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Ham Hocks and Cornbread
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Loud, Fast & Out Of Control
: :'Communist, Eastern European countries... may have come up with Karl Marx,' punk entrepreneur Brett Gurewitz once said, 'and they may have come up with Trotsky, but they'll never come up with Chuck Berry.' The 1950s' rock revolution, this four-CD box is designed to remind us, led to more than just Happy Days and Grease; it was part and parcel of the movement for social change in racial and sexual terms that, like the music, was impossible to stop. Of course, it sounded great, too. ('That ain't no freight train that you ...
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The Paramount Masters
: :'Communist, Eastern European countries... may have come up with Karl Marx,' punk entrepreneur Brett Gurewitz once said, 'and they may have come up with Trotsky, but they'll never come up with Chuck Berry.' The 1950s' rock revolution, this four-CD box is designed to remind us, led to more than just Happy Days and Grease; it was part and parcel of the movement for social change in racial and sexual terms that, like the music, was impossible to stop. Of course, it sounded great, too. ('That ain't no freight train that you ...
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Queen of the Delta Blues, Vol. 2
: :'Communist, Eastern European countries... may have come up with Karl Marx,' punk entrepreneur Brett Gurewitz once said, 'and they may have come up with Trotsky, but they'll never come up with Chuck Berry.' The 1950s' rock revolution, this four-CD box is designed to remind us, led to more than just Happy Days and Grease; it was part and parcel of the movement for social change in racial and sexual terms that, like the music, was impossible to stop. Of course, it sounded great, too. ('That ain't no freight train that you ...
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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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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 Complete Vanguard Recordings and More
: :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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Cool Cool Blues: The Classic Sides 1951-1954
: 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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