Type: Acoustic and Blues: Country Blues
ARCHIE EDWARDS BLUES HERITAGE FOUNDATION: Don't You Weep and Moan
Acoustic blues -- 21 cuts from 27 D.C. musicians who jammed at Archie Edwards old Barbershop in N.E. D.C.
Recommended if you like archie edwards.CD price: $14.97
JERRY KOSAK: Many Dances
Sounds like Segovia playing the music of Robert Johnson while thinking about Leo Kottke.
CD price: $13.97 / MP3 price: $13.97
BLUE ISLAND TRIO: Beachglass
Country blues / jazz / bluegrass / steel guitar instrumental music / weissenborn / dobro / lap steel
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
THE WIYOS: Porcupine
Acoustic trio playing original and vintage country blues, ragtime, swing, and old time americana
CD price: $15.00
HANS THEESSINK: Songs from the Southland
Theessink has been enthralled with the blues for forty years and now has 18 albums to his credit. This album is dedicated to Alan Lomax, and covers an array of country blues and other Southern songs, plus one original.
CD price: $16.00
ADAM POPE & THE REBEL ROOTS: Bury Me In Tennessee
It's raw, it's earthy, and it breaths. It's rich with unpolished but energetic sounds of yesteryear. From fast-paced, dirty rockabilly numbers, to tender country ballads, there's a traveling, troubled hobo theme.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
CHARLIE ZULU PROJECT: Riverstones
Made up of melancholy tunes that reflect an infantry soldier's accounts of heartache, war, addiction and redemption.
Recommended if you like Jackson Browne.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
HUNTER ROBERTSON: Sings Songs for the Masses
Ranging from old-time clawhammer banjo to end-of-the-world blues – with an occasional foray into playing a one-man band when a snare drum and kazoo present themselves – this follows in the steps of the great players of the past, without slavish imitation.
MP3 price: $12.00
THE NEW LIFE: Old Dirt Road
For indie kids and rowdy whiskey drinkers alike, they have a genuine, youthful sound, sometimes dominated by a distinct southern, front-porch vibe and at other times, an intricate and serene mood takes over.
Recommended if you like Ryan Adams, Dustin Kensrue.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
JARED KAROL: Ode To Byerley
Country blues, ragtime and folk fingerstyle guitar
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
RED CLAY RIVER: Too Poor To Die
The sounds of ghosts, moonshine and poor souls. Red Clay River incorporates Applachian, Southern Gothic and Delta Blues into an energetic mix of foot-stompin' and hollerin' out for salvation.
CD price: $9.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
SAM LAMONT: Sam Lamont
Eleven original songs with acoustic guitar, mandolin, banjo and warm, rich vocal harmonies inspired by gravel roads and love lost.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
LEROY JODIE PIERSON: Country Blues
"Leroy is really one of the very best bluesmen I've ever played with, and I've played with most of the greats. Guys like.Sonny Boy Williamson, Robert Johnson and Roosevelt Sykes. Leroy is up there with those greats." HENRY TOWNSEND
CD price: $15.00
THE PARDONERS: The Pardoners
The Pardoners draw on their roots and break the boundaries with their unique vocal and guitar blend to produce high-energy original acoustic music.
CD price: $14.97 / MP3 price: $14.97
ADAM TANNER: Sure As You're Born
Acoustic Country Blues with vocals, guitar, fiddle, mandolin, harmonica and washboard
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
LZ LOVE & LIGHTNING RED: Gut Bucket Blues stumpdown acoustic
Highly acclaimed live duo acoustic americana/blues CD of great original songs (with a Willie Dixon, and a Jimmy Reed songs thrown in for good measure) in Texas and on tour. YOU WILL LOVE THIS CD.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
CARY HUDSON: Bittersweet Blues
Country Blues and Folk with a Deep South Vibe
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
JOOK BOURKE: Just A Minute
Contemporary acoustic blues singer/songwriter: Fingerstyle guitar, harmonica drums, rich vocals and lyrics. sophisticated twist on traditional acoustic blues.
Recommended if you like Eric Clapton, Keb' Mo'.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
BRENNON JOHN: Babbling Beasts
If Mississippi John Hurt was doing an imitation of Tom Waits singing a song written by Robert Johnson for Bob Dylan.
CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $7.00
ALAN WEST BROCKMAN: Bullshit, Ballads, & Beer Drinkin'
Country Blues
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
EAST RIVER STRING BAND: East River String Band
East River String Band plays old timey Delta/Ragtime Country blues.if you like jug band style music-you will like this CD.
BARBARA HEALY/ TIM DANFORTH: Lullabies For A Troubled Planet
Original acoustic music with rich blend of blues, folk, country blues, and gospel, sung by one of the Pacific Northwest's finest blues singers.
CD price: $13.99 / MP3 price: $13.99
JAKE SPEED: The Cincinnati Legends of Jeremiah Schmidt
Original American folk, country blues, and bluegrass with traditional-based melodies and arrangements.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
ERNIE HAWKINS: Blues Advice
A real smorgasbord of traditional country blues, by one of the best fingerpickers around. Done as a 100th birthday tribute to his mentor, Rev, Gary Davis, you get three unrecorded Davis pieces, along with some Skip James, Blake, McTell, Son House, Jesse T
CD price: $14.99
OLE ASK: Still Fallin'
Ole Ask - Rock,Blues,Folk,Country
Recommended if you like Joe Cocker, Bruse Springsteen.CD price: $12.97
DAVIS COEN: Cryin' the Blues
Acoustic country-style blues mixed with singer-songwriter ballads.
CD price: $11.97 / MP3 price: $10.97
PHIL THORNE: You Don't Know My Mind
Acoustic Blues by "a master of the genre"
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
PHOLKSINGER JOSH: Southern Dirt
The overall sound of the record is definitively "gangsta folk" rooted in folk, country, blues, hip-hop and spoken-word poetry. Don't be surprised to find talkin' blues, poetry, political songs, love songs, and rampant harmonica/kazoo solos.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
OLD TIME COUNTRY & BLUES REVUE: 'Nuff Said
Old time country and blues & original songs in those styles.
CD price: $12.97
REDWING: The Simple Truth
This is a mixture of covers of folk, rock and blues songs popular in the 60's & 70's.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
OLD TIME COUNTRY & BLUES REVUE: 'Nuff Said
Old time country and blues & original songs in those styles.
MP3 price: $12.97
PHYL SHERIDAN: Sand In My Last Hourglass
Country Blues in the style of Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee or Mississippi John Hurt.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
CROSS TIMBERS: Don't Play No Slow Songs!
Some have called it the Honkey-Grass Blues.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $7.00
JOHNSON, MILLER & DERMODY: Deceiving Blues
Acoustic Country Blues played by three masters singing and backing themselves on harmonica, guitar, and mandolin, dobro or rubboard.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
ORVILLE JOHNSON: Blueprint for the Blues
Orville Johnson's version of the country blues, dedicated to the masters that he learned from and including several classic blues as well as his own compositions
CD price: $16.00 / MP3 price: $16.00
THE BERGMANN BROTHERS: Fine Artiste
This eclectic recording is the Bergmann Brothers at their finest, performing a wonderful variety of old time and old country blues instrumentals and vocals. With Tina Bergmann on hammered dulcimer, guitar and vocals, Bryan Thomas on bass and David Rice o
CD price: $15.00
CRUSH COLLISION TRIO: Crush Collision Trio
Crush Collision Trio performs country blues and traditional music from the 20's and 30's with Guitar, Mandolin, and Washboard.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
NEIL HARPE: Neil Harpe
Country blues in the style of the 1920s. Musical influences include Charley Patton, John Hurt, Willie McTell, Memphis Minnie and Blind Blake.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
CARL SLACK: Turning The Worm
Carl Slack delivers rocking country blues music with acoustic slide guitar.
Recommended if you like Robert Johnson, B.B. King & Eric Clapton.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
BEN WILLIS: The Lighter Side Of Poverty
Trailer park Folk music. A combination of acoustic humor and epic story telling brought down to a lower level so that we can all identify with it.
CD price: $11.95 / MP3 price: $7.95
ORVILLE JOHNSON, JOHN CEPHAS, AND WOODY MANN: Together in Las Vegas
Cephas, Mann, and Johnson are living masters of acoustic country blues and this CD is a once in a lifetime chance to hear them demonstrate their gifts.
CD price: $16.00 / MP3 price: $16.00
DEVON ALVES: four directions
down home, backporch style. plays a beat up 1930 national, plays some piano too. country blues mixed with the funk. some times sounds like those old tom waits albums you found in your parents trunk. sometimes sounds like that old cowboy up in the mountain
Recommended if you like Mississippi John Hurt.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
DANA HUBBARD: Livin' Live
exellent acoustic guitar drawing on celtic, blues and world root influences with great vocals supporting very literate songwriting, this is very much a thinking person's country blues, if it's a "country" that knows no borders or bounderies.
Recommended if you like Patty Larkin, Keller Williams.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
ROBIN O'HERIN: Red, White and Blues
Rootsy, acoustic, bottleneck blues and gospel full of heart, and original songs done in the country blues tradition. O'Herin keeps things appealingly bluesy, due in no small part to her accomplished fingerpicking and bottleneck playing.
Recommended if you like Mississippi John Hurt, Rory Block.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
LITTLE DOC THORNTON: Hurricane
Country blues played on acoustic and resonator guitars along with harmonica and vocals.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
