 | The Complete Aladdin Recordings by Lightnin' Hopkins
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $6.74 I simply don't have enough of Lightnin's records and he apparently cut hundreds of 'em! This early collection is a great start for will be Lightnin fans.
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 | The Complete Prestige/Bluesville Recordings by Lightnin' Hopkins
Buy new: $37.47 / Used from: $77.66 One heckova box set,. Those were some great years for Lightnin.
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 | The Great Electric Show and Dance by Lightnin' Hopkins
Buy used from: $4.99 I absolutely love this record. Sure, it sounds like Lightnin might of tossed it off the cuff but he was having some fun. Kind of psychadelic at times.
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 | Big Walter Horton with Carey Bell by Big Walter Horton w
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $12.57 By song number three, I am usually in a trance. Lost somewhere in the groove.
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 | 100% Cotton by James Cotton Blues Band
Is a 100% pure energy. Unstoppable. Explosive.
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 | Living the Blues by James Cotton
Buy used from: $6.49 Slowing down and digging in deeper. More gut spilling than the riot of his younger work.
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 | Cold Snap by Albert Collins
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $4.93 Their is a lot of warmeth in the Iceman touch.
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 | Hoodoo Man Blues by Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $7.30 An electric classic. A young Junior pours his heart out while Buddy plugs in. a rockus set
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 | Buddy Guy & Junior Wells Play the Blues by Buddy Guy
Buy new: $13.96 / Used from: $3.99 Work their way through a set of standards. A little older but no less dynamic.
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 | His Best :(Little Walter)The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection by Little Walter
Buy new: $7.97 / Used from: $5.94 Says it is his best. I am not gonna argue with that.
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 | Hate to See You Go by Little Walter
Buy new: $32.99 / Used from: $59.26 Damn, this record is getting pricey.
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 | Brownie McGhee: The Folkways Years, 1945-1959 by Brownie McGhee
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $9.95 Down home front porch tales of Americana. Very folkie.
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 | Vanguard Sessions: Blues From The Delta by Skip James
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $7.92 The Vanguard sessions of blues masters never let me down. The record label kept a lot of obscure country/delta bluesmen from disappearing from history. Gave them a chance to be pressed in wax using superior studio sound. Superior for the 1960's.
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 | The Complete Plantation Recordings by Muddy Waters
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $3.97 I like his earlier work more than his later stuff; which was cut with the rock and rolll crowd in mind. It amazes me how many on this list would come up through his band!
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 | Hoochie Coochie Man by Muddy Waters
Buy used from: $0.98 A surprisingly great live set on some "here today gone tomorrow" record label. I'm sure this batch of goodies show up somewhere else. If you can't find them tho grab 'em here. Price is right. The notes claim Otis was sitting at the piano bench. Sounds it too.
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 | Otis Spann Is the Blues by Otis Spann
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $6.95 Otis was a master in his own right. Otis helped give the Hoochie Coochie man his sound.
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 | Walking the Blues by Otis Spann
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $50.30 An intimate setting in the studio produced this rollicking set.
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 | The Complete Bukka White by Bukka White
Buy used from: $8.12 Bukka epitomised the blues. Bad luck, even worse times, longing and heartbreak. Brutal.
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 | The Country Blues of John Lee Hooker by John Lee Hooker
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $8.49 A dark record. I feel like I am eavesdropping in on a private conversation.
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 | The Legendary Modern Recordings by John Lee Hooker
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $9.90 The real beginning of rock and roll. He invented those power chords and the slang to go with it. A footstomper.
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 | Harp Attack! by James Cotton
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $4.40 Not a grand statement. Only some over the top fun. A blues party record. A rowdy one.
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