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The Paramount Masters
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Let the Good Times Roll: The Complete Decca Recordings 1938-54
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Roots Music: An American Journey
: :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 Dale Gilmore to the Celtic fiddle of Natalie MacMaster. Some of the juxtapositions ...
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Original Source
:Album Description:UK budget-price box-set for one of the inventors of the new blues, that is the blues one hears today as played by BB, Albert & Freddy King, Gatemouth Brown, Eric Clapton, Chuck Berry & numerous blues-influenced rock groups. T.Bone Walker was the first bluesman to play the electric guitar, a renowned showman who electrified his audiences. He is the original source. 90 tracks are included in this set & the 44 page booklet tells the story of one of the great musical innovators of the 20th century. 4 standard jewel ...
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Stardust: The Complete Capitol Recordings 1955-1959
:Album Description:Cole's baritone was sweet and many of his successes were with love songs, but he was equally well-versed in swinging rhythm numbers and blues. Cole was a founding father of R&B and a major influence on soul. He collaborated closely with the greatest pop orchestrators of all time. This Bear Family box contains Cole's complete recordings, all done for Capitol Records in the years 1955-1959. The 11CDs and 298 tracks contain a combination of Cole's most famous and most obscure work: the two piano-centric albums of 1955-'56: The Piano Style ...
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Queen of the Blues Volume 1
:Album Description:Bessie Smith was not the first to record a blues - indeed her early career was not even as a blues singer - yet she stands astride the genre like a colossus. As well as her fame as an entertainer, she was a formidable human being. She simply refused to recognise opposition - incredibly, one night in 1927, she faced down the feared Ku Klux Klan. She was born poor in 1894, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Both parents died while Bessie was still young and she was raised by her older ...
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Cool Cool Blues: The Classic Sides 1951-1954
:Album Description:Bessie Smith was not the first to record a blues - indeed her early career was not even as a blues singer - yet she stands astride the genre like a colossus. As well as her fame as an entertainer, she was a formidable human being. She simply refused to recognise opposition - incredibly, one night in 1927, she faced down the feared Ku Klux Klan. She was born poor in 1894, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Both parents died while Bessie was still young and she was raised by her older ...
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The Complete Cole Porter Songbooks
: :It's rare that a great tunesmith is also a great lyricist, but Porter was both, and the formal perfection of his best songs made them favorites among both singers and instrumentalists. These three discs (two vocal, one instrumental) raid the archives for renditions by jazz types (from Ella Fitzgerald to Roland Kirk), more straightforward pop singers, and a few ringers, like Fred Astaire, who does nicely by 'I Concentrate on You.' The singers love Porter for the depth, wittiness, and just-repressed-enough sentimentality of his lyrics, and for the melodies clustered around ...
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Richer Tradition: Country Blues and String Band Music 1923-1942
: :It's rare that a great tunesmith is also a great lyricist, but Porter was both, and the formal perfection of his best songs made them favorites among both singers and instrumentalists. These three discs (two vocal, one instrumental) raid the archives for renditions by jazz types (from Ella Fitzgerald to Roland Kirk), more straightforward pop singers, and a few ringers, like Fred Astaire, who does nicely by 'I Concentrate on You.' The singers love Porter for the depth, wittiness, and just-repressed-enough sentimentality of his lyrics, and for the melodies clustered around ...
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Those Were the Days
:Album Description:Specially repackaged 2008 edition of this four CD box set consisting of 63 tracks that divide Cream's short but immensely influential career into two halves. The first two discs feature every studio track the group ever released, plus a handful of unreleased tracks, alternate takes and rarities. The other two discs are devoted to restored live material, which bring to life some of Cream's finest eclectic moments in concert such as Live At Winterland in San Francisco 1968. The power trio of guitarist Eric Clapton, bassist Jack Bruce and drummer ...
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