Great Hooker.
This was one of my earliest Hooker purchases and remains one of my absolute favourites.
The track selection is very good - given the HUGE number of Hooker recordings, its oft...
Essential-hardly. Depend who this is supposed to be essential do-the newcomer to the Urban blues which influenced the British blues bands or essential as the biggest songs are here.Big via o...
Fantastic slice of the blues. This is a great collection of Buddy Guy's Chicago recordings, & they really hit the spot. The guitar playing is wonderful, but not as wild as it should have bee...
ALL THE SONGS YOU'LL EVER NEED. This is another great compilation from the Beginners series, from Robert Johnson all the way to Charlie Musselwhite. This is a great start for your blues col...
Magnificent blues. The music on this compilation is magnificent, I didn't give it 5 stars only because it lacks the listing of musicians on each track (some of which are true blues legends t...
A cheap introduction to Bo Diddley. This simply presented, budget-priced `Best Of' includes some of the most familiar tracks of rhythm and blues from the late Bo Diddley's back catalogue suc...
Essential Wolf. A welcome budget price collection by one of the most charismatic and influential blues artists of all time. Many of Wolf's best known numbers are here, commencing with 'How M...
Where it all began.... Not a Rolling Stones album of course, but a fascinating source of information and exploration for anyone interested in finding out about the music that influenced the ...
This 1965 album is where vocalist and harmonica player Junior Wells comes into his own. An early collaboration with Buddy Guy, the two of them sum up the 1960s funk-rock-blues that lay ahead...
