Still, blues records account for a tiny fraction of the nation's record sales.

Early on, he asks the reader to listen to some blues records before returning to the text.

- are going well, he said, especially for blues records.

We're not going to do a blues record.

He taught himself to play guitar by playing along to old blues records.

His first store, which he opened in 1958, offered only blues records.

The album has been called "a timeless and completely current blues record."

McAvoy began listening to blues records at an early age.

As a young man, he made two trips through the deep south, knocking on doors and acquiring old blues records.

However, Bluebird all but ceased making blues records in 1942.