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VA - Essential Blues Series (House of Blues) [1995-1997] (18 x CDs)

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VA - Essential Blues Series (House of Blues) [1995-1997] (18 x CDs)

The House of Blues Essential Series is a collection of music albums that showcases the rich and diverse world of blues music. Each album in the series focuses on a specific genre or style within the blues, offering listeners a comprehensive exploration of this influential musical tradition.

The series includes the following albums:

  • VA - Essential Blues (House Of Blues) CD1+CD2 [1995]
  • VA - Essential Blues 2 (House Of Blues) CD1+CD2 [1996]
  • VA - Essential Blues Guitar (House Of Blues) CD1+CD2 [1997]
  • VA - Essential Blues Harmonica (House Of Blues) CD1+CD2 [1997]
  • VA - Essential Blues Piano (House Of Blues) CD1+CD2 [1997]
  • VA - Essential Chicago Blues (House Of Blues) CD1+CD2 [1997]
  • VA- Essential Texas Blues (House Of Blues) CD1+CD2 [1997]
  • VA- Essential Women In Blues (House Of Blues)  CD1+CD2 [1997]
  • VA - Essential Blues 3 (House Of Blues) CD1+CD2 [1999]

Each album features tracks from renowned artists within the respective genre, providing both long-time blues fans and newcomers an enjoyable and educational listening experience.

In summary, the House of Blues Essential Series is about celebrating and sharing the blues - a genre that has shaped and continues to influence music worldwide. Enjoy the journey through these blues compilations! (B)

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Track lists

Essential Blues (House Of Blues) [1995]

CD1

01 Stanley Bennett Clay - Intro 0:42

02 James Elmore - Dust My Blues 3:13

03 B.B. King - Three O'clock Blues 3:00

04 Howlin' Wolf - Killing Floor 3:14

05 Koko Taylor - Stop Watching Your Enemies 5:15

06 Junior Wells - Messin' With The Kid 2:22

07 Clarence 'gatemouth' Brown - Better Off With The Blues 4:26

08 Albert King - When You Walk Out The Door 4:19

09 Sonny Boy Williamson Ii - Don't Start Me Talkin' 2:56

10 Rufus Thomas - Blues In The Basement 4:16

11 Little Milton - Little Bluebird 6:31

12 Lightnin' Hopkins - Mojo Hand 3:46

13 Jimmy Reed - Big Boss Man 2:51

14 John Lee Hooker - Boogie Chillen 3:06

15 Bobby Bland - I'll Take Care Of You 2:24

16 Otis Spann - Otis In The Dark 4:35


CD2

01 Stanley Bennett Clay - Intro 0:21

02 Albert Collins - Master Charge 5:08

03 Koko Taylor - Mother Nature 4:42

04 Little Milton - Walking The Backstreets And Crying 6:47

05 Hound Dog Taylor - Give Me Back My Wig 3:35

06 James Brown - Prisoner Of Love 2:25

07 B.B. King - You Upset Me Baby 3:01

08 Latimore - Let's Straighten It Out 5:32

09 Albert King - I'll Play The Blues For You 7:15

10 Otis Spann - Must Have Been The Devil 2:40

11 John Lee Hooker - Dimples 2:12

12 Slim Harpo - Rainin' In My Heart 3:01

13 Fenton Robinson - The Getaway 3:18

14 Katie Webster - Too Much Sugar For A Dime 4:08

15 Jimmy Reed - Bright Lights, Big City 2:46

16 Junior Parker - Drivin' Wheel 2:36


Essential Blues 2 (House Of Blues) [1996]

CD1

01 Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy 5:26

02 John Lee Hooker - Boom, Boom 2:34

03 Howlin’ Wolf - Evil Is Goin' On 2:52

04 Bobby “blue” Bland - Turn On Your Love Light 2:39

05 Fenton Robinson - I Hear Some Blues Downstairs 4:16

06 Little Walter - Juke 2:44

07 Clifton Chenier - I'm A Hog For You Baby 3:42

08 Z.Z. Hill - I Need Someone 3:21

09 Albert King - Born Under A Bad Sign 2:51

10 Junior Wells - Hoodoo Man Blues 2:07

11 Son Seals - Figidaire Woman 5:09

12 Buddy Guy - A Man And The Blues 6:20

13 Otis Spann - Spann's Boogie Woogie 2:13

14 Lonnie Brooks - Sweet Home Chicago 5:48

15 James Brown - Messing With The Blues 2:12

16 Jimmy Reed - Baby What You Want Me To Do 2:22


CD2

01 Freddie King - Going Down 3:22

02 Albert Collins - I Ain't Drunk 4:09

03 Robert Cray - These Things 4:57

04 Elmore James - Shake Your Moneymaker 2:49

05 Magic Sam - All Of Your Love 3:49

06 James Cotton - High Compression 2:43

07 Sonny Boy Williamson - Help Me 3:10

08 Willie Dixon - I Ain't Superstitious 4:06

09 Koko Taylor - Wang Dang Doodle 4:55

10 Otis Rush - I Can't Quit You Baby 2:58

11 Muddy Waters - I Can't Be Satisfied 3:31

12 Slim Harpo - I'm A King Bee 3:05

13 Amos Milburn - Down The Road Apiece 3:00

14 Earl Hooker - Blue Guitar 2:42

15 B.B. King - Everyday I Have The Blues 2:47


Essential Blues 3 (House Of Blues) [1999]

CD1

01 Luther Allison - You Can't Always Get What You Want 4:38

02 Muddy Waters - Got My Mojo Working 2:53

03 Otis Rush - You Fired Yourself 4:28

04 Jimmy Rogers - Chicago Bound 2:16

05 Johnny Adams - Up And Down World 4:46

06 Magic Sam - I Need You So Bad 4:54

07 Corey Harris - Jinx Blues 3:18

08 Bobby Bland - Farther Up The Road 2:58

09 Sony Boy Williamson - I Don't Know 2:26

10 T Bone Walker - Call It Storny Monday 3:02

11 Little Walter - My Babe 2:42

12 Junior Wells - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction 5:53

13 John Lee Hooker - I'm In The Mood 2:45

14 R L Burnsside - Shake'em On Down 4:51

15 Mississippi John Hurt - Corrina Corrina 1:47


CD2

01 Robert Ward - Toehold 3:42

02 Lonnie Brooks - Voodoo Daddy 4:43

03 Little Milton - We're Gonna Make It 2:39

04 Robert Clay - Change Of Heart, Change Of Mind 3:47

05 Otis Spann - Keep Your Hands Out Of My Pocket 2:53

06 Alvin Youngblood Heart - Screamin' And Hollerin' The Blues 2:48

07 Jimmy Reed - You've Got Me Dizzy 2:54

08 Ruth Brown - I Don't Know 5:37

09 Lightin' Hopkins - Katie Mae 3:01

10 Maria Muldaur & Dr. John - Best Of Me 4:33

11 Robert Lockwood, Jr. - Driving Wheel 2:38

12 Professor Longhair - Go To The Mardi Gras 2:47

13 Taj Mahal - Honky Tonk Woman 4:42

14 Clarence 'gatemouth' Brown - C-Jam Blues 3:11

15 Charles Brown - Fool's Paradise 4:52

16 Junior Kimbrough - Meet Me In The City 6:49


Essential Blues Guitar (House Of Blues) [1997]

CD1

01 Snooks Eaglin - Josephine 6:07

02 Pee Wee Crayton - Do Unto Others 2:23

03 Matt Murphy - Buck's Boogie 4:33

04 Hubert Sumlin - Bring Your Love To Me 3:18

05 Otis Rush - Double Trouble 2:42

06 Big Jack Johnson - Catfish Blues 7:14

07 Robert Lockwood, Jr. & Otis Spann - Little Boy Blue 3:48

08 Albert Collins - Melt Down 4:05

09 Buddy Guy - First Time I Met The Blues 2:19

10 Muddy Waters - Rollin' And Tumblin' 3:00

11 Robert Nighthawk - Black Angel Blues 3:34

12 Hound Dog Taylor - Ain't Got Nobody 3:32

13 Lurrie Bell - Blues All Around Me 6:06

14 Magic Slim - 1823 S. Michigan Avenue 4:23

15 Mississippi Fred Mcdowell - Red Cross Store 4:04


CD2

01 The Robert Cray Band - Phone Booth 3:31

02 Earl Hooker - Blues In D Natural 2:13

03 T-Bone Walker - T-Bone Shuffle 2:58

04 Elmore James - The Ski Is Crying 2:49

05 B.B. King - The Thrill Is Gone 5:26

06 Roy Buchanan - When A Guitar Plays The Blues 6:39

07 Lowell Fulson - Sinners Prayer 2:55

08 Magic Sam - I Have The Same Old Blues 3:33

09 Jimmy Dawkins - Beetin Nockin Ringin 7:09

10 Robert Ward - Your Love Is Amazing 4:16

11 Albert King - Blues Power 3:12

12 Johnny Shines - Standing At The Crossroads 2:53

13 Guitar Slim - The Things That I Used To Do 3:02

14 Bo Diddley - Mumblin' Guitar 2:49

15 Big Joe Williams - I Got A Bad Mind 2:22

16 John Lee Hooker - Crawlin' King Snake 2:46

17 Eddie 'one String' Jones - Baby Please Don't Go 3:05


Essential Blues Harmonica (House Of Blues) [1997]

CD1

01 Charlie Musselwhite - The Blues Overtook Me 4:42

02 Frank Frost - Scratch My Back 4:11

03 Magic Dick & Jay Geils - The Jumpin’ Blues 5:13

04 Sonny Boy Williamson - Ninety Nine 2:39

05 William Clarke - Must Be Jelly 7:03

06 Billy Boy Arnold - I Wish You Would 2:41

07 Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters - My Home Is A Prison 5:15

08 Little Sonny - Wade In The Water 3:18

09 The Paul Delay Band - Why Can’t You Love Me 5:30

10 The Jimmy Cotton Blues Quartet - Cotton Crop Blues 2:20

11 Little Walter - I Just Keep Loving Her 2:53

12 Junior Wells’ Chicago Blues Band - It Hurts Me Too (When Things Go Wrong) 2:46

13 Willie Cobbs - New Slow Down Baby 3:31

14 Sonny Terry & Brownie Mcghee - Sonny’s Squall 3:46


CD2

01 Rod Piazza & The Mighty Flyers - The Bounce 3:06

02 Little Sammy Davis - I Ain’t Lyin’ 3:42

03 Snooky Pryor - Stick Way Out Behind 3:22

04 Jimmy Reed - Boogie In The Dark 2:36

05 Jazz Gillum - Gillum’s Windy Blues 2:27

06 Kim Wilson - Lowdown 4:39

07 Howlin’ Wolf - Sittin’ On Top Of The World 2:34

08 Carey Bell - Carey Bell’s Blues Harp 3:53

09 Little George Smith - Blues In The Dark 2:58

10 Big Walter Horton - Need My Baby 2:17

11 Sugar Blue - Little Red Rooster 6:30

12 Sonny Boy Williamson - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl 3:04

13 Raful Neal - Blues On The Moon 2:56

14 Louis Myers & The Aces - Just Wailin’ 2:44

15 Kenny Neal - Going To The Country 3:39

16 Big Leon Brooks - Sugar Mama 4:10

17 Junior Parker - Sweet Home Chicago 2:31


Essential Blues Piano (House Of Blues) [1997]

CD1

01 Big Maceo - Chicago Breakdown 2:57

02 Amos Milburn - Chicken Shack Boogie 2:50

03 Lafayette Leake - Slow Leake 3:02

04 Dr. John - Didn't He Ramble/Closer Walk With Thee 6:34

05 Otis Spann - Otis Blues 4:21

06 Roosevelt Sykes - Blues 2:43

07 Floyd Dixon - San Francisco Blues 3:02

08 Albert Ammons & Meade Lux Lewis - Twos And Fews 4:34

09 Professor Longhair - Willie Fugal's Blues 2:07

10 Pinetop Perkins - Going Down Slow 5:52

11 James Booker - Pop's Dilemma 3:30

12 Champion Jack Dupree - Sporting Life Blues 3:54

13 Robert Shaw - The Ma Grinder 4:13

14 Speckled Red - Four O'clock Blues 4:43

15 Skip James - All Night Long 2:55


CD2

01 Johnnie Johnson - Frances 4:12

02 Omar Shariff - The Rattler 3:05

03 Eddie Boyd - Got Lonesome Here 3:21

04 Piano Red - Atlanta Bounce 2:56

05 Booker T. Laury - Introduction To The Blues/That's All Right For You 7:03

06 Fats Domino - The Fat Man 2:39

07 Memphis Slim - Late Afternoon Blues 4:38

08 Detroit Junior - Your Family 3:33

09 Tuts Washington - Arkansas Blues 3:13

10 Blind John Davis - Bartender's Bounce 2:13

11 Whistlin’ Alex Moore - Going Back To Foggy Bottom 3:07

12 Sunnyland Slim - Johnson Machine Gun Blues 3:03

13 Katie Webster - C.Q. Boogie 2:40

14 Lloyd Glenn - Chia Boo 2:22

15 Hadda Brooks - Swingin' The Boogie 2:51

16 Little Brother Montgomery - Vicksburg Blues 3:14


Essential Chicago Blues (House Of Blues) [1997]

CD1

01 Otis Spann - It Must Have Been The Devil 3:47

02 Bo Diddley - Before You Accuse Me 3:06

03 Billy Boy Arnold - Don't Stay Out All Night 3:48

04 Otis Rush - All Your Love (I Miss Loving) 2:38

05 Little Walter - Sad Hours 3:11

06 Son Seals - On My Knees 4:58

07 Hound Dog Taylor - See Me In The Evening 5:06

08 Muddy Waters - Hoochie Coochie Man 2:46

09 J. B. Lenoir - Mama, Talk To Your Daughter 2:26

10 Buddy Guy - Sit And Cry (And Sing The Blues) 3:01

11 Carey Bell - Borrow Your Love 4:01

12 Koko Taylor - I Cried Like A Baby 5:15

13 Willie Mabon - I Don't Know 3:09

14 John Primer - Double Trouble 5:58

15 Sonny Boy Williamson - Born Blind 2:33

16 Eddie Boyd - Five Long Years 2:38


CD2

01 Willie Dixon - Spoonful 4:57

02 Junior Wells - Messin' With The Kid 2:17

03 Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightnin' 3:06

04 Pinetop Perkins - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie 3:20

05 Jimmy Reed - Hush Hush 2:37

06 Eddy Clearwater - Bad Dream 5:02

07 J. B. Hutto - Too Much Alcohol 2:31

08 Eddie C. Campbell - She's Nineteen Years Old 4:49

09 Magic Sam - I Don't Want No Woman 3:35

10 Jimmy Dawkins - Little Angel Child 3:57

11 Hubert Sumlin - Sitting On Top Of The World 4:18

12 Eddie Taylor - Bad Boy 2:58

13 James Cotton - Superharp 3:48

14 Earl Hooker - Anna Lee 6:30

15 Big John Wrencher - Maxwell Street Alley Blues 4:16


Essential Texas Blues (House Of Blues) 1997]

CD1

01 Kim Wilson - Baby Please Don't Lie To Me 3:02

02 Smokin' Joe Kubek - Comin' Home Today 2:48

03 Johnny Copeland - Everybody Wants A Piece Of Me 2:56

04 Albert Collins - Frosty 3:03

05 Anson Funderburgh & The Rockets Feat. Sam Myers - Changing Neighborhoods 5:42

06 Lou Ann Barton - Stop These Teardrops 4:09

07 T-bone Walker - I Want A Little Girl 5:06

08 Zuzu Bollin - Why Don't You Eat Where You Slept Last Night? 2:53

09 Long John Hunter - Nasty Ways 3:30

10 Freddie King - Love Her With A Feeling 5:03

11 Smokey Hogg - Little School Girl 2:31

12 Grady Gaines - There Is Something On Your Mind 4:43

13 Eddie “cleanhead” Vinson - Kidney Stew Blues 2:59

14 Robert Shaw - The Cows 4:02

15 Hop Wilson - Chicken Stuff 1:59


CD2

01 Johnny Winter - It's My Life, Baby 4:11

02 Angela Strehli - Go On 3:11

03 Tutu Jones - It's Been A Mistake 3:46

04 W.C. Clark - Why Do Things Happen To Me? 3:28

05 Big Mama Thornton - Ball N' Chain 4:32

06 Mance Lipscomb - Ella Speed 2:34

07 Lowell Fulson - Reconsider Baby 3:11

08 Pee Wee Crayton - Texas Hop 2:27

09 The Fabulous Thunderbirds - How Do You Spell Love? 2:20

10 Omar & The Howlers - Hard Times In The Land Of Plenty 3:55

11 Doyle Bramhall - Change It 3:00

12 Juke Boy Bonner - Going Back To The Country 2:57

13 Clarence “gatemouth” Brown - My Time Is Expensive 2:48

14 Joe "Guitar" Hughes - If You Want To See The Blues 4:32

15 Ivory Joe Hunter - I Feel So Good 2:40

16 Lightnin’ Hopkins - Tom Moore Blues 5:00


Essential Women In Blues (House Of Blues) [1997]

CD1

01 Marcia Ball, Angela Strehli & Lou Ann Barton - A Fool In Love 3:16

02 Koko Taylor - Jump For Joy 4:22

03 Big Time Sarah - I Don't Want No Man 4:05

04 Ida Cox - Wild Women Don't Have The Blues 3:17

05 Ruth Brown - If I Can't Sell It (I'll Keep Sittin' On It) 5:23

06 Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Trouble In Mind 2:34

07 Alberta Hunter - I Got Myself A Workin' Man 3:17

08 Candye Kane - No! I Ain't Gonna Let You Go 2:59

09 Lavelle White - Why Young Men Go Wild 3:32

10 Bessie Smith - Do Your Duty 3:25

11 Etta James - Good Rockin' Daddy 2:24

12 Lil Green - Why Don't You Do Right? 2:59

13 Saffire The Uppity Blues Women - I Want My Money Back 3:33

14 Victoria Spivey - Dirty Tee Bee Blues 3:08

15 Edith Wilson - Popa-Mama Blues 3:53


CD2

01 Michelle Willson - Better Left Unsaid 3:22

02 Katie Webster - Two-Fisted Mama 3:24

03 Big Maybelle - Gabbin' Blues 2:41

04 Becky Barksdale - Satisfy Me 4:48

05 Ma Rainey - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom 3:11

06 Sippie Wallace - Black Snake Blues 2:49

07 Dinah Washington - Evil Gal Blues 2:54

08 Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog 2:50

09 Nina Simone - I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl 2:32

10 Rory Block - The Spirit Returns 3:20

11 Mamie Smith - Crazy Blues 3:20

12 Francine Reed - One Monkey (Don't Stop No Show) 3:43

13 Hadda Brooks - That's My Desire 2:44

14 Blue Lu Barker - Don't You Feel My Leg 3:02

15 Memphis Minnie - Me And My Chauffeur Blues 2:49

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8 comments:

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    1. Glad that you found the ones you didn't have, lemonflag.
      Cheers.

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  2. Thanks BB - a nice cross section of artists, eras and regions.

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    1. Hi Dr Robert,
      Agreed. It's a nice set.
      Cheers.

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  3. Thanks Butterboy, the only one I didn't have was the Chicago Blues, I took a guess it would be in the second d/l folder, and bingo, there it was.

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    1. Hi Mob Mac.
      Glad you picked up the one that was missing.
      Cheers.

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  4. Thank you Mr Butterboy! very enjoyable to have all these compils in a MP3 format

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