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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.
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(1987/Krazy Kat) 16 tracks. All titles recorded in Los Angeles. Some tracks have supporting band vocals. Liner notes on the back cover by Professor Hi-Jinx.
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(Krazy Kat) 16 tracks. The music on this album is drawn from the pioneering Nashville independent record labels, and cover the period 1951-1956. In other words the era of jumping blues and boogie, of shuffling blues, of rock and roll...
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(1989/Krazy Kat) 16 tracks. The Rhythm And Blues music scene in Nashville in the early 1950s is largely uncharted territory. Despite the success of various Excello label compilations over the years, this series of 'Nashville R&B has been...
(ACE) 28 tracks with color booklet. Seeing Eunice Levy, of Gene & Eunice, perform this year at the Southern California Doo Wop Society reminded me how under-reissued their magnificent R&B duets had been. Then along comes this first-ever...
(2015 / Jasmine) 29 tracks, complete singles 1956-62, 6-page booklet with liner notes and label details. The early years of this influencial Soul star and songwriter, from Doo-Wop through Little Richard-styled power Rock'n'Roll (mostly...
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(1994/CASTLE) 25 tracks 1946-56 ALADDIN (73:01) "EVERYBODY EXPECT AFTER YOU MAKE A BLUES HIT THEY FIGURE YOU SING THE BLUES. WELL, I WAS MORE OF A BLUE BALLAD SINGER, NOT A BLUES SINGER, BECAUSE MY NUMBERS ARE MORE OF STORY BALLAD...
(2015 / Jasmine) 58 tracks, complete 1950s 45rpm Singles, 6-page booklet with extensive liner notes and sessionography. Includes all the hits like 'Korea Blues', 'Mama, Talk To Your Daughter', and 'Eisenhower Blues' of this exotic...
(2015/Crazy Times) 12 tracks, debut album of T.Bo & The B.Boppers - jeez Louise - no fillers, only killers! A mixture of 50s R&B, like Billy Gayles, Guitar Slim and Ike Turner used to play, 60s Country Boppers and the Blasters! This...
(2015 / Jasmine) 40 tracks, original King, Ace, Pride, Anna, Jaylynne & Dial recordings, 1955-62, 6-page booklet. Joe Tex was one of the most original Soul stars of all time. With
his raspy voice and a hint of Little Richard, he...
(2013 / Rock Beat Records) 18 tracks, live recordings, 1983. The late great Lowell Fulson in concert backed-up by the legendary Billy Vera & The Beaters!
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(2015/BGP
Ace) 8 tracks, original 1978 Big Town album reissue, 8-page booklet.
Houston’s one Big Town release has been largely overlooked by Blues
fans. Although he looks super-cool on the cover, who can blame them?
Titles such as...
(2015/Ace) 14 Tracks, 1953-63, original Modern and Flair recordings - 180g vinyl! Reissue of the 1982 Ace LP. Incl. the hits 'Mary Lou', 'I Smell A Rat' and 'Hit, Git And Split', plus songs with The Hunters and The Cadets.
(2014/Ace) 14 tracks, 1955-59, original RPM, Flair and Flip recordings - Colored 180g vinyl! Including the hits 'Louie Louie' and 'Have Love Will Travel', plus songs with The Dreamers and The Pharaohs.
(2015/Jasmine) 25 tracks, 6-page booklet, original Atlantic recordings 1958-1962, incl. the complete singles 1960-62, duets with Ben E. King and Jimmy Ricks, plus rare bonus tracks.
(2015/Bonedog) 12 tracks. Billy Price and Otis Clay: Two singers separated by a generation come together in a performance that moves the Southern soul tradition a little bit further up the road. Pittsburgh rhythm and blues singer Billy...
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(2015/Vee-Tone) 17 tracks, 1950s/60s Rhythm & Blues on 180g vinyl deluxe edition. A humdinging mix of rarities and obscurities from a cross section of labels including Checker, Felsted, Amber, King, Specialty, RCA Victor, Kaydee, Groove,...
(2013/Rhythm & Blues) 51 tracks. ( Jazz , Blues & Creole Roots 1922-1947 ) ! More than any other city has the New Orleans sound of pop music in the 20th Century marked . To generalize this statement may be, as the birthplace of jazz,...