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BCD 17505CD
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RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020
"Seriously, one of the best blues albums of all time. masterfully tight, unpretentious and crazily swinging album. One of the first conceptualized blues records ever recorded. Recorded on two consecutive days in March 1956. Original mono album released September 1956. Turner never sounded better. Album reissue producer and liner notes: Colin Escott. Eco-pack with extensive booklet. When Big Joe Turner recorded the songs for Boss Of The Blues on two consecutive days in a New York studio in 1956, he could already look back on several stages of an extremely successful career. Around the mid-1930s, Turner began working with one of the stars of boogie woogie, pianist Pete Johnson from Kansas City. Both were involved in the legendary 1938 show produced by John Hammond Sr. at New York's Carnegie Hall, the 'Spirituals to Swing' concert. In 1951 Ahmet Ertegun signed Turner to his young Atlantic label. Over the next few years, Big Joe Turner recorded his most successful singles and became an Atlantic bestseller with a series of major hits in the R&B charts. In March 1956, however, history was written. Boss Of The Blues was one of the first blues concept albums (almost all other LPs of that day were compilations of previously released singles). Atlantic engaged musicians from the Count Basie community (plus their arranger). The music is anything but nostalgia. With exquisite musicians he created one of the best blues/jazz albums of all times with Big Joe Turner at the peak of his vocal expressiveness."
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BCD 17600CD
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"We finally add Link Wray to our successful Rocks! series! On a total of 34 single tracks from the years 1958 to 1966 we deliver his greatest rockers from his recordings for Cadence, Cameo, Epic, Mala, Rumble and Swan in the best possible quality. Since we were able to license recordings from various record companies for this compilation, Rocks! differs significantly from the cheap scrap on the market. 36-page booklet, 34 tracks. The CD contains his rare vocal tracks 'Ain't That Lovin' You Baby' and 'Mary Ann'. As a bonus: songs released under the name of his brother Vernon Wray (aka Ray Vernon) with Link Wray on guitar! Detailed liner notes by blues and rock 'n' roll expert Bill Dahl from Chicago."
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10CD BOX
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BCD 16036CD
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"Including a larger number of previously unreleased studio and live recordings, radio recordings and demos. A treasure trove of Bakersfield history presenting country music stars Merle Haggard and Buck Owens, guitar hero Don Rich and dozens of artists like Ferlin Husky, Dallas Frazier, Jean Shepard, Wynn Stewart, Tommy Duncan, Red Simpson, Kay Adams, Duck Curless, Joe Maphis, David Frizzell, The Gosdin Brothers, Clarence White a.m.o. From hits to deep cuts to alternate takes to album tracks to live material, this set dives deeper into the Bakersfield Sound than ever before. Full-color illustrated 220-page hardcover book with a plethora of photos, many shown here for the first time, and track-by-track commentary. In depth analysis by Grammy-nominated Bakersfield Sound historian Scott B. Bomar. Foreword by Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett. Buck Owens and Merle Haggard emerged from the dim lights, thick smoke and loud, loud music of Bakersfield, California's thriving honky-tonk scene of the 1950s and '60s and changed country music forever. But what is the 'Bakersfield Sound?' While twanging Telecasters and crying steel guitars come to mind, the music that emanated from Central California in that era reflected a variety of influences that was expressed in myriad ways. 'We represent the end results of all the years of country music in this town,' Haggard once remarked about the California city that served as home base for the two Country Music Hall of Fame inductees. But how did the musical world from which Buck and Merle emerged come to be? How were the twin pillars of the Bakersfield Sound shaped by the city's larger musical community? Who were their influences, and what were the musical markers along their paths to success? In what ways did their achievements reshape the local scene from which they emerged?"
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BCD 15706CD
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"Two long playing records, originally released in 1974 on Columbia, The Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy, and Once Upon A Rhyme, on one CD. David Allan Coe is the writer of 'Would You Lay With Me', a number one hit record for Tanya Tucker. Extensive liner notes, plus many photos. Personnel: David Allan Coe, The Nashville Edition, The Jordanaires: vocals; Billy Sanford, John Christopher, Tommy Allsup, Reggie Young: guitar; Pete Drake: steel guitar, dobro; Mike Leech, Henry Strzelecki, Ted Reynolds: bass; Kenny Malone, Ralph Gallant, Buster Phillips: drums; Hargus 'Pig' Robbins, Ron Oates: piano; Buddy Spicher: violin, mandolin; Charlie McCoy: harmonica, vibes; The Nashville String Machine: strings; Billy Sherrill, Ron Bledsoe: production."
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BCD 16889CD
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"The greatest male-female duet in country music! 'They made all other duet teams sound like footnotes' (critic John Morthland). Includes 21 timeless hits: 'Holding On To Nothin'', 'Just Someone I Used To Know', 'Daddy Was An Old Time Preacher Man', and 'Making Plans', as well as the #1 smash 'Please Don't Stop Loving Me'! Also includes many rarities including their 1973 release of 'Here Comes The Freedom Train' and live recordings. In all, 160 recordings! Features an in-depth biography by noted journalist and Dolly Parton biographer, Alanna Nash. '... I was truly humbled by the high art and soul of duet singing and its power to tell the story of the human heart, broken and otherwise, but Porter and Dolly became the gold standard for me and remain so to this day. At a time when the airwaves and ipods spew out bloodless and over-calculated offerings of a once venerable genre, this is the real deal, my friends -- country music the way God intended. And if there is a radio station in heaven, Porter and Dolly will always be in heavy rotation.' --Emmylou Harris, Nashville, January 2014. Porter and Dolly had even more than the playfulness and sexual chemistry of Conway Twitty-Loretta Lynn and the high psychodrama of Tammy Wynette-George Jones. Because they were both great songwriters, they wrote songs that mirrored their lives and brought an uncommon variety to their music. Both of them dressed in high hillbilly glamor -- like no one else before or since. Neither of them was afraid to make a splash."
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"We've added 3 previously unreleased recordings: 'Blues Is A Woman', 'A Little Les Of Lou's Blues', and an alternative version of 'Stormy Monday' - to the original LP! Carefully remastered by Master & Servant and pressed on 180-gram vinyl. When Lou Rawls (1933-2006) entered the recording studio in LA in February 1962 to record his first album, Stormy Monday in collaboration with Les McCann's combo, hardly anyone could have guessed what success and popularity the black singer, songwriter, producer and film actor would achieve in the coming decades. In 1966 he made his breakthrough with 'Love Is A Hurtin' Thing' and reached the top of the R&B charts. Four years earlier the situation was different. Rawls had grown up in the south side of Chicago, got in touch with gospel music early, met Curtis Mayfield and replaced Sam Cooke in the Highway QC's a few years later. At eighteen, he moved to the West Coast, released his first recordings, and created a masterpiece along with jazz pianist Les McCann, a prototype of the cool jazz/blues melange so characteristic for the LA music scene. The silky deep baritone voice carries the reinterpretations of such famous blues classics as '(They Call It) Stormy Monday', 'See See See Rider', 'I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town' or 'In The Evening When The Sun Goes Down'. Lou Rawls just possesses that voice! But besides the song selection and Lou Rawls' goose-bump producing voice, the small combo of Les McCann -- also known as Ltd. -- must be credited for the incredibly coherent production. Part of the recordings were made during a night session, which must be regarded as one of the gentlest and most relaxed recording sessions in history. With Stormy Monday Rawls and McCann turn away from the then popular 'Neo-Gospel' or 'Soul-Jazz'. Their wonderful arrangements are reminiscent of the great R&B of the early 50s. The result: pure electricity! In other words: one of the most beautiful cool jazz/blues albums of its time!"
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"It's quite astonishing that rock n' roll music was as popular in Brazil's blazing heat of the year 1956 as elsewhere. This is proved through this 10" album, a reissue of an original Brazilian 1956 Bill Haley & His Comets platter, which is one of the rarest amongst hard-to-find albums, today. Bill Haley & His Comets already started to rock around the world with 'Rock Around The Clock' in 1955 which was also the title song in the movie Blackboard Jungle. He became the first boss of rock and he eventually also reached the country of Brazil in 1956. Haley got millions of fans in Brazil and therefore he went on several tours throughout the country of Brazil during the following years. It started with two movies starring Bill Haley & His Comets, 'Rock Around The Clock', and 'Don't Knock The Rock', which found their ways into Brazilian movie theaters resulting into decisions by the record company Decca to issue Haley's records in slightly different forms in Brazil as well. Those platters are some of today's most sought-after collector's items because of their limited ordinance. Besides the title track on 'See You Later, Alligator - rock n' roll com Bill Haley e seus Cometas', there are more hit-songs such as The Saints rock n' roll, an adaption of the late standard 'When The Saints Go Marching In', 'Teenager's Mother (Are You Right?)', plus some songs from the above mentioned movies, including the breath-taking instrumental 'Rudy's Rock', which features Haley's saxophone-man, Rudy Pompilli. All these songs are not only music history but dancefloor fillers! This music gets you in the mood to dance, to rock around the clock! We added two bonus tracks to the song line-up of the original album for your extra pleasure. Both bonus tracks were recorded in 1956. 'Two Hound Dogs' could've been meant as an answer song to Presley's 'Hound Dog'. The second bonus song, 'Hide And Seek', is sung by Billy Williamson of the Comets."
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BAF 218049LP
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"1970 was a busy and exciting year for The Petards consisting of Klaus and Horst Ebert, Roger Waldmann and Arno Dittrich. With Hitshock, they had released a successful album, they had performed in theatres of Bremen and the Ruhr area; they had performed in the legendary 'Olympia' in Paris and had played some 150 concerts. Want even more statistics? The band was on the radio in 1970 no less than 800 times, and of course the band was on the top of the relevant annual polls of the music press everywhere! From November to December 1970 the band was back in the studio to record their fourth album. Their label Liberty had generously given them a double album, four LP sides had to be filled. No problem for the creative Ebert brothers, Klaus and Horst, who once again were responsible for writing all the songs. This time the band wasn't accommodated in Munich's Trixi Studio where the previous albums had been recorded. Instead, they stayed with sound guru Dieter Dierks in the trendy Dierks Studio in Stommeln. Siggi Loch was not present at the sessions, the band and Klaus Ebert in particular acted as producers themselves. The result was the band's most experimental album, a colorful kaleidoscope with strong psychedelic tracks. The songs got out longer and more unusual, the band didn't care about the radio compatibility of the earlier albums. They had fun and tested what was possible. A great album, which surely belongs to the best what at that time came out of German studios. Pet Arts was released on March 31, 1971. Bear Family releases this sought-after double album - back in its original artwork - on 180 gram vinyl for the first time."
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"10inch LP in gatefold sleeve, 12 tracks. Total playing time 26:35 minutes. 'The 'Cat Music' within this album is the nucleus of rockabilly and features: Tex Harper aka Rudy Preston and Harry Head with Tommy Scott and his Ramblers. Musically it is an amazing fusion of Hillbilly, Western Swing, a touch of Rhythm 'n' Blues bonded together with strong influences from Bill Haley. Our musical journey commences in 1954 and the musical world for songs with a rock beat was in its infancy, and Elvis Presley was still a regional artist and Bill Haley in prominence ruled supreme! The recordings on this album are an amalgamation of country and the big beat of rock 'n' roll, and this new hybrid of music would become known as 'Cat Music'. The main point is to clear up the distinction of the artists featured on this 12 track album. Musically the band was under the direction of Tommy Scott and His Ramblers, and Freddie Jean Harper to give him his full name was employed as the vocalist. Harper recorded under several alter-egos: Tex Harper, Rudy Preston and Harry Head and he is the main featured singer on ten of the songs and is the rhythm guitarist, pianist, or drummer on eight tracks. The two side closing bonus songs feature vocals by Sam 'Bo Bo' Baxter and Tommy Scott. Harper musically is something exceptional and each and every performance has 'hit' written all over them! Perhaps due to him being one of the ground breaking artists with the new 'Cat Music', being signed to the notorious Four Star label or the use of other performing names, something prevented his musical accreditation. This 10 inch album although hillbilly rooted transcends hillbilly music, engulfs rockabilly and moves into the rock 'n' roll genre, and as Rudy Preston you hear the Presley influence albeit from the next decade.' --Mark Armstrong Bühl"
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"Carefully transferred from cardboard. Mastering was a challenge! Compared to the raw material, the result sounds surprisingly good. Only one '50s rocker made his debut single as a tie-in with Orange Crush soda pop. Lennie LaCour's one-sided cardboard seven-inch 78 rpm pressing of 'Rock-N-Roll Romance' came attached to six-packs of the carbonated beverage in 1956, causing quite a sensation around Chicago and surrounding regions. LaCour waxed another jackhammer blazer, 'Rockin' Rosalie', as a separate platter on Chicago's Academy imprint. The super-rare original 'Rock-N-Roll Romance' from that long-ago soda pop freebie 78 graces one side of this delightful single, backed with Lennie's Academy release 'Rockin' Rosalie' -- rendering it a virtual greatest hits 45. So pop open a cold Orange Crush and prepare to hit the dance floor -- Lennie LaCour's rocking the house! Born outside of Natchitoches, Louisiana and largely of French Creole descent, LaCour developed into a multi-faceted entity: singer, songwriter, and eventually producer and label owner. Lennie migrated up to Chicago and sang with Al Peterson's orchestra before winning a contest to sing a rock and roll jingle for Orange Crush, and he was off and running. After his Academy stint was over, LaCour was advised by Leonard Chess to launch his own label, so he formed the Lucky Four logo, issuing No Privacy under his own name and then as The Big Rocker in 1961. Relocating to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Lennie established another imprint, Magic Touch, that released seminal soul singles by Harvey Scales & The 7 Sounds led by their killer '67 two-sider 'Get Down' b/w 'Love Itis'. The maverick producer continued to record right into the 21st Century."
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BAF 18047LP
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"After the success of their debut album A Deeper Blue in late 1967, The Petards were unstoppable. 1968 was to be another decisive year. Sigi Loch, then young record company boss in Munich, discovered the band and signed them to his label Liberty. The Schrecksbach band consisting of the brothers Klaus (vocals, guitar, keyboards) and Horst Ebert (vocals, guitar, piano), Roger Waldmann (bass, vocals) and Arno Dittrich (drums) was now in prominent company, because Amon Düül II, Krokodil and The Can were also under contract with Sigi Loch. In July, The Petards recorded their first single for Liberty, Pretty Liza b/w Rainbows & Butterflies at the Munich Trixi recording studio, directed by Sigi Loch. A respect success, of course from the pen of the two Ebert brothers. The four musicians had long since become stars in their Hessian homeland, and intensive touring has also made them famous in the rest of Germany. In 1968 alone, The Petards played 270 gigs, including a handful of shows in what was then Czechoslovakia, where the band was enthusiastically received. Their performance in Pilzen was even broadcast live on Czech radio! The band still lived with their roadies in the Ebert family home in Schrecksbach, the band's rural headquarters.Shortly before the CSSR tour in October 1968, the band returned to the Trixi recording studio in Munich to record their second album under the direction of Sigi Loch. The band had already tried out many of the songs live at their countless live shows, so the recording sessions were fast and professional. The Trixi recording studio was already known at that time for its great technical equipment, and the band enjoyed audibly trying out the versatile possibilities of the existing equipment. The Petards was a significant move forward compared to the debut A Deeper Blue, which affected both the songs (of course all written by the Ebert brothers) and the performance in the studio..."
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BAF 14002LP
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"Two versions of Ric Cartey's first recorded composition topped the pop hit parade in early 1957. Ric's own rendition of 'Young Love', which he'd written with fellow teenager Carole Joyner, wasn't one of them. The honors went instead to country singer Sonny James and neophyte pop crooner Tab Hunter. That didn't stop Cartey from subsequently cutting enough solid rockers for RCA Victor, NRC, and his own El Rico label to fill this 10-incher. Cartey was one of the first young singers on Atlanta's rock and roll scene. Born there on January 18, 1937, Whaley Thomas Cartey found a kindred musical spirit in guitarist Charlie Broome, the two performing locally as a duo. Broome dreamed up the distinctive guitar introduction to Young Love. Ric and Charlie's band, The Jiva-Tones (as their name was spelled on the record label) cut 'Young Love' in 1956. On the other side sat the blistering rocker 'Oooh-Eeee'. Jerry Reed was playing the electric guitar here. RCA acquired Ric's original for national consumption. Jerry Reed wrote the highly animated 'I Wancha To Know' as one side of Cartey's encore, returning to supply dazzling acoustic lead guitar. Then RCA sent Cartey to Nashville in March of '57 to work with producer Chet Atkins (Reed remained his lead guitarist, sharing fret duties with Jack Eubanks). Later on, Cartey gravitated over to the recently established NRC label in 1958 to wax 'Scratching On My Screen', a romping variation on Washboard Sam's 1939 blues 'Diggin' My Potatoes' for Bluebird Records. Ric seems to have been a Chicago blues fan. He later revisited Mellow Down Easy on his own El Rico label with more of an R&B feel, issuing it under the concise alias of Rex (no last name). Although 'Young Love' was Cartey's calling card for the rest of his life (he died August 5, 2009 in his adopted hometown of Palm Harbor, Florida), he left us a legacy filled with rollicking rockabilly."
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"Geater Davis never achieved the recognition and the commercial success that he had deserved. 1:1 re-issue of his finest album with the original artwork, originally released on the House of Orange record label. Carefully re-mastered for pristine sound quality. Soul/blues singer/songwriter Vernon 'Geater' Davis (1946-1984) was born in Kountze, Texas. When record producer Allen Orange heard Geater and another singer, Reuben Bell, perform he decided to record both in Birmingham, Alabama. It was the start of his own record label in 1970, House of Orange. One of the label's first releases was Sweet Woman's Love by Geater Davis which went up to #45 on the Billboard R&B charts. His follow-up releases did not follow-up on the initial success. After House of Orange closed its doors in 1972, Geater went on to record for several smaller independent record labels like 77, Ace, and MT, and he continued to write or at least, co-write his own songs. With the exception of 'Your Heart Is So Cold' in 1973 which reached #64 on the Billboard R&B charts, his records did not sell particularly well. But Geater toured extensively on the chitlin circuits for a soul and blues audience. He died of a heart attack in Dallas, Texas in 1984. He was barely 38 years old. Geater Davis never achieved major success and stardom. This vinyl re-issue of the legendary House of Orange LPS-6000 should put the limelight on one of the most talented soul singers from the South."
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"11 classic soul and R&B numbers including 'The Dark End of the Street', 'You Send Me', 'Drown In My Own Tears', 'I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)', and 'Just Out of Reach (Of My Two Empty Arms)', a country song already a hit for Faron Young, Patsy Cline and Solomon Burke. Reissue with the original artwork, carefully re-mastered for Bear Family's exquisite 180 gram vinyl release. The American soul, R&B, and gospel singer Percy 'Tyrone' Sledge (1940-2015) will always be remembered for recording 'When A Man Loves A Woman', an epochal Southern soul hymn. The million-selling tune was released on Atlantic Records in March 1966 and went to the top of the US R&B and pop charts. It was Atlantic's first gold record! Although he recorded up-tempo tunes as well, Sledge achieved his strongest success when devoting himself largely to mid-tempo tunes and soul ballads and lyrics dealing with the emotions of loss and desire. The Percy Sledge Way was originally released on Atlantic in 1967 and finds Sledge at the top of his game. The album, here reissued in its original form, contains eleven classic soul and R&B numbers including 'The Dark End of the Street', 'You Send Me', 'Drown In My Own Tears', 'I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)', and 'Just Out of Reach (Of My Two Empty Arms)', a country song already a hit for Faron Young, Patsy Cline and Solomon Burke. Spooner Oldham and Jerry Weaver are featured on piano and organ, Eddie Hinton, Jimmy Johnson and Marlin Green are the guitar players, it's David Hood on bass and Roger Hawkins on drums -- some of the finest Southern soul studio musicians."
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"Appearing in Los Angeles were Joan Baez, Jack Elliott, Arlo Guthrie, Odetta, Country Joe McDonald, Richie Havens, Earl Robinson and Pete Seeger. The house band included members of Swampwater and Ry Cooder. Originally released on two LPs In addition, the fabulous 2017 set on Bear Family contains: Twenty never before released tracks! Bonus tracks include interviews with Judy Collins, Jack Elliott, Arlo Guthrie, Country Joe McDonald, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, and Pete Seeger. Rare photos and never before seen stills from the Hollywood Bowl show film masters. Essays by Will Kaufman, Wenzel, and Sean Wilentz. Reproduction of the original 1972 TRO Concert Book includes historic and concert photos with music notations and lyrics. When Woody Guthrie died on October 3, 1967, after a stubborn fifteen year bout with Huntington's Disease, a lot of people who had known him, worked with him, or just sung his songs felt a spontaneous desire to do something. A 'Tribute to Woody Guthrie' was planned for two performances at Carnegie Hall on January 20th, 1968. The list of artists joined Woody's own friends and peers with the next generation of songwriters and musicians just coming into their own. Appearing at the January concert were Judy Collins, Bob Dylan (in the first public appearance after his motorcycle accident in 1966 with members of The Band), Jack Elliott, Arlo Guthrie, Richie Havens, Odetta, Tom Paxton, Pete Seeger. Actors Will Geer and Robert Ryan narrated the program. Both performances were sold out an hour after tickets went on sale. Those fortunate enough to attend participated in one of the most exciting and remarkable musical experiences of all time. Two years later, eighteen thousand people attended the west coast Tribute which took place on September 12, 1970, at the Hollywood Bowl."
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Gatefold sleeve. "His most frantic recordings besides his classic hits from the 1950s and most likely the best LP album he ever recorded. Little Richard is regarded one of the wildest and most frantic rock 'n' rollers, ever. The Explosive Little Richard is his mid-sixties comeback album and his first LP under the label of the revitalized Columbia subsidiary, OKeh. Produced by Larry Williams and Johnny 'Guitar' Watson, it reflects the popular soul sounds of that time. Little Richard had gone full throttle for the powerful northern soul thang. This set contains some of the finest up-tempo soul anthems ever recorded, including 'I Don't Want To Discuss It', 'Money' and 'Get Down And Get With It'. Bear Family's 2LP Deluxe set contains the original vinyl LP album (sides A and B), augmented with a second long player which runs at 45RPM containing outtakes, non-LP tracks and a late 1966 London session, all first time on vinyl. Previously unpublished photos and new liner notes by Chicago soul afficionado Bill Dahl are added for maximum explosivity!"
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BCD 17352CD
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"His complete recordings 1941-1962! Songs include the original versions of 'Rock Me Mamma', 'That's All Right', 'My Baby Left Me', 'Mean Ol' Frisco', 'So Glad You're Mine', and many more! Newly researched biography by award-winning blues journalist Bill Dahl. Rare and exclusive photos! In the world of music, there was never anyone quite like Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup. Rooted in the Mississippi Delta, his style was propulsive, melodic, original, and profoundly soulful. If he wasn't 'The Father of Rock 'n' Roll', as one LP proclaimed, there's no doubt that rock 'n' roll owes a debt to his songs, including 'That's All Right Mama', 'My Baby Left Me', 'Rock Me Mamma', 'So Glad You're Mine', and 'Mean Ol' Frisco Blues', as much as to his tight, swinging brand of rural blues. Arthur Crudup was in his thirties when he made his first recordings in 1941 and recorded prolifically until his death in 1974. This set includes his complete recordings from 1941 until 1962, including every extant song from RCA and its associated labels, as well as his sides for Trumpet, Checker, Ace, and Fire. Over one hundred recordings in all. An expressive singer and a true poet of the blues, Arthur Crudup certainly deserves to be known as the guy who wrote three songs that Elvis Presley recorded during the fifties, but he was a towering musician in his own right. His influence didn't end at Elvis Presley. In addition to all those that Elvis influenced, countless other blues and rock musicians adapted his songs and his sweet, lyrical style. These 124 songs on 5 CDs are complemented by a 68-page book by Bill Dahl, rare photos, and a newly researched discography."
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"Bear Family DeLuxe first time ever vinyl reissue of this essential and extremely hard-to-find album, originally released on Bell Records in 1973. Country, soul and funk: 'Cosmic American Music'. He co-wrote classic soul hits with Chips Moman or Spooner Oldham like 'The Dark End Of The Street', 'Do Right Woman Do Right Man', 'I Met Her In Church', and 'Sweet Inspiration'. He produced 'The Letter' by the Box Tops. Beyond all question: essential! 180gram vinyl re-issue with gatefold sleeve. Original artwork. Vinyl reissue of country-soul icon and ingenious songwriter Dan Penn's debut album, originally released on Bell Records in 1973, a favorite of serious music lovers. Although not containing any of his popular 1960s trademark songs, Nobody's Fool presents a great deal of moving tunes like the hardcore honky-tonk jewel 'Tearjoint', or the extra tough 'I Hate You'. Mixed and produced by Dan Penn."
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Gatefold sleeve. "14 rare/unreleased recordings. Guest appearances by Paul Horn, Eartha Kitt, and more. 180 gram vinyl. Fully annotated, with never before seen pictures. By now psychedelic music is a mainstay of popular taste. But questions of its origins still linger. As such, Bear Family Records now submits Wild Boy: The Lost Songs Of Eden Ahbez as fresh evidence in the quest for answers. Over the past twenty years Ahbez has gone from cult figure to harbinger of the sixties flower-power movement. This notion is born out largely by his 1948 anthem of universal love, 'Nature Boy', and his rare solo album from 1960, titled Eden's Island -- one of popular music's earliest concept albums. Wild Boy: The Lost Songs Of Eden Ahbez both expands the Ahbez catalog and deepens the notion of a psychedelic movement having roots in the 1950s. Side one acts as a compilation of music that Ahbez wrote in the aftermath of 'Nature Boy'. Inclusion of songs like 'Palm Springs' by the Ray Anthony Orchestra and 'Hey Jacque' by Eartha Kitt give listeners the chance to hear obscure cuts by big-name artists in the context of Ahbez for the first time. Side two shows the songwriter inching closer to Eden's Island and the actual hippie movement, with absurdist rock/exotica tracks like 'Wild Boy' and 'Surfer John', as well as sweet psych-pop like the unreleased Monterey (featuring Paul Horn on the flute). The album ends with an unreleased cut, titled 'The Clam Man', which Ahbez recorded as an ode to a fellow bearded hermit down in Baja, CA. In total, Wild Boy: The Lost Songs Of Eden Ahbez offers seven unreleased cuts and as many rare singles to produce an overview of the songwriter's lost work from 1949-71. What Ahbez misses in hallucinogenic content, he more than makes up for with his primitive chord structures, expansive arrangements, and lyrics about travel, leisure, free-love, and spirituality. As such, the canon of psychedelic music and that of Hippie #1 just got bigger."
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CRS 505EP
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"Three 45s (singles) in an exclusive slipcase, strictly limited to 500 copies, worldwide. Recorded in Port of Spain, Trinidad 1976-79. Reissued here for the first time, ever! Including the first solo recordings of Carl & Carol Jacobs. 'I Wanna Give You Everything' is a cult anthem on the northern soul scene. At the beginning of the 1970s young musicians from the Carribbean Trinidad and Tobago began questioning the basic musical order. Calypso music, well-tried and getting a bit long in the tooth, had started its international triumphal procession during the 1950s. It was soon to be enhanced by American soul, funk, rock, and psychedelia laying the foundation for a new musical direction called, Soca, the Soul of Calypso."
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CRS 507EP
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"The first 45 w/ picture sleeve in a serious of previously not reissued soul/funk music from Namibia, Africa."
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