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Ultimate Isaac Hayes: Can You Dig It?
(2005)
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Isaac Hayes
One of the better and more thoughtful Isaac Hayes compilations, Ultimate Isaac Hayes: Can You Dig It? is a three-disc (two CDs and one DVD) set that covers his years on Stax. There's a wide range of material here, from singles to deep album cuts, that provide a very representative look at these years, and Stax is even wise enough to include "I ...
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Luther's Blues
(1974)
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Luther Allison
Luther's Blues is where Luther Allison began to come into his own, developing a fluid, gutsy style full of soulful string bending. There are still a few weak spots, but the album remains an effective slice of contemporary Chicago blues. Thom Owens, All Music Guide
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Crucial Chicago Blues
(2003)
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Various Artists
One of three simultaneously released, budget-priced Alligator blues compilations (the other two are Crucial Guitar Blues and Crucial Harmonica Blues), Crucial Chicago Blues is a 12-track anthology of the Chicago-based label's hometown artists. Harp players such as Carey Bell, James Cotton, and Junior Wells share space with guitarists Fenton ...
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The Original Sonny Boy Williamson, Vol. 1
(2007)
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Sonny Boy Williamson
JSP is a reissue label sent by angels to alleviate suffering and dispel ignorance in the world. We know this because JSP has done a fantastic job of compiling remastered blues, jazz, gospel, country, Cajun and western swing recordings in reasonably priced four-CD sets packed with loads of discographical information and insightful liner notes. ...
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Black Magic
(1968)
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Magic Sam
This album's color cover photo is an action shot, showing Magic Sam in the process of choking and bending his strings, a good hike up the fretboard. It isn't clear exactly what he is playing from the picture, although that certainly didn't stop dozens of pimply hippie guitar players from trying to figure it out. In the meantime, the record goes on ...
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Stompin' at the Savoy: The Original Indie-Label 1944-1961
(2004)
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Various Artists
This four-disc overview of Savoy Records masterful achievement in issuing jump blues, R&B, doo wop, and proto-rock and soul records is one handsome collection. There are 84 tracks spanning the years 1944 (two years after Savoy went into business) and ending in 1961. While the majority of cuts were originally issued on Savoy, there are more than a ...
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An Introduction to Electric Blues Guitar
(2007)
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Various Artists
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An Introduction to Magic Sam
(2007)
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Magic Sam
Magic Sam waxed some fantastic sides in his tragically short career, and they've been anthologized many different ways. An Introduction to Magic Sam is Fuel 2000's (newest) version, and collects tracks from his early years recording for the Cobra and Chief labels with an extra mid-'60s Crash single thrown in for good measure. It's a solid ...
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Heritage of the Blues: The Complete Hightone Sessions
(2003)
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Pinetop Perkins
Pinetop Perkins' Heritage of the Blues: The Complete Hightone Sessions is a welcome if strange reissue. In a sense, none of the tracks here have been issued before -- at least not in this form. These sessions took place over two years in the Octobers of 1996 and 1997 in Chicago. There are 15 tracks here, including Perkins classic originals such as ...
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Forever Isaac Hayes
(2007)
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Isaac Hayes
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Chicago Blues Session, Vol. 12
(1998)
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John Brim & Pinetop Perkins
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Clapton's Cradle: The Early Yardbirds Recordings
(1995)
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The Yardbirds
No mere hyperbole in the title, here are the very first batch of Yardbirds recordings, all with a very young Eric Clapton in the lead guitar slot. Kicking things off is the the three-song session with Mike Vernon that led to their first single, "Boom Boom" b/w "Honey in Your Hips," with the added bonus of the previously unissued "I'm Talkin' About ...
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The Queen of Mean
(2001)
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DQE
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If It Ain't One Thing It's Another
(2002)
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Easy Baby
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Living Chicago Blues, Vol. 2
(1978)
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Various Artists
This set is almost as incendiary as Vol. 1, thanks to four sides each from Magic Slim, Lonnie Brooks, and Pinetop Perkins. Bill Dahl, All Music Guide
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Underground
(2007)
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Luther Allison
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East Coast Jive
(1946)
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Various Artists
Linked to the Apollo Theater, well before it became the place for James Brown or the entire slate of Motown and Gordy artists, was the Apollo Records label. The theater continued to thrive to the present day, but the label ceased operation in 1962. Fortunately for us, Delmark managed to acquire the masters for Apollo's output, and so have been ...
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Yardbirds Story: 1963-66
(2002)
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The Yardbirds
Spread over four discs, this set contains every released recording the Yardbirds made under the leadership of their manager Giorgio Gomelsky from 1963 to 1966. Among the 89 tracks are the original hit versions of "Heart Full of Soul," "For Your Love," "Shapes of Things," "Still I'm Sad" along with a slew of rarities, alternate takes and an ...
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Encore Collection
(2005)
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Sonny Boy Williamson/The Blues Harp Heroes
The first disc of Fuel 2000's Sonny Boy Williamson Encore Collection features the harmonica great performing live in the early '60s with the Yardbirds and the Animals during a European tour. These tracks are historically significant for fans of those particular bands more so than Rice Miller's performance on them. On the other hand, the second ...
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Bluebird Recordings 1937-1938
(1997)
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Robert McCoy
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Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
(2005)
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Eric Clapton & the Yardbirds
This double-disc set offers two budget-line collections of scraps from two lineups of the Yardbirds: one featuring Clapton, one featuring Beck. This is the stuff that shows up on budget-line comps all the time and while this isn't one of the best, it isn't one of the worst, either, as far as these things go. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music ...
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Mosaic Select: Freddie Slack
(2005)
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Freddie Slack
Freddie Slack was the pianist with Jimmy Dorsey's orchestra during part of the 1930s before becoming well known for playing boogie-woogie with Will Bradley's band, most notably on the hit "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar." In 1941 Slack went out on his own, forming a big band that soon signed with the Capitol label. His hit recording of "Cow Cow ...
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Guitar Legend: The Very Best of the Early Years
(2006)
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Eric Clapton
Metro's 2006 compilation Guitar Legend is another one of the countless recyclings of the early unofficial Yardbirds material, featuring live cuts, stray studio sessions, and cuts from when they backed Sonny Boy Williamson. This is more generous than most comps of this ilk and better-produced but there are also better more coherent comps that sort ...
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Live on Maxwell Street
(1964)
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Robert Nighthawk
Recorded by Norman Dayron live on the street (you can actually hear cars driving by!) in 1964 with just Robert Whitehead on drums and Johnny Young on rhythm guitar, Robert Nighthawk's slide playing (and single-string soloing, for that matter) are nothing short of elegant and explosive. Highlights include "The Maxwell Street Medley," which combines ...
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With a Feeling 57-67: The Cobra, Chief & Crash Recordings
(2001)
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Magic Sam
This set basically apes the Fuel 2000 set issued in 2001 and the Paula set from 1999 but adds a few tracks -- six to be exact -- from early 1967, making it identical to the P-Vine collection from Japan released in 2003. In other words, these recordings that Magic Sam made between the years of 1956-1967 are pure, unadulterated Chicago blues gold. ...
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