Your favorite blues album?

SRV "Couldn't stand the weather"

muddy waters, folk singer

I 'll add several of my LP favorites (great music and good sonics).

1. Mississippi Fred McDowell: I don't play no rock and roll
2. Lightning Hopkins: Live at Berkley
3. John Lee Hooker: The Healer
4. Roy Buchanan (please, try Hey Joe, on That's What I'm Here For or Five String Blues on Second Album)
5. Butterfield Blues Band: East-West
(I don't believe the white men can play blues, but I have a soft spot for Paul Butterfield and Roy Buchanan).
6. No young blues players can touch my heart as much as Guy Davis, but I doubt his music is available on vinyl.

Best regards.

I know this is a bit contemporary and not purist blues, but Cowboy Junkies "Whites Off Earth Now". Amazing single take recording in a church with great natural reverb. If I'm not mistaken, it was recorded using a single stereo mike and a digital two track recorder.

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