Resentment and despair leavened with wit and humor…isn't that the blues? It is here as you encounter 103 tracks that vent even as they entertain with dazzling musicianship: "Last Fair Deal Gone Down"... more

The flipside to the black blues classics were these country blues sides by white artists. 25 classics and obscure gems: "Down South Blues" Dock Boggs, "Mule Skinner Blues" Jimmie Rodgers, "Black Dog... more

So much incredible blues came out in the '60s; this 2-CD set rounds up rare cuts by big stars plus ultra-obscurities that got lost in the (blues) shuffle. 50 tracks: "Ways of a Man" Guitar Shorty;... more

This precious link to a lost rural past takes us from Georgia and Alabama up to Indiana and New York, where all-day singing conventions were as much a social gathering as a musical event. Hauntingly... more

Ragtime piano rhythms leap to the hands of the great early blues guitarists (and several artists shrouded in mystery) in this killer 25-track comp: "Beggin' Back" Blind Lemon Jefferson, "Guitar Rag"... more