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Jimmy Witherspoon/Odetta/Richard "Groove" Holmes: As Blue as They Want to Be

1 CD / Acrobat (USA) / 2011-11-08

Tracks: Groove's Groove; California Blues; What a Wonderful World; Misty; Walking on a Tightrope; Slow Blues in G; Song for My Father; My Friend; Lonesome Road Blues; Onsaya Joy; Danger Zone Is Everywhere; T...
Artists: Jimmy Witherspoon/Odetta/Richard "Groove" Holmes

Personnel: Jimmy Witherspoon (vocals); Jimmy Witherspoon; Richard "Groove" Holmes (organ, Hammond b-3 organ, synthesizer); Odetta (vocals); Henry Taylor (guitar); Bross Townsend (piano); Greg Bandy (d...continue...

Flambeau/Tom Rigney: Don't Fight It *

CD / Perhelion Records / 2011-08-16

Tracks: Just Your Fool; Adeline Shuffle; Snakewalk; Treat Me Like a Dog; Clown and the Stripper, The; Don't Fight It; Caroline's Boogie; Teardrops On Your Letter; California Blues; Rigo's Blues; Bonjour Tris...
Artists: Flambeau/Tom Rigney

Personnel: Tom Rigney (vocals, violin); Danny Caron (electric guitar); Caroline Dahl (piano); Steve Parks (electric bass); Brent Rampone (drums).

Audio Mixer: Tom Rigney.

Recording infor...continue...

Jimmy Witherspoon: The Story of the Blues

1 CD / Harmonic Records / 2007-09-04

Tracks: I'm Just a Lady's Man; There Ain't Nothing Better; Love My Baby; Love and Friendship; Good Jumping aka Jump Children; I'm Just a Country Boy; Slow Your Speed; Geneva Blues aka Evil Woman; I'm Just Wa...
Artists: Jimmy Witherspoon

Mannish Boys: Big Plans

1 CD / Delta Groove Productions / 2007-05-22

Tracks: Border Town Blues; I Can't Stay Here; I Get So Worried; Mary Jane; Carpet Bagger Blues; Just to Be with You; Gotta Move; Why Do Things Happen to Me; Groan My Blues Away; Mine All Mine; Young & Tender...
Artists: Mannish Boys

Mannish Boys: Kirk Fletcher, Frank "Paris Slim" Goldwasser (guitar); Kid Ramos (baritone guitar); Leon Blue (piano); Richard 'Big Foot' Innes (drums); Tom Leavey, Finis Tasby, Johnny Dyer, Randy Chort...continue...

Albert King/Otis Rush: Door to Door (With Albert King)

1 CD / Chess (USA) / 2006-02-21

Tracks: Searching for a Woman; Bad Luck; So Close; Howlin' for My Darlin'; I Can't Stop Baby; Won't Be Hanging Around; I'm Satisfied; All Your Love (I Miss Loving); You Know My Love; Merry Ways; Wild Woman; ...
Artists: Albert King/Otis Rush

King and Rush pushed themselves further toward interpretative wisdom and individuality with the 1960-61 recordings found in this blue-ribbon collection. The tone in King's low-down...continue...
Personnel includes: Albert King, Otis Rush (vocals, guitar); Hal White (tenor saxophone); Freddie Robinette (baritone saxophone); Wilbur Thompson (trumpet); Sam Wallace, Johnny Jones, Lafayette Leake ...continue...

Curtis Lawson: Legend in My Own Time

1 CD / La Quanta Reconds / 2005-05-10

Tracks: Legend in My Own Time; Time to Hold You; Love Without a Shadow of a Doubt; Deep Within Me; Party on Me; Blues at the Disco; Don't Bother to Call; California Blues; Is That a Love Song?; Feel For You ...
Artists: Curtis Lawson

Howlin' Wolf: Come Back Home [Digipak]

1 CD / Snapper / 2004-03-09

Tracks: Baby Ride With Me; How Many More Years; California Boogie; Look a Here Baby; Smile at Me; My Baby Walked Off; My Troubles and Me; Mr. Highway Man; Everybody's in the Mood; Colour and Kind; Bluebird; ...
Artists: Howlin' Wolf

20 historic cuts recorded for Sun Records, by the most powerful vocalist in this history of Chicago blues including "Baby Ride With Me" and "California...continue...
Personnel: Howlin' Wolf (vocals, harmonica); Willie Johnson (guitar); James Cotton (harmonica); Ike Turner (piano); Willie Steele (drums).

This is the latest in a series of increasingly ubiquit...continue...

Ollie Watkins: Used To Keep Me Worried

1 CD / Fedora Records / 2001-02-27

Tracks: Country Boy; Let Me Go; MR. Lou Wants Me to Tell My Life Story - (Interview With Ollie); California Blues; Precious Lord; Greyhound Bus; Baby Doll; ...Saw My Mother, When She Got Me Out of the Nuthou...
Artists: Ollie Watkins

Solo performer: Ollie Watkins (vocals, guitar, harmonica).

Includes liner notes by Frank Goldwasser.

All tracks are digitally remastered.

Personnel: Ollie Watkins (vocals, guitar,...continue...

Barbecue Bob: Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 2 (1928-1929)

1 CD / Document (USA) / 2000-09-08

Tracks: Mississippi Low-Levee Blues; Ease It to Me Blues; Jacksonville Blues; Midnight Weeping Blues; She's Gone Blues; Cold Wave Blues; Beggin' for Love; Bad Time Blues; Meat Man Pete; Dollar Down Blues; It...
Artists: Barbecue Bob

Contains 23 tracks.

Personnel: Barbecue Bob (vocals, guitar); Robert Hicks (vocals, guitar); Nellie Florence (vocals, accordion).

Liner Note Author: Chris Frazer Smith.

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George "Harmonica" Smith: Harmonica Ace (Ace)

1 CD / Flair / 1997-03-03

Tracks: Rocking; Telephone Blues; Blues in the Dark; Blues Stay Away; Have Myself a Ball; I Found My Baby - (previously unreleased, alternate take); Oopin', Doopin', Doopin' - (alternate take); California Bl...
Artists: George "Harmonica" Smith

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Includes liner notes by Ray Topping.

All songs written or co-written by Little George Smith except "Blues Stay Away" and "Down In New Orleans" (Taub).

Smith cut these sides for Joe Bihar...continue...

Little Sammy Davis: I Ain't Lyin'

1 CD / Delmark / 1995-10-27

Tracks: I Ain't Lyin'; Daniel; Sammy's Shuffle; Shorty; That's My Girl; Someday; Devils' Trail; When I Leave; Bad Luck Blues; Somebody's Fool; Hey Little Girl; California Blues; I-Man "Stomp"; Play Me for a ...
Artists: Little Sammy Davis

Personnel: Little Sammy Davis (vocals, harmonica); Fred Scribner (guitar); Tom Hunter (piano); Brad Lee Sexton (bass); Brad Scribner (drums).

Recorded at Video Works, Milford, Pennsylvania on M...continue...

Howlin' Wolf: Memphis Days: Definitive Edition, Vol. 1

1 CD / Bear Family Records (Germany) / 1994-10-03

Tracks: Oh, Red! - (Take 1); My Last Affair - (Take 1); Come Back Home - (Take 1); California Boogie; California Blues; Look-A-Here Baby; Smile at Me; My Baby Walked Off; Drinkin' CV Wine (CV Wine Blues); My...
Artists: Howlin' Wolf

This is where is all began for Chester Burnett. These are his first recordings produced by the legendary Sam Phillips at the famed Sun Studio...continue...
Personnel includes: Howlin' Wolf (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Willie Johnson (guitar, piano); James Cotton (harmonica); Charles Taylor (tenor saxophone); Albert Williams (piano); Willie Steele (drums)...continue...

Howlin' Wolf: Memphis Days: Definitive Edition, Vol. 1

1 CD / Bear Family Records (Germany) / 1994-10-03

Tracks: Oh Red (Take 1); My Last Affair; Come Back Home; California Boogie; California Blues; Look-a-Here Baby; Smile at Me; My Baby Walked Off; Drinkin' Cv Wine (Cv Wine Blues); My Troubles and Me; Chocolat...
Artists: Howlin' Wolf

Personnel includes: Howlin' Wolf (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Willie Johnson (guitar, piano); James Cotton (harmonica); Charles Taylor (tenor saxophone); Albert Williams (piano); Willie Steele (drums)...continue...

Barbecue Bob: Chocolate to the Bone

1 CD / Yazoo / 1992-07-01

Tracks: Motherless Chile Blues; Spider and the Fly; Yo Yo Blues; Mississippi Heavy Water Blues; California Blues; She's Coming Back Some Cold Rainy Day; Barbecue Blues; When the Saints Go Marching In; Ease I...
Artists: Barbecue Bob

Personnel: Robert "Barbecue Bob" Hicks (guitar); Nellie Florence (vocals); Curley Weaver (guitar); Buddy Moss (harmonica).

Producers: Richard Nevins, Don Kent, Stefan Grossman.

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