Want the big picture of blues music? Our The Blues category offers expertly curated compilations, rare reissues, and themed series on CD and vinyl – perfect for new listeners and lifelong fans alike.
From the roots to the city streets
Travel through time and style – from acoustic Delta to electric Chicago blues, from unsung heroes to timeless legends.
Essential listening for every collection
All releases include rich liner notes and restored sound – only at Bear Family Records, your home for historic blues preservation.
The Blues – Explore the Heart of a Genre
Want the big picture of blues music? Our The Blues category offers expertly curated compilations, rare reissues, and themed series on CD and vinyl –...
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Want the big picture of blues music? Our The Blues category offers expertly curated compilations, rare reissues, and themed series on CD and vinyl – perfect for new listeners and lifelong fans alike.
From the roots to the city streets
Travel through time and style – from acoustic Delta to electric Chicago blues, from unsung heroes to timeless legends.
Essential listening for every collection
All releases include rich liner notes and restored sound – only at Bear Family Records, your home for historic blues preservation.
(2017/Cleopatra) 17 tracks. Eighty-five year old gospel blues phenom Leo Bud Welch puts on an old fashioned musical revival on this incredible live set recorded at NY's prestigious club The Iridium! Take a journey through six decades of...
(2017/Eagle-Promotone) 11 Tracks - On 22 November 1981, in the middle of their mammoth American tour, The Rolling Stones arrived In Chicago. Long influenced by Muddy Waters and the Chicago blues, members of the band paid a visit to Buddy...
(2017/Memphis Grease) 11 tracks, John Németh has made a name for himself in the top ranks of blues musicians and modern soul singers when he decided to go new ways with his new record Feelin Freaky. Németh is influenced by blues, R & B,...
(2017/Orleans Records) 10 Tracks - Digipack - New Orleans Blues in the tradition of his father Eddie 'Guitar Slim' Jones! Recorded in 1987 and nominated for the Grammy in 1988 as Best Traditional Blues Recording!
(2017/Alligator) 13 Tracks - The shiny young star on the actual Blues scene is back with a stunning follow-up to his debut 'Don't Call No Ambulance, the winner of the 2015 Blues Music Award for Best New Artist Album! Pick Your Poison...
(2017/Jay-Vee) 11 tracks. In collaboration between the excellent producer Steve Jordan and the extraordinary talent Robert Cray, the new work 'Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm' shows a special symbiosis that revives the old times of the legendary...
(2017/Floating World) 12 tracks. His Capricorn album from 1996. Johnny Jenkins - gtr,voc, Jack Pearson - gtr,slide, William Howse - hca, Chuck Leavell - pno, David Hood - bass, Billy Stewart - drums.
(2017/Universal) 16 tracks - Great 'best Of' compilation in brilliant quality, featuring a selection of John Lee Hooker's 'Vee Jay' recordings. Liner notes by Bill Dahl.
(2017/Adelphi) 16 tracks - Ken Swartz & The Palace Of Sin started playing as a band after Hurricane Katrina, in New Orleans. They've become a regular constant late night act in the New Orleans club scene, created their own audiences with...
(2017/Delmark) 15 tracks. A review of Linsey Alexander’s previous album Come Back Baby (Delmark 838) in Living
Blues magazine called it 'a can’t-miss release for any lover of no-nonsense Chicago blues'.
The 'Hoochie Man' is back with all...
(2017/Madewright) 10 tracks. Jazz, R&B, and funk, authentic Mississippi Delta juke-joint blues from Luittle Freddie King, pure and uncut. A great live set.
'Wacko' Wade Wright - drums, Little Freddie King - gtr,voc, Bobby Lewis Ditullio...
(2017/Night Hawk) 24 tracks. The first album on Nighthawk Records primarily records the transition from southern blues musicians who went to Chicago before the Second World War and whose career lasted until the post-war period. A lack of...
(2016/Big Legal Mess) 9 tracks. Robert Finley combines roots soul and blues. He is from Bernice, Los Angeles. His performances are considered very energetic. Robert Finley is 62 years old. On this CD he is acompanied by Howard Grimes (Al...