Box Sets Blues

	Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey by: Various Artists :Album Description:Full title - Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues - A Musical Journey. Five-CD deluxe boxed set includes a comprehensive collection of the music from the seven films airing on PBS. A definitive overview of blues, from its earliest recordings over 80 years ago, to contemporary artists and new recordings made specifically for The Blues. Music from the PBS Series The Blues, executive produced by acclaimed filmmaker Martin Scorsese. 116 tracks on 5 CDs, plus 60-page collector's booklet ...
	The Complete Aladdin Recordings by: Lightnin' Hopkins : essential recording:Forty-three tracks of the seminal bluesman's recordings for Aladdin in the 1940s, The Complete Aladdin Recordings is a must-hear. Performing alone with his guitar or with sparse accompaniment--usually pianist Wilson 'Thunder' Smith--Lightnin' dishes out the best of Texas country-blues. Starting off with 'Katie May,' Hopkins's first recording for Aladdin, the two-CD set winds its way through the guitarist's years with the label, showcasing what he was up to before his decline in popularity and eventual revival ...
	Led Zeppelin Remasters by: Led Zeppelin :Album Description:European only highlights collection compiled from the box-set originally released in 1992 but without the interview disc and at a much better price. 26 tracks on two CDs and featuring the original box-sets cover art. All the big hits are here, including 'Communication Breakdown', 'Heartbreaker', St airway To Heaven', 'Kashmir' and more. Slimline double jewel case.
	Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection by: Ray Charles : essential recording:If anyone deserves his own section in record stores, it's Ray Charles. Witness this Charles box set, a full five-disc career retrospective that follows smaller packages concentrating on his early R&B (The Birth of Soul) and Blues + Jazz work. In addition to those styles, we get Ray's stabs at Nat 'King' Cole/Charles Brown urban blues ('Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand'), handfuls of country songs ('I Can't Stop Loving You'), definitive readings of the American ...
	The Long Road to Freedom: An Anthology of Black Music by: Various Artists : :Decades after its conception, Harry Belafonte's enormously ambitious project has come to a rewarding fruition with the release of this lovingly produced and beautifully packaged collection. Between 1961 and 1971, Belafonte sought to create a comprehensive document of what he calls 'African-matrixed music': 'African rooted, Africa as origin, evolved from an original African form.' The rough timeframe Belafonte follows begins with the arrival of blacks in America in the early 17th century and ends at the dawn of ...
	The Birth Of Soul : The Complete Atlantic Rhythm & Blues Recordings, 1952-1959 by: Ray Charles : essential recording:Though this is not the most recent Ray Charles box set collection, it may be the best. That's because it focuses on Ray's great growth in the 1950s, particularly his days with Atlantic Records. The set opens with Ray still in a Charles Brown, smooth-voice, mellow-piano mode, but in short order, he discovers his own identity. From the good time of 'It Should Have Been Me' on disc one, though the orgiastic 'What'd I Say, Parts ...
	Roots of Rock N Roll: 1946-1954 by: Various Artists : essential recording:Though this is not the most recent Ray Charles box set collection, it may be the best. That's because it focuses on Ray's great growth in the 1950s, particularly his days with Atlantic Records. The set opens with Ray still in a Charles Brown, smooth-voice, mellow-piano mode, but in short order, he discovers his own identity. From the good time of 'It Should Have Been Me' on disc one, though the orgiastic 'What'd I Say, Parts ...
	The Complete Johnny Mercer Songbook by: Various Artists : essential recording:Though this is not the most recent Ray Charles box set collection, it may be the best. That's because it focuses on Ray's great growth in the 1950s, particularly his days with Atlantic Records. The set opens with Ray still in a Charles Brown, smooth-voice, mellow-piano mode, but in short order, he discovers his own identity. From the good time of 'It Should Have Been Me' on disc one, though the orgiastic 'What'd I Say, Parts ...
	Roots Music: An American Journey by: Various Artists : :No independent label has surveyed a wider, deeper expanse of the American musical grain than Rounder Records has done since 1971. In celebrating the label's 30th anniversary, this budget-priced anthology presents 68 gems from the archives without duplicating a single artist. Rather than a linear progression through time or genre, the four-disc set hopscotches all over the musical map, from the blues of Mississippi Fred McDowell to the bluegrass of Alison Krauss, from the Texas country of Jimmie ...
	The Definitive Charley Patton by: Charley Patton : :No independent label has surveyed a wider, deeper expanse of the American musical grain than Rounder Records has done since 1971. In celebrating the label's 30th anniversary, this budget-priced anthology presents 68 gems from the archives without duplicating a single artist. Rather than a linear progression through time or genre, the four-disc set hopscotches all over the musical map, from the blues of Mississippi Fred McDowell to the bluegrass of Alison Krauss, from the Texas country of Jimmie ...