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Friday, September 18, 2015

Ray Campi...The Rollin' Rock Singles Collection

Rockabilly wildman, Ray Campi, recorded several classic singles during the music's prime era in the 1950's, and later staged a comeback that earned him a substantial cult audience over the '70s and '80s. Campi was born in New York in 1934 and moved with his family to Austin, TX, at age ten. He started listening to country music, learned the guitar, and formed his first band in high school, which played on local radio stations. Campi made his first recordings in 1951, but it wasn't until 1956, when he cut the single "Caterpillar" b/w "Play It Cool" for the small TNT label, that any of them were released.

Ray Campi formed his first band - Ramblin' Ray and The Ramblers, way back in 1949. He has been playing his brand of American Roots Music on stages all over the world ever since. Though his repertoire includes a substantial dose of Country and Western Swing, it is among Rockabilly enthusiasts that Ray has gained his legendary status. Around 1973, Campi hooked up with Ronny Weiser's revivalist Rollin' Rock label and started making new recordings in the classic, high-energy rockabilly style. A steady stream of albums followed into the '80s, which also brought a couple of sets for Rounder, 1980's Rockin' at the Ritz and 1986's Gone, Gone, Gone!. Campi continued to record into the new millennium, releasing occasional albums on his own label.

Not only did he cut records which are now regarded as Rockabilly classics in the genre's 1950's heyday, he was partly responsible for sparking the 1970's/80's Rockabilly Revival.

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Dale Hawkins - Rare Tracks 1956-1960

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Sunday, June 7, 2015

Fats Domino...Rock and Rollin' with Fats Domino...1956

Antoine "Fats" Domino, Jr. (born February 26, 1928) is an American pianist and singer-songwriter. Domino released five gold (million-copy-selling) records before 1955. He also had 35 Top 40 American hits and has a music style based on traditional rhythm and blues ensembles of bass, piano, electric guitar, drums, and saxophone.

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Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Chuck Berry Rock & Roll Music - Any Old Way You Choose It - The Complete Studio Recordings Plus...! Deluxe 16-CD boxed set

Deluxe 16-CD boxed set from Bear Family;..with 2 hardcover books (356 total pages) in a cloth bound LP-sized slipcase. 396 tracks, for a total playing time of 21 hours and 11 minutes!

''If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry.''' (John Lennon)

Since their launch in 1975, the Bear Family have wanted to honor Chuck Berry. There have been endless Chuck Berry compilations - more than anyone could possibly tabulate, but they wanted to do the ultimate Chuck Berry compilation, containing:

Every single and LP track, starting with a rare pre-Chess single with Joe Alexander from 1954!
All the celebrated and legendary Chess singles and album cuts from 1955 to 1966 and from 1969 to 1974.
All the Mercury recordings, and the Atco album. Every surviving alternate take as well.
Classic Live Recordings from 1956 to 1972.
Exclusive introduction by Sir Paul McCartney.

But wait,there's more! Expatriate British photographer Bill Greensmith lives in St. Louis and a few years back he found the photo archive of Chuck Berry's uncle, Harry Davis. Included are many previously unseen images of Chuck performing in St. Louis and hanging out with friends and family. In these images, Chuck is unguarded and relaxed. We also see him performing at blues nightspots in and around St. Louis before he was famous. These photos, included with this set in a high quality 104-page hardbound book, will open your eyes to Chuck Berry as you've never seen him.

Plus, there's a second 252-page hardbound book with a definitive essay from Chuck's biographer, Bruce Pegg, additional texts by Mike Snow and Roger Fairhurst, a comprehensive discography by Fred Rothwell, hundreds of published and unpublished photos, including several images made by respected French photographer Jean-Marie Perrier in 1964.

In other words, everything you want by Chuck Berry in one place! The last word on the first name in Rock 'n' Roll.

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Monday, August 4, 2014

The Core of Rockabilly..60 Original Recordings from Sun Studios

The third in the MUSIC ROOTS series is this 60 track compilation of original recordings from the Sun Studios in Memphis,Tennessee featuring the who's who of Rockabilly artists from the 50's. The legends of Rockabilly music are all here including Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Warren Smith, Jack Earls, Sleep La Beef, Sonny Burgess, Charlie Rich and many more.

This is where the roots of rock and roll music were generated and these artists made their debut on the Sun label. Many of these tracks have been covered by other artists since and have become standards in their repertoires.

Sunday, January 19, 2014

The Great Rock and Roll Roots...51 hot and rockin' tracks from the original artists

This is the first post of a series I will be featuring on music roots. If you're a big music fan like me it's always interesting to find out the history of a certain genre of music or even one song or artist. This series will help to give you some background of where certain music came from and how it originated. Hope you enjoy it.

Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African-American genres such as blues, jump blues, jazz, and gospel music, together with Western swing and country music. Though elements of rock and roll can be heard in blues records from the 1920s and in country records of the 1930s, the genre did not acquire its name until the 1950s.

In the earliest rock and roll styles of the late 1940s and early 1950s, either the piano or saxophone was often the lead instrument, but these were generally replaced or supplemented by guitar in the middle to late 1950s. The beat is essentially a blues rhythm with an accentuated backbeat, the latter almost always provided by a snare drum. Classic rock and roll is usually played with one or two electric guitars (one lead, one rhythm), a string bass or (after the mid-1950s) an electric bass guitar, and a drum kit. Beyond simply a musical style, rock and roll, as seen in movies and on television, influenced lifestyles, fashion, attitudes, and language. It went on to spawn various sub-genres, often without the initially characteristic backbeat, that are now more commonly called simply "rock music" or "rock".

Rock music is now one the world's most popular and adaptable musical genres. In the 1950's, Rock and Roll revolutionized popular music culture with artists like Bill Haley, Lloyd Price, Fats Domino, Little Richard, The Drifters, Ruth Brown, Amos Milburn, Louis Jordan, Rufus Thomas and Ray Charles.

This compilation features 51 classic performances by major acts as well as songs that would go on to become Rock and Roll standards such as "Hound Dog", That's All Right Mama", "Sixty Minute Man", "Good Rockin' Tonight", "Mystery Train", "Mess Around", "One Scotch,One Bourbon,One Beer", "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" and many more. Your very own jukebox in one collection!

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Saturday, June 22, 2013

Paul McCartney ... CHOBA B CCCP (Back in the USSR) The Russian Album

The Beatles were very much influenced by 1950's rock and roll, and their early work shows plenty of proof of this. They honed their musical skills playing songs from the era in their live shows and had a great respect for the artists whose music they covered. Paul McCartney in particular was a huge fan and several rock and roll tunes were included in early Beatles albums with Paul doing most of the vocals. Over the years he has included a selection in his own concerts.

"The Russian Album" was originally released in 1991 and it's where Paul pays tribute to his favourite rock and roll artists and their hit songs. It's one of those albums that will have you bopping from the opening notes and ideal for your next party.

Amazon Review - CHOBA B CCCP--that's "Back in the USSR" to you and me--is a loose and loopy bit of rock & roll nostalgia that's at least as much fun to listen to as it was to make. Originally intended as a cold-war-busting Soviet Union-only release, popular demand finally brought it to Western ears, and it's a good thing it did. McCartney was always the Beatles' best Little Richard-inspired shouter, and this album allowed him to revisit those days on covers of "Kansas City," "Lucille," "Ain't That a Shame," and "Crackin' Up," among others. Most of the tracks sound like first takes, but that's in keeping with the vintage material, which was originally recorded in much the same way. Who says they no longer make 'em like they used to? --Daniel Durchholz

1. Kansas City
2. Twenty Flight Rock
3. Lawdy Miss Clawdy
4. I'm In Love Again
5. Bring It On Home To Me
6. Lucille
7. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
8. I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday
9. That's All Right Mama
10. Summertime
11. Ain't That A Shame
12. Crackin' Up
13. Just Because
14. Midnight Special