181 Recommended Albums so far!
Here you go people, every recommended album so far—all 181 of ’em, in chronological order! How many have YOU heard?
- Muddy Waters – Rare & Unissued
- Skip James – She Lyin’
- Albert King – I’ll Play The Blues For You
- Dave Van Ronk – Folksinger
- Robert Pete Williams – Louisiana Blues
- The Best of Nina Simone
- Johnny Winter Progressive Blues Experiment
- Don’t Mess With Miss Watkins
- Lightnin’ Hopkins – Autobiography in Blues
- Howlin’ Wolf – His Best – Chess 50th Anniversary Collection
- Chris Whitley – Dirt Floor
- Bo Diddley – Bo Diddley
- Janis Joplin – I Got Dem Ol Kozmic Blues Again Mama
- Stevie Ray Vaughan – Couldn’t Stand The Weather
- Kelly Joe Phelps – Shine-Eyed Mister Zen
- Gil Scott-Heron – Pieces of a Man
- Oliver Nelson – The Blues and the Abstract Truth
- The Victoria Spivey Collection 1926-1937
- Phil Ochs – All The News That’s Fit To Sing
- Joseph Spence – Good Morning Mr. Walker
- Clara Smith – The Essential Clara Smith1924-1929
- Mazzy Star – So Tonight That I Might See
- John Mooney – Comin’ your Way
- The Pretenders – Learning to Crawl
- Manifesto Mix Tape Vol. 1
- Robert Johnson – King of the Delta Blues Singers, Vol I & II
- Jimmy Smith – Back at the Chicken Shack
- Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath
- Greg Brown – Slant 6 Mind
- Tim Buckley – Dream Letter, Live in London, 1968
- Muddy Waters – Folk Singer
- Bukka White – Sky Songs
- The Brothers Johnson – Look Out For #1
- Ivie Anderson – It Don’t Mean A Thing
- Oscar Levant – Levant Plays Gershwin
- Blind Willie McTell – Last Sessions
- Leon Redbone – On the Track
- Guitar Slim – I Got Sumpin’ For You
- Soul Coughing – Ruby Vroom
- Fred McDowell – Levee Camp Blues
- John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers – Crusade
- Angelique Kidjo – Oremi
- At Home With Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
- Bobby Rush – Porcupine Meat
- Miles Davis – Sketches of Spain
- Horace Silver and The Jazz Messengers
- Stray Cats – Built for Speed
- Charley Patton – The Complete Recordings 1929-1934 (Disc 1)
- Lonnie Johnson – Vol 1. 1937-1940
- The Electrifying Aretha Franklin
- Chuck Berry – After School Session
- Junior Kimbrough – Sad Days, Lonely Nights
- Mississippi John Hurt – 1928 Sessions
- Stevie Nicks – Bella Donna
- Jelly Roll Morton – Oh, Mister Jelly
- The Mississippi Sheiks – Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, Vols 1-3
- Kokomo Arnold – Restored and Remastered Hits
- Roy Rogers – Chops Not Chaps
- Irma Thomas – Wish Someone Would Care
- Woody Guthrie – The Asch Recordings, Vol 1-4
- James Brown’s Funky People (Part 3)
- Doc & Merle Watson – Down South
- Dolly Parton – The Grass Is Blue
- Creedence Clearwater Revival – Green River
- Albert Collins – The Complete Imperial Recordings
- Dolores Keane – May Morning Dew
- Bessie Smith – The Complete Recordings Vol. I
- Lyle Lovett – Joshua Judges Ruth
- The Modern Lovers – The Modern Loves
- Robert Petway – Catfish Blues
- B.B. King – Live in Cook County Jail
- The Waterboys – Fisherman’s Blues
- Grant Green – First Session
- Son House – Father of the Folk Blues
- Alvin Youngblood Hart – Big Mama’s Door
- The James Cotton Blues Band
- The American Graffiti Soundtrack
- Willie Dixon – I Am The Blues
- Memphis Minnie – All The Published Sides 1929-1937
- Charlie Christian & Dizzy Gillespie – After Hours
- Blind Lemon Jefferson – The Complete Classic Sides Remastered Chicago 1926 Disc A
- Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan
- The Yardbirds For Your Love
- Bukka White – Mississippi Blues
- Hank Mobley – Workout
- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Safe as Milk
- Rickie Lee Jones – Rickie Lee Jones
- Mance Lipscomb – Texas Sharecropper & Songster
- The Beat Farmers – Van Go
- Sleepy John Estes – I ain’t gonna be worried no more
- Eric Dolphy – Outward Bound
- Cowboy Junkies – The Trinity Sessions
- Rev. Gary Davis – At Newport
- Bob Dylan – Bringing it all back home
- Robert Wilkins – The original Rolling Stone
- Edwin Starr – War & Peace
- Ma Rainey – Mother of the blues
- Jessie Mae Hemphill – She-Wolf
- Little Jimmie Dickens – Raisin’ The Dickens
- Tom Waits – Swordfishtrombones
- Grant Green – The Complete Quartets With Sonny Clark
- Emmylou Harris – Wrecking Ball
- Louis Armstrong – The Complete Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings
- Dock Boggs – Country Blues : Complete Early Recordings
- Thelonious Monk – Plays Duke Ellington
- 16 Horsepower – 16 Horsepower
- Dvorak: Symphony No. 9, “From The New World” / Symphonic Variations
- Bix Beiderbecke – 20 Classic Tracks
- Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska
- Willie Nelson – Teatro
- Billie Holiday & Lester Young: Complete Studio Recordings
- Fred McDowell – Long Way From Home
- Dwight Yoakam – Guitars Cadillacs Etc, Etc.
- Benny Goodman – Complete Capitol Trios
- Blind Boy Fuller – Volume 1: 1935-1938
- Ella Fitzgerald – Sings the Cole Porter Songbook
- Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps – Blue Jean Bop
- Los Lobos – Kiko
- Leonard Cohen – Songs of Leonard Cohen
- Johnny Horton – The Spectacular Johnny Horton
- Hungry Dog Brand – Boy Meets Dog
- DI3 – Torch
- Eagle-Eye Cherry – Living In The Present Future
- Colin Brooks – Blood and Water
- Queer Eye for the Straight Guy – Soundtrack
- Dusty Wright – Elevened
- Will Scott – Gnawbone
- Charles Mingus – Mingus Ah Um
- Billie Holiday – Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia, 1933-1944
- The Clash – The Clash
- Nick Drake – Five Leaves Left
- Sam & Dave – Hold On, I’m Comin’
- Cream – Fresh Cream
- Big Mama Thornton – Essential Recordings
- Frank Sinatra – sings for Only The Lonely
- Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Extra Width
- Bruce Springsteen – The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle
- Tracy Chapman – Our Bright Future
- Bob Log III – My Shit Is Perfect
- Joe Cocker – Mad Dogs & Englishmen
- Tomasz Stańko – From The Green Hill
- Paul Chambers – Whims of Chambers
- Booker T. & the MGs – Green Onions
- Bob Dylan – The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
- J.J. & Kai: The J.J. Johnson and Kai Winding Trombone Octet
- John Coltrane – A Love Supreme
- The Shangri-Las – The Complete Collection
- Furry Lewis – In His Prime 1927-1928
- Phil Ochs – A Toast To Those Who Are Gone
- The Clash – Give ‘Em Enough Rope
- Skip James – Greatest of the Delta Blues Singers
- The Original Sonny Boy Williamson
- Leon Redbone – Champagne Charlie
- Curtis Mayfield – Superfly
- Gillian Welch – Hell Among The Yearlings
- Beth Gibbons – Out of Season
- Buddy Holly – A Rock & Roll Collection
- Mance Lipscomb – Vol. 5, Pure Texas Country Blues
- Jimmy Reed – Ain’t That Lovin’ You Baby – Singles As & Bs 1953-1961
- Fats Navarro – The Fats Navarro Collection, 1943-50
- Jeffrey Halford & The Healers – Lo Fi Dreams
- Lennie Tristano & Warne Marsh – Intuition
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Let Love In
- Bill Withers – Just As I Am
- Jacques Brel – Enregistrement Public à l’Olympia 1964
- Leroy Carr – The Essential
- Etta James – At Last!
- Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders
- John Mayall – Bluesbreakers (w/ Eric Clapton)
- Ted Hawkins – The Final Tour
- Elmore James – Slide Order of the Blues, The Singles As & Bs 1952-1962
- Ida Cox – Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, Vol. 1, 1923
- Hoagy Carmichael Sings Hoagy Carmichael
- Blind Willie Johnson – The Complete
- Thelonious Monk – Monk Alone: The Complete Solo Studio Recordings of Thelonious Monk 1962-1968
- The Replacements – Tim
- Bad Company – Bad Company
- Duke Ellington – Money Jungle
- Bill Evans – Interplay
- Big Joe Williams – The Essential
- Kiss – Love Gun
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