Otis Rush Lowell Fulson Lightnin Hopkins CD - The Incredible El - 030206108828

Unlike most of the countless blues anthologies on the market, 'The Incredible Electric Blues Guitar Album' delivers on its promise, and then some. Its 15 vintage tracks, many of them rare and all of them irreplaceable, spotlight a dazzling array of guitar greats: Chicago legends Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, Magic Sam, Robert Jr. Lockwood, Andrew Brown, and Fenton Robinson; slide specialists Elmore James, Earl Hooker, and Homesick James; Texas masters Lightnin' Hopkins, Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown, and Albert Collins, West Coast Mainstay Lowell Fulson, gymnastic showman Guitar Shorty, and the perpetually brilliant Ike Turner. The archives of several important labels have been carefully culled for the compilation: Chicago-based Cobra/Artistic, JOB, USA, AGE/Chief/Profile, an array of tiny but titanic Texas firms, and Stan Lewis' Shreveport-based Jewel/Paula Records all contribute seminal sides to the program. One listen and you'll know this is an electric blues guitar collection that fully lives up to its billing: it's incredible.