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Queen of the Delta Blues, Vol. 2
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Country Blues Troubadours 1938-1948
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Bessie Smith: The Complete Recordings, Vol. 1
: :Bessie Smith wasn't the first of the classic blues singers to record, but once she did, she became the form's dominant force, with a voice that combined clear diction, great power, and a unique capacity to convey complex emotions. Weariness gives way to resilience and sorrow to joyous triumph in Smith's performances, and there's nobility in her delivery of even the sometimes tritely comic lyrics she sang. This is the first of five two-CD sets that gather all her known recordings. The first 38 songs, from February 1923 to April 1924, ...
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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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Roy Brown & New Orleans R&B
: 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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King of Chicago Blues
: 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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Vol. 3: The War and Post War Years 1940-51
: 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 Specialty Story
: 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 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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