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Me & the Devil
:Album Description:2008 three CD set featuring two discs of Peter Green's award-winning recordings of bluesman Robert Johnson classics plus a third disc containing Johnson's own recordings of the songs that made him a legend. The 29 songs that Robert Johnson recorded in various Texas hotel rooms in 1936 and 1937 are amongst the most significant and influential works in the history of Blues music. It was thus very appropriate that it was to these landmark songs that Peter Green turned when recording the two albums which have done so much to ...
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The Sugar Hill Records Story
: :Easily the two most overused words in music criticism are essential and classic. That said, this five-CD box set is all that and a bag of chips to boot. Back in the late 1970s, the small Sugar Hill Records label changed the nature of the rap genre with the music, made with a live band, that they released--and the beats still sound on point today. This box set features tracks from Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Sequence, the Sugarhill Gang, the Funky 4 + 1, and the Treacherous 3 (to ...
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The Chess Box
: essential recording:You can't have too much Etta James. Really. This long-overdue collection of the singer's Chess recordings includes much of her best work. Three CDs' worth. 72 tracks. Shivers abound just thinking about it. Of course, all the songs you'd expect are here: 'I Just Want to Make Love to You,' 'Spoonful,' 'Something's Got a Hold on Me,' 'Tell Mama,' and, naturally, 'At Last,' among many, many others. But you don't need me to convince you why Etta James is worth hearing; what you want to know is, is this ...
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The Illinois Jacquet Story
:Album Description:Jacquet was the tenor saxophonist who informed the world that something new in tenor sax stylings had been forged with his famous solo on Lionel Hampton's 'Flying Home' in 1942. The master of the Texas tenor style proves his versatility & command of the horn in this four CD set that ranges from stomping swingers to romantic ballads & hown-home blues performances. Among the supporting cast on this essential 79 track set are, Charles Mingus, Sir Charles Thompson, Johnny Otis, Shadow Wilson, Bill Doggett & Art Blakey. Includes 40 page ...
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Cool Cool Blues: The Classic Sides 1951-1954
:Album Description:Jacquet was the tenor saxophonist who informed the world that something new in tenor sax stylings had been forged with his famous solo on Lionel Hampton's 'Flying Home' in 1942. The master of the Texas tenor style proves his versatility & command of the horn in this four CD set that ranges from stomping swingers to romantic ballads & hown-home blues performances. Among the supporting cast on this essential 79 track set are, Charles Mingus, Sir Charles Thompson, Johnny Otis, Shadow Wilson, Bill Doggett & Art Blakey. Includes 40 page ...
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Blues Harmonica Masterclass
: :3-CD box set with with instructional CDs & accompanying book is a comprehensive & easy-to-use lesson on how to learn to play the harmonica. Portnoy, who's been in the Muddy Waters & Eric Clapton bands, realized other instructional materials put all of the explanations into the text of a book, and the accompanying sound reference consisted only of playing examples, so Jerry put everything on the CDs so you don't have to switch back & forth between the two. He starts at the very beginning on how to hold the ...
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The Cobra Records Story
: :Cobra was the exception, a label that took its personality from its A&R chief rather than its owner. Eli Toscano, who owned a record shop in West Chicago, founded the label in 1956, but he left the artistic decisions to his in-house songwriter-producer-bassist Willie Dixon, who had just left Chess Records in a money dispute. Dixon was a great talent scout, and he snatched the three best performers of the Chicago blues' second generation--Otis Rush, Buddy Guy, and Magic Sam-- right out from under the Chess brothers' noses. He wrote them ...
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The Bill Broonzy Story
: :Originally recorded in 1957, these sessions turned out to be the last the legendary Big Bill Broonzy would record; only a little over a year later, he succumbed to lung cancer. This collection consists not of fan or producer favorites, but Broonzy favorites, and includes a variety of blues, folk, and devotional music. Though he was instrumental to the development of the blues and the Chicago sound, much of the material on this three-disc set reaches back to the music that the blues came from, with a lot of drop-in help ...
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Goin' Mad Blues
: :Originally recorded in 1957, these sessions turned out to be the last the legendary Big Bill Broonzy would record; only a little over a year later, he succumbed to lung cancer. This collection consists not of fan or producer favorites, but Broonzy favorites, and includes a variety of blues, folk, and devotional music. Though he was instrumental to the development of the blues and the Chicago sound, much of the material on this three-disc set reaches back to the music that the blues came from, with a lot of drop-in help ...
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Masters of Memphis Blues
: :Originally recorded in 1957, these sessions turned out to be the last the legendary Big Bill Broonzy would record; only a little over a year later, he succumbed to lung cancer. This collection consists not of fan or producer favorites, but Broonzy favorites, and includes a variety of blues, folk, and devotional music. Though he was instrumental to the development of the blues and the Chicago sound, much of the material on this three-disc set reaches back to the music that the blues came from, with a lot of drop-in help ...
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