For the listener who reaches for a CD when the music matters more than the format debate: this page collects 201 blues titles spanning Delta primitives, Chicago electric, British invasion blues, and the working road bands still carrying the tradition forward.
The selection runs wide. Mississippi John Hurt's 1928 Sessions sits near Muddy Waters' London Sessions and Albert King's Born Under a Bad Sign. Joe Bonamassa's live set The Spirit of Rory Live From Cork and Albert King's Live Fabulous Forum 1972 represent the form at full volume. Taj Mahal and the Phantom Blues Band appear with Time, John Mayall with The Sun is Shining Down, and Elvin Bishop with 100 Years Of Blues on Alligator Records. Fleetwood Mac's three-disc Before The Beginning: Live 1968-1970 documents the band in its original blues configuration. Paul Butterfield's Live At Rockpalast 1978 and Canned Heat's Songs from the Road round out the live side, while Van Morrison's What's It Gonna Take? and the Boneshakers' Pull Up the Roots keep the present tense well covered.
Why buy from Relix
Relix has covered the blues and the wider roots world since 1974, which means the people selecting titles for this store have been paying attention for a long time. We carry the Relix Sessions series, live recordings produced by Relix and pressed to vinyl on the Relix Vinyl label, alongside releases from Alligator, Craft Recordings, Thirty Tigers, Rockbeat, and the other labels doing the work. Nothing here is filler. If it is in the store, someone at Relix thought it belonged.
Every CD in this collection is new and sealed. Pre-order titles show a street date on the product page and ship when the label releases them. CDs ship in protective packaging.
If you are browsing beyond this page, the store carries Blues Vinyl Records for the same artists on wax, a broader CDs Straight from the Vault collection across all genres, and the full Alligator Records catalog in every format. Live recordings across formats are gathered at Live Vinyl Albums and Records.