Sweet Home Chicago' has become an all too familiar bar band anthem over the past few decades, but even in Robert Johnson's time the theme was circulating from one artist to another. Johnson may have [...]
T-Bone Walker's 1947 recording of 'Call It Stormy Monday' was one of the most influential records not only in blues history, but in guitar history. As if the classic lyrics sung so smoothly by Walker [...]
The Best of Muddy Waters was the first compilation of Muddy's classic singles for the LP market, listed among the new releases in an April 1958 issue of Billboard. It was only the third LP [...]
Founder of the Delta Blues -- Charley Patton (Yazoo, 1970) 'Charlie [sic] Patton was the most powerful blues recording of artist of all time, as well as the most subtle,' wrote Stephen Calt in the [...]
Hell Hound on My Trail' was among the deepest and darkest of Robert Johnson's legendary blues masterworks. Together with 'Me and the Devil Blues' and 'Cross Road Blues,' it provided future generations with a disturbing [...]
Columbia's first King of the Delta Blues Singers compilation was a vehicle for the discovery of Robert Johnson by a new audience in 1961. By the time the second volume was released in 1970, Johnson [...]