Electric Blues: Best Sellers

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]

Best remembered for his 1951 version of Robert Johnson's Dust My Broom, Elmore James was one of the top slide guitarists and blues [more]

The Very Best of Buddy Guy is a credible attempt to digitally summarize Buddy Guy's entire pre-Silvertone career on a single 18-song disc. It encompasses the guitarist's 1957 [more]

Legend status came late to Buddy Guy, so it shouldn't be surprising that this is the first box set devoted to the blues giant's work. Yet it is still a bit of a shock, because Guy, [more]

This expansive four-disc anthology essentially covers the recorded history of the guitar in the 20th century, beginning with the ragtime banjo that set the [more]

JSP is a reissue label sent by angels to alleviate suffering and dispel ignorance in the world. We know this because JSP has done a fantastic job of [more]

Nine songs recorded double-quick in one session, with Lowell Fulson on lead guitar on most of it -- the rare embellishment on a Hooker release makes for [more]

Although he first gained attention as one-quarter of the great Detroit vocal group the Chairmen of the Board ("Give Me Just a Little More Time," etc.), Harrison Kennedy is [more]

Founded in 1945 in Nashville by Jim Bulliet, Wally Fowler, and C.V. Hitchcock, Bullet Records was one of the most successful independent record labels in the [more]

Blues drummer Sam Carr is the son of the legendary Robert Nighthawk, and from his Mississippi birthplace arrived in St. Louis, and then for good in Helena, AK, [more]

Sky High was a typically uneven Alexis Korner album on several accounts. First, the literally sky-high level of talent among the backup musicians -- [more]

"Shame Shame" is only the tip of the iceberg on this hard-rocking blues classic, which ought to be in the collection of every serious fan of the early [more]

Accompanied by Johnny Winter and his band, Muddy Waters turns in an enthusiastic performance on Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live. The set list contains most of his [more]

If you're gonna put out a box set that really offers something to the devoted fans of an artist -- who are, after all, probably bound to have much or all of the artist's [more]