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The Blues Don’t Lie / Buddy Guy

The Blues Don’t Lie is the amazing new album from Buddy Guy, and is the legend’s 34th studio album, and the follow up to 2018’s GRAMMY winning album The Blues Is Alive and Well. Produced by songwriter/ drummer Tom Hambridge, The Blues Don’t Lie features guests including Mavis Staples, Elvis Costello, James Taylor, and more. (Sony)

1CD# 19658731522 $11.99

Trouble Is…25 / Kenny Wayne Shepherd

Provogue Records is proud to announce the 25th anniversary reissue of Kenny Wayne Shepherd’s highest selling album to date, Trouble Is..., which has been re-recorded. The album had 4 Top 10 hits including “Slow Ride”, “Somehow, Somewhere, Someway”, “Everything is Broken”, and the No. 1 hit, “Blue On Black”. (Provogue)

2CD# MOB508826 $16.99

100

Hits – The Blues [5 CDs]

The market leading 100 Hits label is back with a brand new 5-CD box set featuring legendary blues classics from Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Little Willie Joh, Big Joe Turner, Howlin Wolf, Guitar Slim, T-Bone Walker and many more! (100 Hits)

5CD# MOB723148 $17.99

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Original Soundtrack)

Milan Records announces the release of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, an album of music from Netflix’s original film about “Mother of the Blues” Ma Rainey. The album features score music by critically-acclaimed saxophonist, instrumentalist, composer, bandleader and educator Branford Marsalis, as well as newlyrecorded covers of both popular Ma Rainey tracks and blues and jazz standards from the era. (Sony)

1CD# 19439837172 $13.99

The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan [2 CDs]

The only 2-CD career spanning compilation of the late, great, guitar slinger Stevie Ray Vaughan. This collection covers tracks from all of Vaughan’s studio and live albums. Taken directly from the original source tapes. Digitally remastered for optimum sound quality and featured rare and previously unpublished photos. Songs include “Pride & Joy,” “Texas Flood,” “Couldn’t Stand the Weather,” “Little Wing,” and more. (Sony Legacy)

2CD# E2K86423 $16.99

Blues Medicine / Little Freddie King

One of the last bluesmen of his generation, the unstoppable Little Freddie King is a country-style blues musician, and links to an era when live music poured from the back-oftown nightclubs that were ubiquitous throughout New Orleans' AfricanAmerican neighborhoods, fostering a musical subculture of downhome Mississippi blues that developed from the ground up. (Madewright)

1CD# MOB181017 $15.99

Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite: 100 Years of Blues

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Elvin Bishop and GRAMMY-winning harmonica great Charlie Musselwhite join forces for a fun and historic collaboration of front porch blues. Among the most famous bluesmen in the world, with over five decades each of recording and performing, Elvin and Charlie have scanned over 600,000 units combined, despite over two dozen of their releases coming before the advent of Soundscan. (Alligator)

1CD# MOB500421 $17.99

Blues With A Feeling – The Very Best of Taj

Mahal

Blues With A Feeling – The Very Best Of Taj Mahal features all his best early tracks! Unlike virtually any musician of the last forty years, Taj Mahal has staked out a unique musical world-view that has bucked trends while remaining true to the roots of his varied influences. Songs include “Don’t Call Us,” “Here in the Dark,” “Senor Blues,” “Sitting on Top of the World,” “Think,” the title track and more. (Sony)

1CD# 88697713522 $9.99

Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton

Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton is the debut studio album by the English blues rock band John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers. It pioneered a guitar-dominated blues-rock sound. Included in this newly remastered edition are two bonus tracks – ”Lonely Years,” and “Bernard Jenkins,” the two sides of a rare single recorded by John Mayall and Eric Clapton for Mike Vernon’s fledgling blues label Purdah prior to the recording of this album. (Polydor)

1CD# MOB296720 $16.99

Essential Blues

This new collection brings together some of the most famous songs and musicians from the blues tradition. Blues music from the Deep South is one of the oldest popular music genres and its influence spread into many fields, from jazz to rock ‘n’ roll. BB King, Bo Diddley, John Lee Hooker and many others sing of troubles and heartache through a series of wonderful tracks that have a remarkably uplifting feel. (Gift of Music)

1CD# CCLCDG1274 $16.99

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