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Various Artists - Blues Masters, Volume 7: Blues Revival

Track listing:
  1. Baby What You Want Me To Do Jimmy Reed 2:24
  2. Three Aces On the Bottom Lightnin' Hopkins, Sonny Terry & Brownie Mcghee 6:44
  3. Candy Man Mississippi John Hurt 2:56
  4. Fannin Street Dave Snaker Ray 5:04
  5. Write Me A Few Lines Mississippi Fred Mcdowell 3:37
  6. Death Letter Son House 4:22
  7. Boom Boom John Lee Hooker 2:33
  8. Got My Mojo Working Muddy Waters 4:11
  9. Born In Chicago Paul Butterfield Blues Band 3:04
  10. Good Morning Schoolgirl Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band 3:55
  11. The Blues Never Die Otis Spann 3:43
  12. Baby Scratch My Back Slim Harpo 2:54
  13. Coming Home To You Baby Sonny Boy Williamson 4:04
  14. The Death Of J. B. Lenoir John Mayall's Blues Breakers 4:14
  15. On The Road Again Canned Heat 3:14
  16. Blues Power Albert King 10:14
  17. The Thrill Is Gone B.B. King 5:25

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Blues Masters Volume 07 - Blues Revival

It's hard to believe from the vantage point of a period when blues songs are used for network television commercials, but it wasn't so long ago that the blues was, though hardly in danger of extinction, certainly limited to a pretty specialized audience. The blues revival of the early '60s brought the music back into the spotlight through its prominence at major folk festivals and college concerts, the rediscovery of lost legends like Skip James and Mississippi John Hurt, and the efforts of several musicians and record labels to popularize the work of the form's originators. Blues Revival covers a lot of these bases. This 17-track collection includes some of the biggest hit blues singles of the '60s (by Jimmy Reed, John Lee Hooker, Slim Harpo, and B.B. King), '60s recordings by acoustic Delta blues giants like Mississippi Fred McDowell and Son House, hot electric Chicago blues by Junior Wells and Muddy Waters, and white, rock-oriented revivalists like Paul Butterfield, John Mayall, and Canned Heat. Seasoned collectors won't find anything too obscure here, but it's a handy primer to some of the best blues recorded during an era in which the idiom reestablished itself as a vital and living form.