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The Essential Boss Man: The Very Best of the Vee-Jay Years, 1953-1966
:Album Details:27 Tracks from his Glorious Years from 1953 to 1966 on Vee-jay.
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The Chess Box
:Album Description:Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. Universal. 2008. :He's celebrated for the syncopated beat bearing his name that has spanned rock & roll's entire history. Unfortunately, his namesake also gets him mislabeled as a one-trick pony. This two-disc set does much to remedy the situation, tracking 1955 through 1968 and featuring all the hits. However, The Chess Box also displays Diddley's rock and blues versatility, from the reggae-ish (before there was reggae) 'Crackin' Up' and the Who's onstage hard-rock anthem 'Roadrunner' to ...
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Oldies But Goodies: 250 Legendary Hits
:Album Description:Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. Universal. 2008. :He's celebrated for the syncopated beat bearing his name that has spanned rock & roll's entire history. Unfortunately, his namesake also gets him mislabeled as a one-trick pony. This two-disc set does much to remedy the situation, tracking 1955 through 1968 and featuring all the hits. However, The Chess Box also displays Diddley's rock and blues versatility, from the reggae-ish (before there was reggae) 'Crackin' Up' and the Who's onstage hard-rock anthem 'Roadrunner' to ...
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And This Is Maxwell Street
: :On Sunday mornings at Chicago's famous Maxwell Street open-air market, busking bluesmen would battle with hawkers, preachers, and dancers for coveted space. In 1964 filmmaker Mike Shea chronicled this bubbling scene for his landmark documentary And This is Free; in the process, he preserved stunning examples of raw, informal, gritty, undeniably urban blues, the best of which is included on these two revelatory CDs. Amazingly, legendary figures like Robert Nighthawk and Carey Bell were as likely to show up as any number of local gospel singers and blues pickers. Nighthawk's tenacious ...
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Texas Flood/Couldn't Stand the Weather/Soul to Soul
: :On Sunday mornings at Chicago's famous Maxwell Street open-air market, busking bluesmen would battle with hawkers, preachers, and dancers for coveted space. In 1964 filmmaker Mike Shea chronicled this bubbling scene for his landmark documentary And This is Free; in the process, he preserved stunning examples of raw, informal, gritty, undeniably urban blues, the best of which is included on these two revelatory CDs. Amazingly, legendary figures like Robert Nighthawk and Carey Bell were as likely to show up as any number of local gospel singers and blues pickers. Nighthawk's tenacious ...
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Classic Sides
: :On Sunday mornings at Chicago's famous Maxwell Street open-air market, busking bluesmen would battle with hawkers, preachers, and dancers for coveted space. In 1964 filmmaker Mike Shea chronicled this bubbling scene for his landmark documentary And This is Free; in the process, he preserved stunning examples of raw, informal, gritty, undeniably urban blues, the best of which is included on these two revelatory CDs. Amazingly, legendary figures like Robert Nighthawk and Carey Bell were as likely to show up as any number of local gospel singers and blues pickers. Nighthawk's tenacious ...
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Blues Collection
:Album Description:Blues Collection with Eddie 'Clean Head' Vinson and others
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How Low Can You Go: Anthology of the String Bass (1925-1941)
:Album Description: This three-CD box set, the first ever anthology of the upright bass, explores the earliest recorded history of the instrument.
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Roots of Rock N Roll: 1946-1954
:Album Description: This three-CD box set, the first ever anthology of the upright bass, explores the earliest recorded history of the instrument.
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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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