Various - Blowing The Fuse 1954 - 29 R&B Classics That Rocked The Jukebox (CD)

Nowadays, when journalists talk about '50 years of pop music' they are ignoring the fact that popular music existed prior to 1955. Pop music did not appear from nowhere but has a rich 'pre' history. Keywords like Big Band Sound, Gospel, Jump Blues, Vocal Groups and Boogie Woogie characterize this period. The first eleven compact discs in the 'Blowing The Fuse'-series are a compilation splendid in sound and detail, dealing with important years in the progress of pop music in the range of black r&b, imaginatively compiled by the Canadian collector and DJ Dave 'Daddy Cool' Booth, and knowledgeably annotated by 
Hank Williams-biographer Colin Escott.

Many companies have issued compilations of out-of-copyright recordings (ie. records more than 50 years old). That's why you'll find that their series stop at 1955. Bear Family's 'Blowing The Fuse' starts at the dawn of the Post-War R&B era in 1945, and now goes through until 1960! And, unlike the out-of-copyright labels who won't get to 1960 until 2011, we're there now because Bear Family pays the companies that own the music



Most out-of-copyright labels do their compilations from chart books compiled by Joel Whitburn. Compiling from Whitburn is the easy way out. We hired Dave 'Daddy Cool' Booth, a guy with one of North America’s biggest R&B collections and the dee-jay experience to know how to program music. He went through his incredible collection and then he went through 'Billboard' year-by-year, and picked out more than just the hits. We selected the absolute best music, some of it never reissued on CD until now, as well as the biggest hits, and we have no more than two songs by any artist on any CD. These are true, properly thought-out compilations in the spirit of Guy Stevens, Paul Oliver, Mike Leadbitter, and the others who compiled groundbreaking blues/R&B LPs back in the 1960s and 1970s.


BCD16700 - Blowing The Fuse - 26 R&B Classics That Rocked The Jukebox In 1945
BCD16701 - Blowing The Fuse - 27 R&B Classics That Rocked The Jukebox In 1946
BCD16702 - Blowing The Fuse - 28 R&B Classics That Rocked The Jukebox In 1947
BCD16703 - Blowing The Fuse - 28 R&B Classics That Rocked The Jukebox In 1948
BCD16704 - Blowing The Fuse - 27 R&B Classics That Rocked The Jukebox In 1949
BCD16705 - Blowing The Fuse - 28 R&B Classics That Rocked The Jukebox In 1950
BCD16706 - Blowing The Fuse - 28 R&B Classics That Rocked The Jukebox In 1951
BCD16707 - Blowing The Fuse - 29 R&B Classics That Rocked The Jukebox In 1952
BCD16708 - Blowing The Fuse - 29 R&B Classics That Rocked The Jukebox In 1953
BCD16709 - Blowing The Fuse - 29 R&B Classics That Rocked The Jukebox In 1954
BCD16710 - Blowing The Fuse - 29 R&B Classics That Rocked The Jukebox In 1955