Pre-Second World War, recordings of blues singers were almost invariably offered to the public as folk music. The first serious album of black blues music was Sam Charter’s 'The Country Blues' which came out in 1959. 'The Blues Album Cover Art' offers a selection of the best cover albums from over 70 record companies, from the late 1950s onwards. Features hundred of full-colour album covers from legends such as John Lee Hooker, Smokey Hogg, Lowell Fulson, Floyd Dixon, Howlin' Wolf, T-Bone Walker, Memphis Slim, Jimmy Rushing, Muddy Waters, Joe Turner, B B King, Champion Jack Dupress, Otis Spann, and many more.