Blues Best Sellers
Our best-selling blues titles!
Quick View
![Etta James - Platinum Collection [Colored Vinyl] (Wht) (Uk)](https://aentcdn.azureedge.net/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/0/5/0/5/3745050.jpg "Etta James - Platinum Collection [Colored Vinyl] (Wht) (Uk)")
Many great singers passed through the hands of late great soul/R&B producer Jerry Wexler, from Aretha Franklin to Dusty Springfield, but Etta James was a singer he willingly waited 20 long years to work with. "Etta is a church in herself," he said in his autobiography, adding: "Her voice is a mighty influence, her musical personality able to express an extraordinary range of moods." He further described her as "A woman used but not spent, abused but never defeated, vulnerable but though sheer strength of will, victorious." Her legend lives on in her music. Press play and share her many emotions... 3LP Gatefold white vinyl
$42.99
Quick View
![Muddy Waters - Best Of (Bonus Tracks) [180 Gram] [Remastered] (Vv) (Spa)](https://aentcdn.azureedge.net/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/3/6/9/0/3780963.jpg "Muddy Waters - Best Of (Bonus Tracks) [180 Gram] [Remastered] (Vv) (Spa)")
180 gram. High Definition Premium Virgin Vinyl Pressing For Super Fidelity. Direct Metal Mastering. The transition from country to urban blues that began in the 1920s was driven by the successive waves of economic crisis and booms and the associated move of African Americans from rural to urban areas. This has come to be known as the Great Migration. In the aftermath of World War II, the long boom period induced the Second Migration, which marked a massive migration of the African American population. Many performers such as Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, and Jimmy Reed, among many others, migrated to Chicago from the Mississippi region. This situation reinforced trends within urban blues music such as the progressive electrification of the instruments, their amplification and the generalization of the blues beat. Chicago became a center for electric blues from 1948 on, when Muddy Waters recorded his first success: "I Can't Be Satisfied." But Waters, born McKinley Morganfield (Issaquena County, Mississippi, April 4, 1913 - Westmon, Illinois, April 30, 1983), was more than a pioneer in the Chicago electric blues scene. He was a great singer of American vernacular music - a vocal artist of astonishing power, range, depth, and subtlety. His presence was that of a king, and his blues sounded simple, but it was so deeply rooted in the traditions of the Mississippi Delta that other singers and guitarists found it almost impossible to imitate it convincingly. "My blues looks so simple, so easy to do, but it's not. They say my blues is the hardest blues in the world to play, " stated Muddy Waters in a 1978 interview. Among musicians and singers, his remarkable sense of timing, his command of inflection and pitch shading, and his vocabulary of vocal sounds and effects, from the purest falsetto to grainy moaning rasps, were all frequent topics of conversation. He was also able to duplicate many of his singing techniques on electric guitar, using a metal slider to make the instrument "speak" in a quivering, voice-like manner.
$20.99
Quick View
![Albert King - Big Blues (Blue) (Bonus Tracks) [Colored Vinyl] [Limited Edition] [180 Gram]](https://aentcdn.azureedge.net/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/6/7/9/9/3789976.jpg "Albert King - Big Blues (Blue) (Bonus Tracks) [Colored Vinyl] [Limited Edition] [180 Gram]")
Includes 2 Bonus Tracks! Limited Edition in Solid Blue Colored Vinyl. 180 gram. New Collection Of Colored Classic LPs. Limited Edition. Direct Metal Mastering.
$22.99
![John Lee Hooker - Very Best Of [180 Gram] (Uk)](https://aentcdn.azureedge.net/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/3/6/4/6/3356463.jpg "John Lee Hooker - Very Best Of [180 Gram] (Uk)")
Quick View
Includes 4 bonus tracks! This quintessential collector's edition contains Howlin' Wolf's outstanding debut album for Chess Records, Moanin' in the Moonlight (1959) - one of the all-time cornerstones of the genre. It features several of his early hits ("How Many More Years," "Moanin' at Midnight," "Smokestack Lightning," "Forty Four," "Evil," and "I Asked for Water [She Gave Me Gasoline]"). We have also included 4 bonus tracks (highlights from Wolf's musically prolific period between 1951 and 1960), which together with this remastered gem constitute the definitive edition of this blues masterpiece.
$19.99
Quick View
![Lightnin' Hopkins - Lightnin Hopkins + 2 Bonus Tracks [LP]](https://aentcdn.azureedge.net/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/5/4/4/5/3535445.jpg "Lightnin' Hopkins - Lightnin Hopkins + 2 Bonus Tracks [LP]")
Performer: Lightnin' Hopkins (vocals, guitar). Reissue producer: Matt Walters. Recorded in Houston, Texas on January 16, 1959. Originally released in 1959 on Folkways (FS3822). Includes liner notes by Sam Charters. When folklorist Sam Charters tracked down Lightnin' Hopkins in Houston in 1959, the blues musician was discouraged enough about his music career to have pawned his guitar. Over the previous dozen years, Hopkins had recorded for numerous small labels, creating great music and occasionally hitting the charts. But his raw blues had recently fallen out of fashion. Charters bailed the guitar out of hock and bought the bluesman a bottle of gin. The pair then proceeded to Hopkins' dingy hotel room to record the album that revitalized Hopkins' career, establishing the Texas bluesman as a darling of the 60's folk circuit. In retrospect, it's easy to see how Hopkins caught on with '60s folk audiences. He had the pedigree-as a child, he led Blind Lemon Jefferson around the streets of Houston. Hopkins had a complex personality. As a singer, the bluesman manages to project charm and orneriness simultaneously. His fluid guitar style is both exquisitely musical and technically impressive, while his facility for improvising lyrics undoubtedly delighted many audiences. For both it's historical significance and the quality of the music it contains, LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS is a necessity for any serious blues fan.
$20.99
![Little Walter - Best Of + 4 Bonus Tracks (Bonus Tracks) [180 Gram]](https://aentcdn.azureedge.net/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/9/2/4/5/3535429.jpg "Little Walter - Best Of + 4 Bonus Tracks (Bonus Tracks) [180 Gram]")
Quick View
![Muddy Waters - Hard Again [Import]](https://aentcdn.azureedge.net/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/9/9/8/2/2022899.jpg "Muddy Waters - Hard Again [Import]")
Vinyl reissue of the album HARD AGAIN, which sparked a huge comeback for Waters as it hit #143 on the US charts, an amazing feat for a bare-bones Blues album.
$38.99
![John Lee Hooker - House Of The Blues [180 Gram] (Spa)](https://aentcdn.azureedge.net/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/8/3/5/3/3213538.jpg "John Lee Hooker - House Of The Blues [180 Gram] (Spa)")