 | Founder of the Delta Blues by Charlie Patton
Buy used from: $14.99 Fantastic slide guitar work, diverse songs and lyrics. Patton's playing is the one to who most of his contempories (including Son House) aspired.
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 | Son House & the Great Delta Blues Singers by Son House
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $10.50 The complete works of a variety of players(with the exception of a recently rediscoveded Son House 78). Six great slide guitar work by Son House, the only 2 available recordings of Willie Brown, and a guitar duet by House and Brown would alone make this a great purchase.
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 | The Complete Recordings by Robert Johnson
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $9.49 Robert Johnson needs no introduction vaguely familiar with the prewar blues. Johnson leaned much of his playing directly from Son House and Willie Brown.
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 | Canned Heat Blues: Masters of the Delta Blues by Various Artists
Buy used from: $3.84 The best recordings of Tommy Johnson, Furry Lewis, and Ishman Bracey. Everything by Johnson and Lewis on this CD is a gem.
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 | Complete Recorded Works (1931) by Skip James
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $12.36 Fantastic guitar player who sang some of the most mournful blues you'll ever hear.
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 | Alabama Blues: 1927-1931 by Various Artists
Buy used from: $28.00 It is well worth searching for this possibly out-of-print Yazoo CD. The best recordings of Clifford Gibson (not actually from Alabama), Ed Bell, and harpist Jay Bird Coleman.
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| The Georgia Blues by Various Artists
Buy used from: $36.99 Another possible out-of-print Yazoo CD, but well worth the effort of locating. Frantic slide guitar work from the first recording session of Gitfiddle Jim, aka Kokomo Arnold. Also, mournful blues for obscure artist George Carter.
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| St. Louis Country Blues, 1929-1937 by Various Artists
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $12.37 Comlete recorded works of Henry Spaulding, Henry Townsend, and Jaydee Short. Great guitar work from all three bluesmen. Another highly recommended St. Louis blues disc worth searching for that is probably out-of-print is Yazoo CD 1003 "St. Louis Town: 1927-1933"
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 | Don't Leave Me Here - Blues of Texas, Arkansas & Louisiana by VVAAA
Buy used from: $24.99 Yet another possibly out-of-print Yazoo CD that contains a fantastic sampling of music.
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 | Mississippi Masters: Early American Blues Classics 1927-1935 by Various Artists
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $12.00 Good variety of music from some less well known (but not less talented) artists.
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 | 1928 Sessions by Mississippi John Hurt
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $6.95 Not a rough barrel houser like others on this list, but a songster and accomplished guitarist more at home playing on his front porch.
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 | The Early Years 1927-1933 by Blind Willie McTell
Buy used from: $4.98 Sampling of work from the vast library of this accomplished 12-string and slide guitar artist from Georgia.
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 | Bumble Bee by Memphis Minnie
Buy used from: $12.42 Good variety of Minnie's music through 1941. However, her best work with common-law husband Kansas Joe was during their first recording session in 1929, found in the Document CD DOCD-5028 "Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe in Chronological Order Volume 1"
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