Blues historian and musicologist, Bill Dahl of Chicago, has compiled the most comprehensive history of electric blues, ever! With almost 300 tracks Bear Family Records tells the entire story from the beginning into the new millennium. In the 1930s, the invention of Gibson's ES-150, the first electric guitar, changed popular music forever. The first generation of blues pioneers played acoustic instruments, but with the invention of amplification, guitar and harmonica players could drown out piano, drums and horns. The music was revolutionized! -- The 12 generously filled CDs come in four sets of three CDs in elegantly designed, 8-plated Digipaks ea. In the accompanying booklets of more than 650 pages in four richly illustrated booklets, Bill Dahl authoritatively tells the history of electric blues and how it influenced rock music, especially during the 1960s and ‘70s. Here is the complete story from jazz-inspired jump numbers in the late 1930s to hard-driving blues/rock from the States and Great Britain in the '60s, the 1970s and beyond. The journey ends with experts from today's rich contemporary blues scene.