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• Ali Farka Toure - The River (1990)
  on Jan 4, 2011 in Ali Farka Toure - The River (1990)
  Ali Ibrahim “Farka” Touré (October 31, 1939 – March 7, 2006) was a Malian singer and guitarist, and one of the African continent’s most internationally renowned musicians. His music is widely regarded as representing a point of intersection...
• Mance Lipscomb – Texas Sharecropper and Songster
  on Jan 4, 2011 in Mance Lipscomb – Texas Sharecropper and Songster
  Arhoolie's Texas Sharecropper & Songster is a recording made in 1960, during the blues revival. Prior to the blues revival, Mance Lipscomb was an unknown, and his discovery was one of the positive byproducts of the revival. He was a great country...
• Skip James - Complete Early Recordings (1930)
  on Jan 4, 2011 in Skip James - Complete Early Recordings (1930)
  The eighteen songs presented on this CD may, if allowed, cause the listener to re-define their standards of what personal expression in music might be. Skip James' music has been called strange and idiosyncratic. If these terms are adequate to descri...
• Jimmy Reed Blues Masters: The Very Best Of
  on Jan 4, 2011 in Jimmy Reed Blues Masters: The Very Best Of
  Recorded between 1953 & 1963. Includes liner notes by Cub Koda, Steve Woolard. Though Jimmy Reed's name will always be eclipsed by more innovative and charismatic artists like Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, his simple, straightforward music is--...
• John Lee Hooker - Blues for Big Town
  on Jan 3, 2011 in John Lee Hooker - Blues for Big Town
  This John Lee Hooker set is volume 38 in the Charly Blues Masterworks series, which shows no sign of slowing down. There are 16 tracks recorded between the late 1940s and the early '60s; these sides make up some of the less obvious choices in a best-...
• Billie Holiday – Songs For Distingue Lovers
  on Jan 3, 2011 in Billie Holiday – Songs For Distingue Lovers
  Songs for Distingué Lovers is a stereo album by jazz singer Billie Holiday released in 1957 on Verve Records, originally a ten-inch record, catalogue MGV 8257. It was recorded at Capitol Studios in Los Angeles from January 3 to January 9, 1957, and...
• Eric Clapton - Money and Cigarettes (1983)
  on Dec 30, 2010 in Eric Clapton - Money and Cigarettes (1983)
  Eric Clapton returned in February of 1983 with his second studio release of the eighties. Money and Cigarettes ranks somewhere in the middle of his vast catalogue as it is not as good as many of the releases which preceded it but is better than many...
• Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
  on Dec 30, 2010 in Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
  Texas Flood is the debut album of American blues musician Stevie Ray Vaughan and his band Double Trouble, released June 13, 1983 on Epic Records. The album was recorded in only three days, at Jackson Browne's personal recording studio, in 1982 since...
• B.B.King - Lucille (1968)
  on Dec 30, 2010 in B.B.King - Lucille (1968)
  In December 1967, B.B. King entered the studio with noted jazz producer Bob Thiele to record what eventually became LUCILLE. Named after King's guitar, this record finds B.B. adding some fresh ingredients to his already potent stew of traditional blu...
• Charlie Musselwhite - Stone Blues (1968)
  on Dec 23, 2010 in Charlie Musselwhite - Stone Blues (1968)
  When people think of top white blues performers from the 60's, names like Paul Butterfield, Mike Bloomfield, John Mayall and Al Kooper come readily to mind. While those guys all have their place in history, so does Charlie Musselwhite. Musselwhite le...

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