Recorded in 1963 at the New Era Club in Nashville, James is captured at her performance peak. The foundation for her reputation as a fiery no-hold's-barred performer was firmly established in this recording.
Folk Singer is the fourth album by Muddy Waters, released in April 1964 by Chess Records. The album features Waters on acoustic guitar, Willie Dixon on string bass, Clifton James on drums, and Buddy Guy on acoustic. It's Waters's only all-acoustic album.
A new Son House album of previously unreleased recordings from the legendary "Father Of The Delta Blues" features the never before recorded track, "Forever On My Mind."
Meet Me in the City, released in 1999, is an eclectic combination of Kimbrough's live recordings, some of which were recorded in his house. The ambience is intimate with hypnotic guitar lines, brooding vocals, and mesmerizing grooves.
Striking original gatefold cover art not seen in decades. Features B.B. King Classics: "Chains & Things" "Hummingbird" "Nobody Loves Me But My Mother" "You're Still My Woman" & "Ask Me No Questions".
Gris-Gris is the debut album by Dr. John. Produced by Harold Battiste, it was released on Atco Records in 1968. The musical style of Gris-Gris is a hybrid of New Orleans rhythm and blues and psychedelic rock.
B.B. at his boasting best; his modern style that crosses rock & roll and R&B with the jump blues is fully developed here, and his consistency from track to track during those crazy days is remarkable.
Compilation albums include The Copulatin' Blues (Stash Records: 1976, re-released Mojo Records: 1996), Them Dirty Blues (Jass Records: 1989) and You Got to Give
Nearly sixty years after they first played together, Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal, longtime friends and collaborators, reunite with an album of music from two Piedmont blues masters who have inspired them all their lives.
To celebrate the 25th Anniversary the original recordings have been re-mastered using newly available high-resolution mastering technology. Eva's electrifying vocals, more present than ever, transport the listener back to the time and place.
Samantha Fish "Faster" - On her new album Faster, Samantha Fish joins forces with superproducer Martin Kierszenbaum (Lady Gaga, Sting) and imbues even more intensity into her electrifying brand of blues/rock-and-roll.
Lightnin' Strikes is but a single cloud in the atmosphere of his work, but it provides an entry point, a single portrait of the artist as a blues iconoclast.
This album is based off of the American folk song -originated around the time of the Civil War, first recorded in the 1940’s by Dock Walsh, and then eventually adopted by Lead Belly a year or so afterwards.
Pulling inspiration from the color wheel diaspora of American music, Son Little draws from a deep well, using different buckets to visit and revisit, finding flourishes to add to the core of his songs.
Muddy Waters' Folk Singer remains rightly revered as the greatest-sounding blues album ever released-and, to date, one of the only bonafide audiophile records in the genre.
"Every phrase, every word is attacked with an energy that commands respect. But beware, this young woman could take on the sweetest forms of a melancholy ballad and manage to achieve tenderness. At Last! Is one of the key soul albums of the early 1960's."
