Ich bevorzuge auch akustischen (generell älteren) Blues, deshalb mal folgende Empfehlungen (nicht ganz so eng gesehen, d.h. mit Country Blues etc.):
Blind Willie Johnson
Various Artists – Anthology of American Folk Music
Mississippi John Hurt
Various Artists – American Primitive Vol. I: Raw Pre-War Gospel (1926-36)
Various Artists – American Primitive Vol. II: Pre-War Revenants (1897-1939)
Dock Boggs
Skip James
Mississippi Fred McDowell
Washington Phillips
Bessie Smith
Blind Willie McTell
Lil Johnson
Bukka White
Leadbelly
Memphis Minnie
Robert Pete Williams
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Barbecue Bob
Arizona Dranes
Charley Patton
Rev. Utah Smith & Lonnie Farris
Alberta Hunter
Ma Rainey
Various Artists – Oh, Run Into Me, But Don’t Hurt Me! (Female Blues Singers – Rarities 1923-1930
Various Artists – Baby, How Can It Be? Songs of Love, Lust and Contempt From the 1920s and 1930s
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