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[moterhead27]

ok as im surounded by thousands of blues/ blues brothers enthusiests, this has to be the best place to get advice. im not big on buying CD's the fact is i just never do... so now that i've got this "i cant get enough of this stuff." thing goin on will someone please suggest to me what would be a great first blues album?

[blues51]

You can start with these top 10:

Junior Wells - Hoodoo Man Blues [1965]
http://www.bluesbrotherscentral.com/asin/B000004BI9

B.B. King - B.B. King Live At The Regal [1965]
http://www.bluesbrotherscentral.com/asin/B000002P72

Muddy Waters - His Best: 1947 to 1955 [1997]
http://www.bluesbrotherscentral.com/asin/B000005KQH

Howlin' Wolf - His Best [1997]
http://www.bluesbrotherscentral.com/asin/B000005KQM

Bobby Bland - Two Steps From The Blues [1961]
http://www.bluesbrotherscentral.com/asin/B000059T1U

Little Walter - His Best [1997]
http://www.bluesbrotherscentral.com/asin/B000005KQT

LaVern Baker - Sings Bessie Smith [1959]
http://www.bluesbrotherscentral.com/asin/B000002JMF

Big Maybelle - The Complete Okeh Sessions 1952-55' [1994 Compilation]
http://www.bluesbrotherscentral.com/asin/B0000028ZN

Clarence Gatemouth Brown - The Original Peacock Recordings [1994]
http://www.bluesbrotherscentral.com/asin/B0000002VY

R.L. Burnside - Too Bad Jim [1994]
http://www.bluesbrotherscentral.com/asin/B000001ZV6

Hope this helps,

Monty

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[bbcentral]

Perhaps try one of those double CDs of the "best of" collections?
That way you can try lots of different artists and styles of blues, and see what you like and don't like. Then you can find more CDs by those artists you do like
Also, on the links above to Amazon you can listen to sample songs for a lot of those CDs, which might help you.

[moterhead27]

thanks alot you guys your a help becuase i just cant decide for myself :wink: