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Crossroads
(1988)
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Eric Clapton
A four-disc box set spanning Eric Clapton's entire career -- running from the Yardbirds to his '80s solo recordings -- Crossroads not only revitalized Clapton's commercial standing, but it established the rock & roll multi-disc box set retrospective as a commercially viable proposition. Bob Dylan's Biograph was successful two years before the ...
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Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton [Remastered]
(2001)
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John Mayall & the Blues Breakers
Rarely has any single record album induced such a shift in popular music. Blues Breakers With Eric Clapton not only catapulted Clapton to the helm of the burgeoning British blues-rock scene, it likewise made significant noise on the other side of the Atlantic -- where the blues had literally been born, bred, and buttered. This remastered and ...
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In the Beginning
(1992)
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Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
This 1980 live broadcast from Austin, TX captures a young Stevie Vaughan (he had yet to become Stevie Ray) blasting the hometown crowd with a style that was already very well-formed. With Chris Layton on drums and bassist Jackie Newhouse (Tommy Shannon would join up a year later), his basic sound was already in place, albeit still in need of some ...
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Old New Ballads Blues
(2006)
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Gary Moore
Since the early '90s Belfast guitar whiz Gary Moore has returned again and again to the blues, leaving his metal phase far behind. Old New Ballads Blues is exactly what the title says it is, a mix of old blues (covers of songs by Elmore James, Willie Dixon, and Otis Rush), new blues (five Moore originals), ballads (half the album) and, well, blues ...
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Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton
(1966)
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John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers
Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton was Eric Clapton's first fully realized album as a blues guitarist -- more than that, it was a seminal blues album of the 1960s, perhaps the best British blues album ever cut, and the best LP ever recorded by John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. Standing midway between Clapton's stint with the Yardbirds and the formation of ...
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70th Birthday Concert
(2003)
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John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers and Friends
Though almost always well-intentioned, events like this usually don't pan out on record, let alone on DVD. Thankfully, this is not one of those occasions. John Mayall in his 70th Birthday Concert is as spry, ferocious, and on top of his game as ever. There is nothing tired about the presentation or the performances. Mayall's own umpteenth version ...
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20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Blues Guitar
(2003)
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Various Artists
20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Blues Guitar collects 12 remastered tracks from the vaults of Chess, Duke, Deram, and BluesWay Records. This package includes classic performances from such legends as Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Bo Diddley, Howlin' Wolf, Buddy Guy, and John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton. ...
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Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: The Best of the Blues
(2003)
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Various Artists
A massive media campaign comprising seven documentary films broadcast on public television and released as a DVD box set, plus accompanying soundtrack albums, a 13-part radio series, a companion book, 12 individual artist compilations, and a five-CD box set, The Blues, executive produced by filmmaker Martin Scorsese, threatened to be even more all ...
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Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton [Deluxe Edition]
(2006)
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John Mayall
The 40th anniversary deluxe edition of John Mayall's classic Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton album, issued in the U.K. in 2006, is a two-CD, 43-song affair, even though the original LP had just 12 tracks. While the many extras aren't nearly as essential as the original LP itself, this reissue neatly packages everything the Clapton lineup of the ...
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Best of Chicago Blues [Rhino]
(2003)
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Various Artists
This brief compilation hardly contains the best of Chicago blues (there is no Muddy Waters or Howlin' Wolf, for instance), and while the selection is eclectic enough, ranging from early J.B. Lenoir ("I Feel So Good") to classic Jimmy Reed ("Big Boss Man") and vintage Snooky Pryor ("Telephone Blues"), there are dozens of anthologies that do a ...
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Cold Day in Hell
(1976)
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Otis Rush
Inconsistent but sometimes riveting 1975 studio set that hits some high highs (a crunchy "Cut You a Loose," the lickety-split jazzy instrumental "Motoring Along") right alongside some incredibly indulgent moments. But that's Otis -- the transcendent instants are worth the hassle. Bill Dahl, All Music Guide
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Live in Europe
(1977)
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Otis Rush
Recorded in France back in 1977, this ten-song set finds Otis backed by strong trio support throughout in a delightfully engaged performance. Though several live albums exist on him, seldom has his declamatory vocals and stinging left-handed upside down guitar style been so well documented. Rush puts forth solo after solo, each with its own unique ...
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Farmhouse Blues
(2005)
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Innes Sibun
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Blues Masters, Vol. 2: Postwar Chicago Blues
(1992)
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Various Artists
Excellent 18 track compendium of all the major movers and shakers who helped shape the Chicago blues scene in the 50s. Everyone is well represented here, and major stars like Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf stand next to behind-the-scenes geniuses like Earl Hooker and Jody Williams for an interesting, and accurate, blend. Cub Koda, All Music Guide
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London Blues (1964-1969)
(1992)
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John Mayall
This two-hour-plus compilation of the first five years of the history of John Mayall and his band the Bluesbreakers in their many permutations covers all the expected bases and then some. Eric Clapton, Peter Green, and Mick Taylor are all represented, but so are Bernie Watson and Roger Dean, both of whom preceded Clapton in the guitarist's spot in ...
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Good Uns
(2002)
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Otis Rush
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Door to Door (With Albert King)
(1970)
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Otis Rush
Although Albert King is pictured on the front cover and has the lion's share of tracks on this excellent compilation, six of the fourteen tracks come from Rush's shortlived tenure with the label and are some of his very best. Chronologically, these are his next recordings after the Cobra sides and they carry a lot of the emotional wallop of those ...
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The Cobra Records Story
(1993)
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Various Artists
If the 50 tracks on this double-CD box sound an awful lot like they could have come off of any of MCA's various Chess boxes -- but especially the Willie Dixon volume -- it's no accident. Cobra Records was an upstart Chicago-based label that existed for a little over three years at the end of the 1950s, founded by Eli Toscano and Willie Dixon as ...
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Classic Recordings
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Otis Rush
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Kings of Blues Guitars
(1993)
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Various Artists
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SRV
(2000)
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Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
If you're gonna put out a box set that really offers something to the devoted fans of an artist -- who are, after all, probably bound to have much or all of the artist's other records already if they're interesting in buying a box set to begin with -- this four-CD package is the way to do it. It's not so much a best-of or career retrospective as a ...
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X2: Texas Flood/In the Beginning
(2008)
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Stevie Ray Vaughan
Sony Legacy's X2 series is one of the more curious reissue programs in the label's history. Here is a prime example: Stevie Ray Vaughan's breakthrough debut for the label, Texas Flood from 1983, is slapped in a slipcase with 1992's In the Beginning. The strange thing is that the latter album, while indeed recorded earlier, was released ...
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So Many Roads: Live in Concert [1978 LP]
(1978)
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Otis Rush
There's a pile of Otis Rush live albums in the bins now, but this was the one that made everybody sit up and take notice and it's still his best. Recorded live outdoors in a Tokyo park in the Summer of 1975 with thousands of fans hanging on every note and word, Otis digs deep and delivers some of the most inspired singing and playing he's ever ...
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Otis Rush Live and In Concert from San Francisco
(2006)
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Otis Rush
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The Ultimate Blues Collection [Castle]
(1990)
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Various Artists
At its release in 1990 this was an impressive introduction to modern blues through a number of the genre's bigger stars. Given it is only a double album, it also gave a good overview of various blues styles and periods. But looking back, time hasn't been too kind to some of the tracks that felt natural to include in 1990, like Gary Moore's "King ...
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