Classic Rhythm & Blues – The Roots of Modern Music

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Classic Rhythm & Blues – The Roots of Modern Music

This is where it all started. Classic R&B from the 1940s through the early 1960s laid the foundation for soul, funk and rock ’n’ roll. Raw vocals, killer grooves, and no-nonsense storytelling – the blueprint of American music culture.

From the Greats to the Labels That Built Them

Discover legends like Ruth Brown, Ray Charles, and Wynonie Harris, plus treasures from the vaults of Atlantic, Chess, Specialty and more. These CDs and vinyls are essential for collectors and true rhythm lovers.

Classic Rhythm & Blues – The Roots of Modern Music This is where it all started. Classic R&B from the 1940s through the early 1960s laid the foundation for soul, funk and rock ’n’ roll.... read more »
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Classic Rhythm & Blues – The Roots of Modern Music

Classic Rhythm & Blues – The Roots of Modern Music

This is where it all started. Classic R&B from the 1940s through the early 1960s laid the foundation for soul, funk and rock ’n’ roll. Raw vocals, killer grooves, and no-nonsense storytelling – the blueprint of American music culture.

From the Greats to the Labels That Built Them

Discover legends like Ruth Brown, Ray Charles, and Wynonie Harris, plus treasures from the vaults of Atlantic, Chess, Specialty and more. These CDs and vinyls are essential for collectors and true rhythm lovers.

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Etta James: Etta James - Rocks (CD) Art-Nr.: BCD17750

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1-CD (Digipak) with 36-page booklet, 29 tracks. Total playing time approx. 79 min. With Etta James, Bear Family Records® finally dedicates itself to the most rocking recordings of one of the most important and successful Afro-American...
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1-CD (Digipak) with 36 page booklet, 32 tracks. Total playing time approx. 79 min. The wolf, intelligent pack animal or lone hunter, main character in classic fairy tales and polarizing character, has long since found its way into the...
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1-CD (Digipak) with 36 page booklet, 30 tracks. Total playing time approx. 79 min. With Johnny 'Guitar' Watson we present an exceptionally inventive and style-defining musician in the 'Rocks' series on Bear Family Records®. As 'Young'...
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1-CD (Digipak) with 36 page booklet, 27 tracks. Total playing time approx. 75 min. Bear Family Records® dedicates a CD album in the 'Rocks' series to James Cotton (1935-2017), one of the most dazzling personalities in the world of blues...
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Little Junior Parker Rocks (CD)
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1-CD Digipak (6-plated) with 40-page booklet, 31 tracks. Playing time approx. 76mns. • Little Junior Parker was a star in the world of the Chitlin’ Circuit, but largely unknown in the white blues/rock scene. • First-ever recollection of...
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Roy Brown - Rocks (CD)
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1-CD Digipak with 36-page booklet, 30 tracks. Total playing time approx. 79 min. Roy Brown, one of the all-time greats of early rhythm 'n' blues and jointly responsible for the breakthrough success of rock and roll - ROCKS! His Good...
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Shotgun Boogie - Rhythm & Blues Goes Country Vol.1 (CD)
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Let The Good Times Roll (1938-1954) (9-CD Deluxe Box Set)
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9-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 47-page book, 215 tracks. Playing time approx. 623 mns. Look out! as the man himself said, 'This is it!' Throw away those old bootlegs, sell the other albums and pick up these nine little boogie woogie blue...
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Groovin' The Blues & Rockin' The Groove (2-CD)
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Various – Groove Records: Groovin’ The Blues & Rockin’ The Groove (2-CD) 68 tracks!****** A forgotten success story of Rhythm & Blues is finally brought back to life – sounding as fresh as if the recordings had been made yesterday. With...
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Promises (CD)
Barbara Lynn: Promises (CD) Art-Nr.: BCD16208

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(Bear Family Records) 30 tracks - 16 page booklet Here is everything that the fabulous Barbara Lynn recorded for Jamie - a total of 58 tracks (BCD16207 + BCD16208) Here are all the original singles, all the original LP tracks, and a...
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The Memphis Blues Box - Original Recordings 1914–1969 (20-CD Deluxe Box Set)
Various: The Memphis Blues Box - Original Recordings... Art-Nr.: BCD17515

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Bear Family is nominated by Living Blues Magazine for Best Blues Album of 2023 (Reissue Recordings) for The Memphis Blues Box : Original Recordings, 1914-1969. Anyone can vote! Just visit www.livingblues.com and click on the 'Vote'...
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The Cole Slaw Club - The Big Rhythm & Blues Revue (CD)
Various - Cree Records: The Cole Slaw Club - The Big Rhythm & Blues... Art-Nr.: CCD1208

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1-CD Digipak (4-plated), 17 tracks. Total playing time approx. 40 mns Compiled by DJ 'The one and only' Baster Rübsam from Hamburg. Rare and hard-to-find records, some re-issued for the first time. Classic dance floor fillers from the...
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