Your favorite blues album?

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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").

I don't know what it is about "Folk Singer" but it does not grab me. I am very keen on Philadelphia Jerry Ricks "Deeper In The Well" (I think that is the title). I sure enough like Junior Wells a lot. "Going Away" is good but I prefer the music on Lightnin' Hopkins eponymous disc on Smithsonian Folkways.

The late great John Lee Hooker "Mr. Lucky"

What does the term "nation sack" mean Blues Brothers? Just heard it on a Cassandra Wilson tune.