Tracks Hooker & The Hogs
- Wandering Blues - Hooker, John Lee
- Mai Lee
- Crazy Mixed Up World
- Seven Days And Seven Nights
- Goin' Mad Blues - Hooker, John Lee
- Little Girl
- Black Man Blues - Hooker, John Lee
- Storming On The Deep Blue Sea
- Lost Everything
- Helpless Blues - Hooker, John Lee
- Don't Be Messing With My Bread
- Lay Down Little Dreamer
- I Cover The Waterfront
- I Don't Want Nobody Else
- Losing You
Release date: 2008-01-21
RRP: £4.99
Price: £5.99
Review Hooker & The Hogs / John Lee Hooker:
Tracks His Best
- Left Me With A Broken Heart
- Don't You Know My Baby
- Chicago Bound
- Act Like You Love Me
- One Kiss
- Looka Here
- What Have I Done
- Luedella
- You're The One
- Crying Shame
- My Last Meal
- World's In A Tangle
- Walking By Myself
- Last Time
- That's All Right
- Goin' Away Baby
- Rock This House
- Money Marbles And Chalk
- Blues All Day Long (Blues Leave Me Alone)
- Today Today Blues
- I Can't Believe
- Sloppy Drunk
Release date: 2003-09-16
RRP: £15.99
Price: £6.11
Review His Best / Jimmy Rogers:
Tracks Have Some Fun
- I Just Can't Take It
- Rock Me Baby
- Gonna Send You Back To Georgia
- Wild About You Baby
- Ingleside Blues
- Good Nite Boogie
- Jumpin' With Symphony Sid
- Taylor's Crawl
- Things I Used To Do
- What Do I Say
- Phillips Stomp
Release date: 2003-05-21
Price: £13.99
Review Have Some Fun / Hound Dog Taylor:
Tracks Shake Your Boogie
- Mean Step Father
- She Left Me A Mule To Ride
- Fourty Four Blues
- Death Of Dr. Martin Luther King
- Greystone Blues
- Remember Way Back
- Dirt Road Blues
- President Roosevelt
- Brother James
- Louisiana Bound
- Thinking Of What They Did To Me
- Throw The Boogie Woogie
- Killing Floor Blues
- Sloppy Drunk Blues
- So Glad
- I Want My Crown
- Yo Yo Blues
- Creole Queen
- Montreal Blues
- Vitamin A Blues
- Shake Your Boogie
- King Jesus
- Army Man In Vietnam
- Take Me Out Of The Bottom
Release date: 1993-12-31
RRP: £14.99
Price: £6.90
Review Shake Your Boogie / Big' Joe Williams:
Tracks Classics 1950-1953
- Hospitality Blues - Grace Brim, John Brim
- Mean Man Blues
- Moonlight Blues
- Ice Cream Man
- Hard Pill to Swallow - Grace Brim, John Brim
- Rattlesnake
- Going Down the Line - John Brim, John Brim
- Dark Clouds - John Brim, John Brim
- Young and Wild
- Tough Times
- It Was a Dream
- Gary Stomp [Instrumental]
- Lonesome Man Blues - John Brim, John Brim
- Lifetime Baby
- Don't Leave Me (No Name Blues)
- Drinking Woman - Grace Brim, John Brim
- Trouble in the Morning
- Humming Blues
- Strange Man
- I Love My Baby
- Leaving Daddy Blues - John Brim, John Brim
- Man Around My Door - Grace Brim, John Brim
Release date: 2004-04-19
RRP: £9.99
Price: £7.52
Review Classics 1950-1953 / John Brim:
Tracks Live and Cookin' at Alice's Revisited
- I Had a Dream
- Sitting on Top of the World
- Don't Laugh at Me
- Just Passing By
- When I Laid Down I Was Troubled
- Big House [*]
- Call Me the Wolf
- Mean Mistreater
- Mr. Airplane Man [*]
- I Didn't Know
Release date: 2008-01-13
RRP: £19.99
Price: £14.39
Review Live and Cookin' at Alice's Revisited / Howlin' Wolf:
Tracks Blues at Sunrise: Live at Montreux
- I Believe to My Soul
- Roadhouse Blues
- Little Brother (Make a Way)
- Blues at Sunrise
- For the Love of a Woman
- I'll Play the Blues for You
- Don't Burn Down the Bridge ('Cause You Might Wanna Come Back Across)
Price: £9.99
Review Blues at Sunrise: Live at Montreux / Albert King:
Tracks The Story of the Blues
- Born With The Blues
- I Don't Want My Rooster Crowin' After The Sun Go
- Memphis Slim USA
- My Walking Shoes
- Rocking The House
- Bye Bye Will Be On My Way
- Pretending I'm Happy
- Chuckin'
- Blues Universal
- Rockin' Chair Blues
- Worried Life Blues
- Coco Boogie
- Fourty-Four Blues
- Miss Ida B.
- Trouble In Mind
- Fat Cat
- Cow Cow Blues
- In The Evenin'
- I Feel So Good
- Lonesome In My Bedroom
- I Wanna Dance
- Natural Fact
- Diggin' My Potatoes
- Baby Gone
- Letter Home
- Walk On
- She's Gone For Twelve Hours
- T.W.A.
- When I'm Gone
- Lonely Nights
Release date: 2004-11-08
RRP: £14.99
Price: £4.98
Review The Story of the Blues / Memphis Slim:
Tracks Roots Music - An American Journey
- Texas Cowboy - Ohrlin, Glenn
- Dry Bones - Persuasions
- Yancey's Bugle Call - Preacher Jack
- Ven (Come to Me) - Los Cachorros
- Nebraska - Cash Brothers
- Funkyard - Washington, Walter 'Wolfman'
- You're In My Heart - Vincent, Rhonda
- Swing Low Sweet Chariot - IIIrd Tyme Out
- Black's Ball - Hutto, J.B. & The New Hawks
- Broke Down - Cleaves, Slaid
- Iko Iko - Dollis, Bo & The Wild Magnolias
- Somos Boricuas (We Are Puerto Ricans) - Los Pleneros De La 21
- Old Corn Liquor - Thompson, Joe
- Frosty - Brown, Clarence 'Gatemouth'
- El Ano Viejo - Blazers
- This Time I'm Gone For Good - Adams, Johnny
- Pere Et Gareon Zydeco - Delafose, John & Geno
- More Than A Paycheck - Sweet Honey In The Rock
- Crossfire - Fleck, Bela
- Rain And Snow - Thomas, Suzanne
- Zulema Waltz - Jimenez, Santiago Jr.
- Oh Bye Mon Neg - Chavis, Boozoo
- Birches - Morrissey, Bill
- Streets of Laredo - Ford, Brownie
- You Better Mind - Jones, Bessie
- Flamenco Fling - MacMaster, Natalie
- Silver Star Hornpipe/Karen's Reel/Temperance Reel - Cormier, Joseph
- Tennessee Mountain Fox Chase - Blake, Norman (1)
- Banjo Picking Girl - Gerrard, Alice
- One-Dime Blues - Baker, Etta
- Leavin' - King, James (3)
- El Ahualulco - Los Pregoneros Del Puerto
- Doyne/Freylekhs - Klezmer Conservatory Band
- Catherine McEvoy's/Arklow Mountains - Carroll, Liz & James Keane Jr.
- Did You Hear John Hurt - Van Ronk, Dave
- All Just To Get To You - Ely, Joe
- Ashokan Farewell - Fiddle Fever
- One Endless Night - Gilmore, Jimmie Dale
- You Can't Hold On To A Love That's Gone - Holmes Brothers
- Mai Kai No Kauai - Tau Moe Family
- La Danse De Mardi Gras - Riley, Steve & Mamou Playboys
- Think It Over One More Time - Buckwheat Zydeco
- Hey Little Love - Hinojosa, Tish
- Down The Road - Ball, Marcia
- Old Folks At Home - Williams, Vern
- Every Time You Say Goodbye - Krauss, Alison
- Ti Galop Pour Mamou - Menard, D.L.
- Black Dog - Hubbard, Ray Wylie
- Friend Of The Devil - Rice/Rice/Hillman/Pedersen
- Bottle Up And Go - LaBeef, Sleepy
- Chez Seychelles - Beausoleil
- Working On A Building - Johnson Mountain Boys
- Don't Kneel At My Graveside - Stevens Sisters
- Frankie And Johnny - Washington, Tuts
- Man Of Constant Sorrow - O'Brien, Tim
- Just A Little While To Stay Here - ReBirth Brass Band
- Dimanche Apres-midi - Ardoin, Chris & Double Clutchin'
- Second Wind - Lynch, Claire
- Orphan Child - Stecher, Jody
- Lacassine Special - Balfa Brothers
- Oh Death - Tarbox Ramblers
- All The Way From East St. Louis - McDowell, 'Mississippi' Fred
- All Around The World - Booker, James
- Long Journey Home - Crowe, J.D. & The New South
- Uniform Grey - Harmer, Sarah
- Just One Kiss - Jocque, Beau & The Zydeco Hi-Rollers
- Juke Medley - Bell, Carey
- Nobody's Business - Freight Hoppers
Release date: 2002-03-25
RRP: £16.99
Price: £11.83
Review Roots Music - An American Journey / Various Artists:
Tracks Double Barreled
- Soft And Mellow
- Down On Beale Street, "The Midway"
- Mr. Sykes Blues - Memphis Slim
- The KMA, Hoboing And Freight Trains
- Chicago, The Life In The Clubs, Walter Davis
- Miss Ida B.
- M & S Boogie - Memphis Slim
- Introducing The Grinder Man And The Honeydripper
- The Churning Man - Memphis Slim
- Talking About Miss Ida B.
- Improvising New Blues
- Lost My Boogie - Roosevelt Sykes
- 44 Blues
- Eagle Rock
- Going To Chicago, Bootlegging And Other Things
- The Life Of Piano Players In The South In The Late 1930's
- Going Down Slow - Memphis Slim
- M & O Blues
- 47th Street Boogie
- Talking About The 44 Blues
- Roosevelt Daddy's Blues
- Introducing The Churning Man
- Roosevelt Sykes Meets Memphis Slim In Memphis, Tennessee - Roosevelt Sykes, Memphis Slim
Release date: 2005-01-24
Run time: 54 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.55
Review Double Barreled / Memphis Slim Roosevelt Sykes:
Tracks Buddy's Baddest: the Best of Buddy Guy
- Midnight Train - Guy, Buddy & Johnny Lang
- Damn Right I've Got The Blues
- Innocent Man
- I Need Your Love So Bad
- Someone Else Is Steppin' In (Slippin' Out Slippin' In)
- She's Nineteen Years Old
- Five Long Years
- Feels Like Rain
- My Time After Awhile
- She's A Superstar
- I Smell Trouble
- Mustang Sally
- Miss Ida B
- Rememberin' Stevie
Release date: 2001-05-07
RRP: £7.99
Price: £4.50
Review Buddy's Baddest: the Best of Buddy Guy / Buddy Guy:The title's baloney. Sure, some of Buddy Guy's most blistering guitar playing has been captured on his '90s recordings for Silvertone, but with albums like Muddy Waters's 1964 Folk Singer and his own 1967 solo debut A Man & the Blues on his résumé, Guy's status as a Chicago blues giant was assured long before his 1991 comeback Damn Right, I've Got the Blues. Nonetheless, that tune, the instrumental tribute "Remembering Stevie" (for the late guitar-slinger Vaughan), "Five Long Years," and the previously unissued "Miss Ida B" testify that at age 65 Guy still possesses rare depth and fire. His singing is big and soulful, capable of cheerleading a party or hurtling down to the depths of Delta blues heartache. His six-stringing remains wildly inventive and unpredictable, even on slight numbers like "She's a Superstar. " And the inclusion of blatant stabs at the pop charts such as his "Midnight Train" duet with Jonny Lang take nothing away from the passion he puts into true blues performances like "I Need Your Love So Bad" and "Innocent Man," leftovers from earlier sessions that surface here. Baddest or not, this CD spotlights one of our greatest bluesmen in fine form. -Ted Drozdowski.
Tracks Blues & Ballads
- I'll Get Along Somehow
- He's a Jelly Roll Baker
- Elmer's Blues
- St. Louis Blues
- Backwater Blues
- Memories of You
- I Found a Dream
- Blues for Chris
- Haunted House
- Savoy Blues
Release date: 1991-07-01
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.40
Review Blues & Ballads / Lonnie Johnson with Elmer Snowden:This beautiful album was engineered by Rudy Van Gelder in his Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, home studio where so much jazz history was made. It features guitar innovators Lonnie Johnson and Elmer Snowden together for the first time-despite a friendship going back to the 1920s when both appeared on some of the earliest jazz and blues 78s. Johnson, the father of single-note six-string soloing, is in marvelous voice on this selection of blues, ballads, and jazz, crooning the double-entendre "Jelly Roll Baker" and the heartache-laden "Back Water Blues" (a Bessie Smith tune he first cut in 1927) with a marksman's sense of pitch and chilling nuance. Snowden serves mostly as accompanist. But these men play so closely that they seem to be sharing every breath. -Ted Drozdowski.
Tracks Blues Today!: Chicago
- Married Woman Blues - J.B. Hutto
- Cotton Crop Blues - James Cotton Blues Band, Jimmy Cotton Blues Quartet
- Black Spider Blues - Johnny Shines
- Rock - Otis Rush
- Love Me or Leave - James Cotton Blues Band,
- I Can't Quit You Baby - Otis Rush
- S.P. Blues - Otis Spann
- Dynaflow Blues - Johnny Shines
- It's a Mean Old World - Otis Rush
- It's My Own Fault - Otis Rush
- Rockin' My Boogie - Big Walter Horton, Memphis Charlie
- Marie - Otis Spann
- Going Ahead - J.B. Hutto
- So Mean to Me - Homesick James Williamson
- Mr. Boweevil - Johnny Shines
- Tighten Up on It - Johnny Young
- Vietcong Blues - Junior Wells Chicago Blues Band
- I Got Mine in Time - Johnny Young
- Please Help - J.B. Hutto
- Set a Date - Homesick James Williamson
- Spann's Stomp - Otis Spann
- Layin' Down My Shoes and Clothes - Johnny Shines
- Blues Keep Falling - James Cotton Blues Band,
- Hey, Hey - Johnny Shines
- One More Time - Johnny Young
- My Black Mare - Johnny Young
- It Hurts Me Too (When Things Go Wrong) - Junior Wells Chicago Blues Band
- Sometimes I Wonder - Otis Spann
- Kid Man Blues - Johnny Young
- That's the Truth - J.B. Hutto
- Burning Fire - Otis Spann
- Somebody Been Talkin' - Homesick James Williamson
- Too Much Alcohol - J.B. Hutto
- All Night Long (Rock Me Baby) - Junior Wells Chicago Blues Band
- Help Me - Junior Wells Chicago Blues Band
- Everything's Going to Turn Out Alright - Otis Rush,
- Dust My Broom - Homesick James Williamson
- Stealin' Back - Johnny Young
- Messin' with the Kid - Junior Wells Chicago Blues Band
- If I Get Lucky - Johnny Shines
- West Helena Blues - James Cotton Blues Band,
- Rocket 88 - James Cotton Blues Band,
RRP: £29.99
Price: £10.37
Review Blues Today!: Chicago / Various:Few anthologies capture lightning in a bottle quite like Sam Charters's Blues Today! series. Producer/writer/all-around blues champion Charters conducted the sessions for what would become three LPs in the winter of 1965, rounding up some of Chicago's superior but still undiscovered South Side talent-Junior Wells, J. B. Hutto, Otis Spann, James Cotton, Otis Rush, Homesick James, Johnny Young, Johnny Shines, and Big Walter Horton. The frontmen and their bands were skilled, tight, and ready to go when Charters came calling, quickly churning out anywhere from a single track (Horton, who turns in a harmonica duet with a young Charlie Musselwhite) to a half-dozen selections. Much of what they summoned up was nothing short of sensational. Wells's Chicago Blues Band offerings rival their work on their hallmark Hoodoo Man Blues, while the gifted but inconsistent Rush is inspired throughout his five efforts. Vanguard's repackaging on the original three records is a boon for blues fans, thanks to its handsome design and generous notes, including an 11-page 1999 memoir from Charters. -Steven Stolder.
Tracks The London Sessions
- Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do (2)
- Messin' Around (1)
- Blues In London
- One More Time
- Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do
- Every Day
- Worried Life
- Fattenin' Frogs For Snakes (1)
- Messin' Around
- I Feel So Good
- Help Me Some
- Everyday
- Fattenin' Frogs For Snakes
- I Feel So Good (1)
Release date: 1993-09-01
RRP: £9.99
Price: £7.20
Review The London Sessions / Memphis Slim:
Tracks Koko Taylor
- Whatever I Am, You Made Me
- Don't Mess With the Messer
- Wang Dang Doodle
- Insane Asylum
- Yes, It's Good for You
- I Love a Lover Like You
- Twenty-Nine Ways to My Baby's Door
- Fire
- Nitty Gritty
- I Don't Care Who Knows
- Love You Like a Woman
- I'm a Little Mixed Up
Price: £13.99
Review Koko Taylor / Koko Taylor:Her self-titled debut, containing songs recorded from 1965 through 1969, shows Koko Taylor's brash, gut-deep vocal style already well established; it's a voice that's made her the queen of Chicago blues. Produced by Willie Dixon, who (unsurprisingly) wrote several of the songs here (including Taylor's signature hit, "Wang Dang Doodle") and contributes backing vocals and bass work, Koko Taylor is an excellent representation of Taylor's years at the prestigious Chess label. While not as comprehensive as What It Takes: The Chess Years, the album includes much of Taylor's classic work: the aforementioned "Doodle," the extremely sexy "I Love a Lover Like You," the solid-as-a-brick-wall "I'm a Little Mixed Up," and the hilariously funny "Twenty-Nine Ways. " Taylor had some great sidemen for these sessions, too: Buddy Guy, Johnny Shines, Walter Horton, and Sunnyland Slim all make appearances. -Genevieve Williams.
Tracks Blues Brother, Soul Sister
- Band of Gold - Freda Payne
- Tell It Like It Is - Aaron Neville
- I Can't Stand the Rain - Ann Peebles
- Hi-Heel Sneakers - Tommy Tucker
- Hello Stranger - Barbara Lewis
- Boy from New York City - The Ad Libs, The Ad Libs
- Tired of Being Alone - Al Green
- Misty Blue - Dorothy Moore
- (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right - Millie Jackson
- Dimples - John Lee Hooker
- When a Man Loves a Woman - Percy Sledge
- Get on Up - The Esquires
- Wade in the Water - Ramsey Lewis
- Move on Up - Curtis Mayfield
- Fever - Little Willie John
- I'd Rather Go Blind - Etta James
- Smokestack Lightning - Howlin' Wolf
- Every Beat of My Heart - Gladys Knight & the Pips
- Nadine - Chuck Berry
- Iko Iko - The Dixie Cups
- Baby I'm Yours - Barbara Lewis
- Oh No, Not My Baby - Maxine Brown
- "In" Crowd - Dobie Gray
- It's All Right - The Impressions
- Backfield in Motion - Mel & Tim
- Hold What You've Got - Joe Tex
- Hey Girl Don't Bother Me - The Tams
- Ain't That Lovin' You Baby - Jimmy Reed
- Cool Jerk - The Capitols
- That Ole Devil Called Love - Billie Holiday
- Louie, Louie - The Kingsmen
- Will You Love Me Tomorrow - The Shirelles
- I Just Want to Make Love to You - Etta James
- Be Thankful for What You Got - William DeVaughn
- Mad About the Boy - Dinah Washington
- Harlem Shuffle - Bob & Earl
- Gimme Little Sign - Brenton Wood
- Rescue Me - Fontella Bass
- (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher - Jackie Wilson
- I Get the Sweetest Feeling - Jackie Wilson
- Summertime - Billy Stewart
- Oo Wee Baby, I Love You - Fred Hughes
- My Babe - Little Walter
- Take Me to the River - Al Green
- Getting Mighty Crowded - Betty Everett
- Drift Away - Dobie Gray
- My Baby Just Cares for Me - Nina Simone
- I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down - Ann Peebles
- Great Pretender - Carol Fran
- Selfish One - Jackie Ross
- Love Makes the World Go 'Round - Deon Jackson
- You're No Good - Betty Everett
- Roadrunner - Bo Diddley
- My Guy - Mary Wells
Release date: 2008-02-25
RRP: £4.99
Price: £1.95
Review Blues Brother, Soul Sister / Various:
Tracks I Smell Smoke
- I Hope He's Worth My Pain
- Willing To Crawl
- Hard Love
- I Smell Smoke
- Lie To Me
- Good Man Bad Thing
- Snake Eggs
- One More Chance
- Miss Mercy
- Let The Door Knob Hit You
- Time I Came In Out Of The Rain
- All Your Affection Is Gone
Release date: 2003-06-23
RRP: £13.99
Price: £6.97
Review I Smell Smoke / Michael Burks:
Tracks Travellin' With the Blues
- Chicago New Home Of The Blues
- Blues Confession
- Worries All The Time
- Rent Party Blues
- St Louis Blues
- Memphis Boogie
- Boogie Woogie
- Blues Made Up
- Arkansas Road House Blues
- Santa Fe Blues
- Good Rockin' Blues
- Midnight Jump
- Chicago House
- Reminiscin' With The Blues
- Goodbye Blues
Release date: 1999-10-01
RRP: £13.99
Price: £11.04
Review Travellin' With the Blues / Memphis Slim:
Tracks Bo Diddley in the Spotlight
- Deed and Deed I Do
- Travelin' West
- Scuttle Bug
- Walkin' and Talkin'
- Limber
- Live My Life
- Crawdad
- Roadrunner
- Story of Bo Diddley
- Signifying Blues
- Love Me
- Let Me In
Release date: 1990-10-25
RRP: £7.99
Price: £6.99
Review Bo Diddley in the Spotlight / Bo Diddley:
Tracks Mr. Lucky
- Crawlin' Kingsnake
- I Cover The Waterfront
- This Is Hip
- I Want To Hug You
- Father Was A Jockey
- Susie
- Highway 13
- Backstabbers
- Stripped Me Naked
- Mr Lucky
Release date: 1999-08-31
Price: £9.99
Review Mr. Lucky / John Lee Hooker:
| Models & Brands:
Hooker & The Hogs, His Best, Have Some Fun, Shake Your Boogie, Classics 1950-1953, Live and Cookin' at Alice's Revisited, Blues at Sunrise: Live at Montreux, The Story of the Blues, Roots Music - An American Journey, Double Barreled, Buddy's Baddest: the Best of Buddy Guy, Blues & Ballads, Blues Today!: Chicago, The London Sessions, Koko Taylor, Blues Brother, Soul Sister, I Smell Smoke, Travellin' With the Blues, Bo Diddley in the Spotlight, Mr. Lucky |
