EMI Music Canada is following up the success of their recently released "The Best Beer Drinking Album in the World...Ever! - The Second Round" with The Best Blues Album in the World...Ever! -Volume 2 set for release on July 19, 2005.

Available just four weeks ago, "The Best Beer Drinking Album in the World...Ever! - The Second Round" entered the Canadian (Soundscan) Album chart at #35 and sold close to 4000 copies in the first two weeks at retail. Its predecessor "The Best Beer Drinking Album in the World...Ever!" has sold over 30,000 copies in Canada to date.

The Best Blues Album in the World...Ever! -Volume 2 is a comprehensive and highly anticipated double disc collection including more of the greatest Delta and Chicago Blues that made the first edition the biggest selling Blues compilation in Canada. The disc continues its educational trip through the history of America’s most evolutionary art form, beginning each disc with some of the finest examples of the Blues genre in its early acoustic elements before it grew and spread from the rural south to the northern industrial cities. The listener can feel the transformation of the Blues as it changes from a rudimentary folk art form to an urban expression of sexuality and power. It’s easy to see how it has mesmerized the masses from the rich and poor, black and white, urban and rural, old and young. The common thread that runs through all of this is the music’s ability to touch and express people’s most basic needs and emotions. Nothing speaks to the human condition like the Blues.

The Best Blues Album in the World...Ever! -Volume 2 Track listing
- Disc 1 -
1. Lightnin’ Hopkins - Jake Head Boogie
2. Reverend Gary Davis - Children Of Zion
3. Son House - Death Letter Blues
4. Roy Brown - Let The Four Winds Blow
5. Elmore James - Standing At The Crossroads
6. Dinah Washington - The Blues Ain’t Nothin’ But A Woman Cryin’ For Her Man
7. Jimmy Rogers - That’s Alright
8. Howlin’ Wolf - Back Door Man
9. Muddy Waters - Rock Me
10. Sonny Boy Williamson II - Don’t Start Me Talking
11. Albert King - Crosscut Saw
12. Albert Collins - Baby What You Want Me To Do/Rock Me Baby (Medley)
13. The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Born In Chicago
14. John Mayall and The Bluesbreakers - Ramblin’ On My Mind
15. Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble - Pride and Joy
16. John Hammond - 16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought Six
- Disc 2 -
1. Sonny Terry - Whoopin’ The Blues
2. Robert Johnson - Sweet Home Chicago
3. Mississippi Fred McDowell - Red Cross Store
4. John Lee Hooker - Boogie Chillen
5. Rosco Gordon - No More Doggin’
6. Etta James - I’d Rather Go Blind
7. Muddy Waters - I’m Ready
8. Howlin’ Wolf - Riding In The Moonlight
9. B.B. King - Everyday (I Have The Blues)
10. Freddie King - Look On Yonder Wall
11. Buddy Guy - My Time After Awhile
12. Willie Dixon - The Seventh Son
13. Luther Allison - Drowning At The Bottom
14. McKenna Mendelson Mainline - Mainline
15. Johnny Winter - Tribute to Muddy
16. Cassandra Wilson - Come On In My Kitchen