 | Blind James Campbell and His Nashville Street Band by Blind James Campbell
Buy new: $10.98 / Used from: $5.45 Blues fiddling, guitar, horn playing singing from out in the Alley
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 | Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order, Vol. 1, 1927-1928 by Gus Cannon & Noah Lewis
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $13.98 Master of the Blues Banjo, Singing & the Jug
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 | I Do Not Play No Rock 'N' Roll by Mississippi Fred McDowell
Buy used from: $27.88 A great Album by a Great master get all of his stuff!
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 | Black Banjo Songsters of North Carolina and Virginia by Various Artists
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $13.19 Before the Blues and After the Blues
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 | Sufferin' Mind by Guitar Slim
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $9.99 One of the greatest albums ever made buy it, steal if you must!
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 | Recordings 1927-1933 by Jimmie Rodgers
Buy new: $25.99 / Used from: $53.69 Rodgers recorded more blues than anything else. He was popular with Black blues singers from Mississipi to Africa
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 | The Last of the Blue Devils - The Kansas City Jazz Story
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $13.50 Some of the deepest blues going on here between Jay McShann and Big Joe Turner, much blues music, the most sensational big band version of Night Train ever, blues at home amongst its people.
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 | Bluebird Recordings 1941-1942 by Big Maceo
Buy used from: $10.35 Driving blues singing, piano, guitar, great interplay good time and hard time and great music!
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 | Hurry Down Sunshine by Leroy Carr
Buy used from: $6.97 get All the Leroy Carr you can. This is the greatest and most important blues singer of all time. Robert Johnson tried to imitate him!
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 | Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues by Elijah Wald
Buy new: $19.46 / Used from: $3.50 If you have not read this book, then you really don't now about the blues as a whole let alone Robert Johnson. You're just fooling yourself. This book belongs in every home
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 | 1938-1945 by Jimmy Rushing & Count Basie
Buy used from: $62.45 One of the Great Blues Singers of All Time with the Greatest Blues Band of All time
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 | First Issue: The Dinah Washington Story (The Original Recordings) by Dinah Washington
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $4.84 They didn't call Dinah Queen of the blues for Northing You need to know her!
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 | Live at the Regal by B.B. King
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $4.99 This is one of those essential CDs. If u don't have a CD player buy this CD now so you will have it when you have the player. Get two in case someone hears this and steals it. It's that good!
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 | Chasin' That Devil's Music Searching for the Blues - Book/CD (Softcover) by Various
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $3.35 Real Blues history by one of the unsung scholars of the Blues
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 | His Best: 1956 to 1964 by Muddy Waters
Buy used from: $18.76 Essential, enjoyable, beautiful, heavy,humorous, simply Great, the master in his prime!
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 | The Complete Recordings by Robert Johnson
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $9.85 Read my comments here even if you have these great recordings!
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 | He's a Jelly Roll Baker by Lonnie Johnson
Buy used from: $2.61 If I had to take one CD to a desert island, I would take two copies of Lonnie Johnson's "He's a Jelly Roll Baker" Great blues guitar, great singing, great piano by Lil Hardin Armstrong, Essential!
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 | The Complete Folkways Recordings by Lonnie Johnson
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $10.50 Owning this CD is like having Lonnie Johnson join your family, we meet not just music but a person. Great, great great
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 | Stop and Listen by Mississippi Sheiks
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $12.00 The Sheiks were the most popular blues band in Mississippi. Muddy Waters said he walked all day to hear them. You just have to click to hear!
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 | The Complete Early Recordings of Skip James by Skip James
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $8.88 Skip James's original work is so deep in the blues that it makes Robert Johnson sound like easy listening music!
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 | The Original Delta Blues by Son House
Buy used from: $2.44 Son House taught Muddy Waters & Robert Johnson, let him teach you
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 | Folks, He Sure Do Pull Some Bow! Vintage Fiddle Music 1927-1935: Blues, Jazz, Stomps, Shuffles & Rags by Big Bill Broonzy
Buy new: $19.49 / Used from: $10.00 Blues on the fiddle. Big Bill Broonzy and Lonnie Johnson were fiddlers too!
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 | Steppin' on the Blues by Lonnie Johnson
Buy used from: $12.99 The best blues guitarist of the acoustic period, a great singer, Bob Johnson lied and said Lonnie was his uncle!!!!!
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 | John Lee Hooker: The Ultimate Collection 1948-1990 by John Lee Hooker
Buy new: $24.96 / Used from: $7.82 Read my comment for a description of the man's artistry and innovation and genius, not primitivism as blues artists are reduced to by ignorant non blues persons
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 | Big Road Blues: Tradition And Creativity In The Folk Blues (Da Capo Paperback) by David Evans
Buy new: $16.20 / Used from: $6.30 A great study of the blues as such as well as the most vital Misssissipi Blues Tradition
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 | Honey Babe Let the Deal Go Down: The Best of the Mississippi Sheiks by Mississippi Sheiks
Buy used from: $22.99 A great collection, good sound and reproduction read my review
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 | Richer Tradition: Country Blues and String Band Music 1923-1942 by Various Artists
Buy new: $25.99 / Used from: $65.41 Black string band music playing blues and raggy music, not old time although there are a few old time tracks, read my review
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 | Blues Mandolin Man: The Life and Music of Yank Rachell (American Made Music Series) by Richard Congress
Buy new: $22.00 / Used from: $4.99 Real history of the blues and Southern Black life reveals new things about Handy read my review
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 | Songsters and Saints: Vocal Traditions on Race Records by Paul Oliver
Buy new: $36.99 / Used from: $26.00 An important book worth the steep price not just for Blues but for early Black religious music and the history of the recording music. Has material about Blues origins not found anywhere else, see my review.
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 | Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 2 (1928-1930) by Jim Jackson
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $11.99 Jim Jackson's music was a joining point between old time music, Black pop ragtime, and the Blues. He represents an older music and plays guitar styles that may even predate steel string guitars. Read my comment here.
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 | The Voice of the Blues : Classic Interviews from Living Blues Magazine by Jim O'Neal
Buy new: $31.65 / Used from: $11.33 An education in itself. Free ranging interviews with Blues singers saying true things, see my review
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 | Recapturing the Banjo by Otis Taylor
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $6.32 The recapturing here is recapturing the banjo for 21 Century Blues played by these bluesmasters, see my review
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 | The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966, Vol. 1
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $7.95 All of the American Folk Blues Festival DVDS belong in the homes of anyone who likes blues, see my review
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 | Father Of The Blues: An Autobiography (Da Capo Paperback) by W. C. Handy
Buy new: $16.95 / Used from: $7.07 Handy was not father of the Blues, but he was a great observer of Black entertainment music in minstrelsy and Ragtime and mades two of the earliest observations of Blues performance in this book which is invaluable, not in his conceits, but in its pictures of Black music in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, see my review!
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 | Jookin': The Rise of Social Dance Formations in African-American Culture by Katrina Hazzard-Gordon
Buy new: $25.95 / Used from: $4.73 Along with Steppin on the Blues, this book provides a great view of Black dance. It provides an interesting closeup on connections between politics, crime, and Black entertainment venues, in a study of the history of Black night life in Clevalnd, read my review
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 | Old Time Black Southern String Band Music by Butch Cage & Willie B. Thomas
Buy new: $10.98 / Used from: $5.38 A great Blues string band see my review
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 | Texas Alexander, Vol. 3: 1930-1950 by Alger "Texas" Alexander
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $9.21 A Unique set. Alexander was one of the earliers Blues singers. On these sides he has much more band accompaniment especially the great Mississippi Sheiks.
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 | Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South by Michelle R. Scott
Buy new: $25.00 / Used from: $13.94 Great on the social background that brought the blues and the growth of Black entertainment venues in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries see my review
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 | Louisville Stomp by The Dixieland Jug Blowers
Buy new: $20.99 / Used from: $55.09 The Louisville bands led by Clifford Hayes launched the Jug band craze of the late 1920s. Unlike Memphis based bands that tried to latch onto the craze, this is more Jazz than Blues.
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