Best Chicago Blues
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Find Best Price at Amazon"A must see film for all fans of the Blues!!!"
"Cadillac Records features the music of Etta James, Howling Wolf, Muddy Waters and Little Walter revamped for the modern ear."
"just brings back memories of my mama and aunts playing these on the old chest type stereos still sounds good on them.. a good buy for that Saturday afternoon chill session."
"Reseived pretty quickly and in parfect shape and a Great Movie everyone in the movie was cast perfectly and great music."
"Beyonce sounds better here than her solo albums !"
"we enjoy remembering great times when these were popular."
"It is great."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Buddy Guy and Junior Wells were touring in Europe with the Stones at the time so available to record with Memphis Slim."
"Best blues album ever, especially number 8 which is perfect blend of vocals (Memphis Slim), piano (Memphis Slim), guitar (Buddy Guy), drums, and bass."
"well if it's the blues you want then pick up this rolling and tumbling cd........this cd finds Memphis slim in excellent voice..the musicans in fine form seemingly enjoying one another..its billed as slim and guy but you know some Memphis stew is going down when you throw in a.c. reed and jr. wells....really can't go wrong with this cd."
"One of the greatest blues albums ever."
"Some great stuff here with Buddy Guy,Memphis Slim shows a different sound and I like it."
"I've listened to other great blues piano players for decades: Otis Spann of course, and Eddie Boyd, Roosevelt Sykes, Pinetop Perkins, et al. This album reminds me of an all-time favorite CD of mine for years: Buddy Guy and Junior Wells' "Southside Blues Jam": It has the same "ad hoc feel"---as if the musicians decided that morning "Hey, let's get together and have a jam session!""
"In 1970, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells and band hooked up with memphis Slim in France to record this loose and rockin' album."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The combination of Fenton's vocal approach, his playing, the rhythm section (especially the sound of the bass guitar) and horns all sound like they were straight out of a Saturday night gig at Kingston Mines on Lincoln Avenue."
"Sweet Blues !"
"I WOULDN'T HAVE KNOWN HE EVEN EXISTED IF A FRIEND HADN'T TOLD ME HE WOULD LIKE TO FIND IT."
"I used to listen as my dad played this album, and though I was no fan of the blues then, it was this album that got me hooked."
"This CD arrived and I was not sure what to expect, but it fulfilled my best hopes at the true sound of rhythm and blues."
"But despite releasing several very fine albums his career never took off, mainly because his style did not appeal to the mass blues fan base who wanted it all to sound like SRV or Johnny Winter. The song's are varied, including several terrific slow blues ("Somebody Loan Me A Dime", "Directly From My Heart To You") to more up-tempo numbers ("The Getaway", "You Don't Know What Love Is")."
"There is a great mix of minor key tunes, shuffles and swing and Fenton pullls off these different styles with class. I've read a lot about how Buddy Guy can't get on mainstream radio, and that is very true. If there are any kids reading this, who are interested in playing electric blues, Buy this CD. All the Robillard's amd Earl's will never match this for originality and powerful vocals."
"I agree with the person that said he has more in common with T-bone Walker than most blues guitarists."
Best Delta Blues
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Enjoyable for someone who has been away from New Orleans and needed this memorabilia during the holidays."
"I have fun with this every Christmas."
"lifelong resident --that's for over 4 decades-- I find this production fun, funny and great for hearing something of our local accents. Then again, these songs could be helpful "foe transplanted N'Awliners to share a taste of our good-hawted natures and local humor.""
"These guys really capture the authentic New Orleans spirit with great lyrics and dialect."
Best Regional Blues
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Bought it used - would buy used again."
"If you enjoy SRV, Kenny Wayne Shepard and such, buy all their albums."
"A great album by this band."
"This band is a great blues band........good stuff!"
"Interesting earlier album."
"Once again , thanks for this great music!!"
"An old and fantastic album- everything Indigenous does sounds great to me!"
Best Modern Blues
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I remember this album when I was in the 10th grade. I love this record."
"Great voice ........love this musical flow."
"Always brings the heat on an R&B level."
Best Acoustic Blues
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This may be The Devil Makes 3 at their best... they demonstrate their full range from playing old school folk, to blues rock, to down home bluegrass."
"Love this band!"
"Once again the lyrics and music from the talented Devil Makes Three band is easy to listen to, and makes you feel."
"Their best album!"
"Personally I love their live recordings, I prefer them as a live band, and as far as "live" recordings go in general, this one is great quality."
"Having listened to Devil Makes Three's studio albums, I decided it was time to listen to some of their live stuff."
"These are live recordings of songs from their studio records and a couple they usually play at their shows that aren't on their records."
"5 Stars!!!"
Best Contemporary Blues
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Another great record from Joe."
"I particularity like the way Joe embraces past, present and future, blending familiar influences and making it all somehow his own."
"Good stuff by Joe on this disc."
"Good record."
"On this record, you hear a more controlled voice and better sounding lower register."
"If you know Joe, there's little more you need to know."
"If you don't get Joe Bonamassa, you don't get the blues!"
"joe's stuff is Joe's stuff and really goos sh-t to boot."
Best Traditional Blues
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I'm a late arrival to the Church of RWH, but this is the album - and the song - that brought me into the fold."
"Love RWH music!"
"Typical music ever from Ray Wylie Hubbard."
"Great 3 am music."
"Besides the great musicianship, and fun lyrics, there is a deeper moral dilemma playing out in some of the tunes, that stays with you long after the listening is over."
"Great CD."
Best Classic Female Vocal Blues
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Love Love Love Koko Taylor and I love this collection of songs."
"Who wouldn't love Koko, that woman can belt the blues."
"She can belt it out a less sophisticated Etta James."
"If you love blues and women who can belt out their vocals, this is a must have CD."
"Love anything Koko does but her 'Born Under a Bad Sign" with Buddy Guy gets me every time."
"one of the best blues records there is."
"Every song on here is outstanding."
Best Electric Blues Guitar
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Find Best Price at Amazon"A must see film for all fans of the Blues!!!"
"Cadillac Records features the music of Etta James, Howling Wolf, Muddy Waters and Little Walter revamped for the modern ear."
"just brings back memories of my mama and aunts playing these on the old chest type stereos still sounds good on them.. a good buy for that Saturday afternoon chill session."
"Reseived pretty quickly and in parfect shape and a Great Movie everyone in the movie was cast perfectly and great music."
"Beyonce sounds better here than her solo albums !"
"we enjoy remembering great times when these were popular."
"It is great."
Best Compilations
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Find Best Price at Amazon"All convicts are at the infamous Parchman Farm prison, located in the deep Delta, in Mississippi."
"If you are a collector of early Afro-American music, slave songs, or related hymns this is a great addition to your collection."
"Important for anyone who cares about Black history or music. Or history."
"A great historical recording that teaches both the way prison workers sang as well as the mythology that was a part of their singing."
"Incredibly clean sound for the 40's, all well recorded, musically superb pieces, each a perfect gem of its kind, preserving some of the oldest and best of American music, done by some of the finest singers you've never heard of."
"This is simply stirring given the history of this music, and its obvious connections to spirituals and blues from all of the decades prior."
"Recording quality good."
"classic collection of rare & historic songs."
Best Live Recordings
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Only Boz is Boz, like only Daryl is Daryl ."
"Boz has always been a great singer song writer."
"Usually I'm skeptical of live greatest hits albums, but Boz Scaggs Greatest Hits Live offers an intriguing look at the career of a successful artist who gained a larger audience by altering his approach without losing his integrity."
"outstanding cd came on time and also played great."
"Although I am a real fan and may be biased, I truly believe this is his best CD, not only because he's in such good voice, but because the band that backs him is unbelievable."
"If you love Boz Scaggs like I do, this is a must for your collection."
"My only hesitation is that I realize I enjoy the polished rich sounds coming from studio musicans, and not the improvised singing (from the back up singers) or sounds of the audience in the background."