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The Complete Vanguard Recordings
: :Young man leaves impoverished home, heads out to seek fame and fortune, becomes legend. It's the stuff of myth, and it's also the tale of many a blues musician who headed north to Chicago after World War II. One such bluesman was Buddy Guy, who has achieved mainstream success beyond what most of his compatriots have, thanks to his fiery stage presence and undeniable energy that keeps going and going and going. This reissue of his sessions for Vanguard in the late 1960s and early 1970s, however, offers a different flavor; the pieces ...
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Crossroads
: essential recording:Including both his band work (with the Yardbirds, John Mayall's Blues Breakers, Cream, Blind Faith, Delaney and Bonnie, and Derek and the Dominos) and his long, varied solo career, this four-CD set does a spectacular job in gathering several decades' worth of Clapton's best. There are the requisite classics--'Layla,' 'Blues Power,' 'After Midnight,' 'Further On Up the Road,' 'Crossroads,' and 'I Shot the Sheriff,' among many others--some of them in previously unreleased live or alternate studio recordings. Released in 1988, when only superstars were granted the box set, Crossroads ...
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Little Games Sessions & More
: essential recording:Including both his band work (with the Yardbirds, John Mayall's Blues Breakers, Cream, Blind Faith, Delaney and Bonnie, and Derek and the Dominos) and his long, varied solo career, this four-CD set does a spectacular job in gathering several decades' worth of Clapton's best. There are the requisite classics--'Layla,' 'Blues Power,' 'After Midnight,' 'Further On Up the Road,' 'Crossroads,' and 'I Shot the Sheriff,' among many others--some of them in previously unreleased live or alternate studio recordings. Released in 1988, when only superstars were granted the box set, Crossroads ...
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Home Tonight
: essential recording:Including both his band work (with the Yardbirds, John Mayall's Blues Breakers, Cream, Blind Faith, Delaney and Bonnie, and Derek and the Dominos) and his long, varied solo career, this four-CD set does a spectacular job in gathering several decades' worth of Clapton's best. There are the requisite classics--'Layla,' 'Blues Power,' 'After Midnight,' 'Further On Up the Road,' 'Crossroads,' and 'I Shot the Sheriff,' among many others--some of them in previously unreleased live or alternate studio recordings. Released in 1988, when only superstars were granted the box set, Crossroads ...
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The Complete Vanguard Recordings
: essential recording:Including both his band work (with the Yardbirds, John Mayall's Blues Breakers, Cream, Blind Faith, Delaney and Bonnie, and Derek and the Dominos) and his long, varied solo career, this four-CD set does a spectacular job in gathering several decades' worth of Clapton's best. There are the requisite classics--'Layla,' 'Blues Power,' 'After Midnight,' 'Further On Up the Road,' 'Crossroads,' and 'I Shot the Sheriff,' among many others--some of them in previously unreleased live or alternate studio recordings. Released in 1988, when only superstars were granted the box set, Crossroads ...
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New York Blues and R&B 1947-1955
: essential recording:Including both his band work (with the Yardbirds, John Mayall's Blues Breakers, Cream, Blind Faith, Delaney and Bonnie, and Derek and the Dominos) and his long, varied solo career, this four-CD set does a spectacular job in gathering several decades' worth of Clapton's best. There are the requisite classics--'Layla,' 'Blues Power,' 'After Midnight,' 'Further On Up the Road,' 'Crossroads,' and 'I Shot the Sheriff,' among many others--some of them in previously unreleased live or alternate studio recordings. Released in 1988, when only superstars were granted the box set, Crossroads ...
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Classic Recordings
: :Jimmy Reed gets three discs to show his stuff, which is probably more than plenty for most but not enough for some. Reed wasn't the larger-than-life sort that many of his contemporaries were, which kind of adds to his modest appeal. Stylistically, he didn't range far and wide, but his stuff accommodated rudimentary reinterpretation, so everyone from Elvis Presley to the Grateful Dead stuck a little Jimmy Reed in now and then. It swung, it made sense, and it felt good. Exceptional liner notes by the late Pete Welding. --Steven Stolder
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Nellie Lutcher and Her Rhythm
: :Jimmy Reed gets three discs to show his stuff, which is probably more than plenty for most but not enough for some. Reed wasn't the larger-than-life sort that many of his contemporaries were, which kind of adds to his modest appeal. Stylistically, he didn't range far and wide, but his stuff accommodated rudimentary reinterpretation, so everyone from Elvis Presley to the Grateful Dead stuck a little Jimmy Reed in now and then. It swung, it made sense, and it felt good. Exceptional liner notes by the late Pete Welding. --Steven Stolder
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Blues After Hours
: :Jimmy Reed gets three discs to show his stuff, which is probably more than plenty for most but not enough for some. Reed wasn't the larger-than-life sort that many of his contemporaries were, which kind of adds to his modest appeal. Stylistically, he didn't range far and wide, but his stuff accommodated rudimentary reinterpretation, so everyone from Elvis Presley to the Grateful Dead stuck a little Jimmy Reed in now and then. It swung, it made sense, and it felt good. Exceptional liner notes by the late Pete Welding. --Steven Stolder
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Forty Licks
: :Jimmy Reed gets three discs to show his stuff, which is probably more than plenty for most but not enough for some. Reed wasn't the larger-than-life sort that many of his contemporaries were, which kind of adds to his modest appeal. Stylistically, he didn't range far and wide, but his stuff accommodated rudimentary reinterpretation, so everyone from Elvis Presley to the Grateful Dead stuck a little Jimmy Reed in now and then. It swung, it made sense, and it felt good. Exceptional liner notes by the late Pete Welding. --Steven Stolder
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