What to Buy....

....and where to buy it from. These days, now a lot of the high street stores have closed down, it is difficult to buy mainstream Cd's, let alone blues as the shops that are left either have a very small or no blues section at all. So, how are you going to start or increase your blues collection? The answer is, of course, the Net. As a starter, there is no better book than The Rough Guide to the Blues. This little book recommends 100 'essential' blues records together with 100 alternative suggestions. If you use this book as a guide,you will have a great start to a basic Blues collection. Available from Amazon.co.uk from as little as 41p!
When you are ready to delve a little deeper, then I can heartily recommend The Penguin Guide to the Blues, this is a hefty all encompassing book containing thousands of reviews by some of our leading experts on the Blues which you will find yourself dipping into over and over again. Once you have decided what Cds you want, where to buy them? Amazon, of course, has a huge range both of new and used Blues however, there is another source which I use and that is Red Lick Records. This is a mail order company based in Wales who publish lists of new and used cds 6 times a year and also feature reviews of the latest titles. Their address is www.redlick.com