Your Top Five Blues LPs, SQ-wise...


Wondering what the general consensus would be here.  What five Blues LPs would you pick to showcase your sound system’s strengths to another Blues lover?  Not so much interested in “historically important” discs here as much as Blues on vinyl that just sounds fantastic enough to prompt one to wear out an expensive cartridge/stylus on...
Thanks in advance.  Just getting into the genre myself via the various streaming radio feeds and never seem to catch the names of artists/titles so I don’t have a list of my own, but I’m drawn to great Blues guitar sounds and unforgettable lyrics which let the listener know, unmistakably, that the singer has, “walked the walk”...
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Yet another for Folk Singer by Muddy Waters. I only own the Chess vinyl though.

Some of the Johnny Winter recordings on vinyl (Alligator) are pretty good and may be better than he was in terms of "sound quality" in person: the only time I heard him live (in a small California venue), the sound was deafening.