 | Classic Sides by Blind Lemon Jefferson
Buy new: $28.98 / Used from: $20.00 Blind Lemon Jefferson - an early Texas blues guitarist who would influence Charley Patton.
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 | Complete Recordings 1929-34 by Charley Patton
Buy new: $28.98 / Used from: $21.91 Charley Patton - one of the earlier recorded exponents of blues guitar.
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 | All the Published Sides by Blind Blake
Buy new: $28.98 / Used from: $22.00 One of the more mysterious figures of pre-war blues, Blind Blake played ragtime, popular music and blues.
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 | Queen of Country Blues 1929-1937 by Memphis Minnie
Buy new: $28.98 / Used from: $23.00 Memphis Minnie enjoyed a fairly prolific career in Chicago, one of a very few female blues guitarists whose work survives from this time.
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 | All the Classic Sides 1928-1937 by Big Bill Broonzy
Buy new: $28.98 / Used from: $56.60 Big Bill Broonzy - probably one of the best documented country blues guitarists, what with his prolific recording and autobiography.
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 | The Classic Years 1927-1940 by Blind Willie McTell
Buy new: $25.99 / Used from: $22.38 Blind Willie McTell - perhaps the most technically accomplished of the pre-war blues guitarists.
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 | The Complete Recordings by Robert Johnson
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $9.85 Robert Johnson and everything he left us. One of the most "polished" of the early blues guitarists.
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 | Legends of Country Blues by Various Artists
Buy new: $25.99 / Used from: $26.00 Great overview of *key* players Skip James, Son House, Bukka White, Tommy Johnson, and Ishman Bracey.
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 | The Best of Mississippi Fred McDowell by Mississippi Fred McDowell
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $9.75 Some of the spookiest gospel blues playing and singing you will ever hear.
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 | Demons and Angels: The Ultimate Collection by Reverend Gary Davis
Buy new: $36.98 / Used from: $28.98 The Reverend Gary Davis is perhaps the epitome of blues gospel guitar.
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 | 1946-1951 by Lightnin Hopkins
Buy new: $28.98 / Used from: $24.21 "Lightnin' change when Lightnin' want to change." The master of electric drone blues.
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 | Classic Early Years 1948-51 by John Lee Hooker
Buy new: $28.98 / Used from: $24.64 John Lee Hooker - from shout choruses to stories, he is one of the most raucous blues guitarists and singers.
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 | T-Bone Blues by T-Bone Walker
Buy new: $8.96 / Used from: $2.73 T-Bone Walker's urbane, jazzy voicings and intricate style helped define urban electric blues.
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 | King of the Slide Guitar by Elmore James
Buy new: $32.98 / Used from: $21.99 The title says it all - Elmore James was the king of the slide guitar.
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 | Sufferin' Mind by Guitar Slim
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $9.99 Guitar Slim was a major blues singer and guitarist who would influence Albert King, among many others.
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 | Howlin Wolf: The Chess Box by Howlin' Wolf
Buy new: $28.47 / Used from: $39.84 Howlin' Wolf was Sam Phillips' (Sun Records) greatest discovery. Find out why.
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 | The Chess Box :Muddy Waters by Muddy Waters
Buy new: $28.47 / Used from: $26.70 Muddy Waters - the figurehead of Chicago blues, and hero to the English blues revival of the 1960s.
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 | Essential Collection: The Classic Cobra Recordings 1956-1958 by Otis Rush
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $9.50 Otis Rush's early recordings - fiery and inspirational.
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 | King of the Blues by B.B. King
Buy new: $37.47 / Used from: $23.48 B.B. King: a great anthology for a muddled and often out-of -print discography.
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 | Born Under a Bad Sign by Albert King
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $8.92 Possibly Albert King's best recording, with Albert backed by the Stax house band.
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 | The Complete Imperial Recordings by Albert Collins
Buy used from: $18.26 Albert Collins' early (predominantly instrumental, Meters-like) recordings.
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 | Getting Ready... by Freddie King
Buy new: $8.94 / Used from: $9.25 Freddie King's hardest blues album. Check out his instrumentals from the early 1960s too.
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 | Pressure Cooker by Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $7.63 Clarence Gatemouth Brown - one of the more eclectic blues guitarists: folk, jump, blues and big band.
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 | The Son Seals Blues Band by Son Seals
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $4.78 Son Seals - 1970s Chicago blues at their hottest and rawest.
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 | The Complete JSP Recordings: 1979-1982 by Buddy Guy
Buy used from: $117.63 Buddy Guy is popular - but his best playing may just be on these albums before his 1990s commercial success.
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