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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 – 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.
(2015/Dust To Digital) 18 tracks.
In 1965 and 1966 Bruce Jackson visited Ramsey State Farm in Rosharon, Texas, where he recorded the remarkable epic songs of Johnnie B. Smith, a prisoner-composer doing a 45-year bid for the murder of his...
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(2015/Wolf Records) 21 tracks, 1938-1946, 6-page booklet with liner notes and a discography to the recordings on this CD. Included are also some tracks issued under his pseudonym Sanders Terry, some with accompany by Blind Boy Fuller's...
(2015/Texas Music Group) 13 tracks.
Re-release of the Antone's classic from the 1990s with 3 bonus tracks.
Pinetop Perkins - pno, voc, Kim Wilson - hca, Rusty Zinn - gtr, Kaz Kazanoff - ten, Calvin Jones - bass, Willie Smith - drums.
(2015/Texas Music Group) 12 tracks.Re-release of the Antone's classic from the 1980s. Like Jimmy Rogers' 'Ludella' album another great Austin-Chicago release: Pinetop Perkins - pno,voc, James Cotton - hca, Kim Wilson - hca, Matt Murphy,...
(2014/Cleopatra) 12 tracks.
The first ever live album from the great R&B / Blues guitar legend Shuggie Otis, recorded just last year at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York on Shuggie's extremely well-received comeback tour!
(2015/Warner Brothers) 13 tracks. The 2015 studio album from Grammy Award winner, and guitarist and singer-songwriter Gary Clark. The talented guitarist once again shows that the most varied musical influences can be very well connected...
(2015/Blind Pig) 11 tracks.
Zac Harmon is an award-winning guitarist, organist, singer, and songwriter whose distinctive style combines the best of old-school soul-blues artists with modern lyrics and themes that bring the blues into a...
(2015/Topcat) 14 tracks.
Acoustic and electric Blues. A collection of previously unreleased rarities in a collection of 10 original songs and 4 cover songs spanning thirteen years of creative output from Louisiana Red. Featuring special...
(2015/Provogue/ CDs: 19 tracks, DVD: 17 tracks.
Contemporary blues icon Robert Cray will be celebrating his 40 years of performing with an incredible live release, '4 Nights of 40 Years Live' on 28th August 2015. This live album was...
(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/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/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/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.
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(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,...