EDITORIAL REVIEWS
A little over a hundred years ago in the Mississippi Delta, America gave birth to the music which would become the cornerstone of all popular American music: the blues. The blues has survived through one musical era after another. As it enters its second century, the blues message remains timeless. A music created by a poor, oppressed, uneducated, regionalized minority may now be the most universal music of all.

This definitive collection brings together 38 stone classics by the greatest blues masters of all time, including Charley Patton, B.B. King, Howlin Wolf, and John Lee Hooker, among many others. It also serves as a the companion to Blues Story, the PBS special and DVD. Blues Story is the ultimate blues collection, featuring the best and most important blues recordings of all time, licensed from a variety of key blues record labels.