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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.
Recorded live during the 2010er Blues Cruise through the Caribbeans. Great live set featuring many of today's finest blues players. - Digipak. JOE LOUIS WALKER - gtr/voc, LINWOOD TAYLOR - gtr, KEVIN BURTON - kbds, HENRY ODEN - bass, JEFF...
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In 1977 he toured Europe a part of Lippmann+Rau's in-demand 'The New Generation of Chicago Blues' package. While his co-stars Billy Branch and Lurrie could maintain their high profile, James couldn't. He was popular on the Westside...
Two original LPs on one CD. 'They Call Me Muddy Waters' is a collection of songs from 1951 to 1967, originally released in this form in 1971. From the same years dates 'Live At Mister Kelly's', a fine live album recorded during two shows...
Re-issue. He made his first recordings for the 'Fat Possum' label in 1995 at age 26. Six years later he's back with a new record, a modern production. Thompson can play. He's one of the great blues guitar talents, now successfully...
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...
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...
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...