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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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Yep @gosta, all the above are LP's. Mobile Fidelity also offers Bring The Family on SACD, but I haven't heard it.

The Eclipse Recordings is on John's current label, the great New West Records. Also on that label are Buddy Miller, Richard Thompson, Steve Earle, Rodney Crowell, JD McPherson, and many more. New West masters their LP's purely analog, and puts this statement sticker on their covers: "Audio Mastered For Vinyl". 

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Ooh yeah @slaw, everybody I knew bought Taj’s first album in ’68, as well as his second (Natch’l Blues). My band included "She Caught The Katy And Left Me A Mule To Ride" in our repertoire. The great Jesse Ed Davis plays guitar on both albums (Ry Cooder on the first), and NB has Earl Palmer (!) on drums and Al Kooper on piano. Not too shabby!
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Great, will look for them. Maybe not true blues but rediscovered Rod Stewart first three on vinyl (digitalised) yesterday. Sensational dynamic sound compared to streaming versions. Highly recommended.
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Guy Davies. Unfortunately not very well represented on Tidal at the moment. Have to buy "Sweetheart like you".

Joanne Shaw Taylor. There you have some electric guitar on fire.
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Walter Trout - Me, My Guitar and the Blues
Gary Moore - Still got the blues
Alvin Lee (Ten Years After) - The Bluest Blues 

More guitars and feeling :-)
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