"Every day, every day I have the blues." so sang BB King in his performance of the Maxwell Davis arrangement of Memphis Slim's version of Pinetop Sparks' seminal blues song.  That one isn't in this countdown, as BB recorded it in '54, Davis arranged it a year earlier, Memphis Slim covered it in '48, and Pinetop laid down the original version in 1935.

Our panel of experts agrees that the blues is the most significant contribution made to music by the culture and the country of America.  What we disagree on is which five albums best represent the blues from 1960 on.  Here are our top five blues albums after 1959..