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ARTIST
TITLE
Blues: A Celebration Through Ten Masterpieces
FORMAT
10CD BOX

LABEL
CATALOG #
OXY 031-40CD OXY 031-40CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
7/13/2018

A massive ten-CD box set spanning from the deep of the Mississippi Delta, through various country blues traditions such as Piedmont, Louisiana, and Texas up to the core of the Chicago sound. An extensive exploration of the rise of the blues and its influence on the today's global music and culture. The transformation of the blues idiom following the path traced by a selection of cornerstone recordings. From Robert Johnson, Blind Boy Fuller, and Leadbelly's seminal voices, through the classic sound of Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, and B.B. King till the electric revolution of Howlin' Wolf, Buddy Guy, and Junior Wells.

Features: B.B. King - Blues In My Heart (1963); Blind Boy Fuller - Greatest Hits 1935-1938 (2017); Buddy Guy/Junior Wells - Chicago Blues Festival (2000); Howlin' Wolf - Big City Blues (1962); Leadbelly - Take This Hammer (1965); Lightnin' Hopkins - Lightnin' Strikes (1966); Little Walter - Best Of Little Walter (1957); Muddy Waters - At Newport (1960); Robert Johnson - King Of The Delta Blues (1961); Willie Dixon & Memphis Slim - Willie's Blues (1960).