Review: VARIOUS – Rockin’ Blues Party
This is not really a review, but an urging to you all to go to your nearest Sainsburys and search the shelves for this album while its still there!. Why? Because it is a 3 CD set of 60 songs, that I am sure most of you will have several already, but for £4.00, yes […]
25 YEARS ANNIVERSARY Ruf Records Various Artists
Album Review for Ruf Records – 25 Years Anniversary, released through Ruf Records. I’m not a great fan of label samplers these days. Back in the day labels like Island, Atlantic and CBS produced some real classics. Anyone remember Nice Enough To Eat? But of late they seem to have become rather one-paced and bland […]
VARIOUS ARTISTS – HARD TO EXPLAIN More Shattered Dreams
VARIOUS ARTISTS – HARD TO EXPLAIN More Shattered Dreams 1968-1984. Ace Records. The first thing that is “Hard To Explain” in context, is that this disc is a collection of funky blues from a variety of artists. This is not a single or indeed even a couple of artists performing, it is though, a guide […]
VARIOUS ARTISTS The Story Of Piano Blues From The Country To The City
VARIOUS ARTISTS The Story Of Piano Blues From The Country To The City Wolf Records CD With the right amount of enthusiasm, most of us could sit down and learn enough basic chords on a guitar over a couple of weeks to accompany a very basic blues. The guitar is portable, like the harmonica, it […]
VARIOUS ARTISTS Breezy Sugar: The Pure Essence Of Chicago Rock’n’roll
VARIOUS ARTISTS Breezy Sugar: The Pure Essence Of Chicago Rock’n’roll Fantastic Voyage 3 CD set The borders between blues, soul, R&B and rock have always been blurred, but as blues fans, when we think of urban blues we usually think Chicago. But the Windy City, just as much as the Big Apple and Memphis was […]
VARIOUS ARTISTS Deep Feeling
VARIOUS ARTISTS Deep Feeling Fantastic Voyage This triple album compilation has been put together by record producer and Blues discographer Neil Slaven. Fantastic Voyage had previously released a 3 CD Blues guitar anthology called Screaming And Crying, then followed that with Just Wailing, a harmonica release then a Blues Piano release called Midnight Steppers. Deep […]
VARIOUS ARTISTS An Easy Introduction To The Blues – Top 15 albums
VARIOUS ARTISTS An Easy Introduction To The Blues – Top 15 albums Masterworks Series Yep, you read it correctly this is a fifteen album box set, neat solid card box containing the CDs in card slip cases, this is actually eight physical Cds which contain the fifteen albums. There is too much music to review […]
VARIOUS ARTISTS The Chief Blues Story
VARIOUS ARTISTS The Chief Blues Story One Day Music For a label who’s lifespan was only five years from 1957-1961 the legacy is amazing. This double set featuring so many immensely influential names from Earl Hooker through Elmore James, Magic Sam, Junior Wells plus Lillian Offitt, Bobby & Lucy, Frank Butler that the set is […]
VARIOUS ARTISTS Into The Shadow Of Sun
VARIOUS ARTISTS Into The Shadow Of Sun Fantastic Voyage Following the success of Sun Records in Memphis in the 50’s, there followed an explosion in the number of indie labels who wanted to replicate the success that had gone before. The population of Memphis had spiralled and the time was right to test the waters […]
VARIOUS ARTISTS Classic Blues From Bluesville
VARIOUS ARTISTS Classic Blues From Bluesville Not Now Music This three CD set of twenty tracks per disc from Bluesville which was a subsidiary to the Prestige label was yet another of those fabulously innovative labels of the time that set the trend for so many artists and enthusiasts giving that spark of life to […]
