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1	The Best There Ever Was: The Legendary Early Blues Performers (2003) more music like this by Various Artists Yazoo Records has long been one of the prime sources for rural blues reissues from the 1920s and '30s. Transferred from old 78s, some so rare only a single copy or two are known to exist, these tracks offer a wonderful glimpse into a fabled blues past. Essentially a kind of greatest-hits collection for Yazoo, The Best There Ever Was features ... see all copies from $13.14! new only from $15.40!
2	Classic Railroad Songs from Smithsonian Folkways (2006) more music like this by Various Artists Smithsonian Folkways ninth installment of its popular Classic Series chronicles the golden age of the American railroad. Classic Railroad Songs from Smithsonian Folkways picks up where 2004's Classic Maritime Music collection left off, unearthing previously unheard of gems from their archives along with classics from some of the genre's finest ... see all copies from $9.46! new only from $10.70!
3	Whiskey Is My Habit, Women Is All I Crave: The Best of Leroy Carr (2004) more music like this by Leroy Carr The 40 tracks compiled on this two-disc set represent the entire span of pianist and singer Leroy Carr's recording career that spanned a brief seven years, from 1928-1935. The material represented here -- all but one of these tracks were recorded for the Vocalion label -- features accompaniment by guitarist Scrapper Blackwell on all but one ... see all copies from $16.42! new only from $22.14!
4	Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 4 (1930-1931) (1991) more music like this by Tampa Red Volume four in the Document series of Tampa Red's Complete Recorded Works reissues two dozen sides originally recorded during late 1930 and most of 1931. During this period, he introduced two career classics ("Boogie Woogie Dance," "Things 'Bout Coming My Way"), did several versions of "You Rascal You," and took on boogie-woogie with a pair of ... see all copies from $11.59! new only from $14.19!
5	Bottleneck Guitar (1928-1937) (1974) more music like this by Tampa Red Yazoo's Bottleneck Guitar (1928-1937) is a great collection of early recordings from slide guitarist Tampa Red. The 14-track collection has a number of classic solo cuts from Tampa -- including "You Gotta Reap What You Sow" and "Seminole Blues" -- plus duets with the likes of Georgia Tom and Ma Rainey, making it an excellent overview of his ... see all copies from $17.49! new only from $19.19!
6	Big Bill's Blues (1996) more music like this by Big Bill Broonzy If you're going to sweat a Big Bill Broonzy collection down to only one disc, this is the one to keep in the collection. It's really his most representative work, highlighting most of the best-known numbers from his extensive repertoire and the highlights (including a hilarious "When I've Been Drinkin'," in which he supposedly downs several shots ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $17.79!
7	Good Time Tonight (1990) more music like this by Big Bill Broonzy If you're following the 30-plus year career of Bill Broonzy and already have the two early compilations available on Yazoo, here's where you go next. These are basically ensemble works covering the time frame between 1930 to 1940 and Broonzy sounds very comfortable in the company of Blind John Davis and Joshua Altheimer. The 20 tracks compiled ... see all copies from $11.90!
8	Crazy Blues: The Best of Mamie Smith (2004) more music like this by Mamie Smith Simply put, this is the most extensive collection of Mamie Smith sides on one disc that is available in 2004. It goes much farther than the Classic Blues Essential disc. Between the years 1920-1931 when recording for OKeh, Mamie Smith & Her Jazz Hounds were kindred spirits to Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Seven, though her sound is far more ... see all copies from $14.99! new only from $14.99!
9	Anthology of American Folk Music, Vol. 4 (2000) more music like this by Various Artists The Harry Smith-compiled three-volume Anthology of American Folk Music set, originally released in the 1950s and reissued to much brouhaha in 1997, was one of the most important records in launching the folk revival. It was not well known, though, that Smith compiled a fourth volume that was unissued. Revenant finally put it out in 2000, and like ... see all copies from $38.39! new only from $38.39!
10	Prison Blues [Catfish] (2001) more music like this by Various Artists The nomadic lifestyle of the blues performer in the American South in the 1920s and '30s, coupled with the necessity of plying one's trade in juke joints and gin mills, often led to incarceration, and songs about jailhouses and prison farms abound. Catfish Records, a fine blues reissue label out of London, has collected some two dozen of those ... see all copies from $7.93! new only from $7.93!
11 view cover	The Southern Blues [Catfish] (1995) more music like this by Big Bill Broonzy see all copies from $3.00! new only from $3.00!
12 view cover	Topdog/Underdog [Clean] (2002) more music like this by Original Soundtrack Ostensibly a soundtrack to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play, Topdog/Underdog is really a brief history of 20th century African American music. Hip-hop, blues, and R&B are duly represented. DMX, Jay-Z, Wu-Tang Clan, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker, and James Brown check in with some of their most representative ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
13 view cover	Topdog & Underdog (2002) more music like this by Original Soundtrack The music used in the Broadway play Topdog/Underdog, about two orphaned African-American brothers, is a mixed and disjointed bag, like many such plays that use a variety of music from records in the production. The 12 selections include some important African-American music, but the jumble of blues, soul, jazz, and hip-hop doesn't flow well as a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.96!
14 view cover	Rough Guide to the Blues (2007) more music like this by Various Artists Full marks to the Rough Guide people -- with this release they've hit it very squarely on the head. If you want one definitive guide to the blues, this is it. Granted, not every major figure is here -- no Skip James or Furry Lewis, for example, or Tampa Red -- but this is as good as you're going to find on a single CD, ranging from the very early ... see all copies from $10.83! new only from $13.16!
15 view cover	The Long Road to Freedom: An Anthology of Black Music (2001) more music like this by Various Artists see all copies from $38.90! new only from $49.76!
16 view cover	This Is Blues (2007) more music like this by Various Artists There are countless blues compilations out there, and at first glance, this two-disc, 30-track selection doesn't seem to be anything special, but a closer look reveals that it covers a fairly wide spectrum, both in the number of blues styles it includes (prewar country-blues to Chicago blues, jump blues, folk-blues and more) and in the years it ... see all copies from $20.70! new only from $20.70!
17 view cover	Whoop It Up! Volume 1: 1927-1929 (2006) more music like this by Clarence Williams Jug + Washboard Bands Clarence Williams made his living as a music publisher, pianist, accompanist and organizer of recording ensembles during the 1920s and '30s. His variously sleepy, scruffy or gritty little jazz bands were usually driven by cornet, clarinet, tuba, jug and washboard players. Whoop It Up! is the Document label's first installment in a projected ... see all copies from $12.59! new only from $14.19!
18 view cover	The Young Big Bill Broonzy (1928-1935) (1928) more music like this by Big Bill Broonzy Big Bill Broonzy was one of the few country blues musicians of the '20s and '30s to find success when the music evolved into an electric, urbanized form. From his initial sides with Paramount in 1928, he followed the music's development closely. Switching to electric guitar and adding drums to his music in the late 1930s, he helped pave the way ... see all copies from $12.58! new only from $15.61!
19 view cover	Earliest Negro Vocal Groups, Vol. 3 (1995) more music like this by Various Artists Volume three in the Document label's Earliest Negro Vocal Groups series opens with 14 songs sung by two different Virginia-based vaudeville ensembles that made records for Columbia and Velvetone in 1921 and 1924, and whose secular tunes far outnumber the sacred selections. Inadvertent "gender bendering" occurs as some of the songs, originally ... see all copies from $7.69! new only from $7.69!
20 view cover	The Best of Frank Stokes (2005) more music like this by Frank Stokes The music -- a meld of blues and older, more satiric songster-inspired material, as well as gospel-influenced sides -- speaks for itself on this, the widest-ranging and best-sounding collection of Frank Stokes' work issued on CD. The Best of Frank Stokes, released by Yazoo, combines the highlights of such previous releases as Frank Stokes' Dream ... see all copies from $12.50! new only from $16.21!
21 view cover	Roots of Canned Heat (2001) more music like this by Various Artists Canned Heat was formed by three ardent record collectors with a devout passion for old blues 78s from the 1920s and '30s. Guitarist and harmonica player Alan Wilson, singer Bob Hite, and guitarist Henry Vestine took their scholarly interest in these remarkable old recordings and lovingly re-created them for the emerging rock audience in the late ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.47!
22 view cover	Blues Everywhere I Go (1999) more music like this by Odetta This is Odetta's first studio release in over a decade, but time doesn't appear to have affected her interpretive skills or the range and quality of her voice, which remains one of the most remarkable instruments in American folk and blues music to date. The 15 tracks on Blues Everywhere I Go tell what Odetta calls "the other side" of the African ... see all copies from $5.22! new only from $15.33!
23 view cover	Rude Dudes (2003) more music like this by Various Artists Since leaving the Rolling Stones in 1993, Bill Wyman has gone on a one-man crusade to promote the music he obviously loves. Wyman fronts his own blues band, the Rhythm Kings, and has been instrumental in keeping the names of both classic and obscure blues artists in the public eye through compilations like Rude Dudes. The title is somewhat ... see all copies from $5.79! new only from $18.56!
24 view cover	Memphis Blues Singers, Vol. 1 (1998) more music like this by Various Artists see all copies from $14.23! new only from $16.41!
25 view cover	Rare Country Blues, Vol. 3: 1928-1936 (2000) more music like this by Various Artists Document Records, a British reissue label, has set an admirable goal of releasing all the music found on 78s from the 1920s and '30s. Their collections are historical and archival in intent and are absolutely essential to scholars, collectors, and others interested in music of the period. Rare Country Blues, Vol. 3 assembles the complete known ... see all copies from $10.08! new only from $18.07!

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