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Your Top Five Blues LPs, SQ-wise...

Wondering what the general consensus would be here.  What five Blues LPs would you pick to showcase your sound system’s strengths to another Blues lover?  Not so much interested in “historically important” discs here as much as Blues on vinyl that just sounds fantastic enough to prompt one to wear out an expensive cartridge/stylus on...
Thanks in advance.  Just getting into the genre myself via the various streaming radio feeds and never seem to catch the names of artists/titles so I don’t have a list of my own, but I’m drawn to great Blues guitar sounds and unforgettable lyrics which let the listener know, unmistakably, that the singer has, “walked the walk”...
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david3838
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Five of my favorite LP’s
70th Birthday Concert - John Mayall
Crusade - John  Mayall
Come on Home - Boz Scaggs
Blues from Laurel Canyon - John Mayall
Out of the Blues - Boz Scaggs
tooblue
1,945 posts
 
Here's one you need not even think about just search it out and buy. CHICAGO/THE BLUES/TODAY!, On the Vanguard Stereooab label, box set and sounds amazing.
tooblue
1,945 posts
 
@david3838, was just going to suggest Come on Home  by Boz, what a great album by a great artist.
tooblue
1,945 posts
 
@moofoo, thanks for bringing up Acoustic Sounds, what a great label, believe I have all their d2d recordings including a Pinetop Perkins recorded at 45 rpm but that Greenleaf recording is great.
moofoo
293 posts
 
@tooblue - you are most welcome. Two other blues rock lps that are recorded great - full, organic, live in the studio sound - are Robin Trower’s “where are you going to” and “closer to the day”. After all these years the man still gets a ton of soul outta’ the pentatonic scale. Really good stuff, on vinyl of course.
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