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Various Artists: Essential Alabama Blues

CD / Not Now Music / 2013-01-22

Artists: Various Artists

Big Joe Williams: Essential

CD / Not Now Music / 2012-12-04

Artists: Big Joe Williams

Various Artists: Essential West Coast Blues

CD / Not Now Music / 2012-09-11

Artists: Various Artists

Jimmy Witherspoon: Ain't Nobody's Business [Not Now]

CD / Not Now Music / 2012-09-11

Artists: Jimmy Witherspoon

Various Artists: The Story of the Blues Story [Not Now Music]

CD / Not Now Music / 2012-08-14

Artists: Various Artists

Various Artists: Essential East Coast Blues

CD / Not Now Music / 2012-08-14

Artists: Various Artists

Various Artists: Essential Mississippi Blues

CD / Not Now Music / 2012-08-14

Artists: Various Artists

T-Bone Walker: The Imperial Blues Years

CD / Not Now Music / 2012-07-10

Artists: T-Bone Walker

Various Artists: Essential Chess Blues

CD / Not Now Music / 2012-05-15

Artists: Various Artists

Various Artists: Essential Memphis Blues

CD / Not Now Music / 2012-04-17

Artists: Various Artists

Various Artists: Essential Memphis Blues

CD / Not Now Music / 2012-04-17

Artists: Various Artists

Etta James: Very Best of Etta James [Not Now]

CD / Not Now Music / 2012-03-13

Artists: Etta James

Various Artists: Essential Texas Blues [Not Now]

CD / Not Now Music / 2012-02-14

Artists: Various Artists

Professor Longhair: Longhair Boogie

CD / Not Now Music / 2011-12-27

Artists: Professor Longhair

Various Artists: Bottleneck Blues Anthology

CD / Not Now Music / 2011-11-29

Artists: Various Artists

Son House: Raw Delta Blues

CD / Not Now Music / 2011-11-22

Artists: Son House

Jimmy Reed: The Anthology

CD / Not Now Music / 2011-11-22

Artists: Jimmy Reed

Various Artists: Wall Street Blues

CD / Not Now Music / 2011-10-11

Artists: Various Artists

John Lee Hooker: House of the Blues

CD / Not Now Music / 2011-10-11

Tracks: Dimples; Hobo Blues; I'm So Excited; I Love You Honey; Boogie Chillun; Little Wheel; I'm in the Mood; Maudie; Crawlin' King Snake; Every Night; Time Is Marching; Baby Lee; No Shoes; I Wanna Walk; Can...
Artists: John Lee Hooker

Personnel includes: John Lee Hooker (vocals, guitar); Eddie Kirkland (guitar); Bob Thurman (piano).

Recorded in Detroit, Michigan between 1951-1954. Originally released on Chess (1438). Include...continue...

B.B. King: Can't Kick the Blues [Digipak]

CD / Not Now Music / 2011-10-04

Tracks: Every Day I Have the Blues; Woman I Love, The; Early in the Morning; Bad Luck Soul; Three O'Clock Blues; Hold That Train; Sugar Mama; Treat Me Right; That Ain't the Way to Do It; Sweet Thing; Fool, T...
Artists: B.B. King

Various Artists: Blind Man Blues

CD / Not Now Music / 2011-09-06

Tracks: Lonely Avenue - Ray Charles; I'm Gonna Meet You at the Station - Blind Gary Davis; When You Are Gone - Blind Boy Fuller; Working Man Blues - Sleepy John Estes; Dark Was the Night - Cold Was the Groun...
Artists: Various Artists

Liner Note Author: Nigel Cross.

Recording information: 1926-1956.

The blues belongs to everyone, and everyone essentially understands what it means to have the blues, but when you're bli...continue...

Little Walter: Rock Bottom

CD / Not Now Music / 2011-09-06

Tracks: My Babe; Juke; Teenage Beat; You're So Fine; Tell Me Mama; Too Late; I Hate to See You Go; Off the Wall; Sad Hours; Mean Old World; Who; Blues with a Feeling; Rock Bottom; Oh Baby; Last Night; Key to...
Artists: Little Walter

Recording information: 1952; 1953; 1954; 1955; 1956; 1957; 1958; 1959; 1960.

Little Walter's fiery temperament came out in his searing, jazz-inflected, and always innovative electric harp playi...continue...

John Lee Hooker: Anthology [Digipak]

CD / Not Now Music / 2011-09-06

Tracks: Dimples; Hobo Blues; I'm So Excited; I Love You Honey; Boogie Chillun; Little Wheel; I'm in the Mood; Maudie; Crawlin' Kingsnake; Every Night; Time Is Marching; Baby Lee; Mambo Chillun; Road Is So Ro...
Artists: John Lee Hooker

This three-disc, 60-track box collects sides John Lee Hooker cut for Chicago's Vee-Jay Records between 1955 and 1964, along with sides he recorded in a more acoustic vein for Bill Grauer and Orrin Kee...continue...

Muddy Waters: Anthology [Digipak]

CD / Not Now Music / 2011-05-03

Tracks: I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man; Baby Please Don't Go; Rollin' and Tumblin', Pt. 1; Rollin' and Tumblin', Pt. 2; Gypsy Woman; I Just Want to Make Love to You; You're Gonna Miss Me (When I'm Dead & Gone)...
Artists: Muddy Waters

At three CDs and a generous 78 tracks, this set from U.K. reissue specialist Not Now Music does a good job of capturing the great early years of Muddy Waters on the various Chess imprints in the late ...continue...

Big Bill Broonzy: The Anthology

CD / Not Now Music / 2011-05-03

Tracks: Where the Blues Began; Key to the Highway; John Henry; Big Bill Blues; Martha Blues; Saturday Evening Blues; Glory of Love; Backwater Blues; Little City Woman; You Changed; How You Want It Done; By M...
Artists: Big Bill Broonzy

Big Bill Broonzy built a blues recording career that lasted from 1927, when he tracked his first side with Paramount Records, through his last U.K. tour in 1957, and he did it by subtly adapting his i...continue...

Alexis Korner: Easy Rider

CD / Not Now Music / 2011-05-03

Tracks: Leaving Blues; Rotten Break; Alberta; Roundhouse Stomp; Skip to My Lou; Good Morning; Boll Weevil; Ella Speed; Ain't Gonna Worry No More; County Jail; Kid Man; Easy Rider; Sail On; National Defence B...
Artists: Alexis Korner

If Alexis Korner were here in 2011 to see this double-CD set, he likely would be astonished -- the British blues pioneer did become well known in the '60s, putting together amplified blues outfits tha...continue...

Various Artists: A Bad Case of the Blues [Digipak]

CD / Not Now Music / 2011-05-03

Tracks: Wimmin from Coast to Coast - Jimmy Bond/Lightnin' Hopkins/Sonny Terry/Big Joe Williams/Brownie McGhee; By the Water - Snooks Eaglin; Forty Four - Howlin' Wolf; Don't Start Me Talking - Sonny Boy Will...
Artists: Various Artists

Not Now's three-CD set A Bad Case of the Blues perfectly fits the bill for someone just becoming acquainted with the genre. It's hard to go wrong with these 75 tracks highlighting such major bluesmen ...continue...

Howlin' Wolf: Blues From Hell [Digipak]

CD / Not Now Music / 2011-05-03

Tracks: Smokestack Lightnin'; Spoonful; Wolf is At Your Door, The; Evil (is Going On); I Asked For Water (She Gave Me Gasoline); Poor Boy; Moanin' For My Baby; I Have a Little Girl; I Better Go Now; My Baby ...
Artists: Howlin' Wolf

Various Artists: Blue Jazz Guitar

CD / Not Now Music / 2010-12-07

Artists: Various Artists

Various Artists: Very Best of Bluegrass

CD / Not Now Music / 2010-12-07

Artists: Various Artists

Various Artists: The Very Best of Burlesque

CD / Not Now Music / 2010-09-14

Artists: Various Artists

Various Artists: Electric Blues [Not Now]

CD / Not Now Music / 2010-08-03

Tracks: Okie Dokie Stomp; Close To You; Sweet Sixteen (Parts 1 & 2); Story Of My Life, The; Party Girl; Blues Blaster's Boogie; Hot Little Mama; Loving You (Is All I Crave); Blues For Big Town; Sure Can't Do...
Artists: Various Artists

Sonny Boy Williamson II (Rice Miller): Down and Out Blues

CD / Not Now Music / 2010-07-13

Artists: Sonny Boy Williamson II (Rice Miller)

Recorded in Chicago, Illinois between 1955 and 1958.

Originally issued on the Chess Records' Checker imprint, Down and Out Blues was the first long-player ever issued on Sonny Boy Williamson; a...continue...

Lightnin' Hopkins: Dirty House Blues

CD / Not Now Music / 2010-06-15

Artists: Lightnin' Hopkins

Howlin' Wolf: Evil

CD / Not Now Music / 2010-05-18

Tracks: Moanin' in the Moonlight; How Many More Years; Smokestack Lightning; Baby How Long; No Place to Go; I'm Leaving You; Moanin' for My Baby; I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline); Somebody in My Home
Artists: Howlin' Wolf

Personnel: Howlin' Wolf (vocals, guitar, harmonica); William Johnson (guitar); Ike Turner (piano); Willie Steel (drums).

Evil is a terrific vinyl collection of Howlin' Wolf's quintessential Sun...continue...

Various Artists: Essential Chicago Blues

CD / Not Now Music / 2010-04-20

Artists: Various Artists

Count Basie: The Complete Atomic Basie

CD / Not Now Music / 2010-04-06

Tracks: For Lena And Lennie; Rat Race; Quince; Meet B.B.; Big Walk, The; Square At The Roundtable, A; I Needs To Be Bee'd With; Jessica's Day; Midnite Sun Never Sets, The; Muttnik
Artists: Count Basie

Personnel: Count Basie (piano); Joe Williams (vocals); Wendell Culley, Snooky Young, Thad Jones, Joe Newman (trumpet); Henry Coker, Al Grey, Benny Powell (trombone); Marshall Royal, Frank Wess, Eddie ...continue...

Sonny Terry: Cripple Creek

CD / Not Now Music / 2009-09-08

Tracks: Midnight Special, The; Rising Sun; In His Care; Preachin'; I Shall Not Be Moved; Pick a Bale of Cotton; Man Is Nothing But a Fool, A; Mamma Blues #2; Raise a Ruckus Tonight; Cindy; Bottle Up and Go; ...
Artists: Sonny Terry

Personnel: Sonny Terry (vocals, harmonica, trombone, washboard); Brownie McGhee (vocals, guitar); Frank Robertson (bass guitar); Coyall McMahan (maracas); William Edward Cook (washboard)....continue...

Various Artists: Definitive Blues Anthology

CD / Not Now Music / 2009-09-08

Tracks: I Put a Spell on You - Screamin' Jay Hawkins; Just Make Love to Me - Muddy Waters; Dust My Broom; Every Day I Have the Blues - B.B. King; C.C. Rider; I'm a Man - Bo Diddley; I Hear You Knocking - Smi...
Artists: Various Artists

2009 three CD collection containing 75 digitally remastered Blues classics spanning many decades. While the origins of Blues music can be debated, the genre truly...continue...
Recording information: 1952-1957.

This budget three-disc, 75-track box does a great job of surveying the 1950s golden age of modern blues in all of its incarnations, from vintage Chicago blues ...continue...

Elmore James: The Definitive Elmore James

CD / Not Now Music / 2009-09-08

Tracks: Sho' Nuff I Do; 1839 Blues; Standing At The Crossroads; Late Hours At Midnight; Happy Home; Sunny Land; Way You Treat Me, The; No Love In My Heart; Dust My Blues; I Was A Fool; Blues Before Sunrise; ...
Artists: Elmore James

Muddy Waters: Best of Muddy Waters [Reckless]

CD / Not Now Music / 2009-04-07

Tracks: Mannish Boy; I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man; Forty Days & Forty Nights; Baby Please Don't Go; She Moves Me; Howlin' Wolf; Got My Mojo Working; I Want To Be Loved; Honey Bee; All Night Long; Rock Me; Sm...
Artists: Muddy Waters

Personnel: Muddy Waters (vocals, guitar).

The profile of Muddy Waters on the front of this album is a classic bit of color portrait photography. The bluesman seems to be staring up at something...continue...

John Lee Hooker: The Very Best of John Lee Hooker [Not Now]

CD / Not Now Music / 2009-02-10

Tracks: Boom Boom; Dimples; I'm in the Mood; I'm So Excited; Hard Hearted Woman; Want Ad Blues; I Wanna Walk; Onions; Thelma; Send Me Your Pillow; Lost a Good Girl; House Rent Boogie; What Do You Say; Blues ...
Artists: John Lee Hooker

Various Artists: Essential Blues Anthology

CD / Not Now Music / 2008-08-05

Artists: Various Artists

Various Artists: Essential Delta Blues

CD / Not Now Music / 2005-01-01

Artists: Various Artists

B.B. King: Electric Blues

CD / Not Now Music / 2005-01-01

Tracks: Please Love Me; You Upset Me Baby; Every Day I Have The Blues; Bad Luck; 3 O'Clock Blues; Blind Love; Woke Up This Morning; You Know I Love You; Sweet Little Angel; Ten Long Years; Did You Ever Love ...
Artists: B.B. King