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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On The Dancefloor With A Fingersnap - 31 Pops To Make The Party Shake! (CD)
Various: On The Dancefloor With A Fingersnap - 31 Pops... Art-Nr.: BCD17718

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1-CD (Digipak) with 36 page booklet, 31 tracks. Total playing time approx. 79 min. In the CD series 'On The Dancefloor With ...' featuring the best danceable music, Bear Family Records® here deals with those songs that are accompanied by...
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Lloyd Price - Lloyd Rocks
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1-CD-Album Digipak (6-plated) with 51-page booklet, 34 tracks. Playing time approx. 78 minutes. • Lloyd Price helped kick-start the rock'n'roll era in 1952 ... the New Orleans great really was there at the beginning. • The only career...
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Left Behind - Black & White 'Felsted' Rockers (LP & CD, 10inch, 45rpm)
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R&B Hipshakers Vol.3 - Just A Little Bit Of The Jumpin' Bean (2-LP)
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(Vampi Soul) 20 tracks Third edition of our "R&B Hipshakers" series featuring rockin' R&B and early soul from the King / Federal catalog. Available on LP for the first time. A special Record Store Day release. A compilation of tracks...
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A Portrait Of A Man And His Woman (LP)
Screamin' Jay Hawkins: A Portrait Of A Man And His Woman (LP) Art-Nr.: LPTDP54114

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(Hot Line Records) 12 tracks A Portrait Of A Man And His Woman was recorded in Nashville in 1973 and is his only album for the Hot Line label there. Here Hawkins shows his most accessible side: the haunting delivery of the title track...
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The Rhythm Of The Rain - 30 Melodic Drops for Cloudy Days (CD)
Various: The Rhythm Of The Rain - 30 Melodic Drops for... Art-Nr.: BCD17723

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1 CD with 36 page booklet, 30 tracks. Total playing time approx. 79 min. Depending on the personal state of mind: rain can be perceived as unpleasantly wet or wonderfully refreshing. At all times and across all genres, composers and...
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Roy Milton - Rocks (CD)
Roy Milton: Roy Milton - Rocks (CD) Art-Nr.: BCD17712

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1-CD (Digipak) with 36-page booklet, 31 tracks. Total playing time aprox. 78 min. A brimful CD compilation dedicated to the important R&B pioneer Roy Milton in the continuously updated ‘Rocks’ series on Bear Family Records®. Milton is...
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The Rockin Race Jamboree - 22nd Edition - Big Ball (CD)
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(Sleazy Records) 25 tracks Dee Jay compilation compiled by Deejay Francho! Great Rock 'n' Roll and Rhythm 'n' Blues!
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Crown Prince Of Dance (CD)
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(Stax Records) 10 tracks, digipack “Crown Prince Of Dance” by Rufus Thomas is a Stax/Fantasy CD featuring ten tracks and approximately 41 minutes of music. The album opens with “Git On Up And Do It” and continues with “I Know You Don't...
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...Steppin' Out! (CD)
Arthur Alexander: ...Steppin' Out! (CD) Art-Nr.: CDBSR0085

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(Big Stir Records) 13 tracks, digipack Das brandneue Soloalbum von Sorrows and Poppes-Gründer Arthur Alexander, ...Steppin' Out!
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Live (CD)
Louis Jordan: Live (CD) Art-Nr.: CDJSP3008

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(JSP) 10 tracks After the Second World War, there was a marked decline in interest in big bands in America. Audiences wanted something faster and more exciting - and that's where Louis Jordan comes in. His Tympany Five was a group of...
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Back To Baton Rouge (CD)
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(Nola Blue Records) 10 tracks, digisleeve. When two-time Blues Music Award nominee and budding music historian Ben Levin, 23, first contacted Lil' Jimmy Reed (Leon Atkins, 84), the two blues musicians, who lived at very different times...
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Start Movin'In My Direction - Bell Recordings
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1-CD-Album Digipak (4-plated) with 44-page booklet, 29 tracks, playing time approx. 75 mns. The forgotten recordings of Edna McGriff a Fifties R&B star! Few ever reissued on CD, most unheard since the 1950s! Includes fabulous R&B...
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Endlessly - Hits And Rarities (2-CD)
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(Sunset Blvd Records) 36 tracks, digisleeve, includes 10 tracks not previously available on any other collection. The silky smooth baritone that ruled the R&B and pop charts of the '60s and '70s. Side one features previously unreleased...
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The Montreux Years (CD)
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(Montreux Jazz Festival) 14 tracks, digibook (hardcover), incl. booklet with excl. liner notes. This brand new release in the Montreux Years series is a collection of Dr. John's best performances at the Montreux Jazz Festival between...
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Stand By Me - The Ben E. King Collection (CD)
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(Warner Music UK) 20 tracks Ben E. King – Stand By Me – The Platinum Collection brings together 20 recordings from one of the distinctive voices of American soul and rhythm & blues. Naturally, the centrepiece is „Stand By Me“, the...
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Because You're Mine - Hits & Rarities (2-CD)
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(Sunset Blvd.) 29 tracks, digipack. Includes the unreleased original version of "I Put A Spell On You" and two previously unreleased tracks. Includes 15 tracks not otherwise available on CD & vinyl at the time of 2023. Jalacy J....
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Soul Serenade & Willie Mitchel Live (CD)
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Late Date With Ruth Brown (CD)
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Destination Freeway – 33 Cruisin' Deuces for your Summer Spectacular (CD)
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1-CD with 20-page booklet, 33 tracks. Total playing time approx. 78 min. Driving a car, a significant attitude to life for generations - Bear Family Records® provides the appropriate soundtrack, historical recordings from the number one...
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Exotic Blues & Rhythm Vol.13+14 - OOP BOOMP And RAT-A-MA-CUE (CD)
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(Stag-O-Lee Records) 27 tracks Volume 13 and 14 of the popular "Exotic Blues & Rhythm" series on one CD. A total of 27 danceable gems from the late 50s and early 60s. As usual a wonderful mix of melancholic popcorn dancers, rhythm &...
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Groovin' The Blues (CD)
Various - Groove Records: Groovin' The Blues (CD) Art-Nr.: BCD17411

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1-CD Digipak (4-plated) with 64-page booklet, 33 tracks. Total playing time approx. 84 minutes. Two single CDs devoted to a great, unknown story in 1950s R&B history! All titles remastered from original vault tapes! Artists include Zilla...
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Primal Beats From The Basement - For Dancers Only (LP)
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(Stag-O-Lee Records) 16 tracks, Vintage Rhythm And Blues Cuts... "For Dancer Only" is the legendary club night of Bill Kealey, the equally hard-drinking and busy collector and hunter from Dublin. Almost every weekend he is on the road...
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Playful Mind (CD)
Til Schneider Band: Playful Mind (CD) Art-Nr.: CDBM005

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(Belmont) 10 tracks. Each song a secret treasure, each line a colourful memory and every chorus a celebration of life itself. A bohemian life, of course! Groovy Southern Rock and laid-back Urban Soul merge into epic pop songs that make...
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Flyin' High - A Collection Of Phoenix Blues, Rhythm, and Spirit From The 1950's And 60's (CD)
Various: Flyin' High - A Collection Of Phoenix Blues,... Art-Nr.: CDSWMAF07

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(Southwest MusicalArts Foundation Records) 27 tracks A power packed collection of 27 vintage tracks of urban and back porch blues, soul searching ballads, rockin' R&B and testifying gospel from Phoenix, Arizona. This relesae will shed...
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