CD-Charts Position 131
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Come on in This House

CD-Charts > Music > Acoustic Blues
by: Junior Wells

Release Date September 24, 1996
This record is real blues, great harp playing, singing, slide playimg! It doesn't get better than that!

CD-Charts Position 132
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Vu-Du Menz

CD-Charts > Music > Acoustic Blues
by: Corey Harris & Henry Butler

Release Date April 04, 2000
"Shake What Your Mama Gave You" is simply one of Harris' best compositions. "If You Let A Man Kick You Once" is also excellent, and seems to be in the Tampa Red/Georgia Tom tradition. "Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel" is quite emotive and recalls the greatness of the Texas evangelist, Blind Willie Johnson, one of the best slide guitar players in history. As a Country Blues fan, I enjoy Butler's piano playing but am not enthralled by it, thus I am giving this album 4 stars.

CD-Charts Position 133
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Evening with Eric Bibb

CD-Charts > Music > Acoustic Blues
by: Eric Bibb

Release Date September 11, 2007
I have only listened to a couple of Eric Bibb's recording but I do find them enjoyable. He is not as "pop" as say Keb Mo. If you appreciate fingerstyle arrangements of ballad type songs you will enjoy this. This is more in the folk /blues vain of say Mississippi John Hurt as opposed to Robert Johnson. Again Buy This CD.

CD-Charts Position 134
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The Best of Hooker 'n Heat

CD-Charts > Music > Acoustic Blues
by: Canned Heat & John Lee Hooker

Release Date May 28, 1996
Like ice cream pizza, Hooker 'n' Heat is a pairing of two great things that doesn't quite work. The record company realized that the original 2-disc Hooker 'N' Heat release was overbloated, so they pared it down to this 1-disc....but it's still just not worth the money.

Find a Hooker compilation that includes "Burning Hell" (which is nearly ANY Hooker compilation) and you're good to go.

CD-Charts Position 135
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Newport Folk Festival: Best of the Blues 1959-1968

CD-Charts > Music > Acoustic Blues
by: Various Artists

Release Date April 10, 2001
I read about these concerts in an interview with Bonnie Raitt. I was really surprised with the sound quality on these CDs as well as the broad cross section of artists. I consider this an essential purchase for all blues afficionados as it contains performances by nearly all of the classic bluesmen

CD-Charts Position 136
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Blowin' the Blues

CD-Charts > Music > Acoustic Blues
by: Little Walter

Release Date April 08, 2008
I read about these concerts in an interview with Bonnie Raitt. I was really surprised with the sound quality on these CDs as well as the broad cross section of artists. I consider this an essential purchase for all blues afficionados as it contains performances by nearly all of the classic bluesmen

CD-Charts Position 137
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Blues, Rags & Hollers

CD-Charts > Music > Acoustic Blues
by: Ray & Glover Koerner

Release Date March 21, 1995
Who would have thought that three young white boys from the North Country could sing and play Delta blues and not sound like either a feeble imitation or a parody? This album is a masterful achievement for guys who were so young when it was first recorded, and didn't have the benefit of any first-hand contact with bluesmen as they grew up. After all, Tony Joe White and Mose Allison, two premier white guys who "sing black", for example, were born and raised in the same milieu where the blues originated.
I don't agree with a previous reviewer who alluded to "earnest white guys trying very, very hard to sound black." Dave Ray managed to bury his Minnesota accent completely, and he didn't make it sound like a struggle. Koerner's singing doesn't come across quite as ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 138
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Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest - with Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, and Mississippi John Hurt, Hedy West, & Paul Cadwell

CD-Charts > Music > Acoustic Blues
starring: Various Artists

Release Date July 12, 2005
Shanachie is doing a gret service to all fans of folk and blues by reissuing the mid-1960s "Rainbow Quest" TV show hosted by Pete Seeger on DVD. Each DVD features two shows. This one has an hour of Pete with the great folk-blues players Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry and a second hour show featuring Pete swapping songs and stories with Hedy West, John Hurt and Paul Cadwell. Hedy was an underappreciated singer of old time ballads and other material--she sings a civil rights song in German here--who recorded for Vanguard, among others. It is very hard to find much of her material in print these days, so it is great to get some perfomrance footage on DVD. Mississippi John was one of the great blues rediscoveres in the 1960s and his gentle perfomances and stories are charming. ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 139
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Harlem Street Singer

CD-Charts > Music > Acoustic Blues
by: Rev. Gary Davis

Release Date March 11, 1993
The Reverend picks you up, makes you want to sing, and if you play guitar, this album will make you want to trade in the axe and let someone else play it! He sings and you want to sing...its got a really nice groove about it too, it moves along, chugs along...all by himself.....check him out on youtube, 'if i had my way' i love it.

CD-Charts Position 140
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One-Dime Blues

CD-Charts > Music > Acoustic Blues
by: Etta Baker

Release Date February 14, 1992
One-Dime Blues, Etta Baker, Rounder Records, 1991

Recently I mentioned in reviewing Elizabeth Cotton's Freight Train album from Folkways that there was something appealing about these North Carolina style guitar pickers. It is different from the Delta pick, for sure. They pick cleanly, simply but with verve. The Delta is a little more heavy-handed reflecting, I think, the woes of picking that cotton all week. Damn, I would be guitar picking like Keith Richards under those conditions. Ms. Baker shows her stuff here on this almost exclusively instrumental album from Rounder Records. The one vocal that she does do here -Broken-Hearted Blues- makes me wish that she had done more vocals but the guitar can carry her through on this album- no problem. Highlights here include ... Read More: