Blues: Prewar Blues

(See a text list of all Blues: Prewar Blues albums.)

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Editor's Picks (see more)

KALLY PRICE AND THE LAZYBIRDS: If You Like Good Cookin'. . .
A mixture of tight swing, sultry jazz, old country, and barrelhouse blues (eg: Billie Holliday, Big Bill Broonzy, Hank Williams Sr., Memphis Minnie, Bessie Smith).
CD price: $15.00
ASYLUM STREET SPANKERS: Spanks For the Memories
This is the one that started it all. Recorded to one microphone in an old pink house in East Austin, this debut album features the classic line-up that took the city by storm: Christina, Wammo, Guy, Stanley, Pops, John, Kevin, Jimmie Dean, Oliver and Josh
CD price: $13.49
BILL MCQUAID: Love Changing Blues
Modern Roots-Americana versions of Piedmont blues, ragtime, and saucy parlor music from the 20's and 30's
CD price: $12.00
DAVID CHEN AND THE MUDDY BASIN RAMBLERS: David Chen And The Muddy Basin Ramblers
Jug band music, swingin' blues, early jazz of the 20s and 30s, hillybilly stompin'; breathing new life into the sounds of early 20th Century American music
CD price: $13.99
KM WILLIAMS: The Resurrection of Blind Willie and Old Time Spirituals
Old Time Gospel Blues/Spirituals in the Style of Blind Willie Johnson,Rev. Pearly Brown or Mississippi Fred McDowell
CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
ERNIE HAWKINS: Rags and Bones
Vintage Guitar: "Fingerstylist Ernie Hawkins is one of the great joys of guitar" Blues Revue: "In a musical climate that seems increasingly narrow and impersonal, it's refreshing to encounter a CD guided solely by principles of artistic conviction."
CD price: $14.99
WILDSANG: SKY DIRT SPEAK OUT TRUTH
WILDSANG speaks the truth of the blues from the core of the cellular memory of the American Experience & delivers songs chock full of almost all the sweat, grit, tragedy, desperation, bare truth, deep love & sacrifice you can squeeze out of the blues.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
KM WILLIAMS: Reverend of Texas Country Blues
Texas Country Blues in the styles of Blind Lemon Jefferson, Robert Johnson & Blind Willie Johnson, this album has received critical acclaim in Blues Revue,Living Blues & Southwest Blues Magazine. If You Like the Texas Country Blues & Spirituals;like this.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
PHIL THORNE: You Don't Know My Mind
Acoustic Blues in the Pre-War Style.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
THE PECULIAR PRETZELMEN: Uncanny Eyes
Old-timey, stomping, hollering, fire and brimstone, 6 feet deep, bloody roots medicine music.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $11.00

New Arrivals (see more)

KM WILLIAMS: Cries From the Soul
Old School Texas Country Blues & Spirituals with the Boogie of Mississippi Hill Country and The Soul of Delta Blues
CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
BILL MCQUAID: Love Changing Blues
Modern Roots-Americana versions of Piedmont blues, ragtime, and saucy parlor music from the 20's and 30's
CD price: $12.00
DAVID CHEN AND THE MUDDY BASIN RAMBLERS: David Chen And The Muddy Basin Ramblers
Jug band music, swingin' blues, early jazz of the 20s and 30s, hillybilly stompin'; breathing new life into the sounds of early 20th Century American music
CD price: $13.99
PHIL THORNE: You Don't Know My Mind
Acoustic Blues in the Pre-War Style.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
KALLY PRICE AND THE LAZYBIRDS: If You Like Good Cookin'. . .
A mixture of tight swing, sultry jazz, old country, and barrelhouse blues (eg: Billie Holliday, Big Bill Broonzy, Hank Williams Sr., Memphis Minnie, Bessie Smith).
CD price: $15.00
THE PECULIAR PRETZELMEN: Uncanny Eyes
Old-timey, stomping, hollering, fire and brimstone, 6 feet deep, bloody roots medicine music.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $11.00
ASYLUM STREET SPANKERS: Spanks For the Memories
This is the one that started it all. Recorded to one microphone in an old pink house in East Austin, this debut album features the classic line-up that took the city by storm: Christina, Wammo, Guy, Stanley, Pops, John, Kevin, Jimmie Dean, Oliver and Josh
CD price: $13.49
KM WILLIAMS: The Resurrection of Blind Willie and Old Time Spirituals
Old Time Gospel Blues/Spirituals in the Style of Blind Willie Johnson,Rev. Pearly Brown or Mississippi Fred McDowell
CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
ERNIE HAWKINS: Rags and Bones
Vintage Guitar: "Fingerstylist Ernie Hawkins is one of the great joys of guitar" Blues Revue: "In a musical climate that seems increasingly narrow and impersonal, it's refreshing to encounter a CD guided solely by principles of artistic conviction."
CD price: $14.99
MARY FLOWER: Bywater Dance
Funky and folky, bluesy and beautiful - sometimes sounds like Memphis Minnie fronting the Hot Five. But though she can recreate prewar blues with the best of them, Mary Flower isn't content to be just another curator of the classic blues museum.
CD price: $13.49

Top Sellers (see more)

ERNIE HAWKINS: Rags and Bones
Vintage Guitar: "Fingerstylist Ernie Hawkins is one of the great joys of guitar" Blues Revue: "In a musical climate that seems increasingly narrow and impersonal, it's refreshing to encounter a CD guided solely by principles of artistic conviction."
CD price: $14.99
KM WILLIAMS: Reverend of Texas Country Blues
Texas Country Blues in the styles of Blind Lemon Jefferson, Robert Johnson & Blind Willie Johnson, this album has received critical acclaim in Blues Revue,Living Blues & Southwest Blues Magazine. If You Like the Texas Country Blues & Spirituals;like this.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
KM WILLIAMS: The Return Of Brother Lemon
Old Style Texas Country Blues, Boogie and Spirituals with Contemporary Feel.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
KM WILLIAMS: Sanctified Boogie
Texas Country Blues & Boogie in the styles of John Lee Hooker,Elmore James, Lightnin Hopkins & Hound Dog Taylor. If You like old school Country Blues & Boogie; this CD is for You...
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
MARY FLOWER: Bywater Dance
Funky and folky, bluesy and beautiful - sometimes sounds like Memphis Minnie fronting the Hot Five. But though she can recreate prewar blues with the best of them, Mary Flower isn't content to be just another curator of the classic blues museum.
CD price: $13.49
KM WILLIAMS: The Resurrection of Blind Willie and Old Time Spirituals
Old Time Gospel Blues/Spirituals in the Style of Blind Willie Johnson,Rev. Pearly Brown or Mississippi Fred McDowell
CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
KM WILLIAMS: Blind Willie's Hymns
Old Style Texas Spirituals and Hymns done in the Style of the Great Blind Willie Johnson.
CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
KALLY PRICE AND THE LAZYBIRDS: If You Like Good Cookin'. . .
A mixture of tight swing, sultry jazz, old country, and barrelhouse blues (eg: Billie Holliday, Big Bill Broonzy, Hank Williams Sr., Memphis Minnie, Bessie Smith).
CD price: $15.00
KM WILLIAMS: Texas Country Blues Preacher
Raw,gutbucket Texas Country Blues & Spirituals
CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
THE PECULIAR PRETZELMEN: Uncanny Eyes
Old-timey, stomping, hollering, fire and brimstone, 6 feet deep, bloody roots medicine music.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $11.00