The secret weapon of the disc is Otis Spann. How cool is it to strike gold every time you go digging?!!! Everything I picked up in the stores or via mail order was something new and incredible that made me want to hear more music just like it. Now, as you look over that list of artists, you'd be hard-pressed to think of any bad releases from any of them. There were also usually several albums from Alligator Records (Albert Collins, Son Seals, Lonnie Brooks, Johnny Winter, Lonnie Mack) and Hightone (Robert Cray, Joe Louis Walker, Otis Rush) and Rounder or Black Top Records (Johnny Copeland, Roomful of Blues, Ronnie Earl, Duke Robillard). King, of course, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, maybe some Lightnin' Hopkins or John Lee Hooker on the traditional side, then you had Bobby Bland, Little Milton, Lattimore, Johnnie Taylor, Denise LaSalle, and Bobby Rush on the soul side. At the time, most blues sections in record stores consisted of about two rows of LPs, CDs, or cassettes, and most of those selections were from familiar names.B. One of the neat things about starting a blues collection when I did in the mid 80's was that there was very little chance of making an unwise investment.
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