I Am The Blues is a Chicago blues album released in 1970 by the well-known bluesman Willie Dixon. It is also the title of Dixon’s autobiography, edited by Don Snowden. The album features songs written by Dixon and originally performed by other artists for Chess Records. This is the 1991 vinyl reissue.

I Live Here is a challenging debut from a band that was somewhat overlooked in the rush to gush over such New York noise scene contemporaries as Sonic Youth, Live Skull and Swans. The links are there, both stylistic and genealogical (Ritual Tension's vocalist drummed on Greed and Holy Money), but this quartet writhes to its own noisemaker…

Like so many great American artists, especially those in blues and jazz, Big Bill Broonzy fled to Europe when times got tough stateside, and was duly accorded the respect he deserved. TREAT ME RIGHT contains some of his earliest recording after his 1951 trip across the pond. A number of the tracks included here are classics he’d been playing for some time, but they were new to listeners in France, where the album was first released. The title, which is a play on the tune “Treat Everybody Right,” can be seen in retrospect as a plea for understanding from the man who’d left his homeland in search of artistic succor. There are solid renditions of such chestnuts as “See See Rider” and “Baby Please Don’t Go,” and it’s easy to imagine the thrill of discovery the European audience must have felt digging into the rich loam of blues history that was Big Bill Broonzy.