CD-Charts Position 1
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Pure Blues

CD-Charts > Music > Compilations
by: Various Artists

Release Date April 17, 2001
What else can be said? Read the other reviewers comments, as they sound very seasoned on whats good. I, for one, have been into the blues for a few years and bought this CD.
Awesome stuff!! Makes me want to smoke a fat cigar and sit on my back patio with shades on at night time. Er, well.....a really good compilation.
Buy it and you won't be disappointed.

CD-Charts Position 2
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A Brief History Of The Blues

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by: Various Artists

Release Date August 26, 2008
What else can be said? Read the other reviewers comments, as they sound very seasoned on whats good. I, for one, have been into the blues for a few years and bought this CD.
Awesome stuff!! Makes me want to smoke a fat cigar and sit on my back patio with shades on at night time. Er, well.....a really good compilation.
Buy it and you won't be disappointed.

CD-Charts Position 3
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People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs 1913-1938

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by: Various Artists

Release Date September 25, 2007
When I drive down the road in my 2006 Honda Accord and have this collection playing on my six changer cd player I feel like it's 1922 in Alabama and I'm in my Ford jalopy listening to some great radio station from the past. These songs not only tell stories of the past they make you feel for people you have never met. It's a great collection.

CD-Charts Position 4
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Classic Piano Blues from Smithsonian Folkways

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by: Various Artists

Release Date June 24, 2008
When I drive down the road in my 2006 Honda Accord and have this collection playing on my six changer cd player I feel like it's 1922 in Alabama and I'm in my Ford jalopy listening to some great radio station from the past. These songs not only tell stories of the past they make you feel for people you have never met. It's a great collection.

CD-Charts Position 5
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Blues Masters, Vol. 4: Harmonica Classics

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by: Various Artists

Release Date November 10, 1992
Another excellent collection of blues harp playing. Buy this and you won't be disappointed!

CD-Charts Position 6
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Good For What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows 1926-1937 (Digipak with 72-page booklet)

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by: Pink Anderson, Gid Tanner, Gus Cannon, Emmett Miller, Charlie Poole, Dallas String Band, Grant Brothers, Uncle Dave Macon, Beans Hambone, Clarence Ashley, Blue Ridge Mountain Entertainers, Gwen Foster, Carolina Tar Heels

Release Date October 04, 2005
what a great compilation of pre-war old-timey music, including an informative booklet withlots of pictures. You will not find any of these recordings anywhere else so snatch this one up while it is still available. I don't want to get into the particulars of any one artist or song, 'cause they're all great and listened together in context makes it all that much greater.

CD-Charts Position 7
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Mississippi Blues

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by: Various Artists

Release Date February 12, 2002
bought it as a gift for my hubby, but I love it too.

CD-Charts Position 8
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Doctors, Professors, Kings & Queens: The Big Ol' Box of New Orleans

CD-Charts > Music > Compilations
by: Various Artists

Release Date October 26, 2004
This box of New Orleans music is the essence of the mossy City that Care Forgot. Each song reveals a particular characteristic of the city and her distinctive sound; quirky, high-spirited and strong. Wish amazon did oyster poor boys.

CD-Charts Position 9
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Crucial Harmonica Blues

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by: Various Artists

Release Date January 21, 2003
Various Artists
"Crucial Harmonica Blues"
Alligator Records ALCD 115

Big Walter Horton and Carey Bell continue the protégé and mentor tradition on "Have Mercy". Blues harp doesn't get any better than that. Under-rated Bell appropriately adorns the disc's cover. With one `whew', you will recognize the brown jug, country blues of Sonny Terry on "Sonny's Whoopin' The Doop". Junior Wells could combine funk, grease and sweat like no other. Experience it on "Broke and Hungry". James Cotton's "Superharp" remains one of the best harp-blowin' tunes ever, while fiery Carey Bell shows why he now reigns as best harpist/vocalist on "Lonesome Stranger".

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CD-Charts Position 10
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Blues 88's: Boogie Woogie Instrumentals

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by: Various Artists

Release Date April 07, 1998
I love Boogie Woogie and this CD has the bonus of NO vocals! Super GREAT!