#365DaysOfAlbumRecommendations – The COMPLETE List

It all began on January 1, 2017, with Rare & Unissued, by Muddy Waters. Come December 31, it was all over. 365 albums, 365 days. I’d made a promise to myself, and I’d kept it.

Your comments and shares along the way made it all worthwhile. Together, we know these albums mean something. They freeze us in time, and they free us from time.

Are we a lost generation? Will our children listen to entire albums from start to finish? Will musical artists still sequence their tracks?

I have learned more about the music that moves me from liner notes than from any other source.

If this list moved you to listen to but one new album, I will have done something meaningful for you. Simply making this list meant meaning for me.

Thank you for reading, thank you for listening. Deep bows to the makers who made these albums.

Here, finally, is the complete list.

1. Muddy Waters  – Rare & Unissued
2. Skip James – She Lyin’
3. Albert King – I’ll Play The Blues For You
4. Dave Van Ronk – Folksinger
5. Robert Pete Williams – Louisiana Blues
6. The Best of Nina Simone
7. Johnny Winter Progressive Blues Experiment
8. Don’t Mess With Miss Watkins
9. Lightnin’ Hopkins – Autobiography in Blues
10. Howlin’ Wolf – His Best – Chess 50th Anniversary Collection
11. Chris Whitley – Dirt Floor
12. Bo Diddley
13. Janis Joplin – I Got Dem Ol Kozmic Blues Again Mama
14. Stevie Ray Vaughan – Couldn’t Stand The Weather
15. Kelly Joe Phelps – Shine-Eyed Mister Zen
16. Gil Scott-Heron – Pieces of a Man
17. Oliver Nelson – The Blues and the Abstract Truth
18. The Victoria Spivey Collection 1926-1937
19. Phil Ochs – All The News That’s Fit To Sing
20. Joseph Spence – Good Morning Mr. Walker
21. Clara Smith – The Essential Clara Smith1924-1929
22. Mazzy Star – So Tonight That I Might See
23. John Mooney – Comin’ your Way
24. The Pretenders – Learning to Crawl
25. Manifesto Mix Tape Vol. 1
26. Robert Johnson – King of the Delta Blues Singers, Vol I & II
27. Jimmy Smith – Back at the Chicken Shack
28. Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath
29. Greg Brown – Slant 6 Mind
30. Tim Buckley  – Dream Letter, Live in London, 1968
31. Muddy Waters – Folk Singer
32. Bukka White  – Sky Songs
33. The Brothers Johnson  – Look Out For #1
34. Ivie Anderson – It Don’t Mean A Thing
35. Oscar Levant  – Levant Plays Gershwin
36. Blind Willie McTell – Last Sessions
37. Leon Redbone  – On the Track
38. Guitar Slim – I Got Sumpin’ For You
39. Soul Coughing – Ruby Vroom
40. Fred McDowell  – Levee Camp Blues
41. John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers – Crusade
42. Angelique Kidjo – Oremi
43. At Home With Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
44. Bobby Rush – Porcupine Meat
45. Miles Davis – Sketches of Spain
46. Horace Silver and The Jazz Messengers
47. Stray Cats – Built for Speed
48. Charley Patton – The Complete Recordings 1929-1934 (Disc 1)
49. Lonnie Johnson – Vol 1. 1937-1940
50. The Electrifying Aretha Franklin
51. Chuck Berry – After School Session
52. Junior Kimbrough – Sad Days, Lonely Nights
53. Mississippi John Hurt  – 1928 Sessions
54. Stevie Nicks – Bella Donna
55. Jelly Roll Morton – Oh, Mister Jelly
56. The Mississippi Sheiks – Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, Vols 1-3
57. Kokomo Arnold – Restored and Remastered Hits
58. Roy Rogers – Chops Not Chaps
59. Irma Thomas – Wish Someone Would Care
60. Woody Guthrie – The Asch Recordings, Vol 1-4
61. James Brown’s Funky People (Part 3)
62. Doc & Merle Watson – Down South
63. Dolly Parton – The Grass Is Blue
64. Creedence Clearwater Revival – Green River
65. Albert Collins – The Complete Imperial Recordings
66. Dolores Keane  – May Morning Dew
67. Bessie Smith – The Complete Recordings Vol. I
68. Lyle Lovett – Joshua Judges Ruth
69. The Modern Lovers – The Modern Loves
70. Robert Petway – Catfish Blues
71. B.B. King – Live in Cook County Jail
72. The Waterboys – Fisherman’s Blues
73. Grant Green – First Session
74. Son House – Father of the Folk Blues
75. Alvin Youngblood Hart – Big Mama’s Door
76. The James Cotton Blues Band
77. The American Graffiti Soundtrack
78. Willie Dixon – I Am The Blues
79. Memphis Minnie – All The Published Sides 1929-1937
80. Charlie Christian & Dizzy Gillespie – After Hours
81. Blind Lemon Jefferson – The Complete Classic Sides Remastered Chicago 1926 Disc A
82. Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan
83. The Yardbirds For Your Love
84. Bukka White – Mississippi Blues
85. Hank Mobley – Workout
86. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Safe as Milk
87. Rickie Lee Jones – Rickie Lee Jones
88. Mance Lipscomb – Texas Sharecropper & Songster
89. The Beat Farmers – Van Go
90. Sleepy John Estes – I ain’t gonna be worried no more
91. Eric Dolphy – Outward Bound
92. Cowboy Junkies – The Trinity Sessions
93. Rev. Gary Davis – At Newport
94. Bob Dylan – Bringing it all back home
95. Robert Wilkins – The original Rolling Stone
96. Edwin Starr – War & Peace
97. Ma Rainey – Mother of the blues
98. Jessie Mae Hemphill – She-Wolf
99. Little Jimmie Dickens – Raisin’ The Dickens
100. Tom Waits – Swordfishtrombones
101. Grant Green – The Complete Quartets With Sonny Clark
102. Emmylou Harris – Wrecking Ball
103. Louis Armstrong – The Complete Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings
104. Dock Boggs – Country Blues : Complete Early Recordings
105. Thelonious Monk – Plays Duke Ellington
106. 16 Horsepower – 16 Horsepower
107. Dvorak: Symphony No. 9, “From The New World” / Symphonic Variations
108. Bix Beiderbecke – 20 Classic Tracks
109. Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska
110. Willie Nelson – Teatro
111. Billie Holiday & Lester Young: Complete Studio Recordings
112. Fred McDowell – Long Way From Home
113. Dwight Yoakam – Guitars Cadillacs Etc, Etc.
114. Benny Goodman – Complete Capitol Trios
115. Blind Boy Fuller – Volume 1: 1935-1938
116. Ella Fitzgerald – Sings the Cole Porter Songbook
117. Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps – Blue Jean Bop
118. Los Lobos – Kiko
119. Leonard Cohen – Songs of Leonard Cohen
120. Johnny Horton – The Spectacular Johnny Horton
121. Hungry Dog Brand – Boy Meets Dog
122. DI3 – Torch
123. Eagle-Eye Cherry – Living In The Present Future
124. Colin Brooks – Blood and Water
125. Queer Eye for the Straight Guy – Soundtrack
126. Dusty Wright – Elevened
127. Will Scott – Gnawbone
128. Charles Mingus – Mingus Ah Um
129. Billie Holiday – Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia, 1933-1944
130. The Clash – The Clash
131. Nick Drake – Five Leaves Left
132. Sam & Dave – Hold On, I’m Comin’
133. Cream – Fresh Cream
134. Big Mama Thornton – Essential Recordings
135. Frank Sinatra – sings for Only The Lonely
136. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Extra Width
137. Bruce Springsteen – The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle
138. Tracy Chapman – Our Bright Future
139. Bob Log III – My Shit Is Perfect
140. Joe Cocker – Mad Dogs & Englishmen
141. Tomasz Stańko – From The Green Hill
142. Paul Chambers – Whims of Chambers
143. Booker T. & the MGs – Green Onions
144. Bob Dylan – The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
145. J.J. & Kai: The J.J. Johnson and Kai Winding Trombone Octet
146. John Coltrane – A Love Supreme
147. The Shangri-Las – The Complete Collection
148. Furry Lewis – In His Prime 1927-1928
149. Phil Ochs – A Toast To Those Who Are Gone
150. The Clash – Give ‘Em Enough Rope
151. Skip James – Greatest of the Delta Blues Singers
152. The Original Sonny Boy Williamson
153. Leon Redbone – Champagne Charlie
154. Curtis Mayfield – Superfly
155. Gillian Welch – Hell Among The Yearlings
156. Beth Gibbons – Out of Season
157. Buddy Holly – A Rock & Roll Collection
158. Mance Lipscomb – Vol. 5, Pure Texas Country Blues
159. Jimmy Reed – Ain’t That Lovin’ You Baby – Singles As & Bs 1953-1961
160. Fats Navarro – The Fats Navarro Collection, 1943-50
161. Jeffrey Halford & The Healers – Lo Fi Dreams
162. Lennie Tristano & Warne Marsh – Intuition
163. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Let Love In
164. Bill Withers – Just As I Am
165. Jacques Brel – Enregistrement Public à l’Olympia 1964
166. Leroy Carr – The Essential
167. Etta James – At Last!
168. Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders
169. John Mayall – Bluesbreakers (w/ Eric Clapton)
170. Ted Hawkins – The Final Tour
171. Elmore James – Slide Order of the Blues, The Singles As & Bs 1952-1962
172. Ida Cox – Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, Vol. 1, 1923
173. Hoagy Carmichael Sings Hoagy Carmichael
174. Blind Willie Johnson – The Complete
175. Thelonious Monk – Monk Alone: The Complete Solo Studio Recordings of Thelonious Monk 1962-1968
176. The Replacements – Tim
177. Bad Company – Bad Company
178. Duke Ellington – Money Jungle
179. Bill Evans – Interplay
180. Big Joe Williams – The Essential
181. Kiss – Love Gun
182. Mississippi John Hurt – Complete Studio Recordings
183. John Lee Hooker – Boogie Chillen
184. The Doors – The Soft Parade
185. X – See How We Are
186. Charlie Parker – With Strings
187. Lucinda Williams – Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
188. Culture – Two Sevens Clash
189. Billy Bragg – Back to Basics
190. Sleepy John Estes – I Ain’t Gonna Be Worried No More 1929-1941
191. Tommy Johnson – 1928-1929 Complete Recorded Works
192. The Rolling Stones – Through The Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol 2)
193. Lightnin’ Hopkins – The Complete Aladdin Recordings
194. Ray Charles – Pure Genius: Complete Atlantic Recordings 52-59
195. Aretha Franklin –  Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
196. Sonny Rollins – Saxophone Colossus
197. Townes Van Zandt –  High, Low And In Between
198. Little Richard – Here’s Little Richard
199. The Bodeans – Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams
200. Junior Wells – Hoodoo Man Blues
201. Mance Lipscomb – You Got To Reap What You Sow, Texas Songster, Vol. 2
202. Johnny Cash – With His Hot And Blue Guitar
203. Tony Joe White – Black & White
204. The Ramones – The Ramones
205. Cesária Évora – Café Atlantico
206. Issa Bagayogo – Mali Koura
207. Seán Tyrrell – The Orchard
208. Malkit Singh – Sikh Hon Da Maan
209. Anonymous 4 – Hildegard von Bingen, 11,000 Virgins: Chants for the Feast of St. Ursula
210. Peter Tosh – Equal Rights
211. Dmitri Shostakovich – The String Quartets
212. Charley Patton – The Complete Recordings 1929-1934 (Disc 2)
213. Blind Blake – All the Published Sides 1926-1932
214. Blind Willie McTell – Classic Years: 1927-1940 (Disc 1)
215. Leadbelly – Important Recordings 1934-1949
216. Blind Lemon Jefferson –  The Complete Classic Sides Remastered: Atlanta & Chicago 1926 Disc B
217. Johnny Azari – Songs From A Motel Room
218. Legends of Country Blues
219. Bob Dylan – The Times They Are A-Changin’
220. Bob Dylan – Another Side of Bob Dylan
221. Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited
222. Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde
223. Bob Dylan – John Wesley Harding
224. Bob Dylan – Blood on the Tracks
225. Dr. John – Gumbo
226. Dr. John – Gris Gris
227. Nina Simone – Little Blue Girl
228. The Carter Family – The Carter Family: 1927-1934
229. Emmylou Harris – Red Dirt Girl
230. Koko Taylor – Koko Taylor
231. Social Distortion – Prison Bound
232. Slim Harpo – The Excello Singles
233. The Kinks – The Kink Kontroversy
234. The Meters – Look-Ka Py Py
235. Wilson Pickett – In The Midnight Hour
236. James Brown – Live at The Apollo (1962)
237. Woody Guthrie – Dust Bowl Ballads
238. Hank Mobley – Soul Station
239. Miles Davis – Birth of the Cool
240. Bobbie Gentry – Ode to Billie Joe
241. Joan Baez – Diamonds & Rust
242. Patsy Cline – Patsy Cline
243. Charlie Musselwhite – Stand Back! Here comes Charley Musselwhite’s Southside Band
244. Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown – Pressure Cooker
245. Taj Mahal – Taj Mahal
246. Steely Dan – Can’t Buy A Thrill
247. Art Tatum – The Complete Solo Masterpieces
248. Randy Newman – 12 Songs
249. Waylon Jennings –  Lonesome, On’ry and Mean
250. Hank Williams as Luke the Drifter – Beyond the Sunset
251. Townes Van Zandt – For The Sake Of The Song
252. Steve Earle – Train a Comin’
253. Portishead – Dummy
254. Ministry – Rio Grande Blood
255. Neil Young – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
256. Gerry Mulligan-Chet Baker Original Quartet: Complete Recordings (Master takes)
257. Link Wray – Link Wray & The Wraymen
258. Hüsker Dü – Warehouse: Songs and Stories
259. Professor Longhair – Mardi Gras In New Orleans – Complete Recordings 1949-1962
260. Little Eva – The Locomotion
261. Tom Waits – Frank’s Wild Years
262. Captain Beefheart – Trout Mask Replica
263. Christy Moore – Back Home In Derry
264. Sinead O’ Connor – Sean-Nos Nua
265. The Pogues – Rum, Sodomy & The Lash
266. Charlie Parker – The Complete Savoy & Dial Master
267. Frank Sinatra – In The Wee Small Hours
268. Mississippi John Hurt – Last Sessions
269. Louisiana Red: My Life With Carey Bel
270. John Lee Hooker – The Country Blues of John Lee Hooker
271. Frank Stokes – The Victor Recordings (1928-1929)
272. Dire Straits – Dire Straits
273. The Supremes – Where Did Our Love Go
274. The Staple Singers – Be Altitude: Respect Yourself
275. Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers – Damn The Torpedoes
276. Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers – Southern Accents
277. Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers – Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
278. Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers – Long After Dark
279. Chris Whitley – Living with the Law
280. Chris Whitley – Perfect Day
281. Joan Jett & The Blackhearts – Bad Reputation
282. “Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell – United
283. Thelonious Monk – Brilliant Corners
284. Django Reinhardt – The Classic Early Recordings
285. “Townes Van Zandt – Rear View Mirror
286. Ministry – The Land of Rape and Honey
287. MC5 – The Anthology: 1965-1971
288. Creedence Clearwater Revival – Creedence Clearwater Revival
289. Creedence Clearwater Revival – Bayou Country
290. Creedence Clearwater Revival – Willy and the Poor Boys
291. Creedence Clearwater Revival – Cosmo’s Factory
292. Pink Anderson – Carolina Blues Man, Vol.1
293. Big Bill Broonzy – The Young Bill Broonzy
294. Sam Collins – Cryin’ Sam Collins and his Git-Fiddle: Jailhouse Blues
295. The Doors – The Doors
296. Duke Ellington – Mrs. Clinkscales to the Cotton Club, Vol. 1: 1926-1929
297. John Fahey – Railroad
298. G. Love & Special Sauce – G. Love & Special Sauce
299. Alberta Hunter – Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order
300. The Impressions – The Complete A & B Sides 1961 – 1968
301. Jane’s Addiction – Nothing’s Shocking
302. Killing Joke – Night Time
303. Solas – The Edge of Silence
304. The Modern Jazz Quartet – Complete Atlantic Studio Recordings of the Modern Jazz Quartet 1956-1964
305. Big Maybelle – The Complete Okeh Sessions 1952-1955
306. Phil Ochs – Rehearsals for Retirement
307. Tom Waits – One From The Heart
308. Catfish Keith – Mississippi River Blues
309. The Del Fuegos – Boston, Mass.
310. Lone Justice – Lone Justice
311. Half Deaf Clatch – The Life and Death of A.J Rail
312. Gene Ammons – Boss Tenor
313. Elmo Hope – Trio & Quintet
314. Jim Croce – You Don’t Mess Around With Jim
315. Sade – Diamond Life
316. Massive Attack – Protection
317. Tricky – Maxinquaye
318. Miles Davis – Kind of Blue
319. John Coltrane – My Favorite Things
320. Sam Cooke – A Change Is Gonna Come
321. Otis Redding – Otis Redding Sings Soul
322. AC/DC – Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
323. The Clash – London Calling
324. Burning Spear – Marcus Garvey
325. Albert King – Born Under A Bad Sign
326. Neil Young – Harvest
327. The Pogues – Red Roses For Me
328. Seasick Steve – Dog House Music
329. Lee Morgan – The Sidewinder
330. Coleman Hawkins – Body & Soul
331. Sonny Rollins – The Bridge
332. ZZ Top – Tres Hombres
333. Alejandro Escovedo – A Man Under The Influence
334. King Solomon Hill – The Gone Dead Train
335. The Clash – Sandinista
336. Elvis Costello – Spike
337. 16 Horsepower – Sackcloth & Ashes
338. Cab Calloway & His Orchestra – The Early Years: 1930 – 1934
339. PJ Harvey – To Bring You My Love
340. Tori Amos – Under The Pink
341. Richard Shindell – Blue Divide
342. Bob Dylan – The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3
343. John Hammond Jr. – The Best Of
344. Miles Davis – Bitches Brew
345. Ornette Coleman – The Shape of Jazz to Come
346. The Smithereens – Especially For You
347. Duke Ellington & John Coltrane – Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
348. Morphine – Yes
349. Fugazi – (EP/7 Songs)
350. Great Bluesmen at Newport
351. Van Morrison – Astral Weeks
352. Van Morrison – Moondance
353. Jefferson Airplane – Surrealistic Pillow
354. The Stone Poneys – Evergreen, Vol. 2
355. Townes Van Zandt – Live at the Old Quarter
356. Stevie Wonder – Talking Book
357. Elvis Costello – My Aim Is True
358. Chet Baker – Chet Baker Sings
359. Nat King Cole – The Christmas Song
360. Neil Young – After The Gold Rush
361. The Bar-Kays – Soul Finger
362. Elvis Presley – Elvis Presley (Rock n’ Roll)
363. Motorhead – No Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith
364. Public Enemy – It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
365. Dylan Thomas – Reading His Complete Recorded Poetry