Artist: VA
Title Of Album: Blues Masters – The Essential Blues Collection Vol.1-15
Year Of Release: 1993
Label: Rhino Records
Country: US
Genre: Blues, Rock
Quality: FLAC (*tracks+.cue,log,scans)
Bitrate: Lossless
Time: 12:56:09 min

Spanning 15 volumes while covering pretty much the entire history of the genre, the Rhino Blues Masters series is the one blues collection that both neophytes and long-time fans can heartily embrace. Subtitled 'the essential blues collection, ' it is all of that and more. With each volume devoted to the diverse styles the music entails, the series boasts both thoughtful selection and excellent sound and annotation, utilizing some of the best authorities on the subject. While the compilation form has existed as long as the microgroove long playing record, this is the first time that a comprehensive series has been launched, licensing from a myriad of other labels. While other record companies tend to keep the best material for their own anthologies, Rhino went all out in this endeavor and many of the important tracks in this series are seeing their first issuance in the compilation format (Robert Johnson, for example), while others are being reissued for the first time since the advent of the 78-rpm phonograph record. All in all, a series that will stand for decades to come as an essential building block for anyone's blues collection.

VOLUMES:
Vol.1 – Urban Blues (00:57:50)
Vol.2 – Postwar Chicago Blues (00:49:19)
Vol.3 – Texas Blues (01:01:26)
Vol.4 – Harmonica Classics (01:00:03)
Vol.5 – Jump Blues Classics (00:49:15)
Vol.6 – Blues Originals (00:49:41)
Vol.7 – Blues Revival (01:12:53)
Vol.8 – Mississippi Delta Blues (01:01:52)
Vol.9 – Postmodern Blues (01:13:09)
Vol.10 – Blues Roots (01:10:52)
Vol.11 – Classic Women Blues (00:59:29)
Vol.12 – Memphis Blues (00:52:28)
Vol.13 – New York City Blues (00:58:39)
Vol.14 – More Jump Blues (00:46:18)
Vol.15 – Slide Guitar Classics (01:40:40)