World Music Network

A true original with cult status, Robert Johnson was arguably the most influential bluesman of them all.

This album presents a collection of classic ragas which charts Ravi Shankar's rise to global stardom.

Hokum was a style showing a completely different side to the blues that was upbeat, salacious and light hearted.

The thriving Desert Blues sound of the Saharan peoples is the spiritual homeland of the blues.

Almost eradicated during the time of the Khmer Rouge, the psychedelic sounds of Cambodia live on in the memory of survivors and exiles as cherished treasures of a lost past.

The emotional intensity and expressiveness of Bessie Smith still takes the breath away.