Modern Electric Blues: Best Sellers

The best compilation of Fame's work, finding his R&B-jazz fusion at its most potent (and most commercially successful) on these 20 cuts from the mid-'60s. Like a [more]

The Nighthawks probably find their music classed in the blues section of the record store most of the time, which makes a certain kind of sense -- if your lead singer plays [more]

In 2007, Joe Bonamassa titled his album after a Bob Ezrin. In 2009, he named his seventh studio album The Ballad of John Henry after one of the most enduring tales in American [more]

Columbia/Legacy's 2002 release The Best of Johnny Winter concentrates solely on the guitarist's early recordings for Columbia, which are often (and deservedly) [more]

San Francisco blues guitar king Joe Louis Walker has been purveying his biting brand of West Coast blues since the '60s, with time off for good behavior (literally [more]

After years languishing in the blues-rock trenches, Omar Kent Dykes left his Howlers band behind in 2007, hooked up with friend and fellow Austin-ite Jimmie [more]

Not all blues artists use the phrase "low down and dirty" as a badge of honor. There are also the uptown blues artists, who are [more]

Guitarist Jeff Golub has long mixed his soulful crossover jazz with a healthy dose of modern electric blues. However, he's never devoted a whole album to the kind of greasy rocking [more]

The sound quality is poor, but the music on Blues Night is good, containing early performances of such classics as "How Blue Can You Get," "Everyday I Have the Blues" and "Sweet Sixteen." [more]

Big Bill Morganfield continues to forge his own sound with a delicate balancing act on this, his forth album. He pays tribute to his dad and the Chicago sound he helped create on [more]