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1	Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: The Soul of a Man (2003) more music like this by Original Soundtrack Unlike Ken Burns' Jazz, the television mini-series it recalls, the 2003 public-TV project The Blues, for which movie director Martin Scorsese served as executive producer, was not a multi-part documentary history of its chosen musical genre. Instead, seven different filmmakers, starting with Scorsese, made blues-related movies of one sort or ... see all copies from $19.78!
2	Dog Days (1995) more music like this by Blue Mountain Once you hear the songs on Dog Days, you will want to hear them over and over and over again. Anyone who likes roots-rock will feel right at home on Blue Moutain's turf. Great songs such as "Blue Canoe," "Soul Sister," "Eyes of a Child" and a cover of Skip James' "Special Rider Blues" sound familiar on first listening and soon grow to become good ... see all copies from $16.15! new only from $16.15!
3	Delta Blues (2004) more music like this by Son House The Complete Blues on Snapper is another respectable reissue series coming on the heels of 2003's PBS special Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues. Son House' Delta Blues highlights 20 exemplary performances recorded between May 28, 1930, through July 17, 1942, including "Preachin' the Blues," "Levee Camp Blues," "My Black Mama," and "Dry Spell ... see all copies from $9.56! new only from $9.56!
4	America (1971) more music like this by John Fahey In some respects this was Fahey at his most ambitious; two of the four songs ("Mark 1:15" and "Voice of the Turtle") clock in at around the 15-minute mark, and one of the others is entitled "The Waltz That Carried Us Away and Then a Mosquito Came and Ate Up My Sweetheart." It's actually typical of his work of the period, however: inventive ... see all copies from $16.81! new only from $16.81!
5	The Rough Guide to African Blues (2007) more music like this by Various Artists It is common knowledge that the origin of the blues lies in West Africa, and that it was carried to America by slaves. The Rough Guide to African Blues explores the blues in its native setting, as it were, in mostly acoustic settings, although the vintage sounds of Ayaléw Mèsfin & Black Lion Band from Ethiopia add a big-band touch (whether they ... see all copies from $11.87! new only from $11.87!
6	A Proper Introduction to Son House: Delta Blues (2004) more music like this by Son House This single-disc set collects Son House's Library of Congress sessions for Alan Lomax in 1940 and 1941, and adds in House's complete Paramount recordings from 1930, which consist of three double-sided 78s ("My Black Mama," "Preachin' the Blues," and "Dry Spell Blues"). Since House's rediscovery sides for Columbia in the 1960s catch him, quite ... see all copies from $9.95! new only from $9.95!
7	Today! (1964) more music like this by Skip James The 12 sides that comprise Today! are among the best James would record after his rediscovery in the '60s. His playing may be a bit less intricate than that captured on his legendary 78s from the '30s, but his unique falsetto sounds no less troubled or haunting than before on this album's definitive performances of "Hard Times Killing Floor Blues, ... see all copies from $12.09! new only from $12.09!
8	The Complete Library of Congress Sessions, 1941-1942 (2000) more music like this by Son House see all copies from $19.35! new only from $19.35!
9	Blues Piano Orgy (1972) more music like this by Various Artists Thanks in part to the luridly alluring title and the enthusiastically informative liner notes by Bob Koester, this solid collection was many a young musician's introduction to the men who pioneered blues piano in the first half of the 20th century. Roosevelt Sykes is the best represented artist here, and his leering vocals are hard to resist: ... see all copies from $13.92! new only from $13.92!
10	That River (1995) more music like this by Jim Byrnes see all copies from $6.50! new only from $15.30!
11 view cover	How to Play Blues Guitar (1966) more music like this by Stefan Grossman Released during the peak of the mid/late-'60s folk boom, Stefan Grossman's debut, How to Play Blues Guitar, finds a young guitarist paying his respects to the music that inspired him. A student of Reverend Gary Davis (and later Skip James and Mississippi John Hurt among others), Grossman learned his blues from the source. Here, his fluency is ... see all copies from $16.21! new only from $16.21!
12 view cover	The Paramount Masters (2004) more music like this by Various Artists Paramount Records didn't know it at the time, but they created one of the most valuable catalogs of early American blues and jazz music ever assembled. Formed by a furniture company called the Wisconsin Chair Company in the mid-teens to facilitate sales for their new phonograph cabinets, Paramount Records (along with its subsidiary labels Broadway ... see all copies from $22.20! new only from $26.99!
13 view cover	Mississippi to Mali (2003) more music like this by Corey Harris Corey Harris is adept at combining contemporary sensibilities with traditional country blues forms in a manner so natural that the cracks and fissures between now and then never seem to show, an accomplishment he expands on Mississippi to Mali to include two continents. Again, the music flows so naturally that the bridges and welds that join the ... see all copies from $11.45! new only from $11.45!
14 view cover	King of the Delta Blues (2005) more music like this by Son House King of the Delta Blues is a single-disc set that collects Son House's Library of Congress sessions for Alan Lomax in 1940 and 1941, and House's huge rasping voice and vibrant slide guitar style are everywhere here, both on the solo selections and on a handful of African-American string band pieces that finds friends Leroy Williams (harmonica), ... see all copies from $11.48! new only from $11.48!
15 view cover	Cypress Grove Blues (2004) more music like this by Skip James With his high, eerie falsetto and haunting guitar tunings, Skip James sounds like no other country blues player. Although his lyrics were generally drawn from the floating bag of clichés that showed up in countless blues songs, his atmospheric recordings, done in 1931 for Paramount, gave James' songs the appearance of poignancy, and his sad, ... see all copies from $9.56! new only from $9.56!
16 view cover	Vanguard Visionaries (2007) more music like this by Skip James see all copies from $9.87! new only from $9.87!
17 view cover	Three Shades of Blues (1989) more music like this by Bukka White/Skip James/Blind Wille McTell Three Shades of Blues comprises a selection of tracks cut by Bukka White, Skip James, and Blind Willie McTell, all recorded during different eras. James's tracks were made in 1964, the first he cut since 1931. James fares the worst -- he sounds unsure of himself and several of the songs are painful to listen to. The five White tracks were recorded ... see all copies from $11.03! new only from $11.03!
18 view cover	Blues from the Delta (1998) more music like this by Skip James Drawing 18 tracks from Skip James' rediscovery recordings made on Vanguard Records -- Today! and Devil Got My Woman, plus two previously unreleased tracks -- Blues From the Delta is over 75 minutes of the best tracks James ever recorded. Where the definitive cuts of many of these songs haven't been preserved by modern technology without ... see all copies from $14.22! new only from $14.22!
19 view cover	Friends & Enemies (1999) more music like this by Fred Frith & Henry Kaiser In 1979, guitarists Fred Frith and Henry Kaiser made an album titled With Friends Like These... on the Metalanguage label. It was one of the defining documents of the downtown avant-garde scene, a collection of improvised duets on which both players essentially redefined the sound of the guitar, Frith with his physically altered (and sometimes ... see all copies from $19.18! new only from $19.18!
20 view cover	Roots and the Spirit (2003) more music like this by Five Points Band see all copies from $1.99!
21 view cover	Hard Time Killin' Floor (2005) more music like this by Skip James Hard Time Killin' Floor isn't the first Skip James collection, and one could bet it will not be the last. But Hard Time Killin' Floor makes a pretty good argument for itself: the hour-and-six-minute album holds all of James' early work, and it's been remastered. James' soulful vocal style, like Robert Johnson's, has often been noted, but his quick ... see all copies from $16.21! new only from $16.21!
22 view cover	No Special Rider (1968) more music like this by Little Brother Montgomery Barrelhouse piano player Eurreal "Little Brother" Montgomery played boogie from the crowds as a touring, pre-teen performer. Also a vocalist, Montgomery began his half-century of recording in the Depression with such songs of loss as "Vicksburg Blues" and "No Special Rider." On these 1969 recordings, rich, full-throated Jeanne Carroll ("Penny ... see all copies from $13.92! new only from $13.92!
23 view cover	Negro Blues and Hollers (1962) more music like this by Various Artists These 12 tracks were collected in a joint project by the Library of Congress and Fisk University in 1941 and 1942, concentrating on Mississippi country blues as well as the field hollers and spirituals that were the blues' direct ancestors. A couple of these performers are actually pretty well known; Son House has three cuts and contributes to the ... see all copies from $14.74! new only from $14.74!
24 view cover	Bajez Copper Station (1994) more music like this by Little Brother Montgomery see all copies from $24.26!
25 view cover	Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Son House (2003) more music like this by Son House This collection spotlights the great Delta bluesman Son House at three distinct points in his life. Included here are three of his 78s issued in the 1930s by Paramount Records, several of the Library of Congress field recordings done by Alan Lomax in 1941-1942, and a sampling of rediscovered 1960s concert pieces, including a riveting version of ... see all copies from $31.20! new only from $31.20!

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