Down in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Atlantic Records' Jerry Wexler had fallen out with Rick Hall at FAME studio after an Aretha Franklin session ended with Aretha storming back to New York. Wexler later... more

This big set chronicling the big guitar-blues boom of the '20s and '30s contains 58 tracks and a 134-page booklet. Includes Mr. Johnson's Blues Lonnie Johnson; Match Box Blues Blind Lemon Jefferson;... more

The Wolf at his most lupine—his earliest, rarest Sun sides including both sides (How Many More Years; Baby Ride with Me) from his first session at Sam Phillips' 706 Union Ave. studio in '51! They... more

The Blues - the iconic music that changed everything! Memphis - the iconic city where it happened! And now - the Memphis Blues Box from Bear Family Records® - the best of the best from the best! -An... more

Bobby 'Blue' Bland (1930 - 2013) was one of the leading US-American Blues, R&B and Soul entertainers. He knew how to combine the intensity of Gospel music with the expression of the Blues. His voice... more

EU collection. The harmonica as a lead instrument for rock and roll! Yeah, sure, why not? Especially when the mouth harp is wielded by James Cotton, the man who grew up with blues giants during the... more

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing in gatefold sleeve. Live And Well was produced by then 26-year-old Bill Szymczyk who later became one of rock music's most successful and prolific producers. The album... more

In his lifetime, Memphis Slim was probably the best-known blues singer in the world, moving from Memphis to Chicago and finally to Paris in the early 1960s. But it's no exaggeration to say that... more

Limited double white colored vinyl LP pressing. -Jimmie Vaughan, co-founder of the Fabulous Thunderbirds and older brother of Stevie Ray Vaughan, recorded one of the most fascinating blues/roots... more

2024 release. With 'Destination Jail, Vol. 2', Bear Family Records® offers another intriguing collection of blues and rhythm & blues obscurities and classics from the '40s to the '60s about life... more

The old heroes and new disciples are heard among these 40 tracks, and a 112-page booklet traces the continuing tradition of acoustic blues from 1980–2012. Includes Heartbroken Man Blues Henry... more

Another heapin', howlin' helpin' of the early tracks that turned Chester Burnett into Howlin' Wolf, blues titan! This is the man at his most primitive and powerful: Moanin' at Midnight; Worried All... more

-Second album with more great recordings from the earliest sessions (1951 and 1952) featuring Chester Burnett aka The Howlin' Wolf. -The recordings were made by Sam Phillips at his Memphis Recording... more

Two CD set with 24-page booklet. In 1951 Ahmet Ertegun signed Turner to his young Atlantic label. Over the next few years, Big Joe Turner recorded his most successful singles and became an Atlantic... more

Double vinyl LP pressing. -Jimmie Vaughan, co-founder of the Fabulous Thunderbirds and older brother of Stevie Ray Vaughan, recorded one of the most fascinating blues/roots albums of all time in... more

-Howlin' Wolf's earliest recordings (1951 - 1953), recorded by Sam Phillips at his Memphis Recording Service and unreleased at the time! -Alternate versions and unreleased masters discovered more... more

Blues expert Martin Hawkins tells the story of local blues singers and players that got onto records. The story goes beyond the Excello sound and the music of Lightnin' Slim, Slim Harpo, and also... more

Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osbourne and KISS owe a debt of gratitude to the father of gothic rock 'n' roll—no one was bringing coffins and flaming skulls to the stage before Screamin' Jay. Here are his... more

26 tracks comprising nearly all the tracks Louis cut for Sam Phillips in the early '50s! This is raw, fiery blues highlighted by the original version of Tiger Man and Louis' fiery lead guitar on She... more

Part Three of the most comprehensive history EVER of electrified blues on 12 electrifying CDs! Every significant artist... every significant recording from the 1930s to the present day, including... more

Studio recordings, most of which had been posthumously released on now long deleted CDs on the small Watch Dog label. Including a previously unreleased recording with Luke 'Long Gone' Miles. Compiled... more

180gm vinyl LP pressing. When Lou Rawls (1933-2006) entered the recording studio in LA in February 1962 to record his first album, 'Stormy Monday' in collaboration with Les McCann's combo, hardly... more

Luck is a rare word in the Blues. But luckily the Blues had a baby and they named it Rock and Roll!Crudup (1905 - 1974) was amongst the unlucky bluesmen who barely got a dime for writing the songs... more

Slim Harpo's sound was at once deeply rooted and strikingly new when he entered the realm of blues recording in '57. The Stones, Kinks, Yardbirds, CCR (where do you think Fogerty got that tremoloed... more

These 55 tracks and 124 pages trace the course of acoustic blues from 1941 all the way up to '59 (when rock 'n' roll was plugged in but there was still a strong market for down-home acoustic blues):... more