Blues Fans! Please recommend some music to me

A good starting point to explore the many shades of blues is Rhino Records outstanding Blues Masters collections. They break the blues down into various categories and each volume has a number of different artists to explore.
The link below will take you to the albums where you can sample the cuts, but I haven’t been disappointed with any of them yet.
http://www.rhino.com/browse/cat7.html#1
Blues Masters, Vol. 1: Urban Blues
Blues Masters, Vol. 2: Post-War Chicago
Blues Masters, Vol. 3: Texas Blues
Blues Masters, Vol. 4: Harmonica Classics
Blues Masters, Vol. 5: Jump Blues Classics
Blues Masters, Vol. 6: Blues Originals
Blues Masters, Vol. 7: Blues Revival
Blues Masters, Vol. 8: Mississippi Delta Blues
Blues Masters, Vol. 9: Postmodern Blues
Blues Masters, Vol. 10: Blues Roots
Blues Masters, Vol. 11: Classic Blues Women
Blues Masters, Vol. 14: More Jump Blues
Blues Masters, Vol. 15: Slide Guitar Classics
Blues Masters, Vol.16: More Harmonica Classics
Blues Masters, Vol.17: More Postmodern Blues
Blues Masters,Vol.18: More Slide Guitar Classics
Blues Masters Sampler
A word of warning though. Everytime I go on the Rhino site I get sucked into exploring it for hours. Particularly the video.

Rhum Runner: Keith Harden used to play excellent acoustic-blues several nights a week in Urbana. But I just found his website and it looks like Ukulele Ike has summoned him to Geneva, NY. You might take a look at some of the smaller places with live music, maybe someone else has filled his shoes.