Various Artists - The Rough Guide to Chicago Blues

'The Rough Guide to Chicago Blues' features the greatest names in Chicago blues including Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Jimmy Reed. Also includes tracks by guitarists Buddy Guy, Otis Rush and Earl Hooker, plus harmonica pioneers Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson II and Walter Horton and the blues piano brilliance of Otis Spann, Sunnyland Slim and Eddie Boyd.

An album which traces the development of the Chicago blues scene during its late 1940s/1950s heyday. These classic tracks are by artists who defined the sound of the post-war electric Chicago blues. Lovingly remastered using pioneering restoration techniques.