only 1x still available
Ready to ship today, delivery time** appr. 1-3 workdays
$26.85
Classic Blues – The Roots of It All
Want to feel the raw beginnings of American music? Our Classic Blues section takes you back to the Delta, the juke joints and the smoky clubs of Chicago – where legends were born.
Voices of pain, pride and power
Discover Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Son House, Lead Belly, Bessie Smith and more – with original sessions, historic recordings, and expertly curated reissues.
Music history for your collection
Get timeless blues on CD or vinyl – only at Bear Family Records, where classic roots come alive in sound and story.
Classic Blues – The Roots of It All
Want to feel the raw beginnings of American music? Our Classic Blues section takes you back to the Delta, the juke joints and the smoky clubs of Chicago –...
read more »
Want to feel the raw beginnings of American music? Our Classic Blues section takes you back to the Delta, the juke joints and the smoky clubs of Chicago – where legends were born.
Voices of pain, pride and power
Discover Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Son House, Lead Belly, Bessie Smith and more – with original sessions, historic recordings, and expertly curated reissues.
Music history for your collection
Get timeless blues on CD or vinyl – only at Bear Family Records, where classic roots come alive in sound and story.
(2015/Alligator) 12 tracks.
Shemekia returns to Alligator with a new release celebrating her continuing mastery of roots music styles from blues and soul to rock and Americana. ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons (guitar on a smoldering version of...
(2015/BGP) 12 tracks.
Rare 1970 album produced by Johnny Otis featuring the stinging guitar of his son Shuggie – with two previously unissued bonus tracks.
(2015/Wolf) 12 tracks.
Accompanying Eddie on this latest album is Tony Palmer on 2nd guitar, Greg McDaniel on bass, Timothy Taylor on Drums, and Harmonica Hinds and Bob Waleso sharing duties on harmonica. In this new set of songs they...
(2015/Armadilo) 15 tracks.
Seven times nominated for the Blues Music Award Eugene Bridges is back with his new studio album. On 'Hold On A Little Bit Longer' he is supported by Clayton Doley on Hammond B3 organ & Piano, Otto Williams on...
(2015/Rockbeat) 8 tracks.
Albert King - gtr/voc, Donald Kinsey - gtr, Rick Watson - tenor sax, Norville Hodges - trumpet, Wilbur Thompson - trumpet, James Washington - org, Bill Rennie - bass, Sam King - drums.
the very last 1 available
Ready to ship today, delivery time** appr. 1-3 workdays
(2015/Hi Hat) 14 tracks. In the early 1970s, B.B. King was basking in the glow of crossover success, with his brand of soulful blues reaching all audiences, not just African-American ones. In this 75-minute radio broadcast from October...
(2015/Ace) 50 tracks.
Tampa Red’s later recordings for RCA Victor (1945-53) have never been officially reissued on CD and rarely on LP, yet are a crucial element in the post-war blues canon. Many of his songs were covered by B.B. King,...
(2012/Hot Toddy) 14 tracks. Award-winning blues veteran Gaye Adegbalola is best known as the founding member and vivacious lead singer of influential blues band Saffire the Uppity Blues Woman. With her first children's album she channels...
(2015/Hot Toddy) 14 tracks. Gaye Adegbalola & The Wild Rutz (pronounced ROOTS) is an a cappella blues quartet complemented by percussion and occasional guitar. Gaye's songs, as always, reflect her left-of-center sense of humor, her love...
(2015 / Jasmine) 58 tracks, complete 1950s 45rpm Singles, 6-page booklet with extensive liner notes and sessionography. Includes all the hits like 'Korea Blues', 'Mama, Talk To Your Daughter', and 'Eisenhower Blues' of this exotic...
only 1x still available
Ready to ship today, delivery time** appr. 1-3 workdays
(2015 / Delmark) 14 tracks, 6-page booklet. Newest Blues sensation from Chicago. Rooted in the Blues, spiked with R&B urgency, and resonant with deep-soul passion - Omar Coleman is moving the heart and galvanizing the feet!
(2013 / Rock Beat Records) 18 tracks, live recordings, 1983. The late great Lowell Fulson in concert backed-up by the legendary Billy Vera & The Beaters!
(2015 / Jasmine) 52 tracks, original Imperial and Capitol recordings, 1950-55. The CD contains the complete T-Bone Walker 45rpm and 78rpm singles A and B sides recorded 1950-55 . Best of Texas B lues!
(2015/Soul Jam) 25 tracks. This CD contains 25 24 -bit digital remastered studio tracks from the years 1958 to 1963. With an extensive 16 - page booklet .
only 2x still available
Ready to ship today, delivery time** appr. 1-3 workdays
(2015/BGP
Ace) 8 tracks, original 1978 Big Town album reissue, 8-page booklet.
Houston’s one Big Town release has been largely overlooked by Blues
fans. Although he looks super-cool on the cover, who can blame them?
Titles such as...
(2015/American Showplace) 12 tracks. Blues fans already know Allen from his 9 years as James Cotton's lead singer and guitarist but will non-blues fans believe he's a long standing blues belter with annunciation this good? Singing as...
(2015/Jazz Village) 14 tracks, recorded live in Marciac, July 28, 2014. Audio CD plus DVD concert. Lucky Peterson-vcl., gtr, org; Marvin Hollie-keyboards; Shawn Kellerman-gtr.; Timothy Waites-bass gtr.; Raul Valdes-drums. Special guest:...
(2015/Rockbeat) 17 tracks. The blues virtuosos Junior Wells, started his first blues band when he was 14 years old. For reign of postwar blues harmonica king he battled his way bar by bar, club by club from Chicago to the Mississippi...
(2015/NimoySue) 9 tracks Sugaray Rayford's new release 'Southside' is all original material writter by Sugaray and his writing partner Ralph Carter. Gino Matteo's guitar is as eclectic as the guitarist himself. This album has a...