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| Damn Right I Got the Blues (and Bluegrass)
The days are long, the days are lonesome
When I go and find me all alone | | 1 |  | Blind Willie Johnson
The Complete Blind Willie Johnson
His biography is the definition of the blues, and his music the elucidation. | | 2 |  | Dock Boggs
Dock Boggs
This is one of the greatest albums in recorded history, for the love of God, listen. I implore you. | | 3 |  | Robert Johnson
The Complete Recordings
Requisite respect to Lucifer at the Crossroads | | 4 |  | Howlin Wolf
Moanin' in the Moonlight
Whoa-oh, tell me, baby,
Where did ya, stay last night?
Why don't ya hear me cryin'?
(If can't appreciate Howlin Wolf, you can't appreciate music, much less the Blues) | | 5 |  | Buddy Guy
Damn Right, I've Got the Blues
Any avid Blues Chicagoan can't escape this one. And any avid Blues Chicagoan wouldn't have it any other way. | | 6 |  | Skip James
Today!
Tears drip from his guitar and his tenor quivers with the weight of human history. | | 7 |  | Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs
Foggy Mountain Jamboree
Your fingerpickin' ain't fingerpickin' | | 8 |  | Tom Waits
Bone Machine
The bluesiest album from perhaps the greatest songwriter of all time. | | 9 |  | Blind Willie McTell
Atlanta Twelve String
You can hear the Blues being audibly modernized in Willie's incredibly contemporary picking | | 10 |  | Buell Kazee
Sings & Plays
"The idea of tuning a banjo is to get as many open strings as ya' can"
There's an emotional desperation in Buell's music that you'll rarely hear in bluegrass alone, much less the music world at large | | 11 |  | B.B. King
Singin' The Blues
The most accurate, to the point, album title in music history. | | 12 |  | Albert King
Born Under A Bad Sign
The Blues goes a twangin' and a swingin' for a long night on the town. Blues played with a grimace, a swagger, and a bottle of booze | | 13 |  | David Grisman
Hot Dawg
The interplay of the various strings is heartbreaking in a way technical virtuosity so rarely is.
The interplay of the various strings will get yer foot stompin | | 14 |  | Junior Wells
Hoodoo Man Blues
Simple, slow, and intimate. An album that conjures improvisational necessity of recording music to keep the world at bay | | 15 |  | Muddy Waters
After the Rain
After the Rain's rhythms land with the curling smoke of a dive bar and Muddy Waters' incomparable snarl | | 16 |  | Jelly-Roll Morton
Jelly-Roll Morton 1923-1924
The most perfect encapsulation of that old school New Orleans synthesis of embryonic blues and ragtime flourish | | 17 |  | Lead Belly
The Best of Leadbelly
Pretty damn close to "The Best of Blues" | | 18 |  | Son House
Father of Folk Blues
You can hear the casual, unconcerned wind blowing death across a tombstone as it's submerged by each passing year | | 19 |  | Charley Patton
Founder of the Delta Blues 1929-34
It's an iconic image - the old blues musician, acoustic in hand sitting on a dusty chair with eyes that carve far into the distance. Charley Patton is the audible personification of that image. | | 20 |  | Leo Kottke
6 and 12 String Guitar
Heartrending instrumental blues virtuosity takes its first tentative steps into a new era. Birth, death, and rebirth. | | 21 |  | The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Paul Butterfield Blues Band
A classic from the 50s-60s blues revivalism, with tight musicianship and a wonderfully wailin' harmonica. | | 22 |  | Freddie King
Burglar
Some of the most visceral, throat-shreddingly desperate yells in the blues canon. | | 23 |  | Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
An incomparably vulnerable performance, Billie Holiday strips the blues of its classic guitar stomp to a minimalist piano and reconfigures it around the quiver of a voice just barely hanging on to reality in the face of emotional oblivion. | | 24 |  | Reverend Gary Davis
Harlem Street Singer
Buoyant and soulful blues music that spat in Lucifer's face at the Crossroads. | | 25 | | John Lee Hooker
Hooker 'N Heat
Absolute all encompassing palm-muted minimalism that boils down the essence of a genre to a single, wicked performance. | | 26 |  | Lonnie Johnson
Blues & Ballads
An unassuming fireside dose of blues minimalism | | 27 |  | Elmore James
King Of The Slide Guitar
King of the Slide Guitar indeed. Absolutely impossible not to slam your booted heel into the dust of a Western dive bar to. | | 28 |  | Willie Dixon
Willie's Blues
Drawled as if half-asleep with the eyelids drooping down the face. An album soaked in booze to drown the pain. | | 29 |  | Mississippi John Hurt
Last Sessions
There's a stubborn hope in these recordings that stands resolutely in the face of the travails thrown in the face of life by Blues music. The food is packed in a blanket tied to a stick, home is several hundred miles back along the road, but the wind still blows. The road still stretches on. And life preserves. It is the essence of the blues. | | 30 |  | Abner Jay
True Story of Abner Jay
Blues over 50 years on, looking back on its sweeping history, as Abner writes himself into the fabric of the mythology. Who knows where the story begins, where it ends. Was a song any less someone's own because it was a standard, and was it any more theirs if self-written? Beyond essential. | | 31 |  | Lightnin' Hopkins
Autobiography in Blues
It's right there in the fuckin' name | |
porcupinetheater
08.25.16 | Some people were born to lose,
that's why lovers have the blues | zakalwe
08.25.16 | Real deal. This is where it all starts. | porcupinetheater
08.25.16 | Blues and jazz are probably the only essential genre listening for anybody that wants to call themself a full on slave to the notes | p4p
08.25.16 | damn feature this shizz | Zig
08.25.16 | That good ol' blues! So many classics. | Tunaboy45
08.25.16 | love 8 to bits, one of Tom's classic albums | ScuroFantasma
08.25.16 | I'm pretty picky with my blues but I really like John Mayall + Eric Clapton - Bluebreakers. And Joe Bonamassa is the man, his new album Blues Of Desperation is really good. | Cygnatti
08.25.16 | yeet nice dude
try elizabeth cotten | theBoneyKing
08.25.16 | Feature this goddammit!
Blues is such an undersppreiciatd genre. | porcupinetheater
08.25.16 | @Scuro
Bonamassa's definitely cool, Sloe Gin & Driving Towards the Daylight are especially fun records for me, but they seem kinda like imitations of the blues sound without the emotional resonance or authenticity. It doesn't sound like he's got the dust under his fingernails, y'know? | BallsDeep
08.25.16 | ill be working my way through this list, my uncles been getting me into blues lately, ive got the blue balls you could say | Snake.
08.25.16 | Defeater - The Blues | miketunneyiscool123
08.25.16 | Exodus said "damn right I got the blues" at the end of their song "When It Rains It Pours." | DominionMM1
08.25.16 | nice list. check bukka white and john lee hooker if you haven't. | TheSpaceMan
08.25.16 | good shit my man | bloc
08.25.16 | Surprised to see no Gary Moore.
Or is this list niggaz only? | DominionMM1
08.25.16 | pretty sure tom waits is white | porcupinetheater
08.25.16 | Bruh, Leo Kottke, Paul Butterfield, Buell Kazee, and Tom Waits on the list
Gary Moore just sounds more like 70s rock with a blues inflection (which most 70s rock already had) than full on blues | TVC15
08.25.16 | Need some more blues in my life, nice list | porcupinetheater
08.25.16 | TVC Dude, jam 12. Perfect inroad to the rest of the genre | Archelirion
08.25.16 | Big Bill Broonzy's playing had some real thump to it, the man seemed to have a cast iron thumb.
May have to see if I can get hold of Blind Willie Johnson's autobiography. Bet it's pretty fascinating, if bleak reading. | porcupinetheater
08.25.16 | Oh man, meant that more as a figure of speech, I think the only things Blind Willie Johnson left behind were his recordings.
But his life, from what we know of it, is heartbreaking, bleak, resolute, even inspirational in a "what-the-hell-else can we do?" sort of way | Archelirion
08.25.16 | Aaaaah I see, read that one wrong then >. | bloc
08.25.16 | Whoops, didn't see the crackaz | ArsMoriendi
08.25.16 | Tom Waits is a god :P
That is all | porcupinetheater
08.25.16 | The spaces on this list were reserved for deities only, recognize | rockandmetaljunkie
08.26.16 | great fucking list mate, brings the feels
needs to be featured !! | ScuroFantasma
08.27.16 | @porcupine with those albums I get you completely because they're mostly made up of cover songs with a few of his songs sprinkled in, but his last two have been entirely original material and you can hear the difference, the feeling is much more prominent. | porcupinetheater
08.27.16 | Alright, I get you. I've slept on his last few, but I did always feel Dislocated Boy was my favorite of his, and that was an original if I'm recalling correctly.
I'll have to do a little more toe dipping into that 21st century blues | ScuroFantasma
08.27.16 | Yeah that song is an original, only one I've heard from that album though. I've still got a lot of Bonamassa exploring to do haha. | EyesWideShut
02.28.17 | you a real one for this one broski | porcupinetheater
01.16.21 | Bump cause there still ain't near enough blues appreciation on this here site | widowslaugh123
01.16.21 | “ Surprised to see no Gary Moore.
Or is this list niggaz only?”
Oh my god | porcupinetheater
01.16.21 | 2016 was nearing the end of Sput's horribly gross period, but still in it. This site definitely wasn't better in the old days | widowslaugh123
01.16.21 | It had it’s moments tho |
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