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.
Japanese import, re-issue of the excellent mid-eighties live set recorded with what probably was Japan's best blues band, Break Down. A blues guitar orgy! Highly recommended.
Third solo album by the harmonica player who has been working in Chicago since the early 1970s. He continuously performs solo as a one man band, and he has travelled the world as a member of 1970s New Generation of Chicago Blues format,...
(1951-54 'J.O.B. Records') (29:33/11) Recorded in Chicago. Linernotes: Bill Dahl. ROBERT LOCKWOOD JR. - tr/voc, SUNNYLAND SLIM -pno/voc, AFRED WALLACE - drums, ERNEST COTTON - sax.
Re-issue of the 1964/65 album, first issued on Verve-Folkways. It features Hooker backed by Tony McPhee & The Groundhogs, and John Mayall. Recorded in the UK. This CD contains the Wand Records version with overdubbed horns.
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Twenty years ago, Mississippi Heat was founded by Belgian harmonica virtuoso, Pierre Lacacoque to put his musical vision into realization: combining the roots of Chicago style blues with modern influences and innovative playing. Great...
Powerful soul/blues fusion album from one o fthe finest axemen and singers in the state of Texas. Tutu plays with a lot of sustain and energy, making his guitar scream and cry. Expensive production with a.o. the Memphis Horns. TUTU JONES...
His last studio recordings, made when he was 97 years old! The producer put him in the studio with young blues lions from Austin's blues scene. The DVD shows moving pictures from session, plus interviews with friends of Pinetop's. -...
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He was born in 1942 in Mississippi. In 1960 in came to Chicago via Memphis. He soon founded his own bands, playing Southside clubs, later moving on to B.L.U.E.S. on the Northside, and downtown tourist clubs like 'Blue Chicago'. After...
Johnnie Bassett may have recorded better vocal tracks. But I love this record. As an ambassador of Detroit blues, Bassett has toured Europe a lot during the nineties. Blues fans are enjoying his elegant, jazzy guitar style, and his...
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3-CD Digipak (8-plated) with 172-page booklet, 79 tracks. Total playing time approx. 221 mns. Part two of the most comprehensive history EVER of electrified blues on 12 electrifying CDs! Every significant artist ... every significant...
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3-CD Digipak (8-plated) with 156-page booklet, 65 tracks. Total playing time approx. 263 mns. Part four of the most comprehensive history EVER of electrified blues on 12 electrifying CDs! Every significant artist ... every significant...
Great sounds and songs, especially when Frank G. is playing, and Sugaray is singing. The rest appears to be rather well known, rock solid recordings by a group of stellar players and veterans of west coast blues. FINIS TASBY - voc,...
Classic style Chicago blues. The Muddy Waters Band without the boss who couldn't participate due to contractual reasons. Chicago blues, recorded by a typical band of those days. - Green packaging. LUTHER JOHNSON -gtr/voc, MUDDY WATERS -...
The original albums 'The Real Folk Blues' and 'More Real Folk Blues', originally released in 1966, and '67 re-issued on one CD. Despite the album titles, both feature the Wolf with his full band and are featuring loud, expressive,...