År |
Performer |
Non-Performer |
Classics of Blues Recordings (Songs) |
Classics of Blues Recordings (Albums) |
Classics of Blues Literature |
1980 |
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1981 |
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1982 |
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- Blues and Gospel Records 1902–1942
Robert M.W. Dixon og John Godrich
- Blues Unlimited Magazine
Simon Napier og Mike Leadbitter
- Living Blues Magazine
Bruce Iglauer, Jim O’Neal, Amy van Singel, Paul Garon, et al.
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1983 |
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- Founder of the Delta Blues
Charley Patton (Yazoo, 1970)
- King of the Delta Blues Singers, Vol. II
Robert Johnson (Columbia, 1970)
- Live at the Regal
B.B. King (ABC-Paramount, 1965)
- McKinley Morganfield A.K.A. Muddy Waters
Muddy Waters (Chess, 1971)
- The Best of Muddy Waters
Muddy Waters (Chess, 1958)
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- Blues Who’s Who: A Biographical Dictionary of Blues Singers
Sheldon Harris
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1984 |
- Hound Dog Taylor
- Otis Rush
- Big Mama Thornton
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- Boss Blues Harmonica
Little Walter (Chess, 1972)
- Hoodoo Man Blues
Junior Wells (Delmark, 1966)
- West Side Soul
Magic Sam Blues Band (Delmark, 1968)
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1985 |
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- Boogie Chillen'
John Lee Hooker (Modern, 1948)
- Smokestack Lightning
Howlin' Wolf (Chess, 1956)
- The Thrill Is Gone
B.B. King (ABC Bluesway, 1969)
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- Born Under a Bad Sign
Albert King (Stax, 1967)
- Chester Burnett A.K.A Howlin' Wolf
Howlin’ Wolf (Chess, 1972)
- Howlin' Wolf
Howlin’ Wolf (Chess, 1962)
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- Blues Records 1943–1966
Mike Leadbitter & Neil Slaven
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1986 |
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- I Am the Blues
Willie Dixon (Columbia, 1970)
- Ice Pickin’
Albert Collins (Alligator, 1978)
- Live Wire/Blues Power
Albert King (Stax, 1968)
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- Chicago Breakdown (Chicago Blues)
Mike Rowe
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1987 |
- Eddie Taylor
- Percy Mayfield
- Sonny Terry
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- Big Road Blues
Tommy Johnson (Victor, 1928)
- Help Me
Sonny Boy Williamson II. (Checker, 1963)
- Please Send Me Someone to Love
Percy Mayfield (Specialty, 1950)
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- Blues Before Sunrise
Leroy Carr (Columbia, 1962)
- Hide Away
Freddie King (King, 1969)
- Two Steps from the Blues
Bobby «Blue» Bland (Duke, 1961)
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- The Story of the Blues
Paul Oliver
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1988 |
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- Born Under a Bad Sign
Albert King (Stax, 1967)
- How Long, How Long Blues
Leroy Carr (Vocalion, 1928)
- Pony Blues
Charley Patton (Paramount, 1929)
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- Down on Stovall’s Plantation
Muddy Waters (Testament, 1966)
- The Chess Box
Muddy Waters (P-Vine Special, 1985)
- The Original Flair & Meteor Sides
Elmore James (Ace, 1984)
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- The Blues Fell This Morning (The Meaning of the Blues)
Paul Oliver
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1989 |
- Clifton Chenier
- Memphis Slim
- Robert Jr. Lockwood
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- Come On in My Kitchen
Robert Johnson (ARC/Vocalion, 1936)
- Driftin’ Blues
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers (Philo, 1945)
- Long Distance Call
Muddy Waters (Chess, 1951)
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- Live on Maxwell Street 1964
Robert Nighthawk (Rounder, 1980)
- Right Place, Wrong Time
Otis Rush (Bullfrog, 1976)
- Showdown!
Albert Collins, Robert Cray & Johnny Copeland (Alligator, 1985)
- The World’s Greatest Blues Singer
Bessie Smith (Columbia, 1970)
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- Feel Like Going Home
Peter Guralnick
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1990 |
- Blind Blake
- Bukka White
- Lonnie Johnson
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- Big Boss Man
Jimmy Reed (Vee-Jay, 1960)
- Good Morning, School Girl
Sonny Boy Williamson I (Bluebird 1937)
- Terraplane Blues
Robert Johnson (ARC/Vocalion, 1936)
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- Black Magic
Magic Sam Blues Band (Delmark, 1969)
- The Chess Box
Willie Dixon (Various Artists) (MCA Chess, 1989)
- The Complete 1931 Session
Skip James (Yazoo, 1986)
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- Big Bill Blues: William Broonzys Story
Yannick Bruynoghe
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1991 |
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- Killing Floor
Howlin' Wolf (Chess, 1964)
- Nine Below Zero
Sonny Boy Williamson II (Trumpet, 1951)
- Rocket 88
Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats (Chess, 1951)
- The Sky is Crying
Elmore James (Fire, 1959)
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- Can’t Get No Grindin’
Muddy Waters (Chess, 1973)
- Chicago/The Blues/Today! Vol. 1-3
Various Artists (Vanguard, 1966)
- The Best of Little Walter
Little Walter (Checker, 1958)
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- Big Road Blues
Paul Evans
- Conversation with the Blues
Paul Oliver
- The Country Blues
Samuel Charters
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1992 |
- Big Joe Williams
- Johnny Shines
- Skip James
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- Baby Please Don’t Go
Big Joe Williams (Bluebird, 1935)
- Statesboro Blues
Blind Willie McTell (Victor, 1928)
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- Blues From the Gutter
Champion Jack Dupree (Atlantic, 1958)
- Father of the Folk Blues
Son House (Columbia, 1965)
- Parchman Farm
Bukka White (Columbia, 1970)
- The Complete Recordings
Robert Johnson (Columbia/Legacy, 1990)
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- I Am the Blues: The Willie Dixon Story
Willie Dixon mit Don Snowden
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1993 |
- Champion Jack Dupree
- Lowell Fulson
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1994 |
- Arthur «Big Boy» Crudup
- Wynonie Harris
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- Bill «Hoss» Allen
- Gene Nobles
- John & Alan Lomax
- John R.
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- I Can’t Quit You Baby
Otis Rush (Cobra 1956)
- Texas Flood
Larry Davis (Duke, 1958)
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- The Complete Recordings of T-Bone Walker 1940–1954
T-Bone Walker (Mosaic, 1990)
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- Nothing But the Blues: The Music and the Musicians
Lawrence Cohn
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1995 |
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- Wang Dang Doodle
Koko Taylor (Checker, 1965)
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- Boss of the Blues
Big Joe Turner (Atlantic, 1956)
- Otis Spann Is the Blues
Otis Spann with Robert Lockwood, Jr. (Candid, 1961)
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- Searching for Robert Johnson: The Life and Legend of the «King of the Delta Blues»
Peter Guralnick
- The Land Where the Blues Began
Alan Lomax
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1996 |
- Charles Brown
- David Honeyboy Edwards
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- Don’t Start Me Talkin’
Sonny Boy Williamson II. (Checker, 1955)
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- Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers
Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers (Alligator, 1971)
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- Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom
Peter Guralnick
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1997 |
- Brownie McGhee
- Koko Taylor
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- Baby Scratch My Back
Slim Harpo (Excello, 1965)
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- Honkers and Shouters: The Golden Years of Rhythm & Blues
Arnold Shaw
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1998 |
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- I’ll Play the Blues for You
Albert King (Stax, 1972)
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- Blues from the Delta
William Ferris
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1999 |
- Clarence Gatemouth Brown
- Roosevelt Sykes
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- Chris Strachwitz
- Lester Melrose
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- The World Don’t Owe Me Nothing
David Honeyboy Edwards
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2000 |
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- Down Home Blues
Z. Z. Hill (Malaco, 1982)
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- Mississippi Delta Blues
Mississippi Fred McDowell (Arhoolie, 1964)
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- The Country Blues
Samuel Charters
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2001 |
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- Robert Palmer
- Theresa Needham
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- The Complete Plantation Recordings
Muddy Waters (MCA Chess, 1993)
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- Stormy Monday: The T-Bone Walker Story
Helen Dance
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2002 |
- Big Maceo Merriweather
- Ruth Brown
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- Goin’ Down Slow
St. Louis Jimmy Oden (Bluebird, 1941)
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- Live in Cook County Jail
B.B. King (ABC, 1971)
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- Spinning Blues into Gold: The Chess Brothers and the Legendary Chess Records
Nadine Cohodas
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2003 |
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- Part Time Love
Little Johnny Taylor (Galaxy, 1963)
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- Can’t Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters
Robert Gordon
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2004 |
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- Raining in My Heart
Slim Harpo (Excello, 1961)
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- Juke Blues Magazine
Cilla Huggins, John Broven & Bez Turner, 1985
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2005 |
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- Black Night
Charles Brown (Aladdin, 1951)
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- Down Home
Z. Z. Hill (Malaco Records, 1982)
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- Blues People: Negro Music in White America
LeRoi Jones
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2006 |
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- Devil Got My Woman
Skip James (Paramount, 1931)
- Honky Tonk, Parts 1 & 2
Bill Doggett (King, 1956)
- Hound Dog
Big Mama Thornton (Peacock, 1952)
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- I Do Not Play No Rock ’n’ Roll
Mississippi Fred McDowell (Capitol, 1970)
- Screamin’ and Hollerin’ the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton
Charley Patton (Revenant, 2001)
- Tell Mama
Etta James (Cadet, 1968)
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- Blues & Rhythm Magazine
Paul Vernon, Tony Burke
- Chasin’ That Devil’s Music
Gayle Dean Wardlow, Edward Komara
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2007 |
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- Black Angel Blues
Robert Nighthawk (Aristocrat, 1949)
- Death Letter
Son House (Columbia, 1965)
- Hide Away
Freddie King (Federal, 1961)
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- Angola Prisoners’ Blues
Robert Pete Williams & others (Louisiana Folklore Society, 1959)
- Down and Out Blues
Sonny Boy Williamson II. (Checker, 1960)
- Driving Wheel
Little Jr. Parker (Duke, 1962)
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- Blues With a Feeling: The Little Walter Story
Tony Glover, Scott Dirks & Ward Gaines
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2008 |
- Hubert Sumlin
- Jimmy McCracklin
- Jimmy Witherspoon
- Johnny Guitar Watson
- Mississippi Sheiks
- Peetie Wheatstraw
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- Back-Water Blues
Bessie Smith (Columbia, 1927)
- Double Trouble
Otis Rush (Cobra, 1958)
- My Babe
Little Walter (Checker, 1955)
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- Etta James Rocks the House
Etta James (Argo, 1964)
- Freddy King Sings
Freddie King (King, 1961)
- I’m Jimmy Reed
Jimmy Reed (Vee-Jay, 1958)
- Members Only
Bobby Bland (Malaco, 1985)
- Piney Woods Blues
Big Joe Williams (Delmark, 1958)
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- 7 Guitars
August Wilson
- Moanin’ at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolf
James Segrest & Mark Hoffman
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2009 |
- Irma Thomas
- Reverend Gary Davis
- Son Seals
- Taj Mahal
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- Bob Porter
- Clifford Antone
- Mike Leadbitter
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- Amtrak Blues
Alberta Hunter (Columbia, 1978)
- Blues With a Feeling Newport Folk Festival Classics
Various Artists (Vanguard, 1993)
- T-Bone Blues
T-Bone Walker (Atlantic, 1959)
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- I Hear You Knockin
Jeff Hannusch
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2010 |
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- Peter Guralnick
- Sonny Payne
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- Hung Down Head
Lowell Fulson (Chess, 1970)
- I Hear Some Blues Downstairs
Fenton Robinson (Alligator, 1977)
- Strong Persuader
Robert Cray (Mercury, 1986)
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- The Bluesmen
Samuel Charters
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2011 |
- Alberta Hunter
- Big Maybelle
- Denise LaSalle
- J.B. Lenoir
- John Hammond
- Robert Cray
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- Bruce Bromberg
- John W. Work III
- Samuel Charters
- Vivian Carter og
Jimmy Bracken
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- Ain’t Nobody’s Business
Jimmy Witherspoon (Supreme, 1947)
- Five Long Years
Eddie Boyd (J.O.B., 1952)
- Hard Time Killin’ Floor Blues
Skip James (Paramount, 1931)
- Love in Vain
Robert Johnson (Vocalion, 1937)
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- False Accusations
Robert Cray (HighTone 1985)
- Night Beat
Sam Cooke (RCA Victor 1963)
- The Real Folk Blues
Howlin' Wolf (Chess 1965)
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- Walking to New Orleans: The Story of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues
John Broven
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2012 |
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- Doc Pomus
- Horst Lippmann og
Fritz Rau
- Pervis Spann
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- All Your Love
Magic Sam (Cobra, 1957)
- It Hurts Me Too
Tampa Red (Bluebird, 1940)
- Pine Top’s Boogie Woogie
Pine Top Smith (Vocalion, 1928)
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- Bad Influence
The Robert Cray Band (HighTone, 1983)
- Damn Right, I’ve Got the Blues
Buddy Guy (Silvertone, 1991)
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- Bessie
Chris Albertson
- The Voice of the Blues
Jim O’Neal & Amy van Singel
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2013 |
- Earl Hooker
- Jimmy Rogers
- Jody Williams
- Joe Louis Walker
- Little Brother Montgomery
- Otis Clay
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- Canned Heat Blues
Tommy Johnson (Victor, 1928)
- How Many More Years
Howlin' Wolf (Chess, 1951)
- Let the Good Times Roll
Louis Jordan (Decca, 1946)
- Me and My Chauffeur Blues
Memphis Minnie (OKeh, 1941)
- Mystery Train
Little Junior’s Blue Flames (Sun, 1953)
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- Complete Recorded Works/Texas Worried Blues
Henry Thomas (Herwin 1975/Yazoo 1989)
- Louis Jordan’s Greatest Hits
Louis Jordan (Decca 1969)
- More Real Folk Blues
Howlin' Wolf (Chess 1967)
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- Soulsville, U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records
Rob Bowman (Schirmer, 2003)
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2014 |
- Big Jay McNeely
- Eddie Shaw
- Eddie «Cleanhead» Vinson
- R.L. Burnside
- Robert Pete Williams
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- Dick Shurman
- Don Robey
- Mike Kappus
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- After Hours
Erskine Hawkins and His Orchestra (Bluebird 1940)
- Catfish Blues
Robert Petway (Bluebird 1941)
- High Water Everywhere, Parts I & II
Charley Patton (Paramount 1930)
- It’s Tight Like That
Tampa Red & Georgia Tom (Vocalion 1928)
- Milk Cow Blues
Kokomo Arnold (Decca 1934)
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- Hawk Squat
J. B. Hutto (Delmark, 1969)
- Moanin’ in the Moonlight
Howlin' Wolf (Chess 1959)
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- Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke
Peter Guralnick (Little, Brown and Company, 2005)
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2015 |
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