Best of the Blues : The 101 Essential Albums
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 Fame's 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.