Recommend some good Blues albums?

[george_k]

Just getting into this genre, can anybody recommend some well recorded albums? I want to hear some wailing guitars :-)

[zmanbands]

Gene Harris and Lightnin Hopkins

Gene is a great blues pianist. Lightnin is a singing plucking type guy. The sound quality for many of their recordings is extremely good and the content is pretty good as well. If you search thru Amazon music you can find some great chealies there. Search on artist and spell the names exactly as given. Each has about 100 CD's as I recall. Listen to the sound on your computer. You can easily detect the clarity on some Lightnin cd's and some sound hollow.

[wkhanna]

Try posting in the 'In Tune' section of the forum.........

http://www.htguide.com/forum/forumdisplay.php4?f=16

You may get a few more hits........
Also, try doing a 'search' there....
Happy listening!

[Russ L]

Charlie Musselwhite Delta Hardware 2007 on Real World Records.
Always great SQ. -Russ

[earwit]

Folk Singer

Muddy Waters Folk Singer.
Best on SACD, great classic blues record from
early 60's, Recording captures the acoustics
on an amazing level..One of my favorite demo discs

Bob

[Fred333]

I would have to go with one of my personal favorites... the Blues Brothers Case Full of Blues.

[dknightd]

BB King Live at the Regal on MFSL is a pretty good one.
Johnny Johnson, Blue hand Johnnie is also good (but is more a honky tonk blues)
Hubert Sumlin, I Know You, is a nicely recorded piece of classic blues.

Lots of good stuff out there. . . depends what kind of blues you like

[Alaric]

If you've got a vinyl set-up , almost everything Led Zeppelin did qualifies. If you want the roots of the Blues , Robert Johnson is fantastic , but the recordings are pretty rough.