West Side Soul (1967) more music like this

by Magic Sam

To call West Side Soul one of the great blues albums, one of the key albums (if not the key album) of modern electric blues is all true, but it tends to diminish and academicize Magic Sam's debut album. This is the inevitable side effect of time, when an album that is decades old enters the history books, but this isn't an album that should be ...

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King of the Blues [Box] (1992) more music like this

by B.B. King

No way can a mere four discs cover every facet of the blues king's amazing recording career, but MCA makes a valiant stab at it. The first two discs, as expected, are immaculate: opening with his Bullet Records debut ("Miss Martha King"), the box continues with a handful of pivotal RPM/Kent masters before digging into his 1960s ABC-Paramount ...

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Live at Ann Arbor & In Chicago (1982) more music like this

by Magic Sam

While the sound quality leaves something to be desired, fans of electric Chicago blues should hear Magic Sam live. Recorded at two separate locations, the Alex Club in Chicago in 1963 and 1964 and the Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival in 1969, this disc captures the raw energy not only of the musicians, but the crowds' tremendous response to them. ...

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West Side Chicago Blues (2003) more music like this

by Various Artists

One of four simultaneously released bargain priced compilations celebrating the Delmark label's 50th anniversary in 2003, West Side Chicago Blues is the most logical. Delmark, after all, was home to Magic Sam, possibly the most popular of all West Side acts, and arguably the most influential. There's only one track from Sam here, but it's also one ...

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Best of the Blues Guitar King 1951-1966 (2007) more music like this

by B.B. King

Although this 18-track compilation has plenty of fine music from the wealth of material B.B. King recorded in the 1950s and 1960s for the Modern label, it's uncertain how it intends to fit into the King canon. It's not exactly a true best-of, even if the "Best of" phrase in the title is taken only to apply to his Modern recordings. About half the ...

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Blues in My Heart (1962) more music like this

by B.B. King

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Blues Brunch at the Mart (2006) more music like this

by Michael Coleman

More than 50-years-old and still going strong, Delmark records is Chicago's oldest jazz and blues label and arguably the most important one still operating. They've released stone-cold classics in both genres over the years and currently maintain one of the best rosters of Chicago talent in the field. You can thank Bob Koester for that; a nominee ...

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Blues in My Heart [Bonus Tracks] (2004) more music like this

by B.B. King

It's been speculated that Blues in My Heart was recorded in late 1961 right before B.B. King left Modern for ABC, possibly with everything being cut in one session. If that was the case, it might account for the grind-it-out feel of these ten small-combo sides (probably with Plas Johnson on sax and Maxwell Davis on keyboards), which are lacking in ...

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A Heart Full of Blues (1962) more music like this

by B.B. King

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His RPM Hits 1951-1957 (1999) more music like this

by B.B. King

His RPM Hits 1951-1957 is a first-rate summary of the cream of the first few years of B.B. King's career, the 26 songs all taken from 1951-1957 singles on the RPM label. Though relatively few of these have survived down the years to become famous standards or oldies, they were incredibly successful in their time; 18 of them were R&B hits, and ...

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