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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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tooblue
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I just can’t stop, Clarence Gatemouth Brown/ Pressure Cooker
tooblue
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Wow , where to start? John Lee Hooker/The Healer, BB King and Bobby Bland Live Vol1, Albert Collins, Johnny Copeland and Robert Cray/Showdown, Buddy Guy/Stone Crazy, Son Seals/Son Seals Blues Band. The last three are on the Alligator label. Enjoy the music
tooblue
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@david3838, was just going to suggest Come on Home  by Boz, what a great album by a great artist.
tooblue
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Here's one you need not even think about just search it out and buy. CHICAGO/THE BLUES/TODAY!, On the Vanguard Stereooab label, box set and sounds amazing.
tooblue
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@moofoo, thanks for bringing up Acoustic Sounds, what a great label, believe I have all their d2d recordings including a Pinetop Perkins recorded at 45 rpm but that Greenleaf recording is great.
tooblue
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@slaw, no not really but couldn't help myself. Johnny Winter was a very special artist and got to see him often in my youth, he would sit in with Edgar Winters White Trash at Cignorellies Night Club (Slicks) in St Martinville La and sometimes by himself and his band. Edgar Winters White Trash played Slicks it seemed like every other weekend and the place was always jammin. Enjoy the music
tooblue
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@slaw, Johnny Winter was white? My world has been turned upside down.
tooblue
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@david3838, I am from New Iberia went to USL in 71 & 72, moved to Gretna in 72 to race motorcycles out of Honda West on Gretna Blvd so there is a very strong chance our paths have crossed.
tooblue
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The above might be true to a certain degree but the better the sound quality the higher the emotional communication conveyed. Just sayin
tooblue
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@pesky_wabbit, point taken about the missed music if just seeking the best of recordings and totally agree with your statement. 
tooblue
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Jimmy Witherspoon "Roots", featuring Ben Webster on Anolouge Productions 200 gram vinyl. Anyone that I have ever played this album for now owns it and the CD version sounds great as well.
tooblue
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@awboat, Blues Summit is a great pick and if you like it you will love Deuces Wild from 1997, available on 180 gram vinyl, very well recorded and some more great duets. I love me some BB.
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