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Rhythm & Blues – The Sound That Started It All
If you're after gritty grooves, emotional vocals and horn-driven rhythm – this is where R&B lives. Explore the golden era of Rhythm & Blues: the 1940s to early 1960s, when the sound was raw, real and ready to roll.
From Ruth Brown to Ray Charles
From jump blues to gospel-tinged ballads, these CDs and vinyl records showcase legends and obscure gems alike. Essential for soul fans, music historians and anyone who loves their rhythm with fire.
Rhythm & Blues – The Sound That Started It All
If you're after gritty grooves, emotional vocals and horn-driven rhythm – this is where R&B lives. Explore the golden era of Rhythm &...
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If you're after gritty grooves, emotional vocals and horn-driven rhythm – this is where R&B lives. Explore the golden era of Rhythm & Blues: the 1940s to early 1960s, when the sound was raw, real and ready to roll.
From Ruth Brown to Ray Charles
From jump blues to gospel-tinged ballads, these CDs and vinyl records showcase legends and obscure gems alike. Essential for soul fans, music historians and anyone who loves their rhythm with fire.
(Tangerine Records) 9 tracks, digisleeve “Come Live With Me” represents a creative peak that sounds fresher in 2025 than it perhaps did in 1974. The first album on his crossover label lives up to the label's name by demonstrating the...
(ACE) 42 tracks (feat.The Peaches/Betty & Dupree(Harvey Fuqua) Thoroughly 'Modern' Etta - here's a long-overdue, definitive 2CD set containing one take of every recording Ms James made of Modern and Kent Records between 1954 and 1958,...
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(ACE Records) 25 tracks New R&B discoveries continue to emerge and entertain the many devotees of the New Breed music cult; none more so than Kent's connoisseurs. Berna Dean's two previously unreleased recordings are by far her best....
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1-CD (Digipak) with 36 page booklet, 30 tracks. Total playing time approx. 79 min. The wild voice of jump blues – raw, raunchy, and revolutionary. Features Harris’ biggest R&B hits, including "Good Rockin' Tonight" – later covered by...
(ACE Records) 14 tracks New R&B discoveries continue to emerge and entertain the many devotees of the New Breed music cult; none more so than Kent's connoisseurs. Berna Dean's two previously unreleased recordings are by far her best....
Beautiful, linen-bound 4-CD edition covering more than 50 years of Etta James' career, from her early rough and rocking r&b sides, to her later years elegant black music. This awesome combination of newly re-mastered music, biography,...
Steve Barri produced this classic release which was discussed controversially at the time it was originally released. Some immediately regarded it one of Bland's best albums, ever. Others couldn't stand the mighty horn and string...
(Acrobat Music) 41 tracks Blues guitarist, singer and songwriter Earl King, a native of New Orleans, was one of the coterie of influential artists who helped create the distinctive style of R&B which characterised the music of the...
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Killer Garage Rocker from 1965, repressed 2025 by popular demand. Round Robin is a rotund gent, rather like a scary Chubby Checker. Check out this floor filling wild fuzzed up Garagey Rocker.
(Be! Sharp) 12 tracks - Re-issue of the original 1960 'Herald' LP album! Comes in a thick cardborad sleeve One day the phone rang - a collect call from Texas. The voice on the other end belonged to Sam 'Lightnin' Hopkins. 'Man, I wrote a...
(501 Record Club) 7 tracks, colored vinyl in purple marble, printed insert Experience Dr John in a rare solo setting. This never released live show from 1984 shows off his magnificent piano skills in a set of some of his well known tunes...
(Ace Records) 26 tracks (72:50) (1959-69 'Duke') Into the 60s with Bobby Bland and some of the finest material and arrangements in soul music from the best voice in town. Continuing the Bobby Bland story, we have another 26 sides from...
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(Farewell) 10 tracks - Rare and hard-to-find late 50s Rhythm'n' Blues and early 60s Soul stuff! Tremendous compilation! Back in stock! Ohh yeah! Blues with a rhythm Volume Two, presented by the fine collections of Farewell Records from...
(Rat Pack Records) 18 tracks, 180g colored vinyl in purple, + CD, limited edition of 500 copies “Trust In Me” by Etta James is an essential compilation of her greatest songs, enhanced by stunning remastering. Showcasing her mesmerizing...
(Ace Records) 29 tracks A large, jovial, friendly man, Billy now runs a soul food restaurant in Harlem, where the juke box holds many of his Old Town singles. When a contingent of English R&B fans descended on the restaurant one summer...
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(Charly Records) 3 tracks Contains the original demo version of “The Twist” (Vee Jay) from 1958, an “extended version” of “Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go” and an “extended version” of “The Twist”, recorded in 1958 for “King”.
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(Rhino Records) 14 tracks This collection of New Orleans songs is mainly from the early 1960s and mainly from Joe Banashak's Minit and Instant labels (founded in 1959 and 1961 respectively) The recordings on this Rhino collection show a...