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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 –...
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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.
Chris Harper (is this his real name ), Swiss-born businessman and free-lance harmonica player, sold his enterprise and decided to focus on playing harmonica, and starting a record label, based in Chicago. This is a great set of...
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I have no clue where Delmark Records did find these previously unknown live recordings. The recording quality is surprisingly good, especially when regarding the age of the tapes. This set delivers an intimate look behind the curtain in...
(2010 'Blues Express') (43:56/11) CLAUDETTE KING - voc, with BOBBY MURRAY - gtr, ALAN MIRIKITANI - gtr, TIM BROCKETT - org/pno, JUM PUGH - org/pno, SAMETTO JAMES - bass, RICHARD COUSINS - bass, DONTO JAMES - drums, LEE SPATH - drums,...
After recording three album for Shanachie during the late 1990s, Grady moved back to his hometown, Canton, MS. After taking a break from the music business, he comes back with a new band and a new record, recorded live. This Southern...
The wedding of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, recorded live in front of more than 20,000 people, is one the most extraordinary sound documents in Gospel history.
His first new studio record in four years. The Memphis bluesman is still in great shape. Producer Eddie Dattel wrote a couple of fine tunes, and the recording sounds fine. DADDY MACK ORR - gtr/voc, JAMES BONNER - rhythm gtr, HAROLD...
Robert Cray with his phantastic current band line-up. He's in good shape, professional, entertaining. He is a great singer and accomplished, tasteful guitar player, and his band is absolutely top notch. Perfect recording and filiming....
Horst Lippmann produced this rather unique set of tunes in the early 1980s. Jazz and blues in fusion, a truly original concept album. HEINZ SAUER - tenor, BOB DEGEN - pno, CAREY BELL - hca/voc.
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Producer, guitarist and songwriter Fred James was initial in recording Nashville's blues, r&b and soul veterans during the 1990s and early 2000s. This beautiful set delivers a great overview of the once blooming scene in Music City USA....
For this album, producer Michael Freeman went back a long way in taste and tradition. Pinetop's in good form, as always. And his pals are really rocking. PINETOP PERKINS - pno/voc, WILLIE 'BIG EYES' SMITH - voc/hca, JOHN PRIMER - gtr,...
After recording in 1940, the ten sides found no market, and White retired from music. John Fahey re-discovered him in 1963, drove to Memphis, and recorded Bukka at his home in Memphis. 'Aberdeen Mississippi Blues' is a classic. The CD...
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'JW's got it down! So much soul, and nice material. You can't beat it. I am telling the truth.' - Hubert Sumlin. - Canada's Top Touring Blues Act, JW-Jones is back with another blistering CD. On his 6th release on the CrossCut Records...
It's already been ten years since his last release on Telarc. Now the man from Louisiana is back. Along with producer, multi-instrumentalist, and composer Jon Given the guitarist, vocalist and songwriter has recorded his best to-date. I...
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B.B. & THE BLUES SHACKS - one of Europe's leading blues and roots bands, performing almost 150 shows a year. With a touring experience of more than twenty years they travel near and far, from Norway to Austria, from Moscow to Barcelona....
I can't stand these releases! The music is great, but the sound quality is lousy, ridiculously bad. As this material is free of any license in Europe, it can be released without permission and without paying the artist or his legal...
Guess everything has been written about Magic Slim and his music. He's one of the last of his generation and still entertaining the blues world with his high-energy riff-driven grooves. Fine new album. - Digipak. MAGIC SLIM - gtr/voc,...
In those days the Robert Dray Band was hot! 'Smoking Gun' had just charted. This professional live recording of an outdoor show was produced and recorded for legendary 'King Biscuit Flower Hour' radio program. Excellent. ROBERT CRAY -...
Recorded during an extended tour through Russia and Turkey. No recording details available. Booklet contains a long 'thank' list instead. Just another average funky blues album from a band that takes advantage of a legend's name. - Comes...
Both guitarists only recorded a handful of tracks for Chess, not enough for albums under their own names. Thus is why this album originally came out in '69 on LP. - Digipak.