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Essential Recordings

Playlists, classic cuts and new favourites. The blues only lives when you hear it.

Curated playlists

30 acoustic cuts from Patton to Johnson.

Muddy, Wolf, Walter, Sonny Boy, Etta.

Mayall, Cream, Stones, Zeppelin — the response from across the Atlantic.

Gary Clark Jr., Larkin Poe, Kingfish, Joanne Shaw Taylor.

Late-night, low-volume, deep mood.

Notodden, Mandal og alt det norske blueslandskapet.

Robert Johnson

King of the Delta Blues Singers (1961)

The compilation that started it all over again.

Muddy Waters

Hard Again (1977)

Late-career masterpiece produced by Johnny Winter.

B.B. King

Live at the Regal (1965)

Often called the greatest live blues album ever recorded.

Howlin' Wolf

Moanin' in the Moonlight (1959)

Smokestack Lightnin' and Evil — two definitive Chess sides.

John Lee Hooker

The Healer (1989)

Comeback that brought Hooker to a new generation.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Texas Flood (1983)

The album that single-handedly restarted the blues-rock revival.