Your favorite blues album?

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.

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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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Great post! This is by no means a definitive list, but here's some of my favs:

Albert King -- Live Wire/Blues Power
Otis Rush -- Cold Day In Hell
B.B. King -- Live at the Regal
Buddy Guy/Jr. Wells/Jr. Mance -- Buddy & the Jrs.
Muddy Waters -- The Chess Box Set
Howlin' Wolf -- The Best of (Chess)

also check out a recent tribute to the Rolling Stones on House of Blues records call "Paint It Blue". Blues oriented renditions of classic Stones tunes. It includes Taj Mahal ("Honky Tonk Women"), Jr. Wells ("Satisfaction"), Holmes Bros. ("Beast of Burdern").