For the record collector who traces American music back to its Mississippi Delta roots and knows that the blues never really left the jam world's vocabulary.
The collection runs 120 titles deep. Susan Tedeschi's Live From Austin, TX is here as an exclusive color vinyl 2xLP on New West Records, alongside her early breakthrough Just Won't Burn on standard black vinyl from Concord. North Mississippi Allstars appear more than once: Up and Rolling on a Smoke and Sea Glass Swirl pressing and Still Shakin' in two editions, including a Signed Silver LP and an Autographed Opaque Red pressing. Luther Dickinson's Blues and Ballads, A Folksinger's Songbook, Volumes I and II arrives as a Metallic Gold 2xLP on New West, and his Rock 'n Roll Blues is pressed on Translucent Green vinyl. The Taj Mahal Sextet's Swingin' Live at the Church in Tulsa is a Translucent Gold 2xLP capturing one of the form's great live performers. Dr. John's Solo Piano Live In New Orleans 1984 is a 180-gram pressing that puts the Professor alone at the keys. Albert King's Born Under a Bad Sign is in as a 180-gram reissue on Craft Recordings, and Muddy Waters' Hoochie Coochie Man: Live At The Rising Sun Celebrity Jazz Club is a 2xLP RSD edition on Justin Time Records. The compilation The Music Never Stopped: Roots of the Grateful Dead on Shanachie connects the Dead's source material directly to this shelf.
Why buy from Relix
Relix has covered the Grateful Dead, Phish, and the wider roots and jam world since 1974, which means blues has been part of the conversation from the beginning. The store's Sessions series extends that editorial sensibility into what we stock: pressings chosen because the music and the format both matter. We are not a general marketplace. The titles here reflect decades of paying attention to where American music comes from and who is still carrying it forward.
All records in this collection are new and sealed. Pre-order titles display a street date and ship when the label releases them. Vinyl orders ship in protective packaging built for LPs.
If this shelf has you thinking about other corners of the catalog, the Live Vinyl Albums and Records collection pulls together concert pressings across genres, and the Jazz Vinyl Records collection covers the territory that sits closest to the blues on the American music map.