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Answers: Can anyone help me think of a good birthday present for my dad. He really likes Blues music (Muddy Waters, Mary O'Shea, John Lee Hooker, Big Joe Turner, Robert Johnson to name a few that I know he likes). He has CD's but not sure which one's, wondering if anyone knows of any good compilation CD's that have the same "sound" as the music he likes or any other good ideas for the guy who has everything and likes very little haha. Any help would be appreciated.

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Does he have the Muddy Waters Chess Box Set?

http://www.amazon.com/Chess-Box-Muddy-Wa...

Would be appreciated by any Muddy fan.

The Chess Box series is actually pretty good. The Chuck Berry one is great, and here are some others:

http://www.amazon.com/Chess-Blues-Variou...

(Nice mixture of various blues greats)

http://www.amazon.com/Hooker-John-Lee/dp...

(4-disc John Lee Hooker retrospective)

Or why not buy him something to watch, like this:

http://www.amazon.com/Martin-Scorsese-Pr...

(The PBS documentary series, from 4 years ago)

http://www.amazon.com/Blues-Masters-Esse...

or

http://www.amazon.com/American-Folk-Blue...

(Check out the other two in the series, about halfway down the page)

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Its' too late for this year, but consider getting him tickets to the Arkansas Blues & Heritage Festival (see link) next year.

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Alligator Records has many anthologies that will fit the bill. They even have a Christmas CD or two out.

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Does he play the guitar? If so, get him "Robert Johnson, the New Transcriptions"
It'll keep him busy for a while!

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get him any paul rodgers music, bad company or free

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