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Here is just a partial list of our most popular artists and their CD's - of course, the list grows continuously. Currently, the collection numbers over 400 albums with over 6,000 selections. Maybe some day we'll update the COMPLETE list (naw, we're too busy building it and "canning" shows) !!! These are a few of my favorites:
John Lee Hooker on: Sitting Here Thinking, Graveyard Blues, Rhino's Ultimate Collection, Best Of Friends, Chicago Blues Band, Don't Look Back, Dueling Blues and others - nearly a dozen.
B. B. King on: Let The Good Times Roll, Blues On The Bayou, Dueling Blues, Deuces Wild, Greatest Hits, Blues Summit, Great Moments With B B King, and others
Robert Lockwood Jr's "Complete Trix Recordings" and Willie Dixon's "Poet Of The Blues"
House Of Blues Boxed Set, "Songs By" Clapton, Dylan, Joplin, Led Zeppelin, The Stones
House Of Blues Essential Sets: Piano, Harp, Guitar and Blues Women - 2 CD's each - a bit pricey but excellent compilations
Alligator's HouseRockin' Music Series - I have Volumes 1, 2, 4 & 5 and am looking for Nr 3.
Rounder's collection of New Orleans Blues, Dixieland and Zydeco - "Cajun Heat, Zydeco Beat" and their 2 CD set, "Louisiana Spice" - but, I'm on the lookout for individual albums by Prof. Longhair and Buckwheat Zydeco.
Peter Green & Nigel Watson's two CDs dedicated to Robert Johnson - between the two, 27 of Robert's 29 songs are covered - "Robert Johnson Songbook" (1998) and "Hot Foot Powder" (2000).
My Canned Heat and Stones' "Beggars Banquet" CDs are, in my humble opinion, the best blues rock works ever produced - with the early Animals' works coming in a close second.
Several Shenachie and other collections of pre-World War II bluesmen and women.
Of course, being from Memphis, my Furry Lewis and Bukka White CD's are priceless to me - as are my three from Alvin "Youngblood" Hart - who plays some great eclectic music if not always blues and made his home in Memphis after burning out on the West Coast scene.
These are just a few of my "favorite favorites". Over a hundred old cassettes and hundreds of CD's provide a treasure trove of possibilities. As I have time, I'll RIP more of the cassettes to digital format and provide them as well.
Oh, and let's not forget the excellent independent artists at MP3.com and Riffage.com - great music by some extremely talented musicians. Click here to grab free tracks and earn $1 for the radio show's support at MP3.com.
Of course, CD's and tapes are not enough to really understand the music featured on the show. So, books and other web sites are important, too. The All Music Guide is a treasure chest of information on recording artists going back to the early 1900s.
And, no serious study of the blues can be made without reading Robert Palmer's Deep Blues. This is a book full of rich detail that only a first-hand researcher and blues fan could produce. It details the history of Delta Blues from the days of slavery until its migration to Chicago in the mid-1900s. You can order it at Amazon.Com for $12 or so and earn a few pennies for the show. (Link will be up soon!)
I have NO desire to make money from this endeavor. It is strictly a labor of love. And, I promise you that any profit made from affiliation with various vendors will go right back into buying more CD's for broadcast on the show - every penny (and probably more that I don't earn here <grin>).