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At four discs and nearly 100 tracks, this is the second installment of Rhythm and Blues Records' ambitious history of R&B, covering the years 1942 to 1952 [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]
It's doubtful whether this 12-cut collection from the iffy Legacy imprint (not Sony's) is any kind of history of the blues, but it is a collection of great blues [more]
"I saw Lightnin' for the first time at a roadhouse in Gary, Indiana. He had on his shades, a process and a dark suit with white socks. He pulled up a chair, plugged in his guitar and tore the house up. The place went wild! It was one of the coolest things I ever saw. Lightnin' was definitely one cool operator." —Charlie Musselwhite
Pruning 16 tracks from Hopkins' extensive catalog for a best-of meant that some hard choices had to be made. The ones Rhino came up with won't [more]
This CD is a hodgepodge sampling of blues records featuring mostly pre-war slide guitarists ranging from the simplicity of Barbecue Bob (who was much [more]