Looking for Blues with High Fidelity

I stopped wasting my time with Clapton back in 1973.

Well, some pretty good guitarists didn’t, including Buddy Guy and B. B. King. What’s your problem with Clapton? Yes, that’s Bloomfield in the picture and here's what he thought about Clapton:

Rolling Stone:.You were telling me that Eric Clapton was a perfect guitarist. What makes you think that?

Mike Bloomfield: His attack is flawless, that’s one of the things. A perfect musician is dedicated. He has ideas, attack, touch, ability to transmit emotion and abillity to transmit his ideas. His ability to transmit his ideas and his emotion logically is kineticism; he can build. Eric does all of these about as well as you can do them. It shows in the area that he plays that his attack is perfect. His tone is vocal; his ideas are superb; he plays almost exclusively blues–all the lines he plays in the Cream are blues lines. He plays nothing but blues; he’s a blues guitarist and he’s taken blues guitar to its ultimate thing. In that field he’s B. B. King cum the Freddie King and Ernie Cahill style of guitar playing. Eric is the master in the world. That is why he is a perfect guitarist. Eric plays in bad taste when he wants to. He can play crappy. But, like, Eric plays almost exclusively perfect.

In general, one good label to set your sights on for well- engineered blues recordings is the Audioquest label. 

Good call @starlightdiamond.  I really enjoy Robert Lucas on Audioquest, "Luke and the Locomotives" and "Completely Blue".

Sue Foley recently put out an album "Pinky’s Blues." Some very good heavy duty blues guitar from Ms. Foley. Good sound.

The B. B. King/Eric Clapton album "Riding with the King" is an excellent blues album if you do a little surgery on the Deluxe Edition on Qobuz. Remove the 3 rock tunes, "Riding with the King", "Marry You", and "Hold On I’m Comin", and move the standard "Come Rain or Come Shine" to the last track and you’ve got a really nice blues album, also good sound.

Rosie Flores put out a blues album a couple years ago with some really nice blues guitar on it, "Simple Case of the Blues."  Rosie plays in the left channel and Kenny Vaughan plays in the right.  They both can play good blues guitar.  Sounds good too.