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Various - Electric Blues - Plug It In! Turn It Up!: Vol.1 Electric Blues 1939 - 1954 (3-CD)

3-CD Digipak (8-plated) with 160-page booklet, 77 tracks. Total playing time approx. 218 mns.

Part one of the most comprehensive history EVER of electrified blues on 12 electrifying CDs! Every significant artist ... every significant recording from the 1930s to the present day, including T-Bone Walker, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, George Thorogood, and Freddie, B.B. and Albert King, Jeff Beck, Fleetwood Mac, Charlie Musselwhite, Johnny Winter, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, and literally hundreds more! In all, fifteen-and-a-half hours! Compiled and annotated by renowned blues expert, Bill Dahl. Every 3-CD set comes with a 160-page booklet including biographies, illustrations, original release info, and rare photos! Cross-licensed from every record company to be truly comprehensive!

Blues historian and musicologist, Bill Dahl from Chicago, has produced the most comprehensive history of electric blues ... ever! With nearly 300 tracks, Bear Family Records is telling the story from the beginning into the new millennium. In the 1930s, the invention of Gibson's ES-150 - the first electric guitar - changed popular music forever. The first generation of blues pioneers played acoustic instruments, but with the invention of amplification, guitar and harmonica players could be heard over the piano, drums and horns. Music was revolutionized!

The 12 generously full CDs are in four sets of three CDs in elegant digipaks. On more than 650 pages in four lavishly illustrated booklets, Bill Dahl writes authoritatively about the history of electric blues, and how it influenced rock music during the 1960s and beyond. Here's the complete story from jazz-inspired jump numbers in the late 1930s to hard-driving blues/rock from the States and Great Britain in the 1960s, '70s, and beyond. The journey closes with today's contemporary blues. This is it! Truly definitive! Done as only Bear Family can do it!

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Album titlle: Vol.1 Electric Blues 1939 - 1954 (3-CD)
Genre Blues
Label Bear Family Records
Preiscode CP
Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
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EAN: 4000127169211
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Various - Electric Blues - Plug It In! Turn It Up! - Vol.1 Electric Blues 1939 - 1954 (3-CD) CD 1
01	Floyd's Guitar Blues	Kirk, Andy and His Twelve Clou
02	Mean Old World	Walker, T-Bone
03	Strange Things Happening Every Day	Tharpe, Sister Rosetta
04	Drifting Blues	Johnny Moore's Three Blazers
05	Ain't That Just Like A Woman	Jordan, Louis and his Tympany
06	That's All Right	Crudup, Arthur 'Big Boy'
07	Let Me Play With Your Poodle	Hopkins, Lightnin'
08	Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just As	Walker, T-Bone
09	Better Cut That Out	Williamson, Sonny Boy
10	Ramblin' Bill	Big Bill (Broonzy) & His Rhyth
11	I Can't Be Satisfied	Muddy Waters
12	Boogie Chillen	Hooker, John Lee
13	Blues After Hours	Crayton, Pee Wee
14	Mary Is Fine	Brown, Clarence 'Gatemouth' -
15	Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee	McGhee, Stick and His Buddies
16	Hit The Road	Little Willie Littlefield
17	Who's Been Jivin' You	Witherspoon, Jimmy
18	Black Angel Blues (Sweet Black Angel)	Nighthawks, The (Robert Nighth
19	My Special Friend Blues	Baby Boy Warren
20	Every Day I Have The Blues (Lonely Heart Blue	Fulson, Lowell
21	Rock Awhile	Carter, Goree and His Hepcats
22	Bon Ton Roula	Garlow, Clarence
23	Rollin' And Tumblin' Part 1	Baby Face Leroy Trio
24	Slippin' And Slidin'	Phillips, Gene with Jack McVea
25	Rockin' All Day (aka Rockin' And Reelin')	McCracklin, Jimmy and His Blue
26	Love Don't Love Nobody	Brown, Roy and His Mighty Migh

Various - Electric Blues - Plug It In! Turn It Up! - Vol.1 Electric Blues 1939 - 1954 (3-CD) CD 2
01	That's All Right	Rogers, Jimmy and His Trio
02	Midnight Boogie	Tampa Red
03	Black Night	Brown, Charles and His Band
04	Rock Little Baby	Gant, Cecil
05	Why Should I Cry?	Johnson, Lonnie
06	Rocket '88'	Brenston, Jackie and His Delta
07	How Many More Years?	Howlin' Wolf
08	Boogie Woogie Nighthawk	Brown, James 'Wide Mouth'
09	Baby Let's Go Down To The Woods	Dixon, Floyd
10	Kansas City Blues	Nighthawk, Robert and His Nigh
11	Pontiac Blues	Williamson, Sonny Boy
12	Dust My Broom	James, Elmore
13	I'm In The Mood	Hooker, John Lee
14	Cold Cold Feeling	Walker, T-Bone
15	Ramblin' On My Mind	Gilmore, Boyd
16	Please Send My Baby Back	Blair, Sunny
17	Trust In Me	Domino, Fats
18	Juke	Little Walter
19	Me And My Chauffeur Blues	Memphis Minnie with Little Joe
20	Five Long Years	Boyd, Eddie
21	Lonesome Train	Vinson, Eddie 'Cleanhead'
22	Hound Dog	Thornton, Willie Mae 'Big Mama
23	Chocolate Pork Chop Man	Lewis, Pete 'Guitar'
24	Woke Up This Morning (My Baby She Was Gone)	King, B.B. and His Orchestra
25	Evening Sun	Shines, Johnny
26	Cryin' Shame	Pryor, Snooky and His Trio

Various - Electric Blues - Plug It In! Turn It Up! - Vol.1 Electric Blues 1939 - 1954 (3-CD) CD 3
01	Messin' Up	Norris, Chuck
02	Please Love Me	King, B.B. and His Orchestra
03	Forty Cups Of Coffee	Overbea, Danny
04	Ice Cream Man	Brim, John
05	Losing Hand	Charles, Ray
06	Hydramatic Woman	Louis, Joe Hill
07	Feelin' Good	Little Junior's Blue Flames
08	One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer	Milburn, Amos and His Aladdin
09	Tiger Man (King Of The Jungle)	Thomas Jr., Rufus
10	Blues With A Feeling	Little Walter and His Jukes
11	Piggly Wiggly	Jackson, Lil' Son
12	T.V. Mama	Turner, Joe and His Blues King
13	The Things That I Used To Do	Guitar Slim and His Band
14	Shim Sham Shimmy	Dupree, Champion Jack
15	Dirty Work At The Crossroad	Brown, Clarence 'Gatemouth' wi
16	You Don't Have To Go	Reed, Jimmy and His Trio
17	I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man	Muddy Waters
18	Sloppy Drunk	Rogers, Jimmy and His Rocking
19	Shake That Thing	Harris, Wynonie
20	Wine, Women, Whiskey	Lightfoot, Papa
21	I'm Gonna Murder My Baby	Hare, Pat
22	Pet Cream Man	Hutto, J. B. and His Hawks
23	Reconsider Baby	Fulson, Lowell
24	Don't Have To Worry (Jumpin' In The Heart Of	Thomas, Lafayette
25	The Boogie Disease	Ross, Dr.

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Bear Family's "Plug It In! Turn It Up! Electric Blues wins the Historical Album category at the 2013 Blues Music Awards

Texas native T-Bone Walker was the primary catalyst for the electric blues guitar movement as we now know it. Beginning with his pioneering Mean Old World in 1942 (this set's second track), he wrote much of the vocabulary of postwar electric blues guitar. Sensing which way the wind was blowing, hallowed blues veterans Big Bill, Minnie, Tampa, and plenty more of the relative old-timers gamely made the switch; a new generation of younger electric blues guitarists sprang up in T-Bone's mighty wake in Texas, all over the South, in the Windy City, and on the West Coast. Most of those seminal guitar greats can be found on this collection.

Amplified harmonica was a later innovation. The humble mouth organ didn't even really emerge as a credible solo instrument until John Lee 'Sonny Boy' Williamson surfaced with his Bluebird waxing of Good Morning, School Girl (Sonny Boy didn't have time to make the leap to amplifying his instrument prior to his 1948 murder, but he welcomed electric guitar into his band a few years before he was killed). Only in the late '40s and early '50s did a dazzling young coterie of harp wizards emerge to take it to the next level by pumping their thrilling solos through a mic and amp, led by unparalleled Chicagoan Little Walter. His forward-thinking peers included Snooky Pryor, Big Walter Horton, George 'Harmonica' Smith, Papa Lightfoot, and Junior Wells.

Before this series of three-CD sets concludes, the listener will be guided through all the permutations of electric blues: swinging jump numbers, lowdown solo grinders, '50s rock 'n' rollers, the hard-charging British and American blues-rock of the '60s and beyond, soul-blues of the '70s, and right on up to the contemporary blues of today, where the electric guitar continues to reign as almighty king.

There's no way to include every deserving landmark of the genre on this series—that would require a virtual mountain of discs and an accompanying avalanche of words—but by the time you listen to the dozen jam-packed CDs that comprise this series, you'll have a pretty fair idea of how electric blues progressed, and who the important players were (not to mention a raft of unsung heroes).

Without the advent of amplification, blues as we know it in the 21^st Century would never have existed. Here are the legends who invented electric blues.

Bear Family's "Plug It In! Turn It Up! Electric Blues 1939-2005" beat out four other nominees to win the Historical Album category at the 2013 Blues Music Awards, held May 9, 2013 at the Cook Convention Center in Memphis.

Bill Dahl, reissue producer of the comprehensive 12-CD series for Bear Family, was in attendance to accept the coveted award at the gala ceremonies, attended by 1300 blues artists, musicians, various movers and shakers, and devoted fans of the genre.

The annual Blues Music Awards are regarded the most important and prestigeous blues music industry awards, worldwide!

Vol.1 Electric Blues 1939-54 (english) BCD 16921

3-CD Digipak (8-plated) with 160-page booklet, 77 tracks. Total playing time approx. 218 mns.

Vol.2 Electric Blues 1954-67 (english) BCD 16922
3-CD Digipak (8-plated) with 172-page booklet, 79 tracks. Total playing time approx. 221 mns.

Vol.3 Electric Blues 1960-69 (english) BCD 16923
3-CD Digipak (8-plated) with 172-page booklet, 70 tracks. Total playing time approx. 221 mns

Vol.4 Electric Blues 1970-2005 (english) BCD 16924 3-CD Digipak (8-plated) with 156-page booklet, 65 tracks. Total playing time approx. 263 mns.

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Customer evaluation for "Vol.1 Electric Blues 1939 - 1954 (3-CD)"

From: Redecker On: 13 Mar 2014

It's a rare pleasure to be able to put a disc in the tray, press play, and know that every track will be enjoyable as well as significant.
Blues Music Magazine 1/13 Tom Hyslop

From: Redecker On: 13 Mar 2014

Quibble with \definitive\", if you wish - but it does not get better than thus!
Blues in Britain 11/12 Norman Darwen"

From: Redecker On: 13 Mar 2014

Eine bessere Veröffentlichung zum Thema dürfte schwerlich zu finden sein!
Blues News 10-12/2012 Dirk Föhrs

From: Redecker On: 13 Mar 2014

Mit einer gigantischen Kollektion von vier 3 CD Boxen verfolgt Bear Family die Geschichte des elektrischen Blues von 1939-2005. Das ist eine historische Aufarbeitung wie sie sein soll.
Oldiemarkt 8/12 Martin Reichold

From: Redecker On: 13 Mar 2014

Wer auf Label übergreifende Auswahl steht, wer qualitativ hochwertig sowie tief und umfassend alles über den elektrischen Blues erfahren möchte, für den gibt es kein Vorbeikommen an diesem Standardwerk!
Good Times 4/12 Ulrich Schwartz

From: Redecker On: 13 Mar 2014

Für alle, die den Blues noch nicht so lange entdeckt haben, ist dies ein toller Einstieg!
Blues News 7-9/12 Dirk Föhrs

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