Metacritic/EOY Aggregate: 2024 New Compilations of Old/Various Music: Blues/Gospel/R&B

For information on what lists are consulted, and what the various abbreviations and notes mean, click here.

Reissues, compilations, vault music, etc. For new records, click here.

Sub-Lists

Some breakdowns by genre:

• Blues/Gospel
• Country/Americana/Folk
• Classical/New Age
• Electronica/Dance
• Hip-Hop/R&B
• Jazz
• Metal
• World
• Other (Mostly Pop/Rock, or Unknown)
• Everything

Ranking

1. Blind Gary Davis: Harlem Street Singer (1960, Craft) {5}: -- TH:A
2. Skip James: Today! (1966, Craft) {4}: xjdc:* -- TH:***
3. B.B. King: In France: Live at the 1977 Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival (Deep Digs/Elemental Music) {4}: JC_r:+; jlp:6 -- TH:**
4. Love Hides All Faults: Deep Gospel Soul Selected by Jumbo (Elusive Vinyl/Pyramid) {4}: PO_r:3
5. Thom Bell: Sound of Philadelphia Soul 1969-83 (Ace) {2}: tl_r:2
6. Bessie Jones/John Davis/The Georgia South Sea Island Singers/Mississippi Fred McDowell/Ed Young: The Complete "Friends of Old-Time Music" Concert (Smithsonian) {1}: PO_r:29