In 1959 Prestige Records set out to create Bluesville Records a sub-label with the aim of preserving the blues genre, recording and giving notoriety to living artists with a fundamental trajectory in the history of this music and who probably had not been sufficiently valued by a large part of the audience. During the six years of his trajectory - Bluesville left album production in 1966 - the label released 8 singles and 87 albums covering 60 different artists. At the end of the eighties and along the nineties, a series of compilations by the label were released which included a selection of artists and songs representative of the entire catalogue.