1950s through 1960s
Lightnin’ Hopkins: “Old Woman Blues” (1950)
Lightnin’ Hopkins: “Shotgun Blues” (1950)
Memphis Minnie: “Why Did I Make You Cry” (1950)
Muddy Waters: "Rollin' and Tumblin'" (1950)
Muddy Waters: "Rollin' Stone" (1950)
Muddy Waters: "You're Gonna Need My Help I Said (Gonna Need My Help)" (1950)
Muddy Waters: "Louisiana Blues" (1950)
T-Bone Walker: "Glamour Girl" (1950)
T-Bone Walker: "The Hustle is On" (1950)
Elmore James: “Catfish Blues” (1951)
Lightnin’ Hopkins: “Bad Luck And Trouble” (1951)
Lightnin’ Hopkins: “Everybody's Down On Me” (1951)
Lightnin’ Hopkins: “Honey Honey Blues” (1951)
Muddy Waters: "Long Distance Call" (1951)
Muddy Waters: "Honey Bee" (1951)
Muddy Waters: "Still a Fool" (1951)
Smiley Lewis: “Where Were You” (1951)
Sonny Boy Williamson: “Crazy 'Bout You, Baby” (1951)
Sonny Boy Williamson: “Cool, Cool Blues” (1951)
Big Bill Broonzy: Blues Singer Vol. 1 (1952)
Big Bill Broonzy: Blues Singer Vol N° 2 (1952)
Elmore James: “I Believe” (1952)
Elmore James: “Baby, What's Wrong” (1952)
Lightnin’ Hopkins: “New Worried Life Blues” (1952)
Muddy Waters: "She Moves Me" (1952)
Muddy Waters: "All Night Long" (1952)
Muddy Waters: "Please Have Mercy" (1952)
Muddy Waters: "Standing Around Crying" (1952)
Muddy Waters: "She's All Right" (1952)
Smiley Lewis: “Gumbo Blues” (1952)
Smiley Lewis: “The Bells Are Ringing” (1952)
T-Bone Walker: "Cold Cold Feeling" (1952)
Elmore James: “Country Boogie” (1953)
Lightnin’ Hopkins: “Highway Blues” (1953)
Lightnin’ Hopkins: “No Good Woman” (1953)
Lightnin’ Hopkins: “Freight Train Blues (When I Started Hoboing (1953)
Lightnin’ Hopkins: “Ain't It A Shame” (1953)
Muddy Waters: "Turn the Lamp Down Low (Baby Please Don't Go)" (1953)
Muddy Waters: "Mad Love (I Want You to Love Me)" (1953)
Smiley Lewis: “The Gypsy Blues” (1953)
Big Bill Broonzy: Folk Blues (1954)
Elmore James: “Hand In Hand (1954)
Lightnin’ Hopkins: “Nobody Cares For Me” (1954)
Lightnin’ Hopkins: “Don't Think Cause You're Pretty” (1954)
Lightnin’ Hopkins: “Life I Used To Live” (1954)
Muddy Waters: "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man" (1954)
Muddy Waters: "I'm Ready" (1954)
Smiley Lewis: “I Love You For Sentimental Reasons” (1954)
Smiley Lewis: “Ooh La La” (1954)
Smiley Lewis: “Jailbird” (1954)
Big Bill Broonzy: Big Bill Blues (1955)
Bo Diddley: “Diddley Daddy” (1955)
Bo Diddley: “Pretty Thing” (1955)
Bo Diddley: “Bo Diddley” (1955)
Chuck Berry: “Maybellene” (1955)
Elmore James: “I Believe My Time Ain't Long “ (1955)
Lightnin’ Hopkins: “Evil Hearted Woman” (1955)
Lightnin’ Hopkins: “Good Old Woman” (1955)
Muddy Waters: "I Want to Be Loved"(1955)
Muddy Waters: "Sugar Sweet (I Can't Call Her Sugar)" (1955)
Muddy Waters: "Trouble No More" (1955)
Smiley Lewis: “I Hear You Knocking” (1955)
Smiley Lewis: “Come On” (1955)
Sonny Boy Williamson: “Don't Start Me Talkin'” (1955)
Big Bill Broonzy: Self-titled (1956)
Big Bill Broonzy: Big Bill Broonzy Sings (1956)
Bo Diddley: “Who Do You Love?” (1956)
Bo Diddley: “Cops & Robbers” (1956)
Elmore James: “Wild About You” (1956)
Lightnin’ Hopkins: “I Love You Baby” (1956)
Lightnin’ Hopkins: “Wonder What Is Wrong With Me” (1956)
Lightnin’ Hopkins: “Shine On Moon” (1956)
Muddy Waters: "Forty Days and Forty Nights" (1956)
Muddy Waters: "Don't Go No Farther" (1956)
Muddy Waters: "Just to Be with You" (1956)
Smiley Lewis: “She's Got Me Hook, Line & Sinker” (1956)
Smiley Lewis: “Someday” (1956)
Smiley Lewis: “Ain’t Gonna Do It “ (1956)
Sonny Boy Williamson: “Let Me Explain” (1956)
Sonny Boy Williamson: “Keep It To Yourself” (1956)
B.B. King: Singin' The Blues (1957)
Big Bill Broonzy: Big Bill Broonzy Sings Country Blues (1957)
Buddy Holly: Buddy Holly's Greatest Hits (1957)
Chuck Berry: “Rock & Roll Music” (1957)
Chuck Berry: “Johnny B. Goode” (1957)
Chuck Berry: After School Session (1957)
The Collins Kids: “Young Heart/Hop, Skip, and Jump” (1957)
The Crickets: The “Chirping” Crickets (1957)
Elmore James: “Coming Home” (1957)
Little Richard: Here’s Little Richard (1957)
Muddy Waters: "I Live the Life I Love (I Love the Life I Live)" (1957)
Slim Harpo: "I'm a King Bee" (1957)
Smiley Lewis: “Shame, Shame, Shame” (1957)
Smiley Lewis: “Go On Fool” (1957)
Smiley Lewis: “You Are My Sunshine” (1957)
B.B. King: The Blues (1958)
Big Bill Broonzy: The Blues (1958)
Buddy Guy: "Sit and Cry (the Blues)"(1958)
Buddy Holly: That'll Be The Day (1958)
Buddy Holly: Buddy Holly (1958)
Chuck Berry: One Dozen Berrys (1958)
The Collins Kids: “Whistle Bait/Rock Boppin’ Baby” (1958)
Jerry Lee Lewis: Self-titled 1958)
Jerry Lott (aka The Phantom): “Love Me/Whisper My Love” (1958)
Link Wray: “Rumble/The Swag” (1958) [earliest use of power chord?]
Muddy Waters: "I Won't Go On" (1958)
Muddy Waters: "Clouds in My Heart" (1958)
Slim Harpo: "Wondering and Worryin'" (1958)
Sonny Boy Williamson: “Born Blind” (1958)
Sonny Boy Williamson: “Your Funeral & My Trial” (1958)
Sonny Boy Williamson: “Cross My Heart” (1958)
B. B. King Sings Spirituals (1959)
Buddy Guy: "You Sure Can't Do" (1959)
Chuck Berry: Chuck Berry Is on Top (1959)
The Fabulous Wailers: Self-titled (1959)
The Four Frantics: “Fog Cutter” (1959)
The Four Frantics: “Straight Flush” (1959)
Howlin’ Wolf: Moanin' In The Moonlight (1959)
John Lee Hooker: I'm John Lee Hooker (1959)
John Lee Hooker: The Country Blues Of John Lee Hooker (1959)
Lightnin’ Hopkins: “Unsuccessful Blues “ (1959)
Lightnin’ Hopkins: The Rooster Crowed In England (1959)
Lightnin’ Hopkins: Country Blues (1959)
Lightnin' Hopkins: Self-titled (1959)
Muddy Waters: "Take the Bitter with the Sweet" (1959)
Muddy Waters: "Recipe for Love" (1959)
Muddy Waters: "I Feel So Good" (1959)
Ritchie Valens: Self-titled (1959)
Slim Harpo: "You'll Be Sorry One Day" (1959)
Smiley Lewis: “By The Water” (1959)
Sonny Boy Williamson: “Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide” (1959)
Sonny Boy Williamson: Down And Out Blues (1959)
B.B. King: Compositions Of Duke Ellington And Others (1960)
B.B. King: King Of The Blues (1960)
Bo Diddley: Bo Diddley Is A Gunslinger (1960)
Bo Diddley: Have Guitar, Will Travel (1960)
Bo Diddley: In The Spotlight (1960)
Buddy Guy: "Slop Around" (1960)
Buddy Guy: "I Got My Eyes on You" (1960)
Elmore James: The Sun Is Shining (1960)
The Four Frantics: “Werewolf / No Werewolf” (1960)
John Lee Hooker: Travelin' (1960)
John Lee Hooker: That's My Story: John Lee Hooker Sings The Blues (1960)
John Lee Hooker: Sings Blues (1960)
John Lee Hooker: House Of The Blues (1960)
Lightnin’ Hopkins: Autobiography In Blues (1960)
Link Wray and the Raymen: Link Wray and the Raymen (1960)
Muddy Waters: Muddy Waters Sings "Big Bill" (1960)
Slim Harpo: "Buzz Me Babe" (1960)
Slim Harpo: "Blues Hangover" (1960)
B.B. King: My Kind Of Blues (1961)
B.B. King: More B.B. King (1961)
John Lee Hooker: Plays & Sings The Blues (1961)
John Lee Hooker: The Folk Lore Of John Lee Hooker (1961)
Lightnin’ Hopkins: Sings The Blues (1961)
Lightnin’ Hopkins: Blues In My Bottle (1961)
Slim Harpo: "Rainin' in My Heart" (1961)
Smiley Lewis: I Hear You Knocking (1961)
Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup: Mean Ol’ Frisco (1962)
The Beach Boys: Surfin’ Safari (1962)
Big Bill Broonzy: Sings Folk Songs (1962)
Bob Dylan: Self-titled (1962)
Chuck Berry: Chuck Berry Twist (1962)
Buddy Guy: "Let Me Love You Baby" (1962)
Buddy Guy: "Skippin!" (1962)
Buddy Guy: "When My Left Eye Jumps"(1962)
Dick Dale & His Del-Tones: Surfers' Choice (1962)
Elmore James: “Shake Your Moneymaker” (1962)
The Fabulous Wailers: The Fabulous Wailers At The Castle (1962)
The Four Frantics: “Meet Me In Seattle Twist” (1962)
Howlin’ Wolf: Self-titled (1962)
Howlin’ Wolf: Howling Wolf Sings The Blues (1962)
John Lee Hooker: Burnin' (1962)
John Lee Hooker: Self-titled (1962)
Lightnin’ Hopkins: Lightnin' And Co. (1962)
Lightnin’ Hopkins: Walkin' This Road By Myself (1962)
Lightnin’ Hopkins: Mojo Hand (1962)
Lightnin’ Hopkins: Lightnin' Sam Hopkins (1962)
Lightnin’ Hopkins: Lightnin' Strikes (1962)
Link Wray and the Raymen w/ Bunker Hill: “Friday Night Dance Party/The Girl Can’t Dance” (1962)
The Beach Boys: Surfin’ U.S.A. (1963)
The Beatles: Please Please Me (1963)
Bob Dylan: The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (1963)
Buddy Guy: "Hard But It's Fair" (1963)
Buddy Holly: Reminiscing (1963)
Dick Dale & His Del-Tones: King of the Surf Guitar (1963)
The Fabulous Wailers: Wailers and Company (1963)
The Kingsmen: The Kingsmen in Person Featuring Louie, Louie (1963)
Lightnin’ Hopkins: Smokes Like Lightning (1963)
Slim Harpo: "I Love the Life I'm Living" (1963)
Sonny Boy Williamson: Portraits In Blues Vol. 4 (1963)
Sonny Boy Williamson: The Blues Of Sonny Boy Williamson (1963)
The Animals: Self-titled (1964)
The Beach Boys: All Summer Long (1964)
Bob Dylan: The Times They Are-a-Changin’ (1964)
Buddy Guy: "I Dig Your Wig" (1964)
Buddy Holly: Showcase (1964)
The Kinks: Self-titled (1964)
The Monks: The Early Years (2009) [ recorded 1964-1965)
Nina Simone: Nina Simone In Concert (1964)
Muddy Waters: Folk Singer (1964)
The Skatalites: Ska Authentic (1964)
Slim Harpo: "I Need Money (Keep Your Alibis)" (1964)
Slim Harpo: "Still Rainin' in My Heart" (1964)
Slim Harpo: "Harpo's Blues" (1964)
The Trashmen: Surfin’ Bird (1964)
The Yardbirds: Five Live Yardbirds (1964)
? & The Mysterians: Action (1965)
The Animals: Animal Tracks (1965)
The Barbarians: Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl? (1965)
The Beatles: A Hard Day’s Night (1965)
The Beau Brummels: Introducing The Beau Brummels (1965)
The Byrds: Mr. Tambourine Man (1965)
The Byrds: Turn! Turn! Turn! (1965
The Castaways: "Liar, Liar/Sam" (1965)
Elmore James: “Standing At The Crossroads” (1965)
The Fabulous Wailers: Wailers, Wailers, Everywhere (1965)
Howlin’ Wolf: The Real Folk Blues (1965)
Los Saicos: Demolición (1965)
The Kinks: Kinda Kinks (1965)
The Misunderstood: Before the Dream Faded (1965)
The Pretty Things: Get the Picture? (1965)
The Pretty Things: Self-titled (1965)
Sam and the Sham and the Pharaohs: Wooly Bully (1965)
The Sonics: Hear Are the Souls (1965)
The Spades: “You’re Gonna Miss Me/We Sell Soul” (1965)
The Spades: “I Need a Girl/Do You Want to Dance” (1965)
Them: The Angry Young Them (1965)
The Who: My Generation (1965)
The Yardbirds: For Your Love (1965)
The Yardbirds: Having a Rave Up with The Yardbirds (1965)
? & the Mysterians: 96 Tears (1966)
13th Floor Elevators: The Psychedelic Sounds Of The 13th Floor Elevators (1966)
The Animals: Animalisms (1966)
Bobby Fuller Four: I Fought the Law (1966)
The Byrds: Fifth Dimension (1966)
Cream: Fresh Cream (1966)
Dirty Wurds: “Why/Takin’ My Blues Away” (1966)
The Fabulous Wailers: Out of Our Tree (1966)
The Fabulous Wailers: Outburst! (1966)
The Fugs: First Album (1966)
John Mayall With Eric Clapton: Blues Breakers (1966)
Love: Self-titled (1966)
Love: De Capo (1966)
The Misunderstood: The Legendary Gold Star Album (1966)
The Monks: Black Monk Time (1966)
The Music Machine: (Turn On) The Music Machine (1966)
Paul Revere & The Raiders: Just Like Us! (1966)
The Remains: Self-titled (1966)
Rolling Stones: Aftermath (1966)
The Seeds: Self-titled (1966)
The Seeds: A Web of Sound (1966)
The Shadows of Knight: Gloria (1966)
The Shadows of Knight: Back Door Men (1966)
The Skatalites: Ska Boo-Da-Ba (1966)
Small Faces: Self-titled (1966)
The Sonics: Boom (1966)
The Standells: Dirty Water (1966)
The Standells: Why Pick on Me – Sometimes Good guys Don’t Wear White (1966)
Syndicate of Sound: Little Girl (1966)
Them: Them Again (1966)
The Troggs: Wild Thing (1966)
The Who: The Quick One (1966)
The Woolies: “Who Do You Love?/Hey Girl” (1966)
The Wurds: “Born in Chicago/Midnight Hour” (1966)
The Yardbirds: Roger the Engineer (1966)
The Yardbirds: Roger the Engineer (1966)
13th Floor Elevators: Easter Everywhere (1967)
? & the Mysterians: Action (1967)
The Beau Brummels: Triangle (1967)
Cream: Disraeli Gears (1967)
The Chocolate Watch Band: No Way Out (1967)
The Deviants: Ptooff! (1967)
Don & The Goodtimes: So Good (1967)
The Electric Prunes: Underground (1967)
The Electric Prunes: Self-titled (1967)
The Heptones: Self-titled (1967)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Are You Experienced (1967)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Axis: Bold As Love (1967)
John Mayall and the Blues Breakers: A Hard Road (1967)
John Mayall and the Blues Breakers: Crusade (1967)
John Mayall and the Blues Breakers: The Blues Alone (1967)
The Litter: “Action Woman/Legal Matter” (1967)
The Litter: Distortions (1967)
Love: Forever Changes (1967)
The Moving Sidewalks: “99th Floor/What Are You Going to Do?” (1967)
The Music Explosion: Little Bit O’ Soul (1967)
Phil Jones and the Unknown Blues: If I Had a Ticket EP (1967)
The Pretty Things: Emotions (1967)
The Red Krayola: The Parable of Arable Land (1967)
The Seeds: Future (1967)
Small Faces: There Are But Four Small Faces (1967)
The Standells: The Hot Ones! (1967)
Ten Years After: Self-titled (1967)
Them: Them Belfast Gypsies (1967)
The Third Bardo: “I’m Five Years Ahead of My Time/Rainbow Life” (1967)
The Troggs: Cellophane (1967)
The Troggs: Trogglodynamite (1967)
Velvet Underground: White Light/White Heat (1967)
The Who: The Who Sell Out (1967)
The Yardbirds: Little Games (1967)
The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation: Self-titled (1968)
The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation: Doctor Dunbar's Prescription (1968)
The Beau Brummels: Bradley’s Barn (1968)
Blue Cheer: Outsideinside (1968)
Blue Cheer: Vincebus Eruptum (1968)
The Chocolate Watch Band: The Inner Mystique (1968)
Cream: Wheels of Fire (1968)
David Peel & The Lower East Side: Have a Marijuana (1968)
Deep Purple: Shades of Deep Purple (1968)
Deep Purple: The Book of Taliesyn (1968)
The Deviants: Disposable (1968)
The Fabulous Wailers: Walk Thru The People (1968)
The Heptones: On Top (1968)
Iron Butterfly: Heavy (1968)
Iron Butterfly: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (1968)
Jeff Beck: Truth (1968)
Jethro Tull: This Was (1968)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Electric Ladyland (1968)
John Mayall and the Blues Breakers: Blues from Laurel Canyon (1968)
Moving Sidewalks: Flash (1968)
The Music Machine: The Bonniwell Music Machine (1968)
Neil Young: Self-titled (1968)
Paul Revere & The Raiders: Something Happening (1968)
The Red Krayola: God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It (1968)
Sam Gopal: Escalator (1968)
Small Faces: Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake (1968)
Sonny Curtis: The 1st of Sonny Curtis (1968)
13th Floor Elevators: Bull Of The Woods (1969)
Alice Cooper: Pretties for You (1969)
The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation: To Mum, From Aynsley & The Boys (1969)
The Beatles: Abbey Road (1969)
Blodwyn Pig: Ahead Rings Out (1969)
Buddy Holly: Giant (1969)
Can: Monster Movie (1969)
Coven: Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls (1969)
Cream: Goodbye (1969)
Crow: Crow Music (1969)
Crushed Butler: Uncrushed: Previously Unreleased British Punk From The Underground 1969-1971 (1998).
Deep Purple: Self-titled (1969)
The Deviants: The Deviants 3 (1969)
The Firebirds: Light My Fire (1969)
Flamin’ Groovies: Supersnazz (1969)
Grand Funk Railroad: On Time (1969)
Grand Funk Railroad: Grand Funk (1969)
Jeff Beck: Beck-Ola (1969)
Jethro Tull: Stand Up (1969)
The Kinks: Arthur (1969)
Led Zeppelin: Self-titled (1969)
Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin II (1969)
MC5: Kick Out the Jams (1969)
Neil Young: Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969) (with Crazy Horse)
Rolling Stones: Let It Bleed (1969)
Ten Years After: Stonedhenge (1969)
Ten Years After: Ssssh (1969)
The Shadows of Knight: Self-titled (1969)
The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World (1969)
The Stooges: Self-titled (1969)
The Upsetters: Return of Django (1969)
The Upsetters: The Upsetter (1969)
Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground & Nico (1969)
Velvet Underground: Self-titled (1969)