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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1-CD with 28-page booklet, 28 tracks. Playing time approx. 77 mns. Mickey Baker is the greatest R&B session guitarist of all time (as well as half of Mickey & Sylvia). He has made plenty of solo records through the years and this set...
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First Pressings - The History of Rhythm & Blues Vol.6: 1956
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(1991/Bick Nickel) 175 pages, 28x22 cm, Paperback. - Each volume by year (1950 to 1959) provides a month-by-month survey of the key articles, news stories, feature columns and record releases in a given year during Rhythm and Blues' most...
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Love Is Strange (2-CD)
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2-CD with 52-page booklet, 60 tracks. Playing time approx. 154 mns. 'Love Is Strange' and much, much more! A total of 60 tracks from the most distinctive and unique act in Fifties R&B. Mickey Baker was the master guitar player and Sylvia...
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2-CD with 36-page booklet, 48 tracks. Playing time approx. 136 mns. Esquerita may have been one of rockin'est cats ever, but Screamin' Jay' Hawkins was certainly the weirdest. A true original who has been steadily recording for more than...
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Cool It Baby (CD)
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Hey Sister Lucy (CD)
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(Bear Family Records) 18 tracks (45:57) 16 page booklet At any given time, the Treniers were either two, three or four brothers. Perhaps their finest moment, as far as exposure goes, came in the late '56 movies 'Don't Knock The Rock' and...
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(Bear Family Records) 20 tracks - High Quality re-issue of the 1964 Mercury LP from the (now deleted) 1987 8-LP Box Set BFX15271 'Rhythm And Soul 1959–1965'
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The Wild Sound Of New Orleans (CD)
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1-CD with 16-page booklet, 26 tracks. Playing time approx. 77 mns. Although he has been the presiding genius of New Orleans R&B since the late Fifties, Allen Toussaint has made relatively few recordings under his own name. These are his...
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Memphis Days Vol.1 (CD)
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1-CD with 12-page booklet, 21 tracks. Playing time approx. 61 min. Hailed by fans and critics as one of the greatest blues CDs ever issued! For SUN Records founder Sam Phillips, Chester Burnett aka Howlin' Wolf remained the greatest...
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The Lovin' Bird - Complete Recordings 1956-1961 Vol.2 (CD)
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Varetta Dillard's name is rarely, if ever, mentioned alongside Ruth Brown and LaVern Baker among the great early thrushes of mid-'50s R&B ... and yet her voice and talent were certainly on the same plane as the aforementioned legends....
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Memphis Days Vol.2 (CD)
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1-CD with 8-page booklet, 19 tracks. Playing time approx. 51 mns. A companion to Volume 1, this includes all the released Chess masters from Memphis together with out-takes of both the issued and unissued recordings. A total of 19 songs...
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2-CD with 36-page booklet, 47 tracks. Playing time approx. 111 mns. New Orleans wasn't best-known for vocal groups. The exception was the Spiders. Between 1953 and 1960, they recorded 46 songs for Imperial with the incredible studio...
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Got You On My Mind
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-Got You On My Mind (1951/52 'Sun') (60:38/21) (Die frühen Wolf-Titel in UNGLAUBLICH guter Qualität!! Ein Hammer! Agressiv, laut, Super-Gitarre von Willie Johnson / the sound quality of this 'Bear Family' CD is simply unbelievably...
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1-CD with 24-page booklet, 26 tracks. Playing time approx. 74 mns. Joe Hill Louis must have been Sun president Sam Phillips' favorite bluesman. He recorded him for The Phillips, Chess, and Sun. The Sun tapes (1952-'53) are here,...
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​(Bear Family Records) 72 tracks The sound quality of this CD from Bear Family is simply incredible! This CD is a must-have! Aggressive, loud, and excellent guitar playing by W. Johnson But although Greer would never be mistaken for a...
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Darktown Strutter's Ball
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(1986/Mr. R&B) 16 tracks, very rare Swedish CD, original Exclusive and Specialty recordings, 1945-50, 8-page booklet with liner notes by Peter Grendysa and session details.
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Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me
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​(Mr. R&B) 16 tracks. 1949-55
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Sock It To Me Baby (CD)
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1-CD with 8-page booklet, 13 tracks. Playing time approx. 31 mns. If you've heard Esquerita's psychotic recordings for Capitol (1958-59), you probably already know what to expect whenever his name is dropped. If you haven't ... well,...
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Boogie Woogie On A Saturday Night feat. Damita Jo (CD)
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(Bear Family Records) 28 tracks (71:27) 16 page booklet The Red Caps, one of the early black vocal groups to succeed in the pre and post-war eras, were unusual in a most functional respect: not only were they a fine vocal group in and of...
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Shout!
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Shout! was quite simply one of the greatest R&B records of all time, and it's here with all of the Isleys' epochal RCA recordings from 1959-60. Other titles include both the single and LP versions of Respectable as well as the complete,...
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Play It Again, Sam
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​(Mr. R&B) 13 tracks. 1983
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Shrimp Boats A-Comin' - There's Dancin' Tonight
 Jerry Jackson: Shrimp Boats A-Comin' - There's Dancin' Tonight Art-Nr.: BCD15481

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Jerry Jackson was an R&B-pop singer in New York in the early 1960s, and his New York ska version of 'Shrimp Boats' has become a cult club favorite in Europe. Elvis fans will be interested in Jerry Jackson's original version of 'It Hurts...
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I Feel Like Steppin' Out
 The Big Three Trio (Feat. Willie Dixon): I Feel Like Steppin' Out Art-Nr.: CDRBD804

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(1986/Mr.R&B) 16 tracks, rare Swedish CD, original Bullet and Columbia recordings, 1946-52, 12-page booklet with the story, photos and session details.
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