None of the cuts on this two-disc, 38-track collection is particularly obscure or hard to find elsewhere, but what makes it a useful set is having them all in one package, and the end result is a nice introduction to
modern electric blues. Included are such classic
blues performances as
Big Mama Thornton's
"Hound Dog," T-Bone Walker's
"Call It Stormy Monday," Slim Harpo's
"I'm a King Bee," Jimmy Reed's
"Big Boss Man," John Lee Hooker's
"One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer," Albert King's
"Born Under a Bad Sign," Etta James'
"I'd Rather Go Blind," and
Stevie Ray Vaughan's
"Flood Down in Texas," among many others. Again, nothing here is going to make a
blues collector jump up and shout, but they aren't going to complain, either, since every cut is a stone cold classic. ~ Steve Leggett