Recommend some Blues music to a newbie

and if you got sick of the classic blues find earlyer albums of black keys and check R. L. Burnside...these 2 would be a little raw garage blues...and on the otherside on some stuff you can feel the mississipi swamp...and john lee hooker as someone mention...

There is also a rendition of First Time i met the Blues by Buddy Guy that
was recorded live, and is included on the soundtrack of a movie about the
Chicago blues that was produced a long time ago. The soundtrack is
available as a download, and a CD, i'm not sure about the vinyl- doubt it
was reissued. I don't have that Chicago Blues today three record set, so i'm
not sure if this track is on there. The movie it was in, and the soundtrack it
is from is called "Chicago Blues." It is a really good version of that tune, and
Buddy is happenin'.
He's coming soon to Tarrytown Music Hall, near us, hope to catch him.
Sabai- i agree- T-Bone is the best. That whole 1/2 step up-down diminished
chord thing,
and those single note lead lines so define him. I bought my first T-bone
record when i was still barely out of high school; i also have that Mosaic set
on vinyl that is easily 15 years-oops, just checked- 22 years old.
I always hear players doing a Tbone kinda thing.

How about some british blues?

Savoy Brown collection, any volume.

For something a little psychedelic as well, "cricklewood green"
by ten years after.

yea, Mapman. That whole UK blues movement that started in the early 60's and recognized what most American listeners didn't or couldn't at the time, from their own music legacy (maybe due in part to the fact that the music didn't typically cross racial lines on mainstream stations) and brought us a slew of great performing artists and recordings from the UK. You are gonna make me pull out some of these and listen to them later tonite.

Juat getting into blues now, but I have had a good start lately on vinyl:

Mississippi John Hurt "Last Sessions"
Muddy Waters "Live at Newport 1960"
John Lee Hooker "The Real Folk Blues"

Good stuff.