Blues for Aficionados

Sonny Boy Williamson

THE BLUEBIRD RECORDINGS  1937-1938

BlueBird / BMG    1937-38  /  1997

Excellent and informative booklet.  Wiki explains why there are two Blues players named Sonny Boy Williamson.  This is Sonny Boy ll.
Born December 5, 1912 Tutwiler, Mississippi
Died May 24, 1965 (aged 52) Helena, Arkansas

Good Morning School Girl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyF9IG2WAVw

Sugar Mama Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5syTmBusAXw

Got The Bottle Up And Gone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXTtMYA0Xag

Sunny Land
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_nmQghqHhg

Cheers

Sonny Boy Williamson

THE ESSENTIAL SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON

MCA Chess  2CD Set   1993

Excellent Booklet.   CD 1

All My Love In Vain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9rfY__yAC8

You Killing Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elr0xxmNas4

Your Imagination
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6lC_Ib0Y-A

Don't Start Me To Talkin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoJM8Vymj9k

Cheers

Howlin' Wolf

THE LONDON SESSIONS (Deluxe Edition)

MCA Chess   2CD Set      1970 / 2002

Extensive booklet that gives a blow by blow account of the recording session.  Big time names from the world of Rock, but as I would have predicted, guitars too much and too loud.  If its the Blues, its all about the singer.

Red Rooster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2JCfuWaaGE

I Ain't Superstitious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDHWiypJOAY

Highway 49
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DqNKXNsTBM

Built For Comfort
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMKwzB7tdKk

Cheers

Sonny Boy Williamson

THE ESSENTIAL SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON

MCA Chess 2CD Set  1993

CD 2

Trust My Baby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ0akPeo4oY

Checkin' Up On My Baby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3nJUAiSpbQ

Too Young To Die
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT5Dust3tsY

Too Old To Think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKP2lFy28Xo

Cool Disposition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9O_RUfjPh4

Cheers

Howlin' Wolf

THE CHESS BOX

MCA Chess      3CD Box       1991

Wiki:
The musician and critic Cub Koda noted, "no one could match Howlin' Wolf for the singular ability to rock the house down to the foundation while simultaneously scaring its patrons out of its wits." Producer Sam Phillips recalled, "When I heard Howlin' Wolf, I said, 'This is for me. This is where the soul of man never dies.'" Several of his songs, including "Smokestack Lightnin'", "Killing Floor" and "Spoonful", have become blues and blues rock standards. In 2011, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 54 on its list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time".
Born June 10, 1910 White Station, Mississippi
Died January 10, 1976 (aged 65)  Hines, Illinois

Many say Muddy Waters was the Boss of the Blues.   Many could be wrong.

Howlin' For My Darling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paEv5A5Ir1c

Who's Been Talking?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7jxaWMFhTg

Goin' Down Slow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KDAAx-PXGQ

I Asked For Water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGoKbPR6kwY

And 71 more!

Cheers