The Best of the Blues: The 101 Essential Blues Albums

About this book

Robert Santelli is the Director of Education at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Author helped compile the Rock and Roll Hall of Fames infamous list 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll. The blues is enjoying a strong resurgence; more people are listening to and buying blues music than ever before and they have a lot of music now to choose from. Helping to sort out the confusion acclaimed rock critic and blues expert Robert Santelli has compiled a list of the 101 most important blues albums the works which are absolutely indispensable to a blues library. No one can argue with the effort and dedication with which Santelli has gone about his task. Each entry contains a thoroughly annotated discography with facts and dates as well as meaty descriptions that place the albums in historical and artistic context.