Since March 13th, 2012, I’ve been archiving The Record Collection. Here is a listing of the Blues, R&B, Cajun and Zydeco albums that I’ve archived so far. I’ve also listed my CD’s and mp3-only albums… as well as my Australian blues albums
5 Cent Coffee: Bourbon & Beans - She Should’a Had a Shot of Shine |
A:
Steve Arvey: Soul of a Man |
B:
LaVern Baker: Blues side of Rock ‘n’ Roll | Barbecue Bob: Chocolate To The Bone – Complete Recorded Works 1928-1930, vol 3 | Carey Bell: Mellow Down Easy | Eric Bibb: Good Stuff | Randall Bramblett & Geoff Achison: Jammin’ In The Attic | Big Bill Broonzy: Good Time Tonight - The Young Big Bill Broonzy (1928-35) | Big Maybelle: Blues, Candy & Big Maybelle - The Complete Okeh Sessions (1952-55) | Rory Block: Angel of Mercy | Michael Bloomfield: Analine – Michael Bloomfield - Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper, Stephen Stills: Super Session |
Charles Brown: All My Life - Just A Lucky So And So | Ruth Brown: Ruth Brown 1949-1950 | Roy Buchanan: Hot Wires | The Paul Butterfield Blues Band: The Paul Butterfield Blues Band – The Butterfield Blues Band: East-West – The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw – In My Own Dream – Keep on Moving |
C:
John Campbell: Howlin’ Mercy | Canned Heat: Let’s Work Together – Uncanned! | Catl.: Soon This Will All Be Gone | Ray Charles: The Genius of Ray Charles | Clifton Chenier: Frenchin’ The Boogie | Chicken Shack: Chicken Shack – the collection |
Eric Clapton: 24 Nights – From The Cradle | Jon Cleary: Alligator Lips & Dirty Rice | Ry Cooder: Boomer’s Story - Borderline – Chicken Skin Music - Crossroads -soundtrack - Into The Purple Valley – Jazz – Paradise and Lunch - Paris, Texas -soundtrack – River Rescue - Ry Cooder | Elizabeth Cotten: Shake Sugaree | Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup: Mean ol’ Frisco - That’s All Right Mama | King Curtis: Trouble in Mind |
D:
Barbara Dane: Barbara Dane & the Chambers Brothers - Trouble in Mind - When I Was a Young Girl | Reverend Gary Davis: Say No To The Devil | Derek and The Dominos: Layla and other assorted loves songs | Devil in a Woodpile: Devil in a Woodpile | Willie Dixon: I Am The Blues – The Big Three Trio | Dr. Feelgood: Stupidity – Brilleaux | Champion Jack Dupree: Champion Jack Dupree - Two Classic Albums Plus |
E:
The East River String Band: Sweet East River | Sleepy John Estes: I Ain’t Gonna Be Worried No More | Terry Evans: Blues for Thought |
F:
The Fabulous Thunderbirds: Hot Stuff – Portfolio – The Fabulous Thunderbirds | John Fahey: Blind Joe Death – The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death | Fleetwood Mac: The Original Fleetwood Mac | Blind Boy Fuller: East Coast Piedmont Style | Jesse Fuller: Frisco Bound | Lowell Fulson: Chicago Golden Years 7 |
G:
William Galison & Madeleine Peyroux: Got You on My Mind | Rory Gallagher: Blueprint - Calling Card - Jinx - Tattoo | Buddy Guy: The Treasure Untold: Charly Blues Masterworks vol 11 – Damn Right , I’ve Got The Blues | Buddy Guy & Junior Wells: Alone & Acoustic |
H:
John Hammond, Jr.: Frogs For Snakes – Got Love If You Want It – Nobody But You - The Best of John Hammond – Trouble No More - John Paul Hammond: I’m Satisfied | Screamin’ Jay Hawkins: Frenzy | Ted Hawkins: Happy Hour – Watch Your Step | The Jeff Healey Band: See The Light | Jimi Hendrix: :Blues |
Billie Holiday: Billie Holiday (1933-36) - History of Jazz: 10 Fabulous Recordings of the Forties – Holiday Tracks – Lady Sings The Blues - Stay with Me – Storyville Club Sessions [complete] - Summertime – Verve Jazz Masters 12 |
John Lee Hooker: Alone vol 01 - House of The Blues - No Friend Around – Sittin’ Here Thinkin’ – The Best of John Lee Hooker | Lightnin’ Hopkins: Autobiography in Blues - Blues In My Bottle - Coffee House Blues - Lightnin’ Hopkins [archive folk] - Lightnin’ Hopkins [Folkways] - Portrait - The Texas Bluesman | Son House: Father of the Delta Blues |
Howlin’ Wolf: His Greatest Sides, vol 01 - Howlin’ Wolf / Moanin’ in the Moonlight – Howlin’ Wolf / Red Rooster [Double Play] | Alberta Hunter: Chicago -The Living Legends | John Hurt: The Best of Mississippi John Hurt – Today! |
I: J:
Elmore James: The Elmore James Story | Etta James: Etta James Rocks The House | Homesick James: Blues on the South Side | Marion James: Northside Soul | Skip James: Devil Got My Woman | Steve James: American Primitive | Blind Lemon Jefferson: 1926-1929 vol 2 - King of the Country Blues | Blind Willie Johnson: Sweeter As The Years Go By |
Johnnie Johnson: Johnnie B. Bad – Johnnie Be Back – That’ll Work | Lonnie Johnson: Steppin’ on the Blues | Robert Johnson: King of The Delta Blues Singers - The Complete Recordings |
K:
Jo Ann Kelly: Jo Ann Kelly - Jo Ann Kelly, Peter Emery: Do It | Alexis Korner: Me – R&B From The Marquee |
L:
Hugh Laurie: Didn’t it Rain – Let Them Talk | Leadbelly: Huddie Ledbetter - Leadbelly’s Last Sessions: part 1 – part 2 – part 3 - part 4 | LeRoi Brothers: Check This Action! | Mance Lipscomb: Texas Songster - Texas Songster vol 2 | Professor Longhair: Crawfish Fiesta - House Party New Orleans Style |
M:
Magic Slim: Alone & Unplugged - Magic Slim & the Teardrops: Grand Slam – Snakebite | Harry Manx: Dog My Cat – Wise And Otherwise | Bob Margolin: Down In The Alley | John Mayall: Back to the Roots - The Turning Point | Fred McDowell: Mississippi Fred McDowell [archive folk] – The Alan Lomax Recordings – You Gotta Move | Brownie McGhee: Brownie’s Blues | Brownie McGhee with Elmer Lee Thomas Blues Revue: Brownie’s Blues | Sticks McGhee: Sticks McGhee 1947-1951 |
Blind Willie McTell: 1927-1933 -The Early Years – 1927-1935 -Doing That Atlanta Strut | Memphis Minnie: Hoodoo Lady (1933-1937) | Memphis Slim: The Memphis Slim Story | Amos Milburn: Drinking with Amos | The Mississippi Sheiks: Stop and Listen | Keb’ Mo’: Just Like You – Keb’ Mo’ | Jelly Roll Morton: Jelly Roll Morton - Mamie’s Blues (The Library of Congress Recordings, vol 07) | Charlie Musselwhite: Memphis Charlie |
N: O:
Odetta: Odetta and the Blues - Odetta sings Ballads and Blues |
P:
The Paladins: Let’s Buzz – Ticket Home | Charley Patton: Founder of the Delta Blues - Charlie Patton: Primeval Blues, Rags, and Gospel Songs | Doc Pomus: Send for the Doctor (1944-55) |
Q: R:
Ma Rainey: Ma Rainey [milestone] | Bonnie Raitt: Nick Of Time | Jimmy Reed: Bright Lights, Big City -Charly Blues Masterworks vol.17 | Rising Sons: Rising Sons | Paul Rodgers: Muddy Water Blues | Jimmy Rogers: Hard Working Man -Charly Blues Masterworks vol 3 | Roy Rogers & Norton Buffalo: Travellin’ Tracks | Steve Roux: Steve Roux |
S:
Saffire -The Uppity Blues Women: Hot Flash | Son Seals: Living in the Danger Zone | Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band: Trouble Is… | Bessie Smith: Empress of The Blues - Empress of the Blues (vol 02) - The World’s Greatest Blues Singer | Big Bad Smitty: Mean Disposition | Otis Spann: Otis Spann [archive folk] - Walkin’ the Blues | Stone The Crows: Live Crows (Montreux 1972) - Ode To John Law – Ontinuous Performance - Stone The Crows - Teenage Licks |
T:
Taj Mahal: Blue Light Boogie – Phantom Blues - Taj – The Legendary Taj Mahal – Taj Mahal, V.M. Bhatt, N. Ravikiran: Mumtaz Mahal | Tampa Red: Don’t Tampa with the Blues | Taste: Pop History vol 11 | T-Bone Walker: I Get So Weary - Stormy Monday - T-Bone Shuffle -Charly Blues Masterworks vol 14 - The Bluesway Sessions - Very Rare |
Hound Dog Taylor: Hound Dog Tayor and the Houserockers | Koko Taylor: Queen of The Blues | Susan Tedeschi: Back to the River – Just Won’t Burn | Ten Years After: Portfolio | Sonny Terry: I Think I Got The Blues - Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee: Midnight Special – Sonny & Brownie |
Big Mama Thornton: Ball n’ Chain - Stronger Than Dirt / The Way It Is | Ali Farka Toure with Ry Cooder: Talking Timbuktu | Big Joe Turner & Roomful of Blues: Blues Train | Ike Turner and the Kings of Rhythm: Hey Hey |
U: V:
Various Artists:
Atlantic Rhythm & Blues 1947-1974: vol 1 (1947-1952) – vol 2 (1952-1955) - vol 2 cd - vol 3 (1955-1957) - vol 3 cd - vol 4 (1957-1960) - vol 5 (1961-1965) - vol 6 (1965-1967) - vol 7 (1967-1969) - vol 8 (1970-1974) |
Before the Blues: vol 01 – vol 02 - vol 03 |
Blowing the Fuse: R&B Classics That Rocked The Jukebox In … - 1945 – 1946 – 1947 – 1948 – 1949 – 1950 – 1951 – 1952 -1953 – 1954 – 1955 – 1956 – 1957 – 1958 – 1959 – 1960 |
Blues For Your Pocket | Blues In The Mississippi Night | Blues Masters, vol 15: Slide Guitar Classics | Cajun Classics: The Kings of Cajun – at their (Very) Best | Canned Heat Blues: Masters of the Delta Blues | Depression Blues – nobody knows you when you’re down and out | Genuine Houserockin’ Music: vol 01 – vol 02 |
Hard Times Come Again No More: vol 1 - vol 2 | History of Rhythm and Blues Vocal Groups | If I Had My Way: A Cigar Box Guitar Tribute to Blind Willie Johnson | Let Me Squeeze Your Lemon (The Ultimate Rude Blues Collection) | Lost & Found: Real R’n'B & Soul | Masters of the Cigar Box Guitar: Live 2005 | Mississippi Blues | Murderers’ Home | Raunchy Business- Hot Nuts & Lollypops | Stompin’ At The Savoy - The Original Indie-Label 1944-1961 |
Tex/Mex: Conjuntos Nortenos (Northern Sets) | The Alligator Records 20th Anniversary Collection | The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966: vol 1 – vol 2 – vol 3 | The Best of Chess: Blues - Rhythm & Blues | The Best of Chicago Blues |
The Blues – A Real Summit Meeting | The Blues Box | The Blues Story | The Finest Of Folk Bluesmen | The Great Blues Men | The Guitar Album |
The Rural Blues - A Study of the Vocal and Instrumental Resources | The Story of the Blues: vol 01 – vol 02 |
Times Ain’t Like They Used To Be: Early American Rural Music - vol 01 - vol 03 - vol 06 - vol 07 - vol 08 |
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble: Couldn’t Stand The Weather – Soul To Soul – Texas Flood - The Sky is Crying | Eddie ‘Cleanhead’ Vinson & Roomful of Blues: Eddie ‘Cleanhead’ Vinson & Roomful of Blues |
W:
Little Walter: Boss Blues Harmonica | Muddy Waters: at Newport 1960 - Muddy ‘Mississippi’ Waters Live | Junior Wells: Better Off with the Blues | Bukka White: Sky Songs | Tony Joe White: The Best of Tony Joe White | Chris Whitley: Living With The Law | Sheila Wilcoxson: Backwater Blues | Robert Wilkins: The Original Rolling Stone | Robert ‘Pete’ Williams: l Blues de Robert ‘Pete’ Williams – Louisiana Blues |
John Lee ‘Sonny Boy’ Williamson 1: The Right Kind of Life | Sonny Boy Williamson: The Sonny Boy Williamson Story | Kim Wilson: Tigerman | U.P. Wilson: Boogie Boy! | Johnny Winter: Johnny Winter - White, Hot & Blue | Jimmy Witherspoon: Midnight Lady Called The Blues - Jimmy Witherspoon Sings The Blues with Panama Francis & The Savoy Sultans - Spoon So Easy |
X: Y:
Johnny Young: Chicago Blues |
Z:
Buckwheat Zydeco: The Buckwheat Zydeco Story |
Australian Blues
A:
Geoff Achison: Classically Blue – Genevieve – Mystery Train |
B:
The Backsliders: Hellhound – Live At The Royal – Wide Open | Blue Heat: Marooned | Bondi Cigars: Bad Weather Blues – Bondi Cigars - Shane Pacey and the Cigars: Got The News | Fiona Boyes: gimme some… Sweet Jelly Roll | Alex Burns & Nick Charles: Cordially Yours – The Road More Travelled |
C:
Chain: Two of a Kind | Collard Greens & Gravy: More Gravy! – Silver Bird |
D:
Damon Davies: Ride This Train |
E:
Mal Eastick: The Southern Line |
F: G:
G Men: Red Dirt Blues | The Giants: Live At Broadford |
H:
The Hippos: Hippocracy | Dave Hole: Short Fuse Blues – Steel on Steel – The Plumber – Working Overtime |
I: J: K: L:
Jeff Lang: Whatever Makes You Happy | Lil’ Fi & the Delta Rhythm Kings: Yip-Yah! |
M:
Phil Manning: Can’t Stop – The Back Shed | Kate Meehan: As Long As I’ve Sung The Blues | The Mojos: Sassy Mama |
N: O: P:
The Paramount Trio: Step it up and go |
Q: R:
Rocket 88: Monkey Doin’ Woman |
S:
Salty Dog: Lose These Blues - Salty Dog are Mudsteppin’ | Matt Southon: Australian Verandah Blues | C.W. Stoneking: Jungle Blues - King Hokum |
T:
Ten Cent Shooters: The Ten Cent Shooters | Dutch Tilders: Eureka Files 1975-1980 – Live at the Station Hotel |
U: V:
Various Artists:
Bluesfest- The Album | Deep South: South Australian Rhythm and Blues | Real Australian Blues vol 01 |
W:
Matt Walker: Matt Walker & Friends Live at Rainbow Hotel | The Warner Brothers: Talking In Your Sleep | Chris Wilson & Geoff Achison: Box of Blues |
X: Y: Z:
Ivan Zar: Track Me Down |
