by Marketing-PR | Dec 10, 2014 | Album Reviews Various Artists, News
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...
by Marketing-PR | Dec 10, 2014 | Album Reviews Various Artists, News
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...
by Marketing-PR | Dec 10, 2014 | Album Reviews Various Artists, News
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...
by Marketing-PR | Dec 10, 2014 | Album Reviews Various Artists, News
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...
by Marketing-PR | Aug 11, 2014 | Album Reviews Various Artists, News
VARIOUS ARTISTS Where Blues meets Rock (Vol 9) Provogue I am really not quite sure why we got this to review, as it is a 15 track compilation CD with Provogue artists ranging from Robert Cray through Walter Trout, Robben Ford, Beth Hart, Poppa Chubby and many others....
by Marketing-PR | Aug 11, 2014 | Album Reviews Various Artists, News
SOUL CITY LOS ANGELES Compilation Fantastic Voyage This double CD package covers the musical styles of L.A in the late 50’s and early 60’s, there are sixty tracks covered by twenty five separate artists, some of these tracks were local ‘hits’ while others are...