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The Layla Sessions: 20th Anniversary Edition

The Layla Sessions: 20th Anniversary Edition (1990) more music like this

by Derek & the Dominos

This three-CD box did a lot of good for rock reissues, though not necessarily for the Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs album. It was the first high-profile reissue to treat rock with the same respect that scholars had long accorded jazz, going beyond the finished tracks to the outtakes and anything else usable that turned up in the vaults. ...

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Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey

Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey (2003) more music like this

by Original Soundtrack

This five-disc, 116-track box set presents a sweeping history of the blues from its emergence in the early 1900s clear through to its various contemporary guises, and includes samples of country blues in all of its regional variations, as well as cuts from string bands, jug bands, jazz combos, gritty Chicago blues outfits, and a look at how rock ...

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One More Car, One More Rider

One More Car, One More Rider (2002) more music like this

by Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton had a fierce testimonial to the blues with From the Cradle, but One More Car, One More Rider arrives nearly a decade later, and the difference is stunning. Though he goes through the motions of playing the blues -- a cutting version of the perennial "Key to the Highway," "Hoochie Coochie Man," "Goin' Down Slow," among others here -- ...

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Working Overtime

Working Overtime (1993) more music like this

by Dave Hole

Hole's second disc features nine original compositions and covers of Muddy Waters and Big Bill Broonzy, rendered in a vocal and guitar style somewhat similar to Johnny Winter's best blues work but with an edge of youthful vigor. "Biting slide guitar work" is an understatement. Hole can also play the thoughtful Roy Buchanan card on the likes of ...

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Blues at Newport

Blues at Newport (1991) more music like this

by Various Artists

Blues at Newport -- Newport Folk Festival 1959-64 offers fine performances by John Hurt, Skip James, Rev. Gary Davis, Robert Wilkins, and others. Mark A. Humphrey, All Music Guide

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A Musical History [CD/DVD Box Set]

A Musical History [CD/DVD Box Set] (2005) more music like this

by The Band

Given the countless Band compilations released over the years, plus the exhaustive bonus-track-laden reissues of the proper albums in 2000 and 2001, it's easy to be suspicious of the six-disc A Musical History, especially since it's the third Band box set released in the CD era. It would seem that all the worthwhile previously unreleased music ...

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Newport Folk Festival: Best of the Blues 1959-1968

Newport Folk Festival: Best of the Blues 1959-1968 (2001) more music like this

by Various Artists

Newport Folk Festival: Best of the Blues 1959-1968 presents live performances from many of the top blues players of the era. From Skip James to Mance Lipscomb to Memphis Slim, these musicians play mostly acoustic blues before an appreciative audience. From the first disc, Mississippi John Hurt's six-song set is a standout. Piedmont fingerpicking ...

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Ultimate Collection

Ultimate Collection (2001) more music like this

by Freddie King

Hip-O's Ultimate Collection is one of the first truly comprehensive overviews of Freddie King's career, starting with his seminal recordings for Federal and running all the way to his final recordings for RSO in the mid-'70s. This is a mixed blessing. On one hand, it's nice to have a disc that tells the whole story, but the shifting production ...

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I Want You to Know

I Want You to Know (1996) more music like this

by Paul Rishell & Annie Raines

The team of guitarist Paul Rishell and Annie Raines on harmonica (both sing) is so appealing that their acoustic duets make the occasional guests (and electrification of the music) seem unnecessary although Ronnie Earl gets in a few good guitar solos. Five originals by the Rishell/Raines team fit right in with songs by the likes of Blind Boy ...

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Chess Blues Classics: 1957-1967

Chess Blues Classics: 1957-1967 (1997) more music like this

by 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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Very Best of Dinah Washington (2006) more music like this

by Dinah Washington

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The Essential (1993) more music like this

by Little Walter

In many ways, this supplants the original single disc, Best of Little Walter, and appends it with 35 more classics of Chicago blues harp genius, although one track from the original 12-song lineup is (perhaps purposely) left off. If you want to start your Walter collection with a nice generous helping of his best, this one runs the entire gamut of ...

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The Essential (2001) more music like this

by Big Bill Broonzy

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Jammin' Blues Electric and Acoustic (2003) more music like this

by Buddy Guy

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The Southern Blues [Catfish] (1995) more music like this

by Big Bill Broonzy

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Live at the Ram Jam Club (2007) more music like this

by Paul Jones/Dave Kelly

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Vanguard: Roots of the Blues (2002) more music like this

by Various Artists

This three-CD set draws from the Vanguard catalog of blues performances, focusing, apparently, mostly on recordings from the 1960s. "Apparently" because, in an act of negligence, no original recording or release dates are given for any of the 45 songs, except for four previously unreleased tracks done at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival and one done ...

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Baby, Don't You Tear My Clothes (2004) more music like this

by James Cotton

James Cotton's third solo release on Telarc, Baby, Don't You Tear My Clothes picks up where 35th Anniversary Jam of the James Cotton Blues Band left off. The strongest of these 13 tracks find Cotton and associates digging back to the '30s for inspiration: Doc & Merle Watson assist on Leroy Carr's "How Long Blues," "Stealin' Stealin'" with Dave ...

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Boogie Chillun [Fantasy] (1972) more music like this

by John Lee Hooker

Recorded live in November 1962 in San Francisco, this dates from the period in which Hooker often presented himself as a sort of blues/folk singer for the coffeehouse crowd, toning down his volume and aggressiveness somewhat. There's something of a muted "unplugged" feel to these solo performances (though an electric guitar is used). It's not ...

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Hate to See You Go (1969) more music like this

by Little Walter

Many blues fans identify this album by the scar on its front cover, and this doesn't mean that their copy got damaged lying around in the used-record pile. A larger than life black-and-white photograph of Little Walter fills the front cover with a visual impact that just cannot be matched in the petite world of compact discs. A jewel case would ...

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Collection [EMI] (2004) more music like this

by Dinah Washington

While this two-disc, 40-track collection is not the definitive Dinah Washington, it is certainly more than adequate, covering her career with Roulette over only three years, from 1962-1964. This is Washington the blues and jazz singer with big bands and stellar arrangements. From "Drinking Again" to "Do Nothing 'Til You Hear from Me," from "Red ...

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King of the Blues (1995) more music like this

by Freddie King

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Live in Paris (1988) more music like this

by Alexis Korner

Korner working acoustically in the company of another guitarist (who plays electric) and bassist in Paris in 1993. The crowd is largely folkie restrained as Korner delivers a laid-back performance of standards like "Blue Monday," "Key to the Highway," "Sweet Home Chicago," "I Got My Mojo Working," and "Working in the Coalmine" with several of his ...

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New York City Blues: 1940-1950 (2002) more music like this

by Various Artists

New York City Blues: 1940-1950 presents a window into the blues musicians who moved to New York City after the war and found themselves somewhat of a community in the Greenwich Village folk scene of the time. As a result, much of this collection strays from the general expectations of early acoustic blues recordings and instead supplies some ...

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Need a Shot: The Essential Recordings of Urban Blues (1997) more music like this

by Various Artists

Featuring two-dozen tracks drawn from commercially released 78s of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, Need a Shot is primarily a piano-based selection, although there is a fair amount of guitar and harmonica tossed in, and on occasion even drums, saxes, and clarinets. Labeled urban blues, these sides are only a little removed from their country blues ...

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