lord
6. Ain’t Nobody Home

Side A

1. The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair (Memphis, 1929)
2. Broken Hearted, Ragged and Dirty Too (Memphis, 1929)
3. Divin’ Duck Blues (Memphis, 1929)
4. Little Sarah (Memphis, 1929)
5. Black Mattie Blues (Memphis, 1929)
6. T-Bone Steak Blues (Memphis, 1929)

Side B

1. Milk Cow Blues (Memphis, 1930)
2. Street Car Blues (Memphis, 1930)
3. Expressman Blues (Memphis, 1930)
4. Whatcha Doin’? (Memphis, 1930)
5. Poor John Blues (Memphis, 1930)
6. Stack o’ Dollars (Memphis, 1930)

Side C

1. My Black Gal Blues (Memphis, 1930)
2. Sweet Mama (Memphis, 1930)
3. Down South Blues (Chicago, 1935)
4. Stop That Thing (Chicago, 1935)
5. Someday Baby Blues (Chicago, 1935)
6. Who’s Been Telling You Buddy Brown Blues (Chicago, 1935)

Side D

1. Married Woman Blues (Chicago, 1935)
2. Drop Down Mama (Chicago, 1935)
3. Government Money (NYC, 1937)
4. I Wanta Tear It All the Time (NYC, 1937)
5. Vernita Blues (NYC, 1937)
6. I Ain’t Gonna Be Worried No More (NYC, 1937)

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Track Listing:
1. Baby Please Don't Go
2. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
3. Kokomo Me Baby
4. That's All Right Baby
5. Red Cross Store
6. Everybody's Down on Me
7. 61 Highway
8. Glory Hallelujah
9. Jesus Is on the Mainline

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Track Listing:
1. Bells Are Ringing
2. Standing on the Corner
3. Blue Monday
4. Down the Road
5. Lost Weekend
6. Real Gone Lover
7. Bumpity Bump
8. I Hear You Knocking
9. I Can't Believe It
10. Hey Girl
11. One Night
12. Nothing But the Blues

1. Honest I Do
2. Go On To School
3. My First Plea
4. Boogie In The Dark
5. You Got Me Crying
6. Ain't That Lovin' You Baby

Side Two

1. You Got Me Dizzy
2. Little Rain
3. Can't Stand To See You Go
4. Roll & Rhumba
5. You're Something Else
6. You Don't Have To Go

For the middle album of his Johnny Winter-produced, late-'70s music trilogy, blues giant Muddy Waters brought a new spirit to some familiar material. Starting with members of Waters' touring band: Pinetop Perkins, Bob Margolin and Willie Big Eyes Smith, Winter added underrated guitarist (and longtime Waters foil) Jimmy Rogers and extraordinary harp player Big Walter Horton to the mix. The songs recorded for I'm Ready offer a mix of new material and vintage hit singles like the title cut, the mid-'60s jewel Screamin' and Cryin' and the Willie Dixon-penned classic I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man.

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Track Listing:
1. I'm Ready
2. 33 Years
3. Who Do You Trust
4. Copper Brown
5. (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
6. Mamie
7. Rock Me
8. Screamin' and Cryin'
9. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl

Born in North Carolina in 1892, influential singer and banjo player Charlie Poole is often considered to be one of the fathers of bluegrass and one of country music’s first stars. Although Poole died at just 39 years old, he still had plenty of time to influence greats like Bill Monroe and Hank Williams, to name just a few. Although Poole did not write his own material—relying mainly on minstrel, vaudeville and burlesque songs of the day—his genius lay in his unique ability to rework a song to make it his own, like this version of the drinking song “If The River Was Whiskey”. Poole, along with his string band, the North Carolina Ramblers, recorded over 60 sides Columbia Records during the 1920s, many of which have become standard repertoire. The material found on this LP, taken from recordings made from 1925-1930, sheds welcome light on some of his lesser-known songs, like the hilarious “It’s Movin’ Day”.

Track Listing:
1. Sweet Sixteen
2. Write A Letter To My Mother
3. If The River Was Whiskey
4. Mother’s Last Farewell Kiss
5. Milwaukee Blues
6. Where The Whippoorwill Is Whispering Good-Night
7. The Girl I Left In Sunny Tennessee
8. It’s Movin’ Day
9. I’m The Man That Rode The Mule ‘Round The World
10. Monkey On A String
11. Can I Sleep In Your Barn Tonight Mister
12. Sunset March

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Track Listing:
1. Take It Easy
2. Mighty Crazy
3. Your Own Fault, Baby, To Treat Me The Way You Do
4. I’ve Had My Fun If I Don’t Get Well No More
5. The Trouble Blues
6. Lightnin’s Piano Boogie
7. Wonder Why
8. Mister Charlie
9. Black Cat

Anyone who's witnessed a much-anticipated jam session only to be disappointed - with each participant deferring to the other, the end result being that neither ever got out of first gear — will welcome this pairing of two giants of blues guitar. Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan obviously shared a mutual admiration, but it simply wasn't in either one's makeup to a) be intimidated or b) take a backseat to anyone. Not without kicking up a little dust.

This is such a precious set to any fan of either of these blues giants. In addition to the free-spirited jams, there are priceless episodes of conversation between each song, both men exchanging accolades and King giving the much younger Vaughan (though tragically it was Vaughan who died first) some sage advice. This simply is a must-have.

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Track Listing:
1. Call It Stormy Monday
2. Old Times
3. Pride And Joy
4. Ask Me No Questions
5. Pep Talk
6. Blues At Sunrise
7. Turn It Over
8. Overall Junction
9. Match Box Blues
10. Who Is Stevie?
11. Don't Lie To Me

It's Time could just as well have been titled It's Overdue. It's long been time for one of today's most powerful and expressive musicians to break the chains of relative commercial obscurity. Time to seize the reins of blues leadership, just as his father, Jimmy Rogers, did in the 1940s. Masters Eddie Kramer (engineer for Hendrix, Zeppelin, Woodstock etc.), Chris Whipper Layton and Tommy Shannon (of Double Trouble) and Mike Finnigan (organ in the bands of Etta James, Taj Mahal and CSN&Y) are all onboard to give Jimmy the nudge he needs to clear the launching pad. It's Time.

Just wanted to let you know how much Frank and I are enjoying Jimmy D. Lane's new CD - It's Time. It is truly wonderful! We are looking forward to experiencing the Blues Masters concert in Oct. Take care and thanks so much for such a hauntingly awesome CD. Please convey to him that we are hoping not to wear out the CD we enjoy it so much. - Peggy Ulasek, Maryland

Lane's certainly got the goods. The guitarist and singer - he plays bass and drums, too, on a pair of tracks - wrote all but one of the disc's 12 songs. And he's got a knack for mixing Hendrix- and Vaughan-influenced contemporary blues with old-school roots learned from his father...what makes It's Time a fun listen is its textural variety...Kramer's production offers a bright, modern sound that still has the warm feel of live performance. He and Lane keep the set tightly focused...For Jimmy D. Lane, now's as good a time as any. - Michael Cote, Blues Revue, February/March 2005

Track Listing:
Side One

1. What Makes People
2. 'Til I Loved You
3. Half Love

Side Two

1. Ain't It a Pity
2. It's Time

3. Stuck in the Middle

Side Three

1. Hand on the Door
2. Bad Luck
3. My Nature

Side Four

1. 24-7
2. Bleeding Heart
3. Salina

Recorded with local musicians in Austin, this double album is self-produced. Lou Ann Barton guests on several tracks.

Jimmie hand picked the covers originally made famous by the likes of Little Richard, Jimmy Reed, Roy Milton, Willie Nelson, Doug Sahm and more.

When Jimmie Vaughan says “I have the best job in the world,” he isn’t kidding. For more than four decades, the guitar-slinging Texan legend has been earning his living rockin’ the blues, and nothing makes the man happier. But now, Vaughan is even more excited about his gig than usual—for his newest release he’s consulted the vast blues encyclopedia that resides deep inside of his head and come up with a nearly all-covers set best described by its unambiguous title: Blues, Ballads & Favorites.

Self-produced and recorded in Vaughan’s hometown of Austin, the newest offering by the co-founder of the iconic, still-missed Fabulous Thunderbirds spotlights a wild array of tunes originally recorded by the likes of Roy Milton, Jimmy Reed, Roscoe Gordon and Little Richard, with a Willie Nelson favourite tossed in. No particular criteria were used in selecting the tracks to include; Vaughan simply narrowed down a long list of songs he liked and Blues, Ballads and Favorites was the ultimate result.

Recorded with a solid group of mostly local musicians, with longtime cohort Lou Ann Barton lending her vocals to a handful of tunes, Blues, Ballads & Favorites is Vaughan’s first new release in nearly nine years. “I got married and had twins, and a lot of things happened in between,” he says, but as soon as the music emits its mighty roar, it’s clear that nothing has dulled Jimmie Vaughan’s mastery of his axe or his powerful vocal delivery. “I’m just about to turn 59 years old and I’m having a good time,” he says. “I’ve got my second wind here.”

Track Listing:

Side A:

The Pleasure's All Mine
Come Love
I'm Leaving It Up To You
Comin' & Goin'

Side B:

Wheel Of Fortune
How Can You Be So Mean
Just A Little Bit
Lonely Weekends

Side C:

I Miss You So
RM Blues
Roll, Roll, Roll
Send Me Some Lovin'

Side D:

Why, Why, Why
(She's Got The) Blues For Sale
Funny How Time Slips Away

Mastered at AcousTech by Kevin Gray and Steve Hoffman.

Analogue Productions' cleanly pressed 45rpm version of Reed's most famous release is not the first audiophile edition. Mobile Fidelity released a fine-sounding gold disc in the '90s, and Audio Fidelity recently transferred it onto SACD. But there's magic lurking within these grooves that digital has never fully reproduced; the album has never sounded better. Reed's lazy rhythmic sway, loose-limbed strumming, and unmannered singing fill the soundstage...Guitar timbres teem with purity, and there's ample separation between Reed's elementary harmonica solos and Earl Phillips' rocking-chair percussion. While the album has never been a dynamic standout, it's hard to imagine a future incarnation getting more from the music. - Bob Gendron, The Absolute Sound, April/May 2005

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Track Listing:
1. Bright Lights Big City
2. I’m Mr. Luck
3. What’s Wrong, Baby
4. Found Joy
5. Kind Of Lonesome
6. Aw Shucks, Hush Your Mouth
7. Tell Me You Love Me
8. Blue Carnegie
9. I’m A Love You
10. Hold Me Close
11. Blue Blue Water
12. Baby What You Want Me To Do
13. You Don't Have To Go
14. Hush-Hush
15. Found Love
16. Honest I Do
17. You Got Me Dizzy
18. Big Boss Man
19. Take Out Some Insurance
20. Boogie In The Dark
21. Going To New York
22. Ain’t That Lovin’ You, Baby
23. The Sun Is Shining

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Track Listing:
1. Every Morning
2. Tell Everybody I Know
3. Love Blues
4. Victims Of Comfort
5. Angelina
6. Anybody Seen My Girl
7. She Just Wants To Dance
8. Am I Wrong
9. Come On In My Kitchen
10. Dirty Low Down And Bad
11. Don't Try To Explain
12. Kindhearted Woman Blues
13. City Boy

The greatest blues man of all time is celebrated here with an extensive 21 track compilation of live and studio recordings presented on limited edition 12” vinyl! Appropriately titled the King of the Blues, this fine collection includes the all time favorites “The Thrill Is Gone,” “B.B. Boogie,” “Payin’ The Cost To Be The Boss,” “You’ve Done Lost Your Good Thing Now” and many more!

B.B. King King of the Blues Track Listing

1. The Thrill Is Gone
2. Payin' The Cost To Be The Boss
3. Everyday I Have The Blues
4. How Blue Can You Get
5. Please Love Me
6. Guess Who
7. You've Done Lost Your Good Thing Now
8. Save A Seat For Me
9. I Am Willing To Run All The Way
10. Long Nights
11. From The Bottom (Featuring Sonny Boy Williamson)
12. That Evil Child
13. Sweet Sixteen
14. B.B. Boogie
15. The Other Night Blues
16. It's My Own Fault Baby
17. Catfish Blues
18. Sweet Chariot
19. Outside Help
20. Walkin' And Cryin'
21. Mr. Pawnbroker

Despite his untimely death, the man managed to squeeze in a lot in his 27 short years on this earth, enough to earn him the title of “King of the Delta Blues”. Pretty impressive, given the competition! Johnson's style has influenced everyone from Muddy Waters to Eric Clapton and he is widely considered to be one of the greatest guitar players to have ever lived! A widely reported legend of Johnson selling his soul to the Devil in order to gain prowess on the guitar seems likely given the talent the man possessed. This triple LP box set chronicles his short but legendary career, featuring everything Johnson ever recorded, including the many songs that made him famous and have long since become blues standards. Absolutely essential in any collection!

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Track Listing:
Side A :

1 Kindhearted Woman Blues
2 Kindhearted Woman Blues (Alternate Take)
3 I Believe I’ll Dust My Broom
4 Sweet Home Chicago
5 Ramblin’ On My Mind
6 Ramblin’ On My Mind (Alternate Take)

Side B:

1 When You Got A Good Friend
2 When You Got A Good Friend (Alternate Take)
3 Come On In My Kitchen
4 Come On In My Kitchen (Alternate Take)
5 Terraplane Blues
6 Phonograph Blues
7 Phonograph Blues (Alternate Take)

Side C:

1 32-20 Blues
2 They’re Red Hot
3 Dead Shrimp Blues
4 Cross Road Blues
5 Cross Road Blues (Alternate Take)
6 Walking Blues
7 Last Fair Deal Gone Down

Side D:

1 Preaching Blues (Up Jumped The Devil)
2 If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day
3 Stones In My Passway
4 I’m A Steady Rollin’ Man
5 From Four Till Late
6 Hellhound On My Trait

Side E:

1 Little Queen Of Spades
2 Little Queen Of Spades (Alternate Take)
3 Malted Milk
4 Drunken Hearted Man
5 Drunken Hearted Man (Alternate Take)
6 Me And The Devil Blues
7 Me And The Devil Blues (Alternate Take)

Side F:

1 Stop Breakin’ Down Blues
2 Stop Breakin’ Down Blues (Alternate Take)
3 Traveling Riverside Blues
4 Honeymoon Blues
5 Love In Vain Blues
6 Love In Vain Blues (Alternate Take)
7 Milkcow’s Calf Blues
8 Milkcow’s Calf Blues (Alternate Take)

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Track Listing:
1. Solid Gold
2. From Dark 'Til Dawn
3. I Will Be Kind to You
4. Last Night's Dream
5. Baby Don't You Think I Know
6. Pipeline Blues
7. I Don't Know
8. Black Panther
9. I Had a Good Home
10. Mean Fisherman

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Track Listing:
Goodnight Irene
Grasshoppers In My Pillow
The Eagle Rocks
Rock Island Line
Ella Speed
Backwater Blues
Take This Hammer
Tell Me, Baby
Eagle Rock Rag
Western Plain
Sweet Mary Blues
On A Christmas Day

There was magic in the sanctuary of Blue Heaven Studios that October 2004 Saturday afternoon. On the altar sat Leroy, cross-legged and cradling his National ResoLectric steel guitar with a glass slide encasing his left pinky finger and caressing the strings, while his right fingers aggressively plucked and strummed. The result is a dramatic yet buttery-smooth take of five killer blues numbers and one gospel tune.

Track Listing:
Side One
1. Guitar Rag
2. Highway 61
3. Closer Walk With Thee

Side Two
1. Love In Vain
2. Drunkin’ Spree
3. No Feelings For Other Folks