Early King sides, classic Stax hits, killer live cuts…2 CDs of monster guitar from the big bluesman whose string-bending style influenced Stevie Ray and others profoundly. "Match Box Blues" (live at... more

Everyone from Clapton and Hendrix to Keith Richards and Stevie Ray lifted licks from this Chicago blues-guitar king. Here's his first single-CD "best-of": "Stone Crazy," "Ten Years Ago," "First Time... more

17 essential tracks by one of the most esteemed—and deeply soulful—bluesmen alive. The previously unissued "Sweet Mama Janisse" joins "Corinna," "Take a Giant Step," "Six Days on the Road," "Fishin'... more

Hudson Whittaker, better known as Tampa Red, was a hugely prolific and influential blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, an innovative slide guitarist and the first black musician to play a... more

Etta broke through in the '50s and '60s singing powerful blues, R&B and soul. These 31 tracks collect the wide-ranging songs she's attacked in the past 20 years; she packs as strong a wallop as ever... more

No other CD gets as deep into Muddy: 24 essentials from 1948–76! His first single "I Can't Be Satisfied / I Feel Like Going Home" joins his hits "I'm Ready," "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man," "Manish... more

The guitar-playing right-hand man of Leroy Carr also recorded a lot under his own name, and that's the focus here: 43 tracks that take us from Blackwell's 1928–35 original prime on Vocalion, Gennett,... more

Bobby Bland, often known as Bobby "Blue" Bland, was one of the best blues, R&B and soul singers of the post-war era, recognised as one of the finest interpreters of blues-influenced songs, comparable... more

Her 49 most powerful and inspiring recordings from 1923 to 1933! "I Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl," "Easy Come Easy Go Blues," "Alexander's Ragtime Band," "T'Ain't Nobody's Biz-Ness if I Do,"... more

Ray Charles was one of the most iconic and influential artists in the annals of pop as a singer, songwriter and pianist, and while he is considered one of the godfathers and great innovators of soul... more

Armed with guitar, jug, kazoo, banjo, mandolin, harmonica, washboard and percussion, the Memphis Jug Band were a tremendously entertaining unit, mixing blues with infectious humor and an... more

Himself a Chicago bootlegger during the Prohibition, this Georgia native made a name for himself as a Windy City bluesman after the Prohibition ended, making Decca recordings of his own songs that... more

After cutting his teeth with Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King and Bobby "Blue" Bland, Little Junior broke out on his own and developed his own signature style blending downhome blues and a smoother uptown... more

T-Bone Walker was among the first to amplify his guitar, making him unquestionably one of the most important pioneers of the electric blues sound— specifically the style most closely associated with... more

The Mills Brothers were one of the most important and influential vocal groups in 20th century popular music, bringing together styles and techniques that embraced gospel, doowop, ragtime, jazz and... more

This UK blues-boom legend (who inspired Clapton, the Stones and so many others) recorded for Stony Plain from 1991 to his death in 2005. This collection not only brings you the best from that period,... more

Eugene "Buddy" Moss, one of 12 children of a family of sharecroppers, was a blues singer guitarist and harmonica player from Georgia, and was one of what became known as the Piedmont school of... more

The name on the marquee should be enough to bring in the blues lovers. Johnny, after all, was one of Chicago's greatest piano men, alongside Elmore James and others and also as a solo act. This... more

Stony Plain was honored to release three highly acclaimed Joe Louis Walker albums, including "Between a Rock And the Blues" which won the Blues Foundation's Blues Album of the Year Award in 2010.... more