Joe Williams - Nothin' But the
 This is the real deal: Too jazzy for hardcore blues heads, maybe too bluesy for the jazz dudes, this album is the ultimate missing link. Joe Williams sings the blues with a looseness, creativity of phrasing, and pure joy that is rarely heard amongst more [... more]
CDN$16.99
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Blues Everywhere I go
From Amazon.co.uk: This was the first album in 14 years for 69-year-old US blues legend Odetta--Blues Everywhere I Go is a collection of songs drawn from the 1920s and 30s, previously sung by such vaudeville mamas as Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and Memphis [... more]
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Chill Out
Chronique amazon.fr: L'album s'ouvre sur une de ces plages métissées où les cultures se croisent, pour se dissoudre dans un thème en accords mineurs propice à la rêverie mélancolique. John Lee Hooker [... more]
CDN$10.99
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Philadelphia Folk Festival: 40th Anniversary
From Amazon.com: Naturally, this remarkable four-disc set celebrates 40 years of the Philadelphia Folk Festival, but it also serves as a compelling and diverse history of modern folk music itself. The performances included here run the whole gamut of the [... more]
CDN$58.32
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Everybody Hollerin' Goat
From Amazon.com: Othar Turner is one of the last practitioners of a musical form teetering perilously close to extinction. As he'll gladly tell you himself, Turner has been playing Southern fife and drum music for eight of his nine decades. Though he's [... more]
CDN$19.99
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Delta Blues Rough Guide To
From Amazon.co.uk: It isn't often a CD conjures magic out of the past the way The Rough Guide to Delta Blues does, but as Johnathan Ogle puts it in his excellent sleeve notes, these sounds from the Deep South cotton fields really are the cornerstone of [... more]
CDN$19.99
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Jealous
jealous you didn't make this album...punk: come on, the album is worth jealous and ninety days alone... I say this with affection. Yikes! Avoid this: The leading contender for worst John Lee Hooker album is this overly slick stinker. What was he [... more]
CDN$15.99
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Odetta and the Blues
Is this Bessie Smith Or Odetta?: When I heard a cut of the record on FM radio I was puzzled....was this Bessie Smith?...it had the snap and crackle of the great Bessie Smith....but it almost sounded like the unmistakable voice of Odetta. I called the [... more]
CDN$12.99
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Leave the Light On
From Amazon.com: This album's title cut finds the veteran folk-blues troubadour, now in his early 60s, pondering the possibility of living to be 100, thus setting the thematic tone for an uncommonly reflective, meditative set. The ragtime Zen of " [... more]
CDN$19.99
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Take a Little Walk With Me
It's about time!: "Take a Little Walk with Me" is probably the best recording Tom Rush ever made... and that's saying something. On vinyl, the album was divided into an electric side and an acoustic side. The electric side featured, among other [... more]
CDN$15.99
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Last Sessions (Rm)
From Amazon.com: When Jelly Roll Morton recorded this music in 1939 and 1940, the "Jazz Age" that he represented was rapidly becoming a subject of historical curiosity. Morton had already recorded extensively for the Library of Congress, [... more]
CDN$10.99
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Hoodoo Man Blues
Amazon.com essential recording: This 1965 album is where vocalist and harmonica player Junior Wells comes into his own. An early collaboration with Buddy Guy, the two of them sum up the 1960s funk-rock-blues that lay ahead. Hoodoo Man Blues inspired Paul [... more]
CDN$12.99
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