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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5-CD box (LP-size) with 32-page book, 109 tracks. Playing time approx. 309 mns. No-one handled a ribald blues like Julia Lee, but it would be wrong to think of her simply as a singer of smutty songs. A fine pianist, she surrounded...
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Minit Records Story (2-CD) Limited Edition
Various: Minit Records Story (2-CD) Limited Edition Art-Nr.: CDE230879

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(1994/EMI) 53 tracks, 2-CD DeLuxe hardcover-digipack, 20-page booklet with rare photos and session details. The Minit label story, one of New Orleans' most important labels of the 1960s!
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Blowing With Roy
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3-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 24-page book, 77 tracks. Playing time approx. 199 mns. King Curtis was THE R&B sax player in the late '50s and early '60s. They'd cancel sessions if they couldn't get him. He made some highly regarded solo...
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A Vee-Jay Christmas
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4-CD box (LP-size) with 36-page book, 100 tracks. Playing time approx. 238 mns. As essential as the Fats Domino set, this is everything that the hard luck New Orleans bluesman cut in his short life.Smiley Lewis had one of the great blues...
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4-CD box (LP-size) with 20-page book, 122 tracks. Playing time approx. 301 mns. For pure enjoyment, for simple rockin' good music, nothing can match Willie Perryman a.k.a. Piano Red a.k.a. Doctor Feelgood. He was an albino R&B singer...
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Out Of New Orleans (8-CD Deluxe Box Set) (First Edition)
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Archive Copy - First Edition 1993 It's every recording that Fats Domino made for Imperial between 1949 and 1962 In those years, he just about defined New Orleans R&B as it became rock 'n' roll. There's terrific variety here, amazingly...
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Honkers & Bar Walkers Vol.1 (CD)
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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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The Jubilee Recordings (6-CD Deluxe Box Set)
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6-CD box (LP-size) with 16-page book, 152 tracks. Playing time approx. 419 mns. The Orioles weren’t just another vocal group – they were the spark that ignited modern R&B and laid the foundation for Doo-Wop and early Pop. Sonny Til,...
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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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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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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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Memphis Days Vol.2 (CD)
Howlin' Wolf: Memphis Days Vol.2 (CD) Art-Nr.: BCD15500

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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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