Best Blues Albums

[What Would Jesus Do?]

Anyone can post a top 10 list but this guy's list seems good enough to start the conversation.

I've recapped his list below the video. Planning to check then all out. Listening to BB King Live at the Regal at the moment. Always been a BB King fan but realize I haven't heard him in several decades.



Robert Johnson
The Complete Recordings

Howlin' Wolf
(the rocking chair album)

Albert King
Born Under a Bad Sign

Blues Breakers John Mayall
w/ Eric Clapton

Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble
Texas Flood

Freddie King Sings

[also Let's Hide Away and Dance for Freddie King's best all-instrumental album]

Muddy Waters
At Newport 1960

Jimi Hendrix
Blues

T-Bone Walker
T-Bone Blues

BB King
Live at the Regal

 

[lonestar50]

I'm not a huge blues conissour but these are some of the my favorites

Albert King & Stevie Ray Vaughan - In Session
Albert Collins - Ice Pickin'
Muddy Waters - Hard Again
Freddie King - Getting Ready
Luther Allison - Luther's Blues

 

[hawkeyeandy]

I would add Otis Rush to the list. Probably this live album:

And also Son Seals' first album. Raw, visceral.

 

[CarolinaHawkeye]

Best of John Lee Hooker
Avalon-Mississippi John Hurt
Blues to the Bone-Etta James

 

[soybean]

Mrs. Bean pays for Sirius in her car. Whenever I'm riding with her we listen to the Blues Channel. The number of artists that play(ed) the blues is truly amazing. When I was young back in the 60's & 70's it was very common to boogie to the blues.