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The Complete Decca Recordings
(1944)
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Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday is heard at her absolute best on this attractive two-CD set. During her period on Decca, Lady Day was accompanied by strings (for the first time), large studio orchestras, and even background vocalists, so jazz solos from her sidemen are few. But her voice was at its strongest during the 1940s (even with her personal problems) and ...
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Chess Blues
(1992)
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Various Artists
Chess Blues is a superlative four-CD box set featuring important tracks by all the main stars of the label (Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson), as well as much previously unreleased material. A well-done retrospective of Chicago blues in its heyday, as recorded by America's greatest blues label, Chess. Cub Koda, All ...
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For Collectors Only
(1994)
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Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
While not even approaching the all-inclusive five-disc box set Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers on Bear Family, For Collectors Only is the next best thing. This Collectables double disc features 47 tracks, including the original Gee recordings of "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?," "I Want You to Be My Girl," and "I'm Not a Juvenile Delinquent" with ...
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Lost and Found: Rockabilly and Jump Blues
(2007)
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Keb Darge/Cut Chemist
It would be easy to understand rockabilly fans raising an eyebrow when the beat-obsessed blokes at BBE put together a rock & roll compilation. Surprisingly though, Lost and Found: Rockabilly and Jump Blues resurrects a host of long-lost '50s jump tunes, with precious little overlap with music that already appears on CD. The two curators, Keb Darge ...
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Walk the Line
(2006)
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Johnny Cash
Released shortly after the popularity of the major American film bearing the same title, Walk the Line is an excellent two-CD collection of Johnny Cash's early Sun Records recordings, which include a few of the major hits of his career. Though Cash's name is synonymous with country music, Walk the Line presents his rockabilly history on 56 tracks ...
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Cool Daddy: The Central Avenue Scene 1951-1957, Vol. 3
(2006)
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Various Artists
Veteran horn man Jake "Vernon" Porter grew tired of the road as the 1950s opened, and after acquiring a Magnechord tape machine, set up a little studio in the back of his L.A. home, giving birth to Combo Records. Initially, Porter recorded the kind of horn-driven R&B he was most familiar with, along with the blues, but as the doo wop era got under ...
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Long Man Blues
(1995)
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Various Artists
Chicago blues obscurities from the '50s United/States vaults, including highlights Dennis Binder, Harold Burrage, Arbee Stidham, Jack Cooley, and Cliff Butler. Bill Dahl, All Music Guide
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Country Boy
(1997)
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Little Jimmy Dickens
Country Boy is a four-disc import box set that collects Little Jimmy Dickens' complete Columbia recordings from 1949-1957 including most of his biggest hits, several sacred recordings, a handful of instrumentals, and much more. Dickens' music from this era vacillated between silly hillbilly novelties and maudlin weepers, which might sound like a ...
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Detroit in the 50's, Vol. 3
(2000)
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Various Artists
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Chess Blues Guitar: Two Decades of Killer Fretwork, 1949-1969
(1998)
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Various Artists
This 45-song, two-disc collection is subtitled "two decades of killer fretwork," and never was a set so aptly described. Chess Records was the home to seemingly every hot guitar player in the Chicago area, and many of them make their appearance here. Besides the usual label guitar hotshots (Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, ...
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The Original Sun Sound of Johnny Cash [Bonus Tracks]
(2003)
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Johnny Cash
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Born To Sing The Blues: Mountain Top West Coast Blues Session, Vol. 2
(2004)
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Clarence "Guitar" Sims
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Complete D Singles Collection, Vol. 3
(2000)
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Various Artists
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The Laurie, Sabina & United Artists Sides, Vol. 2
(1998)
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Dion
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1949-1953, Vol. 3
(1994)
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Memphis Minnie
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The Complete Josie Sessions
(1995)
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The Cadillacs
This box is really the CD descendant of Murray Hill Records' early-'80s-era LP set, which included lots of outtakes. It seems like complete and absolute overkill to put out four CDs on a vocal quintet that only ever charted two songs ("Speedoo," "Peek-A-Boo") nationally, and, yet...it works. But, if you like '50s R&B, doo wop music, or generally ...
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Kissin', Twistin', Goin' Where the Boys Are
(1996)
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Connie Francis
Five more CDs of Connie Francis, picking up right where Bear Family's earlier White Sox, Pink Lipstick set left off, in 1960 -- although its 300-plus minutes of music only cover the period of 1960 to 1962. By this time, Connie Francis was established as one of the top female vocal talents of her generation, and she was ready to experiment -- you ...
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Welcome to My World [Bear Family]
(1996)
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Jim Reeves
This massive collection by the German Bear Family label is the most intimidatingly thorough collection of Jim Reeves' work. Basically, it's virtually everything from his recording sessions, and there are two separate boxes of his radio transcriptions besides! But this one is unwieldy enough -- it's 16 CDs covering all of Reeves' recordings from ...
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The Classic Recordings 1956-1959
(1991)
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Sonny Burgess
Elvis Presley's Sun recordings were said to be too country for the R&B audience and too R&B for the country audience, but his love of traditional pop and gospel music at least gave him a lifeline into the mainstream. The music of Sonny Burgess, on the other hand, has no middle -- it sounds like a band of crazed hillbillies playing juke joint blues ...
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Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers
(1994)
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Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers
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Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers: The Complete Recordings
(1994)
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Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers
This five-CD set contains more Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers than any casual fan has likely ever thought of listening to, much less owning. Only one of its five CDs is less than satisfying, yet only a portion of this collection contains music that is actually important to the history of rock & roll. The first disc contains everything that Lymon ...
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Singles A's & B's
(2005)
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Nazareth
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Portrait in B&W
(2006)
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Alain Jean-Marie
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Complete Recorded Works
(2008)
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Cleo Brown
With her kinetic stride piano style and her sassy, wispy voice, Cleo Brown had the talent, energy, and personality to be a big star, but somehow the fates managed to overlook her. One wonders how on earth that could possibly be, since the evidence presented on this delightful, bubbling collection (in spite of its title, this isn't Brown's complete ...
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Not Fade Away: Buddy Holly 1957 Complete Recordings
(2008)
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Buddy Holly & the Crickets
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