Junior Kimbrough

The long-undiscovered bluesman did not record Sad Days until 1993, but don't let that fool you. This blues is real, and it's about the only "modern" blues that doesn't sound like it was recorded by Dan Aykroyd. Kimbrough's fevered, throbbing tunes twist and turn repeatedly, hypnotically driving grooves wrought with menace and uncertainty into the ground.

Arguably the greatest bluesman alive, Buddy Guy proves unstoppable. Recording half of
Slippin' In with his own Chicago band and Chuck Berry's piano ace Johnnie Johnson, he
then turns loose with Stevie Ray Vaughan's former backup band, Double Trouble. Guitarists
from Clapton to Van Halen have marveled at Guy's Strat work (check the full-bore workout,
"7-11"); if anything, his singing ("Please Don't Drive Me Away," "Cities Need Help") i... More >