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Walk a Mile in My Shoes: The Essential 70's Masters
: :Elvis Presley's music in the 1970s is often dismissed as the bombastic, half-hearted hack work of an overweight, pill-addicted, badly dressed has-been. In the liner notes to this five-CD set, Dave Marsh argues that Presley, in fact, created a more impressive body of work in the '70s than almost any other pop act. And the music on this massive anthology backs Marsh up. Stripping away all the garish live recordings and album filler, the package concentrates on a core of 120 songs--the A- and B-sides ...
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Selected Works: 1972-1999
: :It's tough to forecast which bands are built for the long run. The Eagles emerged as part of a genre (country rock) that proved to be a passing fancy. And with two talented frontmen sharing the spotlight, how could artistic differences be fended off for long? But, of course, Don Henley, Glenn Frey, and the boys had a juggernaut on their hands, generating a dozen top 10 hits in their initial eight-year spurt. Selected Works: 1972-1999 gathers all the highlights from the group in all ...
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Complete Sun Masters
:Album Description:Amazing 2008 three CD anthology of Johnny's recordings for the legendary Sun Records label. Filled with finished masters, alternate takes, demos and more rarities, this is the absolute finest collection of Johnny's early recordings available. Contains 101 tracks ranging from Rockabilly and Country to early Rock 'N' Roll and more. Tracks include 'Folsom Prison Blues', 'I Walk The Line', 'Cry Cry Cry', 'Train Of Love', 'Rock Island Line' and many more. Snapper.
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The Doors Box Set
: :\N :Unlike many a box-set retrospective, this 1997 four-CD collection is clearly tailored for Doors aficionados rather than those curious but not overly familiar with the legendary '60s band's career and oeuvre. The first three discs are filled with previously unreleased live tracks and other rarities, such as the band's early demos, which found them slowly building a foundation stemming from each member's clear strengths and influences: Manzarek's classical background, Densmore's jazz, Krieger's rock, and Morrison's blues. Disc 4 features 'band favorites' rather than ...
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The Doo Wop Box, Vol. 2
: :The second set of Rhino Records' The Doo Wop Box includes such gems as Robert & Johnny's 'We Belong Together,' Gene Chandler's 'Duke of Earl' and the Robins' original version of Leiber & Stoller's 'Smokey Joe's Café.' The box set contains 39 Top 30 R&B hits plus such pop smashes as the Platters' 'My Prayer,' the Clovers' 'Love Potion No. 9,' Dion & the Belmonts' 'Where or When,' the Crests' 'Step by Step,' the Marcels' 'Heartaches' and Don & Juan's 'What's Your Name.' Putting more ...
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A Half Century of Hits
:Album Description:Jerry Lee Lewis has dominated every stage he walked on for fifty years and out-lasted virtually every critic along the way. The last survivor of the Million Dollar Quartet session at Sun, which included Elvis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash, his presence remains indomitable. He’s recognized by his powerful musical and performance style and his unique personality. A prodigious piano player, Lewis plays with uncontrolled fury and abandon and is never at a loss for words. He’s a rock ‘n roller who could never ...
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All Good Things: Jerry Garcia Studio Sessions
:Album Description:One of the most celebrated figures in all of rock 'n' roll, beloved Grateful Dead lead guitarist, vocalist, and eternal good-will ambassador Jerry Garcia pursued an eclectic array of folk, bluegrass, roots-rock, Motown and R&B-influenced side projects throughout his storied career. Both acoustic and electric, solo and jamming with the Jerry Garcia Band, his albums apart from the massive output of Dead releases capture the diverse talents of an incomparable music legend. Spanning 1972-1982, this historic boxed set collects Garcia's five solo studio albums ...
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The Classic Collection
:Album Description:Budget-priced 1997 release from Castle's Pulse label, a fourdisc box with 80 of the pop vocalist's finest recordings!Features many great covers & all 15 of her U.S. top 40 hits,including the #1 smashes 'Downtown' & 'My Love', plus 'WhoAm I?', 'I Know A Pl
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Thirty Years of Funk: 1969-1999
: :Leave it to music critics to completely miss the train. Despite a uniformly bad reception from the press and initial cold shouldering from radio DJs, Grand Funk Railroad became the ultimate word-of-mouth legend, emerging from a nonpaid opening gig at the Atlanta Pop Festival on July 4, 1969, to rack up 10 platinum albums and a host of Top-40 singles. The chemistry between Mark Farner, Don Brewer, and Mel Schacher percolated into a soulful, heartland rock & roll style that made them one of the ...
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The Pet Sounds Sessions
: :Released in 1966 to tepid sales (and hence causing no small amount of grumbling among the notoriously fractious band members), Brian Wilson's Rubber Soul-inspired album of 'spiritual love' eventually became one of pop music's most celebrated artistic accomplishments. Paul McCartney would later claim that Pet Sounds in turn inspired the Beatles' magnum opus, Sgt. Pepper. This four-disc box set offers an unprecedented deconstruction of Wilson's masterpiece, taking fans, armchair scholars, and musicians on a compelling creative journey. Leading off with what once was heresy--a complete ...
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Diesel vehicles have nearly a 50-percent market share in Europe, thanks to tax incentives and diesel-friendly legislation across the EU. Diesels are so passé there that you can buy a BMW 730d and no one will think it odd that your luxury car burns oil. Pull up in a diesel 7-Series in America and people would leer at you like you've alighted from an amphibious vehicle reeking of saltwater and dead trout.