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Can't Quit the Blues
(2006)
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Buddy Guy
Legend status came late to Buddy Guy, so it shouldn't be surprising that this is the first box set devoted to the blues giant's work. Yet it is still a bit of a shock, because Guy, it seems, has always been a part of the modern blues scene, ubiquitous even in the late '60s at the era's high-profile rock and folk festivals, playing the hippie ...
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience [MCA Box]
(2000)
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Jimi Hendrix
The Hendrix family continues its reissue campaign with the release of The Jimi Hendrix Experience, a lavish four-disc box set that should be a boon to Hendrix collectors everywhere. With a beautiful 80-page booklet, and purporting to have 46 unreleased tracks, further inspection actually reveals less than meets the eye, at least for collectors.The ...
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Gratitude
(2003)
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Tommy Castro
As its title suggests, Tommy Castro's seventh album is a note of thanks to the artists who inspired the West Coast guitarist/vocalist. While rocking R&B and blues greats like B.B. and Albert King, Chuck Berry and Buddy Guy are obvious choices, Castro digs deep into their catalogs. He covers B.B. King's "Bad Case of Love," Albert King's "Everybody ...
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Bad News Is Coming
(1973)
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Luther Allison
The very thing that made Luther Allison noteworthy became an albatross around his neck. Years after his initial run of records in the '70s, he was known for the same thing he was at the time -- he was the only blues artist on Gordy, or any Motown affiliated label. This was true and novel, but many focused on the novelty, not the truth, ignoring ...
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Do the Boogie! B.B. King's Early '50s Classics
(1988)
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B.B. King
20 killer tracks from B.B. King's 1950s heyday, including quite a few alternate takes and a few tough-to-locate items ("Bye Bye Baby," "Dark Is the Night," "Jump with You Baby"). Many of the titles are familiar ones -- "Woke Up This Morning," "Every Day (I Have the Blues)," "Please Love Me," "Whole Lotta Love" -- but often as not, compiler Ray ...
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The Monterey International Pop Festival, June 16-17-18, 1967
(1997)
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Various Artists
A sumptuous, four-CD box set with all the deluxe trimmings celebrating the grandaddy of all outdoor rock concerts. With legendary performances by Otis Redding, the Who, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Byrds, and Paul Butterfield all taken from the mobile-unit multi-track masters (not to mention an album-sized booklet that'll knock your eyes out), ...
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The Ultimate Collection
(2005)
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B.B. King
In theory, the idea behind Geffen's 2005 compilation The Ultimate Collection seems sound: gather together 21 iconic tracks from the entirety of B.B. King's long career and present them on one handy disc. While there have been plenty of King comps throughout the years -- some great, some merely passable, but often all very good -- there has never ...
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Blues in My Heart [Bonus Tracks]
(2004)
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B.B. King
It's been speculated that Blues in My Heart was recorded in late 1961 right before B.B. King left Modern for ABC, possibly with everything being cut in one session. If that was the case, it might account for the grind-it-out feel of these ten small-combo sides (probably with Plas Johnson on sax and Maxwell Davis on keyboards), which are lacking in ...
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Guitar Player Presents Legends of Guitar: Electric Blues, Vol. 1
(1990)
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Various Artists
This very consistent post-war blues-guitar collection includes Muddy Waters, T-Bone Walker, B.B. King, Guitar Slim, Earl Hooker, and Otis Rush contributing their vintage classics. Bill Dahl, All Music Guide
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Makin' Love Is Good for You
(2000)
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B.B. King
Over the years, the music world has seen its share of over-70 singers who kept performing even though they didn't have much of a voice left: Peggy Lee and Frank Sinatra are among the names that come to mind. But when B.B. King entered his 70s, the veteran blues singer/guitarist could still belt it out with confidence, and he does exactly that on ...
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Too Hot to Hold [Charly]
(1992)
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Ike & Tina Turner
The Charly label's Ike & Tina Turner compilation Too Hot to Hold will ultimately disappoint fans expecting radio hits like "Nutbush City Limits," "Proud Mary," "River Deep Mountain High," or "Fool in Love." That said, this collection of mid- to late-'60s pre-breakthrough R&B is riveting from start to finish, featuring Tina and the Ikettes in top ...
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Space Guitar
(2006)
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Johnny "Guitar" Watson
"The Proper Introduction to Johnny "Guitar" Watson and His Space Guitar" is indeed an introduction to Watson's early years, long before he became a funk master. The 18 cuts on this set are mainly from the 1950s, when Watson was a blues and R&B kingpin burning up the soul circuit and the jukeboxes in the South and up into Chicago. He came out of ...
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The Great B.B. King [Ace]
(2005)
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B.B. King
Released in early 1960, the LP The Great B.B. King was actually a budget-priced compilation of songs he'd recorded for the Modern label over the past five or so years. This CD reissue nearly doubles the length of the original album with eight mostly previously unreleased bonus cuts, as well as adding historical liner notes. Of the ten songs found ...
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The Best of the Early Years
(2007)
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B.B. King
There have been numerous compilations of the best of B.B. King's recordings for the Modern label in the 1950s and early '60s, and if you've already picked up one of them, there isn't an urgent reason to replace or upgrade it with this CD. If not, however, this certainly makes a good bid to be considered as the best single-disc anthology of this ...
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Singin' the Blues [Ace]
(2005)
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B.B. King
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Blues Kingpins
(2003)
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B.B. King
There has been a plethora of B.B. King compilations since the beginning of the new millennium, most of them not worth the plastic they are made of, but there have been some fine ones, too, such as the Ace four-CD box called The Vintage Years or their complete Modern Recordings set. In the States, the pickings are somewhat slimmer, but this little ...
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Original Greatest Hits
(2005)
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B.B. King
As part of the celebration of B.B. King's 80th birthday Virgin released the double-disc set Original Greatest Hits in September of 2005 -- the week B.B. turned 80. Since there have been so many comps of King's long career, all bearing titles similar to Original Greatest Hits, it's easy to assume that this collection is yet another recycling of the ...
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Chronicles: Live at the Regal/Blues Is King/Live in Cook County Jail
(2005)
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B.B. King
In 2005 MCA/Universal repackaged B.B. King's greatest live albums -- Live at the Regal, Blues Is King and Live in Cook County Jail -- as a three-CD box set. It's not a bad way to acquire the albums if you don't already own them, but there are no bonus tracks or new packaging or remastering, which means it's of marginal interest to hardcore ...
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Classic Masters
(2002)
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B.B. King
B.B. King's edition of Classic Masters concentrates on his RPM recordings from the first half of the '50s, adding two cuts from his stint at Kent in the early '60s. At 12 tracks, this isn't particularly extensive, nor is the track selection very imaginative, but it nevertheless is very strong all the same, containing such staples as "Three O'Clock ...
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The Best of Otis Redding
(1972)
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Otis Redding
This was another anthology that was definitive for many years, but lost a lot of value once Rhino began with its CD reissues. Atlantic hasn't bothered to reissue it as a CD, so it's only available on cassette. The original sound was decent and the range of selections good, and it still can be a nice introduction to Redding's greatness. There wasn ...
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King of the Blues [Ace]
(2003)
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B.B. King
Three cheers to Ace Records for reissuing B.B. King's Crown, Kent, and Ember sides as albums with original artwork, remastered sound, and plenty of bonus tracks. King of the Blues was B.B.'s sixth album for the Bihari Brothers on Crown, issued at a budget price, and his second full-length outing of 1960 after coming off his chart-topping "Sweet ...
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Teeny Weeny Bit
(2000)
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Roy Head
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Going Up, Going Down...The Anthology 1968-2001
(2004)
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Stan Webb's Chicken Shack
Going Up, Going Down is a double-disc set on the Castle label focusing on Chicken Shack singer and guitarist Stan Webb. The first disc captures the early days of his British electric blues band when the lineup included future Fleetwood Mac keyboardist Christine Perfect (pre-McVie). Their earliest repertoire, made up of electric blues cover ...
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Hollywood Rock 'n' Roll Record Hop
(2006)
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Various Artists
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Crazy Rhythm
(196?)
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Harry James
Collectables' 2003 release of Crazy Rhythm by Harry James is a three-disc set that features six albums the jazz trumpeter put out in the '50s on Columbia. The first disc features two records first released in 1954: the swinging live set Harry James at the Hollywood Palladium and the relaxed and intimate Trumpet After Midnight. Disc two collects a ...
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