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Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Beat at Abbey Road 1963 to 1965 by various artists

Beat at Abbey Road is a 28 track collection from various major groups and artists that laid down recordings at the famed studios in the early 1960's at the height of the beat boom. Some went on to major success while others faded away into relative obscurity.

Artists on this compilation include Cilla Black, The Fourmost, The Dakotas, Freddie and The Dreamers, Manfred Mann, The Hollies, The Swinging Blue Jeans and Rod Stewart. Also included are some rarities and obscurities that will please the avid aficionados.

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Friday, May 20, 2016

Not Fade Away...Buddy Holly 1957: The Complete Recordings

This 90 track collection features every known 1957 Buddy Holly recording, the hits of which were issued alternately as by The Crickets ("That'll Be the Day", "Oh Boy", "Maybe Baby") and as by Buddy Holly ("Words of Love", "Peggy Sue", "Listen to Me"). Also here are the album tracks of the period, alternate takes, demos, air shots and more.

As well as all of the 1957 recordings marketed as by both the Crickets and as by Buddy Holly, this three CD set also includes a wealth of tracks on which Buddy and his friends backed other Country, Pop and Rock 'N' Roll singers in the Clovis studio - such as the first (?) recordings by future folk star Carolyn Hester - along with the soundtracks from TV shows, on-air interviews and amusingly-tailored promo jingles to massage the egos of various music industry figures.

Track Listings
Disc: 1
1. I'm Lookin' For Someone To Love - Buddy Holly
2. That'll Be the Day - Buddy Holly
3. Last Night - Buddy Holly
4. Maybe Baby - Buddy Holly
5. Last Night - Buddy Holly
6. Words Of Love - Buddy Holly
7. Words Of Love - Buddy Holly
8. Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues - Buddy Holly
9. Not Fade Away - Buddy Holly
10. Not Fade Away - Buddy Holly
11. Everyday - Buddy Holly
12. Ready Teddy - Buddy Holly
13. Valley Of Tears - Buddy Holly
14. Tell Me How - Buddy Holly
15. Buddy's Hone Call To Paul Cohen OF Decca Records - Buddy Holly
16. Go Boy GGone - Gary Dale
17. Gone - Gary Dale
18. Go Boy Go - Gary Dale
19. The Golden Rocket - Gary Dale
20. Gone - Gary Dale
21. I Overlooked An Orchid - Gary Dale
22. On My Mind Again - Billy Walker
23. Viva La Matador - Billy Walker
24. A Whole Lot Of Lovin - Jim Robinson
25. A Whole Lot Of Lovin - Jim Robinson
26. A Whole Lot Of Lovin - Jim Robinson
27. A Whole Lot Of Lovin' - Jim Robinson
28. It's a Wonderful Feeling - Jim Robinson
29. Starlight - Jack Huddle
30. Believe Me - Jack Huddle
31. Starlight - Jack Huddle
32. Believe Me - Jack Huddle

Disc: 2
1. Peggy Sue - Buddy Holly
2. Peggy Sue - Buddy Holly
3. Listen To Me - Buddy Holly
4. That'll Be the Day - Buddy Holly
5. That'll Be the Day - Buddy Holly
6. Oh, Boy! - Buddy Holly
7. Oh, Boy! - Buddy Holly
8. That'll Be the Day - Buddy Holly
9. I'm Gonna Love You Too - Buddy Holly
10. Send Me Some Lovin' - Buddy Holly
11. It's Too Late - Buddy Holly
12. Send Me Some Lovin' - Buddy Holly
13. It's Too Late - Buddy Holly
14. Man From Texas - Jim Robinson
15. Honey, Honey - Gary Dale
16. Look To the Future - Gary Dale
17. By the Missio Wall - Fred Crawford
18. Wreck Of the Old '97 - Carolyn Hester
19. Scarlet Ribbons - Carolyn Hester
20. Sugartime - Charlie Phillips
21. One Faded Rose - Charlie Phillips
22. One Faded Rose - Charlie Phillips
23. Sugartime - Charlie Phillips
24. One Faded Rose - Charlie Phillips
25. Humble Heart - Sherry Davis
26. Borken Promises - Sherry Davis
27. Moondreams - Norman Petty Trio
28. Moondreams - Norman Petty Trio
29. Moondreams - Norman Petty Trio

Disc: 3
1. You've Got Love - Buddy Holly
2. Maybe Baby - Buddy Holly
3. An Empty Cup (And a Broken Date) - Buddy Holly
4. Rock Me, My Baby - Buddy Holly
5. That'll Be the Day - Buddy Holly
6. That'll Be the Day - Buddy Holly
7. Peggy Sue - Buddy Holly
8. Interview With Ed Sullivan - Buddy Holly
9. Little Baby - Buddy Holly
10. You're So Square (Baby I Don't Care) - Buddy Holly
11. Look At Me - Buddy Holly
12. Mona - Buddy Holly
13. Mona - Buddy Holly
14. Mona - Buddy Holly
15. Mona - Buddy Holly
16. Peggy Sue - Buddy Holly
17. Don't Do Me This Way! - Rick Tucker
18. Patty Baby - Rick Tucker & the Picks
19. Don't Do Me This Way! - Rick Tucker & the Picks
20. Promotional Spot For Bill Randle #1 - Bill Randle
21. Promotional Spot For Bill Randle #2 - Bill Randle
22. Promotional Spot For Don Passerby #1 - Don Passerby
23. Promotional Spot For Don Passerby #2 - Don Passerby
24. Promotional Spot For Don Passerby #3 - Don Passerby
25. Promotional Spot For Don Passerby #4 - Don Passerby
26. Interview With Red Robinson - Red Robinson
27. Promotional Spot For Red Robinson - Buddy Holly
28. Interview With Freeman Hoover - Freeman Hoover
29. Promotional Spot For Interview With Freeman Hoover - Freeman Hoover

30. Interview With Dale Lowery - Dale Lowery

Not Fade Away Part One Part Two Part Three

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Monday, February 15, 2016

Link Wray and His Ray Men...White Lightning The Lost Cadence Sessions '58..RARE release

Fred Lincoln 'Link' Wray, Jr. (May 2, 1929 – November 5, 2005), was an American rock and roll guitarist, songwriter and vocalist who first came to popularity in the late 1950's.

Building on the distorted electric guitar sound of early records, his 1958 instrumental hit "Rumble" by Link Wray and his Ray Men popularized "the power chord, the major modus operandi of modern rock guitarists", making possible "punk and heavy rock". Rolling Stone placed Wray at No. 45 of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. In 2013 he was announced as a nominee for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. His musical style primarily consisted of rock and roll, rockabilly and country.

The kids of 1958 loved the Ray Men, and their first single for Cadence Records shot up the charts like a label owner's dream. This is the fantastic and fiery album that was supposed to have been released as a follow-up to one of the all-time great instrumental classics, the ultra-menacing "Rumble." But faster than you can say "Drag Race," everyone--Cadence label-owner Archie Bleyer included--was talking about this new threat to the morals of American youth. That's why Link and his boys were off the imprint, and this album of prime distorto-guitar-crunch cool remained unreleased for nearly 50 years. Well here it is, and it's every bit as dirty and dangerous as you would expect!

Reviews:

"This rocks forwards and backwards. That it took so long to be released is borderline criminal. It's refreshing to hear the power chord from a new-old view."

"Raucous instrumental twangy guitar rock! As raw and tough as the 50's has to offer. This stuff will blow your mind!"

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, March 4, 2015

Bill Haley...From Western Swing To Rock..Essential Collection

There is no denying Bill Haley's influence on popular music and, in particular, Rock and Roll. Whilst he is best known for "Rock Around the Clock", his beginnings were in Country and Western Swing, and his progression to his more famous rock and roll tracks made him a legend. This collection brings together tracks from his earlier days with The Four Aces and The Saddlemen and onto the classic Comets recordings and even offshoots from The Comets, The Jodimars and The Jaguars.

With over 100 tracks, this compilation will have you swinging, rocking, rolling, jiving and everything else in between.

Rocket 88

Rock the Joint

Rock Around the Clock

Don't Knock the Rock

This 7 minute YouTube clip is from a 1954 short film entitled "Roundup of Rhythm" and shows the Comets live performing "Crazy, Man, Crazy", "Straightjacket" and "Shake, Rattle and Roll".

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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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Monday, September 16, 2013

Boz Scaggs...first album 1969..Muscle Shoals plus Duane Allman

Muscle Shoals plus Duane Allman plus Boz....a classic

Combining the same rhythm section that propelled the great Atlantic soul singers like Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin and Otis Redding with the legendary lead guitarist Duane Allman just as he was forming his great band, former Steve Miller Band guitarist and aspiring singer Boz Scaggs released his debut solo album in 1969.

"Boz Scaggs" is another candidate for the greatest overlooked, unjustly forgotten album of the classic rock era. It wasn't overlooked in its own day. Back when FM radio was "free form" and could play 10 minute-long cuts, the amazing "Loan Me a Dime," a delicately soulful blues wail that evolves into a monstrous Allman guitar workout, was a staple, especially at night. But the whole album is as good as that climactic moment. "I'll Be Long Gone," is an emotional inspiration, "Look What I Got" has the emotional directness of The Band and "Sweet Release" is heavenly soul. The album is sequenced beautifully and it is almost flawless.

Boz Scaggs was born Royce Scaggs, June 8, 1944, in Ohio. Scaggs moved to Plano, Texas at an early age. His interest in music was sparked by his childhood friendship with Steve Miller. They were budding young artists that both attended St. Mark's Preparatory School in Dallas. It was Miller who taught Scaggs the fundamentals of guitar playing and gave him the encouragement to sing.

1. I'm Easy
2. I'll Be Long Gone
3. Another Day (Another Letter)
4. Now You're Gone
5. Finding Her
6. Look What I Got
7. Waiting For A Train
8. Loan Me A Dime
9. Sweet Release

Saturday, September 7, 2013

The Doors...Morrison Hotel

The next-to-last Doors album, recorded prior to Jim Morrison's still mystery-shrouded death in a Parisian bathtub, Morrison Hotel eschewed much of the band's previous penchant for baroque musical, poetic, and philosophical pretensions (this was, after all, the back-to-roots era of the Beatles' Let It Be, the Stones' Let It Bleed, and Dylan's Nashville Skyline). Instead, the Doors circa 1970 wisely seeped themselves in a bluesy, no-frills approach that might have hinted at creative exhaustion in a lesser band. Instead, the Doors of "Roadhouse Blues" and "Peace Frog" reinvented themselves into arguably one of the greatest bar bands ever, with Morrison's well-documented demons frolicking in a welcome new ambience. "Waiting for the Sun" and "Ship of Fools" may hearken back to the band's cabalistic and Kurt Weill leanings, respectively, but framed in an edgier, more effective way. --Jerry McCulley (Amazon review)

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Pink Floyd..The Piper At the Gates of Dawn..Classic Debut Album by the Masters of Psychedelic Rock

Before Pink Floyd became (deservedly) famous in the mid-70's for Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, and later for The Wall, they were a different band--they were Syd Barrett's band. Instead of the epic, moody, atmospheric, trippy rock forged primarily by the synergy of Roger Waters and David Gilmour later on in Pink Floyd's existence, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn finds the band making music that is very much of its time (1967). The music that became known as "psychedelic" is loosely defined as music that combines creative sonic textures and surprising sounds with bizarre, often whimsical lyrics to either simulate or enhance a drug experience. With the Beatles just down the hall in Abbey Road Studios recording Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Pink Floyd (named after obscure American blues men Pink Anderson and Floyd Council) were on the cutting edge of the British psychedelic scene while recording The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. (Amazon review)

This debut still endures today as a classic of its genre, thanks to Syd Barrett's unique vision and inimitable songwriting.

Sunday, August 4, 2013

Santana...first album 1969...classic debut album by originators of Latin Blues Rock

This is Santana's debut album from 1969 and the first of three albums by the classic Santana lineup: Carlos Santana on guitar, Gregg Rolie on keyboards and vocals, Dave Brown on bass, Mike Shrieve on drums, and Jose Areas and Mike Carabello on percussion. The band's sound was then still strongly rooted in the blues (especially on "You Just Don't Care") and many of the performances are absolute classics -- especially the fiery organ-guitar duel on "Waiting" and the explosive "Soul Sacrifice". Those familiar with Santana's radio hits will of course recognize "Evil Ways" and their chugging version of Olatunji's "Jingo", while the laid-back Latin groove of "Treat" provides a nice respite. The album is a brilliant combination of Rock, Latin and African influence. If you like the stinging guitar and swirling organ of early Santana, then this will not disappoint.

1. Waiting
2. Evil Ways
3. Shades Of Time
4. Savor
5. Jingo
6. Persuasion
7. Treat
8. You Just Don't Care
9. Soul Sacrifice

Saturday, July 20, 2013

Van Morrison...His Band and the Street Choir..classic album from 1970

Van's 1970 album that exudes the rhythm and blues sound of his inspiration, His Band and the Street Choir appeared at a time when Van Morrison was building on the great critical successes of Astral Weeks and Moondance. His third Warner Bros. album contains a number of radio-friendly tracks clearly aimed at the singles market and few clues of the serious, brooding melancholy of Astral Weeks.

Kicking off with the jaunty "Domino," the album is generally dominated by up tempo swingers such as "Call Me Up in Dreamland," "Give Me a Kiss," and "Blue Money." The cover photography and liner notes by then wife Janet Planet reveal a smiling Morrison and hint at a new found personal contentment. This mood did not last long after Van left the artists' community of Woodstock. But even here, in "I'll Be Your Lover Too" and "Crazy Face," there are moments that are essential listening for fans of his sullen splendour and mysticism. --Rob Stewart (Amazon review)