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The seminal blues guitarist's 1955 debut album, including Dust My Broom, Crossroads and Moneymaker, is reissued with bonus tracks

Today's show features a true classic of the blues ... a series of three blues albums, recorded in late 1965 and released in 1966. In 1965 Samuel Charters at Vanguard Records asked nine different blues artists to come into the studio and record several songs each, so that he could produce a sampler of Chicago blues music. The artists featured are J. B. Hutto, Otis Spann, James Cotton, Otis Rush, Homesick James, Johnny Young, Johnny Shines, and Big Walter Horton.There are few better surveys of the black blues emanating from the South Side of Chicago in the 1960s than what you hear on this set. T...

John Long was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1950 and was first exposed to the music he’d make his life’s work not long after. By the late 1950s, John was absorbing the sounds of Jimmy Reed, Buster Brown, Muddy Waters, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Junior Parker, and all the rest of the R&B and jump blues of the day, & working on recreating those sounds with his own guitar.

Harmonica ace and longtime Sons of Blues bandleader Billy Branch is already a star, but only in the skies of the blues.

The renegade star's professional career in blues is matched by no other female musician, and by very few men