Down And Out Blues
by Sonny Boy Williamson

Down And Out Blues by Sonny Boy Williamson
(Compilation album)
Year: 1959
Overall rank: 4,695th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 40 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1959 (29th)
Award Top albums of the 1950s (142nd)
Award Best albums of all time (4,695th)

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Down And Out Blues is ranked as the best album by Sonny Boy Williamson.

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Overall rank: 4,695th | 1950s rank: 142nd | 1959 rank: 29th

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72/100 (from 40 votes)
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12/21/2025 22:36 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  7,85370/100
 
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From 07/29/2022 08:35 | #287926
Despite the cover, this album is so cool, so deep and so bluesy. I think that the harp is one of the coolest and roughest instruments of all time...
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Certainly one of the most terribly LP covers of its day.
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