What are the top 10 Blues albums of all time?

There really are no right or wrong answers.

Here would be my choices.

Blues Before Sunrise- Leroy Carr

The Howlin' Wolf Chess Box - Howlin' Wolf

Let's Cut It - Elmore James

Steppin' On the Blues - Lonnie Johnson

The Complete Recordings - Robert Johnson

West Side Soul - Magic Sam

The Muddy Waters Chess Box - Muddy Waters

1925-33 - Bessie Smith

T-Bone Blues - T-Bone Walker

Hoodoo Man Blues - Jr. Wells

Honorable Mention:

East Coast Piedmont Style - Blind Boy Fuller

Boogie Chillen - John Lee Hooker

Death Letter - Son House

Huddie Leadbetter's Best - Leadbelly

The Essential Little Walter - Little Walter

Muddy Waters - Hard again

B.B. King - Live at the Regal

Buddy Guy - any

T-Bone Walker - The essential

Hollywood Fats - Hollywood Fats (double CD)

Willy Dixon - The Chess Box

Albert king - Born under a bad sign

Clarence Gatemouth Brown - Boogalusa Boogie Man

Freddie King - The very best of FK 1-3

Jimmy Reed - The Boss man (double CD)

John Hammond - so many roads

Elmore James - Blues After Hours

Not in any order, but here they are ---

1- The London Chuck Berry Sessions

2- The Rolling Stones " NOW "

3- Any "LIVE" B.B. King album

4- absolutely anything by Jimmy Reed

5- "BOOGIE BROTHERS" by Savoy Brown

6- " BLUES " by Eric Clapton

7- the first George Thorogood & the Destroyers album

8- The London Bo Diddley Sessions

9- That early Billy Preston album he did for Capital Records

( The Wildest Organ in Town )

10- Freddie King " LIVE "

Well, I'll toss in a couple of my favs.

Robert Johnson the complete recordings.

B.B. King live at San Quentin

T-Bone Walker Complete Imperial Recordings

And the soundtracks to the Martin Scorsesse blues documentaries.

folks got all the classics except they forgot JImi Hendrix was a master blues player eric clapton mike bloomfield robin trower how about jimmy PAGE led zeppelin one is almost all about Big robert johnson or stevie ray vaughn albert king duane allman ZZ TOP several more folks out there i cant recall jeff beck rick derringer peter frampton?

i must say there isnt a top ten because blues is so crazy there are more than 10 but my favorite blues/folk artist is mississippi john hurt... i also like howlin wolf

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