Probably the best blues album in the world...ever!
Martin Scorsese's seven-part TV series on the blues has had mixed reviews in America. But it's impossible to fault the accompanying five-CD box set, which must qualify as the most comprehensive blues compilation ever released. With 116 tracks chronologically sequenced and expertly annotated, there's hardly a big name in the genre who isn't represented.
Nevertheless, the set raises fundamental questions about why anybody should still bother listening to the blues.
