The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings

A one-of-a-kind new guide to recorded blues

This informative, insightful, and easy-to-use A-Z guide surveys the recorded work of more than a thousand blues artists. From towering figures of the past like Charley Patton, Bessie Smith, and Robert Johnson to stars of the modern era such as B. B. King, Buddy Guy, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, this valuable resource provides crisp, expert, and witty reviews of almost six thousand recordings and is required reading for blues aficionados as well as anyone just starting a collection.

• Author
• Tony Russell, Chris Smith, Neil Slaven, Ricky Russell, Joe Faulkner

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 1008

• Publisher
• Penguin Books

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-14-051384-4

• EAN
• 9780140513844

• Genres
• music, reference, history

• Release date
• 2006