Tommy Johnson 1928 - 1929
Tommy Johnson CDs Charley Patton is often considered to be the father of the Mississippi Blues, and the young, ill-fated Robert Johnson epitomised as its most agonised exponent. But there is no doubt that the music of the blues singer and guitarist Tommy Johnson epitomised the Mississippi Blues at its most expressive and poetic.

Son House & The Great Delta Blues Singers 1928 - 1930
Son House CDs Have you ever put an album into a player and been shocked as a surge of intensity, both beautiful and at the same time disturbing hits you like nothing before? You’re mesmerised, finding it hard to believe that this is a man, relying on little more than his relentless, pounding rhythmic guitar playing and his own dark, rich, voice. These are the first few seconds of Son House’s My Black Mama Part 1 recorded for Paramount in 1930 and just a hint to what is to come. This album is not just an album of singers. It is a snapshot of some finest bluesmen to have recorded. This is the blues un-distilled. Raw, hard hitting, being exorcised and torn like a demon from man’s tormented soul.

The Greatest Songsters 1927 - 1929

Furry Lewis 1927 - 1929
Furry Lewis CDs Born in 1893, Furry Lewis became one the great characters of the Memphis blues scene, an entertainer, storyteller and an excellent singer guitarist of the country blues idiom. The recordings presented here are his first and finest, made as a young man when he was full of clever verbal and musical notations, recorded before he slipped into obscurity.

Skip James 1931
Skip James CDs Skip James had just one pre-war session and turned out an astonishing 18 sides, thirteen with guitar and five with piano, for the Paramount label at their Wisconsin studios. Here, in their entirety are the results of that session including I’m So glad a remarkable masterpiece, later covered by the sixties super group Cream, with its simple lyrics accompanied by incredibly fast and accurate finger-picked guitar.

Blind Willie McTell Vol 1 1927 - 1931
Blind Willie McTell CDs If Robert Johnson can be crowned as the King of the Delta blues then surely Blind Willie McTell was the King of the Georgia blues. Blind Willie McTell possessed one of the truly distinctive voices in the blues and was arguably the most accomplished player of the demanding 12-string guitar. His mastery of the instrument resulted in showpieces of deep blues, exquisite rags and superbly controlled bottleneck slide guitar which can be found throughout the three Document volumes of his early recordings.

Blind Willie McTell Vol 2 1931 - 1933
Blind Willie McTell CDs If Robert Johnson can be crowned as the King of the Delta blues then surely Blind Willie McTell was the King of the Georgia blues. Blind Willie McTell possessed one of the truly distinctive voices in the blues and was arguably the most accomplished player of the demanding 12-string guitar. His mastery of the instrument resulted in showpieces of deep blues, exquisite rags and superbly controlled bottleneck slide guitar which can be found throughout the three Document volumes of his early recordings.

Blind Willie McTell Vol 3 1933 - 1935
Blind Willie McTell CDs If Robert Johnson can be crowned as the King of the Delta blues then surely Blind Willie McTell was the King of the Georgia blues. Blind Willie McTell possessed one of the truly distinctive voices in the blues and was arguably the most accomplished player of the demanding 12-string guitar. His mastery of the instrument resulted in showpieces of deep blues, exquisite rags and superbly controlled bottleneck slide guitar which can be found throughout the three Document volumes of his early recordings.

Charley Patton Vol 1 1929
Charley Patton CDs Charlie Patton is considered, with some justification, to be the archetypal, Mississippi Delta blues singer / guitarist. His guitar playing, including his bottleneck slide guitar technique, coupled with his gritty vocal deliver created a mixture of some of the most primitive yet sublime recordings to be made in the “pre-war blues” era. Many of his recorded performances are so powerful as to be unsurpassed within the genre.

Charley Patton Vol 2 1929
Charley Patton CDs Charlie Patton is considered, with some justification, to be the archetypal, Mississippi Delta blues singer / guitarist. His guitar playing, including his bottleneck slide guitar technique, coupled with his gritty vocal deliver created a mixture of some of the most primitive yet sublime recordings to be made in the “pre-war blues” era. Many of his recorded performances are so powerful as to be unsurpassed within the genre. Truly, Charley Patton was a “man amongst men”, one of many blues singers. At the same time he had an overpowering presence that embodied the very essence of the Mississippi blues.

Charley Patton Vol 3 1929 - 1934
Charley Patton CDs Charlie Patton is considered, with some justification, to be the archetypal, Mississippi Delta blues singer / guitarist. His guitar playing, including his bottleneck slide guitar technique, coupled with his gritty vocal deliver created a mixture of some of the most primitive yet sublime recordings to be made in the “pre-war blues” era. Many of his recorded performances are so powerful as to be unsurpassed within the genre. Truly, Charley Patton was a “man amongst men”, one of many blues singers. At the same time he had an overpowering presence that embodied the very essence of the Mississippi blues.

The Beale Street Sheiks (Stokes & Sane) 1927 -1929
The Beale Street Sheiks Stokes& Sanes CDs