Country Blues: Best Sellers

With an intricate, delicate guitar style and a soft, gentle voice, Mississippi John Hurt benefited mightily from the recording technology of the day when he recorded 20 [more]

It makes sense to pair Charley Patton and Blind Lemon Jefferson sides together like this, since between them Patton and Jefferson provided the foundation [more]

Lightnin' Hopkins had a hard and fast approach to dealing with the abundance of record labels he recorded for during his career. The irascible bluesman would show up [more]

Shout! Factory's 2009 set Anthology: 50 Years is not the first double-disc Hooker retrospect, nor is it likely to be the last. It differs from the previous front runner for [more]

A collection of 22 mostly blues tracks that either influenced or were covered by Nick Cave, this set works just fine as an anthology even without the Cave connection. And it [more]

A collection of 22 mostly blues tracks that either influenced or were covered by the White Stripes, this set works just fine as an anthology even without the White [more]

Whether or not these 22 songs inspired Jimi Hendrix or not, this would still be a nice collection, and it actually works as a well-sequenced and varied little blues primer, [more]

Whether or not these 22 songs inspired the Grateful Dead or not, this would still be a nice collection, and it's surprisingly varied, including blues pieces, [more]

Although he has often been labeled a blues artist, Leadbelly had a much wider palette than that, and routinely sang spirituals, work songs, folk ballads, and children's pieces, [more]

Given the fact that life is just plain hard sometimes, maybe even most of the time, it would seem that any era one picks could lay [more]

Booker White (his name was misspelled on the label for "Sic 'Em Dogs On" and

The Saddle River Stringband, who feature Troy MacArthur on banjo, James Phillips on mandolin, Tom DesRoches on bass fiddle, and Mike Dixon on guitar, play an [more]

This interesting collection draws from recordings in the Harry Smith archive and includes what sounds like songs taken from casual, private sessions with [more]

Winding through the literally hundreds of titles in John Lee Hooker's catalog is a daunting task for even the most seasoned and learned blues connoisseur. This is especially [more]

With no limit to his guitar ability, on Post-Industrial Blues Bob Brozman returns to his blues and Americana roots instead of tapping into unexplored genres like he has so [more]

The 1920s is perhaps the only time when we hear what America was actually singing of its own accord, and since record companies at [more]

Three Shades of Blues comprises a selection of tracks cut by Bukka White, Skip James, and Blind Willie McTell, all recorded during different eras. [more]

In the mid-'60s blues fans, collectors, and scholars began to realize that some of the artists who sang on their favorite old country-blues 78s from [more]

Fourth and Beale is a remarkably intimate session, recorded at Furry Lewis' rooming house in Memphis on March 5, 1969 with Lewis (he was approaching 80-years-old at the [more]

For the past few years, Blues Images of Oregon has put out a blues calendar featuring the original sleeve artwork from vintage 1920s [more]

The ageless Henry Townsend is a national treasure, with an amazing eight-decade musical career that has seen him help shape the sound of St. Louis blues (both on guitar and [more]

A native of Amory, MS who came up in Birmingham AK, Lucille Bogan sang about life as she knew it in a rough and tumble environment that provided her with plenty of [more]

This second volume in Document's project to reissue the complete recorded works of Jim Jackson in chronological order isn't quite as necessary as the first, [more]