Your favorite blues album?

a couple more to add to the list: taj mahal, "an evening of acoustic music"; lucinda williams, "car wheels on a gravel road." -kelly

Doug McLeod. "Come to Find."

Here's perhaps a quirky favorite: Robert Lucas, "Using Man Blues" on Audioquest -- engineered by Kavi Alexander. The LP is superb, but it will quickly reveal a system that is not "all together". On a system that gets the music right, this recording will sound superb. On systems that don't do the "PRAT" thing well, this recording will sound terrible. For me, its a quick way to tell 'em apart.

Rushton is right on about Robert Lucas. His "Locomotive" CD has fantastic slide guitar. Certainly one of my favorites. Craig

Blues Is King by B.B.King - live, hot concert from when his voice was so powerful he'd blow out microphones! Don't dismiss BB based on his recent slick stuff...
Also, all of the early Howlin' Wolf stuff is essential. You can get most of it by buying Howlin'Wolf Memphis Days The Definitive Edition I and II (Bear Family label) and Howlin' Wolf Rides Again (Flair)