Best Blues Rock recommendations?

Thanks! You Guys are absolutely wonderful! Just to let ya all now, I've printed most of your recommendations down and will be using them as a basis for all my future blues purchases. What I'll probably do is pick the best album from each of the major recommendations and pick up more if they fit my fancy. I'm sure all your threads have benefited more than me. Keep the list coming in! Cheers and rock on!

mike1diver,
the 'easy there' was more jest than anything, i troll the threads late often myself. and yes, gov't mule rocks.
inscrutable gave a nice heads up for the north miss allstars, quite deservingly, check them out if you have not yet heard them.
also, quite a few cuts on the duane allman anthologies, both vols, are excelllent.
john mayall, including clapton collaborations with the bluesbreakers are monumental homages/interpretations of what some of the brits recognized about american blues, definitley worth checking out.
btw, here in philly we have wxpn broadcasting a blues show from 8pm to something like 1 or 2am on saturdays hosted by johnny meister. not sure though if this is npr available across the country, definitely check out your 'local' public broadcast radio stations for a blues program, this can be an invaluable source of musical content. also, wprb broadcasting out of princeton university in jersey , if i recall, also has a blues program, though not quite as extended as xpn/penn blues show.
hope this helps

OOOPS ... SORRY, GUYS. Above I referred to Tinsley Ellis' version of "Texas Flood" as the all-time best. *SHAKES HEAD* Nooooo ... big boo-boo.

I was thinking of Melvin Taylor and the Slack Band, S/T, Evidence Music, Inc., ECD 26073-2 (1995). Some of Taylor's stuff can be going-through-the-motions, uninspired, would-be-great-if-heard-live-in-a-bar type stuff. BUT, this version of "Texas Flood" is absolutely amazing ... it alone is worth the price of the CD. Sorry for the error, guys.

ALLIGATOR RECORDS 20TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION DISC 1
ALLIGATOR RECORDS 20TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION DISC 2
ALLIGATOR RECORDS 25TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION DISC 1
ALLIGATOR RECORDS 25TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION DISC 2
BLOCK, RORY WHEN A WOMAN GETS THE BLUES
BLUES MASTERS, VOL.3: TEXAS BLUES
BLUES MASTERS, VOL.4: HARMONICA CLASSICS
BLUES TRAVELER FOUR
CHAPMAN, TRACY NEW BEGINNING
CLAPTON, ERIC FROM THE CRADLE
CLAPTON, ERIC JOURNEYMAN
CLAPTON, ERIC UNPLUGGED
COLLINS, ALBERT AND THE ICEBREAKERS LIVE '92 - '93
FORD, ROBBEN AND THE BLUE LINE HANDFUL OF BLUES
GUY, BUDDY A MAN & THE BLUES
GUY, BUDDY LIVE, THE REAL DEAL
HONKERS & BAR WALKERS VOL.2
HOOKER, JOHN LEE DON'T LOOK BACK
HOOKER, JOHN LEE THE BEST OF JOHN LEE HOOKER
HOPKINS, LIGHTNIN'MOJO HAND: THE LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS ANTHOLOGY BOX SET
HOUSE OF BLUES ESSENTIAL WOMEN IN BLUES DISK 1
HOUSE OF BLUES ESSENTIAL WOMEN IN BLUES DISK 2
HOUSE OF BLUES SAMPLER HOT BISCUITS
JAMES, ETTA SEVEN YEAR ITCH
JELLY ROLL KINGS OFF YONDER WALL
KING, B.B. BLUES SUMMIT
KING, B.B. LIVE AT THE APOLLO
LITTLE WILLIE JOHN FEVER, THE BEST OF LITTLE WILLIE JOHN
LUCAS, ROBERT LUKE AND THE LOCOMOTIVES
MASTERS OF BLUES TRIBUTE TO ELMORE JAMES
MAYALL, JOHN & THE BLUES BREAKERS BLUES BREAKERS WITH ERIC CLAPTON
MO, KEB JUST LIKE YOU
OSBORNE, JOAN RELISH
PETERSON, LUCKY LIFETIME
STEVENS, COREY AND TEXAS FLOOD BLUE DROPS OF RAIN
TAJ MAHAL AN EVENING OF ACOUSTIC MUSIC
TAJ MAHAL PHANTOM BLUES
TAJ MAHAL SENOR BLUES
TAYLOR, KOKO FORCE OF NATURE
VAUGHAN, STEVIE RAY GREATEST HITS
VAUGHAN, STEVIE RAY STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN & DOUBLE TROUBLE IN STEP
VAUGHAN, STEVIE RAY THE SKY IS CRYING
WATERS, MUDDY BLUE SKY
LEAD BELLY WHERE DID YOU SLEEP LAST NIGHT
WOLF, HOWLIN HOWLIN WOLF THE MASTERS
TEDESCHI, SUSAN JUST WON'T BURN

Tinsley Ellis ..Storm Warning. Then proceed on with any other Tinsley. Coco Montoya but stick with the earlier CDs he's getting a little weak in the writing department these days but he's a killer player.