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Buy Now	10 Days Out (Blues from the Backroads)/ (CD/DVD) (more) »rank: 1592 by: Kenny Wayne Shepherd :Album Description:Kenny Wayne Shepherd's reverence for his musical roots are center-stage on Ten Days Out...Blues From The Backroads, a CD+DVD package that features the guitarslinger and Double Trouble rhythm section of bassist Tommy Shannon and drummer Chris Layton performing with some of the greatest blues players of our time as well as lesser-known but historically significant bluesmen. Traveling to their hometowns to record everywhere from juke joints to front porches, from New Orleans to Kansas, Shepherd celebrates and becomes part of blues history with Ten Days Out...Blues From The Backroads. :This 'back-to-the-roots' road-trip documentary CD/DVD ...	Buy Now	Hoodoo Man Blues (more) »rank: 1703 by: Junior Wells : essential recording:This 1965 album is where vocalist and harmonica player Junior Wells comes into his own. An early collaboration with Buddy Guy, the two of them sum up the 1960s funk-rock-blues that lay ahead. Hoodoo Man Blues inspired Paul Butterfield, Eric Clapton, and a host of other musician-fans. Wells and Guy don't shy from creating James Brown-funkified blues, or from putting a rock edge to their blues; but neither do they shy from traditional blues. Their version of 'Good Morning Little School Girl' is a proper update--still menacing, with less of a country blues ...
Buy Now	His Best :(Little Walter)The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection (more) »rank: 2405 by: Little Walter : :No Description AvailableNo Track Information AvailableMedia Type: CDArtist: LITTLE WALTERTitle: HIS BESTStreet Release Date: 06/17/1997DomesticGenre: BLUES :Marion 'Little Walter' Jacobs is perhaps the most influential harmonica player on contemporary blues, and his collection is a great place to start. He was trained by Muddy Waters, but brought a more swinging feel to blues. Muddy and his band accompany Little Walter on many hits, as do Robert 'Jr.' Lockwood, the Aces, and other Chicago greats. In the 1950s, Little Walter's popularity eclipsed even Waters', his style a little more relaxed and pop-oriented. Walter's versions of ...	Buy Now	His Best (more) »rank: 4260 by: Sonny Boy Williamson : :This is Sonny Boy Williamson II, whose 1940s Mississippi Delta radio broadcasts for King Biscuit Time made him one of the most influential of all blues musicians. A master harmonica player, he created relaxed songs, often humorous, that reminded urban listeners of their country roots. These tracks are from his years at Chess, beginning in the mid-1950s until his death in 1965. His recording bands feature Muddy Waters, Otis Spann, and Robert Lockwood Jr., among others. Perhaps his best-known track here is 'Don't Start Me to Talkin' (I'll Tell You Everything I Know),' but his ...
Buy Now	The Paul Butterfield Blues Band (more) »rank: 4914 by: The Paul Butterfield Blues Band : :A slew of albums by young white men out of their minds in love with music made by older black men came from both sides of the Atlantic during the mid-1960s, but two records really laid the groundwork for the decade's blues revival--the self-titled releases by John Mayall's Bluesbreakers out of London and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band out of Chicago. Both bands were led by harmonica-blowing vocalists; both featured ascending guitar gods--Eric Clapton with Mayall and Mike Bloomfield with Butterfield. Butterfield's ensemble, however, came of age closer to the roots of the music. The ...	Buy Now	The Turning Point (more) »rank: 6736 by: John Mayall : :A slew of albums by young white men out of their minds in love with music made by older black men came from both sides of the Atlantic during the mid-1960s, but two records really laid the groundwork for the decade's blues revival--the self-titled releases by John Mayall's Bluesbreakers out of London and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band out of Chicago. Both bands were led by harmonica-blowing vocalists; both featured ascending guitar gods--Eric Clapton with Mayall and Mike Bloomfield with Butterfield. Butterfield's ensemble, however, came of age closer to the roots of the music. The ...
Buy Now	A Hard Road (more) »rank: 27974 by: John Mayall's Bluesbreakers w, Peter Green, John Mayall and The Bluesbreakers : :A slew of albums by young white men out of their minds in love with music made by older black men came from both sides of the Atlantic during the mid-1960s, but two records really laid the groundwork for the decade's blues revival--the self-titled releases by John Mayall's Bluesbreakers out of London and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band out of Chicago. Both bands were led by harmonica-blowing vocalists; both featured ascending guitar gods--Eric Clapton with Mayall and Mike Bloomfield with Butterfield. Butterfield's ensemble, however, came of age closer to the roots of the music. The ...	Buy Now	Good For What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows 1926-1937 (Digipak with 72-page booklet) (more) »rank: 12429 by: Pink Anderson, Gid Tanner, Gus Cannon, Emmett Miller, Charlie Poole, Dallas String Band, Grant Brothers, Uncle Dave Macon, Beans Hambone, Clarence Ashley :Album Description:Earning Their White Stripes. 'But what I'm listening to most of the time at present is an album called Good For What Ails You, which is an album of songs that people used to listen to at medicine shows all over the States. It's quite an interesting album and I think that people would be well advised to pick it up.' Jack White - Sunday Mail (Australia) Dec 18, 2005 Five Stars. Groundbreaking. 'Fans of Nick Tosches' Where Dead Voices Gather will lap up this extraordinary snapshot of an America that is still shrouded ...
Buy Now	The Best of Slim Harpo (more) »rank: 26917 by: Slim Harpo : :Slim Harpo recorded really good rhythm and blues. He never got too fancy; he never forgot the importance of the groove. He died young in 1970, but his music reached the Rolling Stones (who covered his 'I'm a King Bee'), the Kinks (who sang his 'I Got Love If You Want It'), Van Morrison, and Them (whose first single was Harpo's 'Don't Start Crying Now'). These songs and other greats--'Tip on In,' 'Baby, Scratch My Back'--are all included in this excellent collection of Harpo's greatest sides. --Robert Gordon	Buy Now	Blues Masters, Vol. 4: Harmonica Classics (more) »rank: 24129 by: Various Artists : :Slim Harpo recorded really good rhythm and blues. He never got too fancy; he never forgot the importance of the groove. He died young in 1970, but his music reached the Rolling Stones (who covered his 'I'm a King Bee'), the Kinks (who sang his 'I Got Love If You Want It'), Van Morrison, and Them (whose first single was Harpo's 'Don't Start Crying Now'). These songs and other greats--'Tip on In,' 'Baby, Scratch My Back'--are all included in this excellent collection of Harpo's greatest sides. --Robert Gordon