Title: Boomer’s Story Label: Music On Vinyl “Rock as it is known today just doesn’t interest me at all,” said Ry Cooder to The Guardian in 2011. “I hate commercial music.…
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Blues Review
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Title: Volumes 1 & 2 Label: Third Man Until Third Man drew my attention to it, the Ann Arbor festival had completely past me by. It took place across 1-3 August,…
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Title: Gonna Make it Alone Label: Atomicat If there is one organisation to take advantage of a fad, fashion or, indeed, controversy then its a record label. They’ve been doing it…
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Title: Best Of Label: Angel Air Scotland-spawned Stone the Crows had everything going from them but luck. They were talented, well known and respected but never received the success they deserved.…
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Title: The Rhythm, The Blues, The Hot Guitar Label: Koko Mojo Koko what? Koko Mojo is a ‘division’ of Rockstar Records and Rockstar Records, which was originally founded in 1979, became…
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Title: American Primitive Guitar & Banjo 1963-1974 Label: Craft A very long name for a rather long, yet wonderfully conceived compilation of guitar picking and more with a targeted style and…
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Title: Live at the BBC 1970-1978 Label: Repertoire Formed in Stafford, England in 1968: the Midlands Delta as the band would have it, CBB were initially signed to Parlophone who were…
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Title: Live Album Label: Repertoire This UK outfit includes ex-Manfred Mann vocalist Paul Jones and Dave Kelly – who has been releasing music for decades – including the John Drummer Band. The album…
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Title: The Atco Albums Collection Label: Atco It’s amazing that this man had been active in the music business since the late 50s but he really didn’t become generally known until…
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Title: The Joanna Conner Band Label: M.C Records A blues guitar player and one of some skill too. She also sings and her voice is decent but I would draw the…
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Title: You’re Gonna Miss Me Label: Jasmine This collection of 30 tracks is subtitled, The Complete Singles Collection As & Bs 1951-1958. Guitar Slim (it sounded better than Eddie Jones, his…
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Title: Like Never Before/Dancing the Blues Label: Floating World An important blues singer and multi-instrumentalist who has done a lot to retain and grow the popularity in the blues genre over…
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Title: On My Merry Way: The Earliest Sessions of the Guitar King 1954-1962 Label: Jasmine A critical influence on all guitar-toting artists interested in both blues and rock. You ask Eric…
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Title: The Chicago Super Blues Revisited Label: Jasmine The Super Blues record releases were basically two session albums from the late 60s via the Chess label. The first, from 1968, featuring…
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Title: Lightnin’ Hopkins Label: Vinyl Lovers This LP has already been issued by Smithsonian/Folkways and was called The Roots of Lightnin’ Hopkins. Recorded back in 1959, this LP was one of…
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Title: The Complete Aladdin/Peacock Singles As & Bs 1947-1961 Label: Jasmine Many would listen to Brown’s music and think, “Ah, yes, the blues,” but Brown himself wasn’t keen on being tagged…
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Title: Midnight Special Label: Soul Jam This CD collection features iconic songs that would influence a host of talented musicians from The Beatles to Johnny Cash and from Pete Seeger himself…
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Title: Blues Hit Big Town Label: Delmark An incredible collection of important Chicago blues tracks, recorded in 1953 (Side A) and 1954 (Side B) from Wells which also features the likes…
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Title: Blues After Hours Label: Vinyl Lovers Many years ago, when I first heard John Lennon playing a lap steel guitar on the George Harrison song, For You Blue, using a…
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Title: Hawk Squat Label: Delmark To many guitarists out there but especially those who worked as slider guitar aficionados, Elmore James was a godly figure, holding his talent up as a…
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Title: Heart Song Label: Brutal Honest Apparently, this lady stems from Austin, Texas and natives of that fine and unique State will have to forgive me because I never realised that…
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Title: John Lee Hooker Label: Hoodoo Hooker really knew the blues. He also talked the blues during his songs which was a stylistic approach that brought him great success. His approach to…
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Title: Hell of a Spell/Nuevo Wave Live/Texas Hero Label: RetroWorld Sahm was a talented guy who had a wide appreciation of music: as long as it broadly rotated around his home…
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Title: Moanin’ In The Moonlight Label: Vinyl Lovers He was a big man, in terms of sheer bulk (there was 300 pounds of the Wolf) and in height (all six for…
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Title: Heads Up!: The First Fourteen Singles Label: Jasmine King was at the height of his fame during the 60s period when he and his blues guitar produced a series of…
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Title: Kicking Back Label: BGP The R&B sax work of Houston was heard in many places and on many labels. In fact, if you had a CCTV camera within every independent…
