3-CD Digipak (8-plated) with 172-page booklet, 70 tracks. Total playing time approx. 221 mns

Part Threeof the most comprehensive history EVER of electrified blues on 12 electrifying CDs!

Every significant artist ... every significant recording from the 1930s to the present day, including T-Bone Walker, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, George Thorogood, and Freddie, B. B. and Albert King, Jeff Beck, Fleetwood Mac, Charlie Musselwhite, Johnny Winter, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, and literally hundreds more! In all, fifteen-and-a-half hours!

Compiled and annotated by renowned blues expert, Bill Dahl.

Every 3-CD set comes with a 160-page booklet including biographies, illustrations, original release info, and rare photos!

Cross-licensed from every record company to be truly comprehensive!

Blues historian and musicologist, Bill Dahl from Chicago, has produced the most comprehensive history of electric blues ... ever! With nearly 300 tracks, Bear Family Records is telling the story from the beginning into the new millennium. In the 1930s, the invention of Gibson's ES-150 - the first electric guitar - changed popular music forever. The first generation of blues pioneers played acoustic instruments, but with the invention of amplification, guitar and harmonica players could be heard over the piano, drums and horns. Music was revolutionized!

The 12 generously full CDs are in four sets of three CDs in elegant digipaks. On more than 650 pages in four lavishly illustrated booklets, Bill Dahl writes authoritatively about the history of electric blues, and how it influenced rock music during the 1960s and beyond. Here's the complete story from jazz-inspired jump numbers in the late 1930s to hard-driving blues/rock from the States and Great Britain in the 1960s, '70s, and beyond. The journey closes with today's contemporary blues. This is it! Truly definitive! Done as only Bear Family can do it!

Track Listing

• Rush, Otis - So Many Roads, So Many Trains
• Guy, Buddy - First Time I Met The Blues
• Reed, Jimmy - Big Boss Man
• King, Freddy - Hide Away
• King, Freddy - Have You Ever Loved A Woman
• Wells, Junior - Messin' With the Kid
• Bland, Bobby - I Pity The Fool
• King, Earl - Come On (Parts 1 & 2)
• Thomas, Kid - Rockin' This Joint To-nite
• James, Elmore - Shake Your Moneymaker
• James, Betty - I'm A Little Mixed Up
• Parker, Junior - Driving Wheel
• Willie Perryman Interns - Doctor Feelgood
• Hooker, John Lee - Boom Boom
• Parker, Bobby - Watch Your Step
• Cobbs, Willie - You Don't Love Me
• Allen, Ricky - Cut You A-Loose
• Frost, Frank - Jelly Roll King
• Diddley, Bo - You Can't Judge A Book By Looking At The Cover
• Kittrell, Christine - I'm A Woman
• Williamson, Sonny Boy - Help Me
• Fortune, Jesse - Too Many Cooks
• Taylor, Little Johnny - Part Time Love
• Howlin' Wolf - Hidden Charms
• Davis, James - Blue Monday

• Tucker, Tommy - Hi-Heel Sneakers
• Lee, Little Frankie & the Saxtons - Full Time Lover
• King, B. B. - Rock Me Baby
• Shaw, Timmy - Gonna Send You Back To Georgia
• DeSanto, Sugar Pie - Use What You Got
• Howlin' Wolf - Killing Floor
• Thomas, Rufus - All Night Worker
• Wells, Junior - Snatch It Back And Hold It
• Harpo, Slim - Baby Scratch My Back
• Taylor, Koko - Wang Dang Doodle
• Little Milton - Feel So Bad
• Taylor, Johnnie - Little Bluebird
• Pickett, Wilson - Mustang Sally
• King, Albert - Crosscut Saw
• John, Mable - You're Taking Up Another Man's Place
• Fulsom, Lowell - Tramp
• Franklin, Aretha - Dr. Feelgood (Love Is A Serious Business)
• King, Albert - Born Under A Bad Sign
• James, Etta - I'd Rather Go Blind
• Guy, Buddy - Mary Had A Little Lamb
• Carter, Clarence - Slip Away
• Rhodes, Sonny - One Of These Days
• Davis, Tyrone - A Woman Needs To Be Loved
• Magic Sam - What Have I Done Wrong
• Leavy, Calvin - Cummins Prison Farm

• Hawkins, Ronnie - Who Do You Love
• Mack, Lonnie - Baby What's Wrong
• Winter, Johnny - Gangster Of Love
• Animals, The - The House Of The Rising Sun
• Mann, Manfred - Bring It To Jerome
• Bloomfield, Michael - Going Down Slow
• Pretty Things, The - Judgement Day
• Yardbirds, The - I Ain't Got You
• Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Born In Chicago
• John Mayall's Blues Breakers - Have You Heard
• Hammond, John - I Can Tell
• Charlie Musselwhite's South Side Band - Baby Will You Please Help Me
• The Spencer Davis Group - Stevie's Blues
• Ten Years After - I Want To Know
• Brown, Savoy - Shake 'm On Down
• Taj Mahal - She Caught The Katy (And Left Me A Mule To Ride)
• Canned Heat - On The Road Again
• Big Brother & the Holding Company - Ball And Chain
• Fleetwood Mac - Black Magic Woman
• The Jeff Beck Group - Ain't Superstitious

Additional Details

Label: Bear Family Records

Genre: Blues

Run Time: 221 mins

Release Date: 06/18/21

UPC: 4000127169235