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Rock Ola - Beautiful Rough – Best Of (CD)
€10,00Quick ViewSuomen rock-kuninkaita on valittu jo 50-luvun lopulta lähtien ja onpa joku saattanutjulistaa itsensä kuninkaaksi ilman valintaakin. Rock-Ola ei aatelista titteliä oletarvinnut, vaikka lukuisten ihailijoittensa mielestä kuuluukin kuninkaiden joukkoon.Rock-Ola on antanut musiikkinsa puhua puolestaan ja jättänyt kilpailut niille jotkaeivät omin avuin pärjää.Olli Ola” Pihlajanmaa sai rokkikeuhkokuumeen monien ikäistensä tavoin 70-luvunlopun teinivuosinaan. Tauti osoittautui vaaralliseksi ja pysyväksi, muttei sentääntappavaksi. Jälkiseurauksena Olalle jäi legendaarisen levyautomaatin mukaan tulluttaiteilijanimi Rock-Ola ja mikä parasta, ääni joka nosti hänet rock’n’roll-laulajienmaailmanluokkaan.Kuten niin monen muunkin, myös Rock-Olan ensimmäinen idoli oli rock-kuninkaittenkuningas Elvis Presley. Elviksen vaikutusta on hänen laulussaan mahdotonta ollahuomaamatta, vaikkakaan mihinkään imitointiin Ola on viisaasti osannut ollasortumatta. Maailmassa on ollut vain yksi Elvis, mutta ei ole toista Rock-Olaakaan.Näin on myös Olan toisen suuren vaikuttajan, jazzlaulajatar Billie Holidaynkohdalla. Holidayn vaikutus tuo Olan tulkintoihin sellaista herkkyyttä, jotaharvemmin rock’n’rollin laulajilla kuullaan.Soittajanuransa Ola aloitti rumpalina, mikä kuuluu edelleen hänen laulunsaoivaltavassa rytmityksessä. Maanlaajuiseen maineeseen Ola sai kosketustasuosikkiyhtye Johnny And The New Dodgersissa, mutta kun Suomen suosituimmanrockabilly-yhtyeen Teddy And The Tigersin johtaja Teddy Guitar pyysi häntärumpaliksi uuteen Lonestars-ryhmäänsä, alkoi Ola saada ansaitsemaansa huomiota myössolistina. Tässä rockabillyn superbändiksi ylistetyssä kokoonpanossa olivattasavertaisina laulajina niin Teddy Guitar, Buck Jones kuin Rock-Olakin. Kuten niinusein all-stars -tyyppiset kokoonpanot, jäi Lonestarskin lyhytikäiseksi. Sama ryhmäjatkoi vielä toisen albumin verran uudella nimellä The Falcons, mutta sen tultuatiensä päähän, Ola oli valmis lähtemään omille teilleen.Rock-Olan sooloura oli saamassa kansainvälistä nostetta. Ruotsissa riitti keikkojaeri säestysryhmien kanssa lähes joka viikonlopuksi, mutta vieläkin parempaa oliluvassa. Vuonna -81 Ola äänitti englantilaisen, vankkaa suosiota rockabillypiireissänauttineen The Blue Catsin kanssa ensimmäisen oman albuminsa. Lopputulos olihuippuluokkaa, mutta kohtalo painoi peukalonsa alaspäin. Levy-yhtiö Rebel ehtikaatua ennen levyn ilmestymistä ja maailmanvalloitus jäi haaveeksi. Vasta vuonna ’96- viitisentoista vuotta levyn äänitysten jälkeen Jungle Records julkaisi kappaleetCD:llä Slap That Bass.Vaikka Rock-Ola tunnettiin mestarillisena laulajana ja uskolliset ihailijat pysyivätyleisössä, jäi levytysten määrä yllättävän vähäiseksi. Vähäiselle määrälle toi tokipositiivista vastapainoa niiden korkea laatu. Seitsemäntuumaisia vinyylilevyjäilmestyi eri yhtiöiden kautta parin vuoden välein ja Ola jatkoi yhteistyötä mm.Bippin’ Pete Trion, Lost Soulsin ja Butterfingersin kanssa. Vuonna -90 Rock-Ola tekiuuden aluevaltauksen liittyessään instrumentaaliyhtyeenä tunnetun The Charadesinlaulusolistiksi. Perinteisestä rock’n’rollista siirryttiin reippaasti melodisempaanrockiin, mikä jäi pysyvästi kuulumaan Olan tulkinnoissa jatkossakin.Sooloura sai uutta puhtia lopulta vuonna -96, kun Bluelight Records julkaisi albuminYesterday Is Gone. Se toi esiin Rock-Olan entistäkin monipuolisempana tulkitsijana,mutta valitettavasti levyllä soittanut kokoonpano jäi jälleen lyhytikäiseksi. KunOla sai vihdoinkin kasaan uuden yhtyeensä Rock-Ola And The Freewheelers, nousi seoitis suomalaisen rock’n’rollin kärkikaartiin. Bändin nimissä julkaistu Upskirt oliuuden vuosituhannen alussa sekä kaupallinen että arvostelumenestys. Komeasti sujuibänditoiminta jatkossakin, sillä vuonna 2004 julkaistu konserttitaltiointi Live OnThe Rocks oli vahva näyttö ryhmän keikkakunnosta.Vaikka Rock-Ola ei ole kaupallisessa mielessä saavuttanut ansaitsemaansa menestystä,intohimoiset musiikin ystävät tiedostavat hänen arvonsa. Kun Ola esittäärakastamaansa musiikkia, hän ei pelkästään laula. Hän antaa palan sisintään, osansielustaan ja sydämestään. Sitä kuulija ei voi olla vaistoamatta ja se nostaaRock-Olan illasta toiseen tulkitsijoiden kuningasluokkaan.- Honey Aaltonen * ennenjulkaisematon uusi äänite _________1-2, 6, 9, 14, 17 & 21 Rock-Ola & The Freewheelers3-4, 13 & 19 Rock-Ola With The Blue Cats7-8, 16 & 22-23 Rock-Ola & The Charades10 Rock-Ola With Johnny Filter Band12 & 25 Lonestars18 Rock-Ola With The Butterfingers20 Falcons26 Rock-Ola With Boppin’ Pete Trio27 Rock-Ola With Olli Haavisto”
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Campbell Glen - Sings For The King (CD)
€10,00Quick ViewGlen Campbell Sings for The King arrives on November 16, premiering never-before-released recordings made by Campbell for his friend Presley. It will be released on CD, & LIMITED EDITION VINYL LP.
Between 1964 and 1968, Glen was engaged by the songwriting team of Ben Weisman and Sid Wayne to record fully-produced studio versions of songs intended for Elvis. The King recorded more songs by Weisman than any other songwriter, cutting 57 of the composer’s tunes. Glen was asked to match Elvis’ pitch and sound on these luxury demos; naturally, he also played guitar on the sessions.
Twelve of the 18 tracks on Glen Campbell Sings for The King were picked up and recorded by Elvis, including the title songs from his movies such as Spinout, Clambake, and Easy Come, Easy Go, the latter of which is streaming now. It’s also available as an “instant grat” download to purchasers of the digital version of the album.
Presley himself appears on the album with the opening track, a posthumous duet on “We Call On Him.” The gospel song is joined by country numbers, ballads, and rock-and-roll. (One of the tracks never recorded by Elvis, “Love on the Rocks,” left Neil Diamond free to make the title his own years later!) The two artists first met as early as 1956. Author Alan Light writes in the liner notes, “With their genre-bending musical exploration and rural Southern roots, it’s no surprise that Glen Campbell and Elvis Presley formed something of a mutual admiration society.” Capitol also quotes Campbell: “Elvis and I were brought up the same humble way, picking cotton and looking at the north end of a south-bound mule. I saw him in the rough [at an early concert]…He was so electrifying.” As Campbell ascended to the ranks of Los Angeles’ top session guitarists, he played on one memorable Elvis track: “Viva Las Vegas.”
Glen and Elvis remained friends throughout their lifetimes, and Campbell even continued to record for Weisman and Wayne after his breakthrough to superstardom in 1967. This tribute to the remarkable talents of both artists arrives on November 16 from Capitol/UMe.
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Living End - White Noise – Rarities Collectors Edition 2CD (CD)
€9,90Quick ViewUPEA DELUXE TUPLACD PAKETTI! Demo versiot rulaa! Parempia kuin ns. viralliset studio versiot! The Living End White Noise Deluxe Edition. 2CD digipak Deluxe Edition of White Noise. The second CD contains 11 rare, unleased demo and acoustic versions of tracks from both the White Noise album and never-heard-before songs.
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JP Harris' Dreadful Wind & Rain - Don’t You Marry No Railroad Man (CD)
€9,90Quick ViewJP Harris has a secret: his name is actually ”Squash.” Long before Harris became a well regarded honky-tonker, he used his childhood nickname while playing archaic ”old-time” American tunes at underground fiddlers’ gatherings, engrossed in this punkish folk music world. Don’t You Marry No Railroad Man, his debut recording of traditional music under the moniker JP Harris’ Dreadful Wind and Rain, features ten tracks spanning the breadth of American old-time repertoire. Harris wades between ancient ballads that traveled from the British Isles to Appalachia like ”Barbry Ellen,” to droning banjo ditties such as Hobart Smith’s entrancing ”Last Chance,” here played on one of Harris’ coveted homemade banjos. Harris also works as a serious carpenter which adds a unique authenticity to his versions of the classic ”House Carpenter” and lesser known ”The Little Carpenter.” Alongside Harris’ haunting vocals, the album prominently features the low-tuned fiddle and harmony singing of his longtime friend and Old Crow Medicine Show member Chance McCoy, who produced the record at his West Virginia studio in an old barn. On this sparse and arresting recording, Harris isn’t mining his roots as a marketing pitch, he has the chops to back it up. In fact, this collection of songs made him who he is today. Welcome home ”Squash.”
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Various - Lincoln Chase – Fancy Dance – The Koko Mojo Records Songwriter Series (CD)
€7,50Quick ViewThe Koko Mojo Records Songwriter Series continues with an exploration of the skills of Lincoln Chase during Fancy Dance (KM-CD-173). The album focuses on and includes alongside the man himself singing, white and black artists, who also sang his compositions, of which numerous versions became hits. The songs are sourced from the years 1953 to 1963 with twenty titles coming from the 1950s, and the album is programmed year by year. Due to Chase’s mixed Cuban and West Indian parentage, some of his sounds have an exotic sound and tempo, and his legacy is weird, wacky, and intriguing. The Koko Mojo ethos of digging deeper means you can add lesser-known recordings to your collection. Dee Jay Mark Armstrong Bühl, Germany (KM-CD-173)Koko Mojo Records, The Songwriter Series, Lincoln Chase, Fancy Dance.
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From a mixed race parentage of Cuba and West Indian, a child named Lincoln Chase was born on 29 June 1926 in New York City. As he grow up his musical skill became apparent; he became a pianist and composer, trained in music at the American Academy of Music in New York City, and then began his own recording and songwriting career. The vibrant and largely neglected music from his pen is sourced from the years 1953 to 1963 with twenty titles coming from the 1950s. The album purposefully omits, the novelty and love ballads, plus the titles Chase wrote for Shirley Ellis to focus on the rockin’ side of his penmanship. The album contains a wide variety of music and sound that will appeal to collectors, and be of interest to those who wish to hear something which is not overly reissued. The album’s intention is to offer a tribute to an artist who wrote and sang and crafted numerous hit records. Chase remains relatively unknown to many even though he wrote songs that were very different from that of other songsmiths, and numerous versions of his songs are in circulation. With this album, Koko Mojo Records’ aim is to inform people about his music and his importance to the music world. Due to Chase’s mixed Cuban and West Indian parentage, some of his sounds have an exotic sound and tempo, and his mainstream compositions are well-known, unlike the man himself. Chase is featured within the album performing solo, and with The Sandmen, who had in their membership Benjamin Peay, aka Brook Benton, and The Spencer-Hagen Orchestra providing a full arrangement. The Vulture Song which opens the album could have people thinking he was Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, and this is one of the two “very odd-ball” titles on the album, that is wacky and compelling to hear. Of the less-known artists who did not have a large legacy or moved into other music genres you will hear; the powerful vocal cords of Beulah Swan, Don’t Steal My Heart, The Playboys stroll tempo, Rock, Moan And Cry, and Mel Jackson’s madcap flip-side, She Took The Whole Shebang which sounds like a real-life situation turned into a song. There are two R&B jump tunes from the Du-Droppers, and sophisticated melodies from; Ruth Brown, The Orioles, Roy Hamilton, and future soul music star the eleven-year-old George Benson sings with conviction She Makes Me Mad. Along the album’s journey, you will learn about his legacy, which includes, the song Such A Night which has numerous cover versions including; The Drifters, Johnny Ray, Elvis Presley, Dinah Washington, and Mac Allen Smith whose interpretation is on the album. The same applies to That’s All I Need, which LaVern Baker, The Mills Brothers, and Rusty Draper recorded and Chase is included singing his own song. Chase also wrote Jim Dandy and Jim Dandy Got Married for Lavern Baker, both songs are on the album although Ann-Margret sings Jim Dandy. There are more white rockers tuning their vocal cords to his penmanship and along the musical journey you will hear; Nick Greene singing The Blues Down Home, and this song makes its CD debut, Be My Kitten Little Chicken, by Teddy Randazzo is jiving rock ‘n’ roll, and there are two moody mid-tempo rockers, Come A Little Closer Baby by Joey Castle, and country artist Red Foley Blues sounding very different to his other recording on Blues In My Red Wagon Blues. There are several white ladies with contrasting styles namely; Bunny Paul with the jive tempo, Leave My Heart Alone, Carol Hughes with the fast rocker Fancy Dance, Maureen Cannon’s plea of MamTma Come Save Your Child, and the “odd-ball” the ultra-strange One Billion Seven Million, Thirty-Three from The Tranquils. The sleeve notes from the reissue producer and Dee Jay Mark Armstrong will give a brief history about the naughty boy of music, and where available session information is included. The album is topped off with the best possible sound quality possible from our mastering team at our El Paso, Texas, Studio. The album sleeves are made from top-quality eco-friendly cardboard and lavishly decorated by design artist and working musician Urban Zotel. Koko Mojo Records endeavor to use some lesser-known and for some, perhaps more obscure titles and adds something unexpected to every album. The album is ideal for Dee Jays to fill the dance floor with, and for home listening or while cruising around. Mojo Records “Often imitated, never duplicated.” All that remains is to say, “Crank up the volume and dig these musical gems. Dee Jay Mark Armstrong Bühl, Germany -
Parton Dolly - Run, Rose, Run (CD)
€9,90Quick ViewCountry/Bluegrass album, Run, Rose, Run that will be released along with a novel co-written with the famed author, James Patterson, sharing the title Run Rose Run. The 12 songs were inspired by the book storyline and feature Country and Bluegrass artists; Joe Nichols, Rhonda Vincent, The Issacs, and Dailey & Vincent. Dolly & James will be doing book and album promotions together – presenting a unique co-marketing opportunity.
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Various - A Girl Named Johnny Cash And Other Tribute Songs (CD)
€10,00Quick ViewTODELLA HIENO TRIBUTE LEVY JOHNNY CASHILLE JA MUILLE COUNTRYN SUURUUKSILLE!
Country music’s greatest artists pay tribute to each other!
A must-have for Johnny Cash fans!
Includes the cult tribute records by African American country artist Stoney Edwards! Unavailable until now!
Plus Merle Haggard, Mac Wiseman, and more
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Setzer Brian - Rockabilly Riot! – All Original (CD)
€15,00Quick ViewUpea albumi Brianiltä! Kunnon rockabillyä!
“I think the only way you can make a better rockabilly record is if you get Elvis to sing…” – Brian Setzer
Iconic guitarist, songwriter and vocalist BRIAN SETZER will release ROCKABILLY RIOT: ALL ORIGINAL–a straight-ahead rockabilly album from start to finish–via Surfdog Records Tuesday, August 12. The new album, featuring the high-octane first single “Let’s Shake,” marks SETZER’s first studio album since 2011’s Grammy Award-nominated album, Setzer Goes Instru-Mental!.
ROCKABILLY RIOT: ALL ORIGINAL thrillingly comes alive with 12 new and original songs in pure rockabilly fashion. SETZER brings his trademark twang and fretboard fire, and he’s backed by three musicians that he says “are the best in their craft”: Mark Winchester (bass), Kevin McKendree (piano) and Noah Levy (drums). Recorded in Nashville, the album was produced by Peter Collins (who’s handled the same honors for SETZER albums Vavoom! and The Dirty Boogie. “It’s funny how English people seem to have a more sensibility about what rockabilly music is, even though it was invented in the South says SETZER. “They seem to know what it should sound like. Peter Collins is experienced and an accomplished producer, he’s done a lot of records, but he loves rockabilly music and he knows what it should sound like.”
As SETZER explains about ROCKABILLY RIOT: ALL ORIGINAL, “I think this album sounds to me a little bit like the first Stray Cats record…it’s rockabilly songs. It’s not just blues songs in the rockabilly style. People like to call it ‘neo-billy’ I suppose, which is some invented word that somebody came up with, but if that’s the word they want to use, I’d like to go with that because it sounds to me like it’s very modern and fresh sounding rockabilly.”
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Various - Gunsmoke – Volume 7 & 8 / Dark Tales Of Western Noir From A Ghost Town Jukebox (CD)
€10,00Quick ViewSeventh and eighths volume in the great limited edition series on Stag-O-Lee. As usual Stag-O-Lee combines two vinyl versions onto one compact disc.
This is a collection of oddball country weepers, moody rockabilly and popcorn noir from the 1950’s and early 60’s.So turn out the lights, sit back and relax to the so
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Various - Stickbuddy Jamboree (Delta Records) (CD)
€10,00Quick ViewA remarkable first CD reissue of the country music recorded by Delta Records of Jackson, Mississippi! 30 rare and rampant hillbilly, boogie, rockabilly and country sides recorded between 1953 and the late ’60s by Jimmie Ammons at his Delta Recording Studio – a converted garage next to a cow pasture! Contains 14 incredibly rare 78 rpm discs from the ’50s! Two rare 45s from the ’60s! Plus 8 unissued country and rockabilly sides from the ’50s! And 6 unissued tracks from the ’60s! Features the cream of the local country bands from Jackson, Mississippi including the Mississippi Melody Boys, the Country Cowboys, the Home Towners, Kay Kellum’s Dixie Ramblers, and Rick Richardson! Contains a rare first recording by Warner Mack, a rare last recording by Jimmy Swan, and 5 intriguing tracks by unidentified artists! The 52-page booklet by Martin Hawkins contains the first ever retrospective of the career of studio engineer and music promoter Jimmie Ammons, and the artists he issued on his Delta label and other labels! The booklet also contains many previously-unseen photographs! — It often seems like all the hillbilly music that could be reissued, has been. But then along comes this CD chock-full of unissued music from the Delta Recording Studio of Jackson, Mississippi. The exciting thing here is that the music is mostly by little-known performers and ’new’ to collectors despite being between fifty and sixty years old. This is really appealing stuff, too, chronicling the country music scene around Jackson in the 1950s and early 1960s. This is an important CD, at last filling a void in the story of Mississippi music and country music in general.
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Lewis Jerry Lee - Live At Third Man Records (CD)
€13,00Quick ViewLive recording from Nashville, April 2011. Produced by Jack White.Last year for Record Store Day a living breathing walking Saint visited Third Man Records and threw down the heavy boogie woogie live on stage. Backed by some of the best rock n roll musicians in the business (Steve Cropper, Jim Keltner, Little Jack Lawrence, The Killer himself played a raucous set of his classic hits as well as some rock n roll and country standards. I saw grown men weep and children dancing in the streets. It was a beautiful once in a lifetime moment and you can now hear it all on a gorgeous Compact Disc
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Various - Bristol Sessions 1927-28-Country Music’s Big Bang (CD)
€18,00Quick ViewThe sessions held in 1927 in Bristol, TN have been described as the ’Big Bang of Country Music’. No other description will suffice. A&R man Ralph Peer had already made field recordings throughout the South, but even he must have been amazed at the riches he encountered in Bristol. The Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers’ contributions to the sessions are already available on JSP box sets (JSP7701 and JSP7704) but there’s plenty left to entertain and enlighten. Apart from Rodgers and the Carters, few of the other artists involved had enduring recording careers, which makes this collection even more fascinating – it’s a glimpse at a long-vanished America. Key to the 1927 sessions was Ernest V. Stoneman who helped Peer with organizing the sessions, and also performed on many of the tracks. He was one of the few who would continue to record for some years to come, in contrast to The Johnson Brothers, on record from 1927-30; Alfred G. Karnes – 1927/28 (the Bristol dates being his only venture in to the recording studios), and Blind Alfred Reed – 1927/29. Others such as Mr. And Mrs. J.W. Baker, Nester and Edmonds and the Tennessee Mountaineers paid just the one visit to the studios. As well as changing tastes, many of these artists fell victim to the Depression – record sales would slump and would not reach 1929 levels until World War 2.
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Various - We Love Elvis! (CD)
€10,00Quick View• A 29-track collection of odes to the King, from besotted teensters to religious strangeness, love letter writers to eccentric enthusiasts and fad-friendly fans
• Featuring incredibly wild rockabilly praise, Rnb and trad country trepidation at lip curls, jealousy invoked blues and lots of love for the All American Boy
• Also including a glut of novelty 45s, spiked with jilted lover jealousy, madcap schemes to take him to the Whitehouse and plenty of “zany” rationalisation about his success in the charts and with the ladies
• Complete from a cavalcade of no-hit wonders plus some big hitters including Bobby Bare, Chubby Checker and Eddie Cochran
Comes with musical warnings on the hazards of lip curling, hip shaking and knee trembling, a homage to the man who created the generation gap. No Elvis fan should be without it.
Remastered from the original sound sources with sleevenotes by MOJO magazine’s Dave Henderson
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Stray Cats - Rocked This Town: From LA To London (Limited DELUXE Box, Stray Cats-themed coasters (2x), postcard and 2 stickers!) (CD)
€13,00Quick ViewStray Cats teki komean paluun 40-vuotisjuhlakiertueellaan ja myös kotomaan Stray Cats fanit pääsivät näkemään bändin tiukkaa soittoa, nyt kyseiseltä juhlakiertueelta on taltioitu trion rock heittoa kaikille.
