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Folk Singer
(1964)
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Muddy Waters
Muddy's "unplugged" album was cut in September of 1963 and still sounds fresh and vital today. It was Muddy simply returning to his original style on a plain acoustic guitar in a well-tuned room with Willie Dixon on string bass, Clifton James on drums, and Buddy Guy on second acoustic guitar. The nine tracks are divvied up between full rhythm ...
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His Best [MCA]
(1997)
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Sonny Boy Williamson
While some hardliners will point to his early 1950s Trumpet recordings as his most undiluted work, Sonny Boy's tenure at Chess Records was his longest and most successful and therefore deserves first look for the novice coming to this remarkable bluesman at ground level. This 20-track collection takes 17 tracks from the excellent two-disc ...
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Live at the Fillmore East 1970
(2001)
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Ten Years After
This superbly recorded double disc (the original engineer was Eddie Kramer, best-known for his work with Hendrix) captured over a weekend worth of dates in February 1970 at the venerable New York City venue catches the Brit boogie quartet at the peak of their powers. These shows were sandwiched between their triumphant Woodstock set and the ...
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The Anthology: 1947-1972
(2001)
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Muddy Waters
There have been countless collections of Muddy Waters' classic Chess material released over the years, but Chess began to whittle down the domestic catalog toward the late '90s. The triple-disc Chess box remained in print, but they added two single-disc collections that each covered a specific period in Waters' career at Chess. Then, in 2001, MCA ...
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It's Too Late to Stop Now...
(1974)
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Van Morrison
While Van Morrison is, to be kind, an erratic and temperamental live performer, he's in stellar form throughout the double album It's Too Late to Stop Now, a superb concert set that neatly summarizes his career from his days with Them (represented by scorching renditions of "Gloria" and "Here Comes the Night") through 1973's Hard Nose the Highway ...
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Chess Blues Classics: 1957-1967
(1997)
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Various Artists
This second volume of a two-volume entry in MCA's Chess 50th Anniversary reissue series chronicles the second decade of blues classics produced by the landmark company. Although Chess' big four (Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, and Sonny Boy Williamson) are all finely represented, influential sides by Elmore James ("Madison Blues"), Otis ...
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Chicago/The Blues/Today!
(1999)
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Various Artists
In early 1966, blues history was made with the issuance of a three-volume set of new recordings produced by blues historian Samuel Charters. This series was known as Chicago/The Blues/Today! and the release sent shock waves through the world of rock & roll. Every artist on the three volumes had recorded before (some, like Otis Rush and Junior ...
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Blue Blazes
(1994)
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Sugar Blue
Harmonica player and vocalist Sugar Blue isn't a singer who doubles on harp; he's an extraordinary instrumentalist who's also a quality vocalist. Blue covers tunes by Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, James Cotton and Sonny Boy Williamson (II) classics, presents a decent, if disposable version of The Rolling Stones' "Miss You," and adds the good-natured ...
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Best of the Vanguard Years
(1998)
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Junior Wells
Best of the Vanguard Years collects Junior Wells' material from the Chicago! The Blues! Today! various-artists series, live and studio tracks from the albums It's My Life, Baby! and Comin' at You, and a smattering of rare and/or unreleased cuts. As a Wells retrospective, it's irredeemably incomplete, covering as it does his output for only one ...
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Shredzilla
(1997)
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Jon Bare & the Killer Whales
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The Real Folk Blues/More Real Folk Blues
(2002)
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Sonny Boy Williamson
Like other entries in the Chess Real Folk Blues series, Sonny Boy Williamson's The Real Folk Blues and More Real Folk Blues (here combined onto one CD) were not really folk, and not really regular albums. Rather, they were somewhat arbitrarily chosen compilations, titled to appeal to the crowd that had gotten turned onto the blues during the 1960s ...
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Uncanned! The Best of Canned Heat
(1994)
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Canned Heat
For most non-completists, this anthology should more than suffice as an apt compact disc retrospective of Canned Heat's releases on Liberty Records. To that end, it's a more or less chronological overview of the combo's LPs, commencing with a trio of tunes from a spring 1967 studio session that predates their self-titled debut (1967). Primary is ...
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Live in Montreux
(1977)
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Buddy Guy
No blues tandem in recent memory has given more alternately brilliant and infuriating performances as the duo of Junior Wells and Buddy Guy. They can inspire or anger, stimulate or disgust, amaze or bore. They were in a great groove during the selections recorded at this concert for Isabel. They have been recently reissued with two bonus cuts as ...
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The Essential Sonny Boy Williamson [MCA/Chess]
(1993)
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Sonny Boy Williamson II
Two-disc compilation offering 45 of the wizened harmonica genius' best efforts for the Chess brothers, this is the best domestic Williamson package you'll find. Not everything you might want, but pretty close to it: "Don't Start Me to Talkin'," "Let Me Explain," "The Key (To Your Door)" (an alternate take), "Bring It on Home," "Help Me," "One Way ...
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Open All Nite
(1976)
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The Nighthawks
When Open All Nite was first released on LP in 1976, the Nighthawks had only been together for four years -- little did they know that they would still be together in the 21st century and would celebrate their 30th anniversary in 2002. Some young bands sound like they still have some growing and developing to do, but the Nighthawks never sound the ...
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More Real Folk Blues
(1967)
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Sonny Boy Williamson II
More good early-'60s Chess Recordings from Sonny Boy Williamson. "Help Me," "Bye Bye Bird," and "Nine Below Zero" have been covered by numerous blues and rock acts. Most of the songs, however, show up on the Essential best-of collection. Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide
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The Best of Sonny Boy Williamson [Fontana]
(2006)
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Sonny Boy Williamson [II]
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The Birth of the Blues [Soho]
(2002)
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Various Artists
This three-disc set doesn't so much chronicle the birth of the blues, as it does its adolescence, marking the point when the blues went urban and electric. Among the highlights here are Mississippi Fred McDowell's "61 Highway," Magic Slim's stately and poignant "Cummins Prison Farm," and Lightnin' Hopkins' "War Is Starting Again." Steve Leggett, ...
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The Devil's Music
(2003)
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TV Original Soundtrack
The Devil's Music is the three-disc soundtrack to a BBC television documentary on American blues that aired originally in 1976 at the height of the punk explosion in Britain. What makes this an important set are the many old blues artists captured here doing new live versions of their signature songs; and since many of them have since passed on, ...
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Chess Club Rhythm & Soul
(1996)
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Various Artists
This compilation is a good but peculiar British import of 25 Chess tracks from the 1960s, with the anachronistic exception of Little Walter's 1955 classic "My Babe." It's mostly soul, but sometimes blues, and sometimes a mixture of the two. There's not a solid concept linking the selections, except perhaps that they were (and are) considered good ...
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Chess Blues-Rock Songbook: The Classic Originals
(1997)
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Various Artists
While Chess Records' legacy as a dominating and shaping force on rock & roll is well chronicled, you don't really get the full range of it until you're ultimately confronted with the music itself. This two-disc, 36-track compilation drives that point home with an almost numbing intensity. Whether they're blues tunes that have been covered so many ...
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The Greatest Blues Album of All Time, Vol. 2
(2000)
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Various Artists
The Greatest Blues Album of All Time, Vol. 2 is an average collection of 16 tracks from both electric and acoustic blues heroes, including John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Reed, Robert Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy, and even Billie Holiday. While the sound quality tends to be muddy, this is a decent blues primer for the novice at a bargain-bin price. Al ...
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Evidence Blues Sampler
(1992)
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Various Artists
Evidence's blues reissue campaign has been exhaustive and diverse in its artistic and stylistic range, something that is reflected in this 15-cut sampler culled from various sessions. There is vintage material from John Lee Hooker, J.B. Hutto, and the tandem of Junior Wells and Buddy Guy, plus classic R&B by Louis Jordan and Big Joe Turner and ...
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Canned Heat
(1967)
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Canned Heat
This debut long-player from Canned Heat was issued shortly after their appearance at the Monterey International Pop Music Festival. That performance, for all intents and purposes, was not only the combo's entrée into the burgeoning underground rock & roll scene, but was also among the first high-profile showcases to garner national and ...
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Hear Me Calling
(1981)
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Ten Years After
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