Mahalia Jackson - Newport 1958
Speakers Corner Records/Columbia CS 8071 (2008)

Titel:
An Evening Prayer; I'm On My Way; A City Called Heaven; It Don't Cost Very Much; Walk Over God's Heaven; The Lord's Prayer; Didn't It Rain; God Is Real; He's Got The Whole World In His Hands; I'm Going To Live The Life I Sing About In My Song; Joshua Fit The Battle Of Jericho; His Eye Is On The Sparrow - live aufgenommen im Juli 1958 beim Newport Jazz Festival

Besetzung:
Mahalia Jackson (voc); Mildred Falls (p); Lilton Mitchell (org); Tommy Bryant (b)
 

Eric Bibb - Painting Signs
Pure Audiophile 009 (2006)

Titel:
Kokomo; Hope In A Hopeless World; Five Miles Above; I Heard The Angels Singing; Delia's Gone; Got To Do Better; The Light Was Worth The Candle; Angel; Walkin' Home; To Know You; Honest I Do; Paintin' Signs; Don't Ever Let nobody Drag Your Spirit Down - aufgenommen 2001

Besetzung:
Eric Bibb (voc, g); Wilson Pickett (voc); Dave Bronze (b, g, voc); Robbie McIntosh (g); Hans Theesink (man); Janne Petersson (org, p, el-p, acc); Janne Petersson (p, org, el-p); Henry Spinetti (dr); Linda Tillery & The Cultural Heritage Choir (backing voc); u.a.

Besonderheiten:
2 LPs im Klappcover
 

Ray Charles - Genius Loves Company
Pure Audiophile 009 (2005)

Titel:
Here We Go Again (features Norah Jones); Sweet Potato Pie (features James Taylor); You Don't Know Me (features Diana Krall); Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word (features Elton John); Fever (features Natalie Cole); Do I Ever Cross Your Mind (fatures Bonnie Raitt); It Was A Very Good Year (features Willie Nelson); Hey Girl (features Michael McDonald); Sinner's Prayer (features B.B. King); Heaven Help Us All (features Gladys Knight); Somewhere Over The Rainbow (features Johnny Mathis); Crazy Love (features Van Morrison) - aufgenommen 2004

Besetzung:
Ray Charles (p, voc) & Norah Jones, James Taylor, Diana Krall, Elton John, Natalie Cole, Bonnie Raitt, Willie Nelson, Michael McDonald, B.B. King, Gladys Knight, Johnny Mathis, Van Morrison

Besonderheiten:
2 LPs im Klappcover
 

Mitty Collier - Shades Of A Genius
Speakers Corner Records/Chess CHESS LP-1492 (2005)

Titel:
Come Back Baby; I Had A Talk With My Man Last Night; Would You Have Listened; I Gotta Get Away From It All; My Babe; Hallelujah (I Love Him So); Drown In My Own Tears; No Faith, No Love; Together; Let Them Talk; Little Miss Loneliness; Ain't That Love - aufgenommen 1965 in den Ter Mar Recording Studios, Chicago

Besetzung:
Mitty Collier (voc), a.o.
 

Buddy Guy & Junior Wells - Going Back To Acoustic
Pure Pleasure PPAN001 (2005)

Titel:
Boogie Chillen; I’m In The Mood; Don’t Leave Me; Give Me My Coat And Shoes; Medley:Baby What You Want Me To Do/That’s Allright; Big Boat (Buddy and Junior’s Thing); High Heel Sneakers; My Home Is In The Delta; Wrong Doing Woman; Diggin’ My Potatoes - aufgenommen 1981

Besetzung:
Buddy Guy (g, voc); Junior Wells (hca, voc)
 

Jimmy Hendrix - Blues At Midnight
Soundlink/Radioactive Records RR2LP105 (2007)

Titel:
Everything's Gonna Be Alright; Stormy Monday Blues; Three Little Bears; Instrumental Jam I in D; Instrumental Jam II in A; Little Wing; Blues Jam I - aufgenommen 1968

Besetzung:
Jimi Hendrix (voc, g); James Tatum (sax); Herbie Rich (org); Elvin Bishop, B.B. King, Al Kooper (g); Harvey Brooks, Buzzy Feiten (b); Paul Caruso (hca); Buddy Miles (voc, dr); Philip Wilson (dr)

Besonderheiten:
2 LPs im Klappcover
 

Billie Holiday - Lady Sings The Blues
Clef MGC-721 (2002)

Titel:
Lady Sings The Blues; Trav'lin' Light; I Must Have That Man; Some Other Spring; Strange Fruit; No Good Man; God Bless The Child; Good Morning Heartache; Love Me Or Leave Me; Too Marvelous For Words; Willow Weep For Me; I Thought About You - aufgenommen im September 1954 in Los Angeles und Juni 1956 in New York

Besetzung:
Billie Holiday (voc); Tony Scott (arr, cl); Harry Edison (tp); Willie Smith (as); Bobby Tucker, Wynton Kelly (p); Barney Kessel, Kenny Burrell (g); Red Callender (b); Chico Hamilton (dr); and others


 

John Lee Hooker - Get Back Home In The USA (2 LP)
Pure Pleasure/Black & Blue PPAN 003 (2006)

Titel:
Get Back Home In The USA; TB Is Killing Me; Cold Chills; I Had A Dream Last Night; Love Affair; Little Rain; When My First Wife Left Me; Big Boss Lady; Back To Your Mother; Boogie Chillen’; Sitting Here Thinking; I Wanna Ramble; Hi-Heel Sneakers; I’m So Worried Baby; I’m Going Upstairs; Crazy ‘Bout You - aufgenommen November 1969 im Studio Monestier-Lemay, Pau, Frankreich

Besetzung:
John Lee Hooker (voc, g)

Besonderheiten:
2 LPs
 

John Lee Hooker - It Serve You Right To Suffer
Speakers Corner Records/Impulse AS-9103 (2003)

Titel:
Shake It Baby; Country Boy; Bottle Up And Go; You're Wrong; Sugar Mama; Decoration Day; Money; It Serves You Right To Suffer - aufgenommen im November 1965

Besetzung:
John Lee Hooker (voc, g); Dickie Wells (tb); Milt Hinton (b); Barry Galbraith (g); Panama Francis (dr)

 

Lightnin' Hopkins - In New York
Pure Pleasure/Candid CJS 9010 (2005)

Titel:
Take It Easy; Mighty Crazy; Your Own Fault, Baby, To Treat Me The Way You Do; I’ve Had My Fun If I Don’t Get Well No More; The Trouble Blues; Lightnin’s Piano Boogie; Wonder Why; Mister Charlie; Black Cat - aufgenommen 1960

Besetzung:
Lightnin' Hopkins (voc, g, p)
 

Son House - Father Of The Delta Blues: The Complete 1965 Session
Pure Pleasure/Columbia PPAN-9217 (2006)

Titel:
Death Letter Blues; Pearline; Louise McGhee; JohnThe Revelator; Empire State Express; Preachin' Blues; Grinnin' In Your face; Sundown; Levee Camp Moan; Death Letter Blues (alternate take); Levee Camp Moan (alternate take ); Grinnin' In Your Face(alternate take )/ JohnThe Revelator(alternate take )/ Preachin' Blues (alternate take ); President Kennedy; A Down The Staff; Motherless Children; Yonder Comes My Mother; Shake It And Break It; Pony Blues; Downhearted Blues - aufgenommen 1965

Besetzung:
Son House (voc, steel-guitar); Al Wilson (g, harm)

Besonderheiten:
2 LPs
 

Howlin' Wolf - The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions
Speakers Corner Records/Chess CH-60008 (2004)

Titel:
Rockin' Daddy; I Ain't Superstitious; Sittin' On Top Of The World; Worried About My Baby; What A Woman!; Poor Boy; Built For Comfort; Who's Been Talking?; The Red Rooster (Rehearsal); The Red Rooster; Do The Do; Highway 49; Wand-Dang-Doodle - aufgenommen 1971 in den Olympic Sound Studios, London, von Glyn Johns / Produktion: Norman Dayron

Besetzung:
Howlin’ Wolf (voc, hca, g); Eric Clapton, Hubert Sumlin (g); Steve Winwood (p, org); Ian Stewart (p); Jeffrey M. Carp (hca); Bill Wyman, Phil Upchurch (b); Charlie Watts (dr, cga, perc) u.a.
 

Mississippi John Hurt - Today!
Pure Pleasure/Vanguard PPAN VSD-79220 (2006)

Titel:
Payday; I’m Satisfied; Candy Man; Make Me A Pallet On The Floor; Talkin’ Casey Jones; Corrina, Corrina; Coffee Blues; Louis Collins; Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight; If You Don’t Want Me Baby; Spike Driver Blues; Beulah Land - aufgenommen 1966

Besetzung:
Mississippi John Hurt (voc, g)
 

James, Skip - Today!
Pure Pleasure/Vanguard PPAN VSD-79219 (2006)

Titel:
Hard Time Killin’ Floor Blues; Crow Jane; Washington D.C. Hospital Center Blues; Special Rider Blues; Drunken Spree; Cherryball Side; How Long Blues; All Night Long; Cypress Grove Blues; Look Down the Road; My Gal; I'm So Glad - aufgenommen 1964

Besetzung:
Skip James (voc, g, p)
 

Janis Joplin - I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!
Speakers Corner Records/Columbia CS 9913 (2007)

Titel:
Try; Maybe; One Good Man; As Good As You've Been To This World; To Love Somebody; Kozmic Blues; Little Girl Blue; Work Me, Lord - aufgenommen Juni - August 1969

Besetzung:
Janis Joplin (voc); Cornelius "Snooky" Flowers, Terry Clements (sax); Luis Gasca (tr); Richard Kermode, Gabriel Mekler (org); Sam Andrew (g); Brad Campbell (b); Maury Baker, Lonnie Castille (dr), u.a.