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Parker Junior - Like It Is / Honey-Drippin’ Blues (CD)
€10,00Quick ViewJunior Parker’s two albums for Mercury Records, dating from 1967 and 1969. Parker’s driving blues made him a force to be reckoned with, with his distinctive vocals and harmonica style. Sadly he was cut down in his prime, dying during surgery for a brain tumour in 1971. Digitally remastered and slipcased. New notes.
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Poole Brian & The Tremeloes - Live At The BBC 1964-67 (2CD) (CD)
€10,00Quick ViewFrom the vaults of the BBC come Brian Poole & The Tremeloes’s live studio recordings for programmes such as Saturday Club, broadcast between 1964 and 1967. These sessions also include solo tracks by the Tremeloes and Brian Poole alike. Some of the songs in this package (such as ’It’s All Over Now Baby Blue’, ’Walking My Cat Named Dog’, ’Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever’ and ’Like A Rolling Stone’) were stage favourites or recorded especially for the BBC, having never been issued on disc by the band. Many of the tracks have a brief interview and introduction by DJs such as Brian Matthew. As far as BGO and the BBC are concerned, this is everything that is available – unless anyone out there knows otherwise! Extensive new notes by David Wells.
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Reed Jerry - Jerry Reed / Hot A’ Mighty / Lord, Mr. Ford / the Uptown Poker Club (CD)
€20,00Quick ViewFour albums, originally recorded for RCA and dating from 1972, 1973 and 1974 by the ultra talented singer/songwriter/guitarist/actor!
All four albums made the US Country charts, with the single ‘Lord, Mr. Ford’ a US Country No.1. Reed had a long and distinguished career in music, film (Smokey & the Bandit) and television, but will always be remembered for Elvis Presley’s renditions of his songs ‘Guitar Man’ and ‘US Male’, on which Reed played guitar Digitally remastered and slipcased, and with extensive new notes.
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Reed Jerry - The Unbelievable Guitar And Voice Of/Nashville Underground/Alabama Wild Man/Better Things In Life (CD)
€20,00Quick ViewDigitally remastered two CD set containing the late Jerry Reed’s first four RCA albums from 1967, 1968 and 1969. A multi-talented musician and singer-songwriter, he really came to the wider public perception when Elvis Presley had a huge hit with Reed’s ’Guitar Man’. Reed had two Country #1s in the early 1970s. In the mids-70s he turned to a successful acting career before returning to music till the end of his life. Extensive new notes.
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Reed Jerry - When You’re Hot, You’re Hot / Ko-Ko Joe / Smell The Flowers / Me And Chet (2CD) (CD)
€20,00Quick ViewFour more Jerry Reeds from 1971 and 1972. Three of the albums were Billboard Top 100 albums as well as being big on the US Country charts. The single ’When You’re Hot, You’re Hot’ was a US Top Ten hit.
Reed’s status as a writer and musician grows with time, with his collaboration with Elvis Presley cementing his reputation.
Digitally remastered and slipcased with extensive new liner notes.
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Lewis Jerry Lee - Jerry Lee Lewis / Killer Country / When Two Worlds Collide (CD)
€18,00Quick ViewJerry Lees three albums for Elektra Records, dating from 1979 and 1980. Bones Howe produced Jerry Lee Lewis with James Burton and Hal Blaine amongst the sidesmen. The other two albums are country-style in Jerry Lees inimitable interpretation, and a mixture of original songs and covers.
Digitally remastered and slipcased, and with extensive new notes.
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Haggard Merle - A Tribute To The Best Damn Fiddle Player In The World / It’s All In The Movies (CD)
€13,00Quick ViewLast of BGO’s reissues of Country legend Merle Haggard’s Capitol Records output
Dating from the 70’s, ’It’s All In The Movies’ has been much requested by Merle’s fans due to its unavailability on CD
Digitally remastered, slip-cased and with extensive new notes
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Haggard Merle - Big City / Going Where The Lonely Go (2 albums on CD) (CD)
€18,00Quick ViewTwo US Top 5 Country albums from 1981 and 1982.
This package features the country hits ’Are The Good Times Really Over’, ’Big City’, ’Going Where The Lonely Go’, ’My Favorite Memory’ and ’You Take Me For Granted’ four No.1s and a No.2! Merle continues to gig and record.
Digitally remastered, slipcased and with new notes.
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Haggard Merle - Epic Collection Recorded Live / Chill Factor / 5:01 Blues (3 albums on CD) (CD)
€18,00Quick ViewOn this release there are three late 1980s albums from Merle, which all featured on the US Country Chart with ’Chill Factor’ spending 81 weeks on there. They were to be Merle’s final recordings for Epic before he moved to Curb and then Hag Records.
Merle has had a long and distinguished career, winning Grammys and numerous other awards, and still continues to gig and record.
Digitally remastered, slipcased and with new notes. This release is new to the BGO catalogue.
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Guy Buddy - Buddy Guy & The Juniors (Wells Junior & Mance Junior) (CD)
€18,00Quick ViewFirst domestic CD issue for this one-of-a-kind LP featuring one of Chicago blues’ most dynamic duos! Buddy and Junior recorded this stripped-down 1969 session with pianist Junior Mance: the immortal (I’m Your) Hoochie Coochie Man plus Five Long Years; Rock Me Mama; Ain’t No Need; Buddy’s Blues , and more.
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Memphis Slim - Legend Of The Blues Vols 1 & 2 (CD)
€18,00Quick ViewDigitally remastered two-fer containing a pair of albums from the Blues great on one CD: Legend of the Blues (1967) and Legend of the Blues, Vol. 2 (1969). John Peter Chatman, AKA Memphis Slim, was possibly one of the greatest Blues pianists of all time and a prolific recorder for a vast number of labels
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Lewis Jerry Lee - Together / Live At The International / In Loving Memories / Keeps Rockin` – 4 albums on Two Discs (2CD) (CD)
€18,00Quick ViewFour Smash/Mercury Records albums from ”The Killer”, dating from 1969, 1970, 1971 and 1978. ’Together’ features Jerry Lee’s sister Linda Gail and the album included the US Country Top 10 single ’Don’t Let Me Cross Over’. ’Live At The International’ and ’In Loving Memories – The Jerry Lee Lewis Gospel Album’ are what they say they are . ’Keeps Rockin” was his last for Mercury and with producer Jerry Kennedy. Like the others in this package, the album made the US Country charts, and also produced the Country hit ’I’ll Find It Where I Can’.
All digitally remastered and slipcased, and with new notes by Lewis expert Andrew McCrae.
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Buchanan Roy - Loading Zone / You’re Not Alone (CD)
€18,00Quick ViewDigitally remastered two CD set containing a pair of albums from the blues great. From 1977 and 1978 come blues guitarist Buchanan’s last albums for Polydor/Atlantic. Musicians featured on these recordings include Steve Cropper, Donald ”Duck” Dunn and Jan Hammer. After these recordings, Buchanan didn’t go into a studio until 1988 when Alligator Records convinced him to start recording again.
Buchanan’s demons got him arrested in August 1988 and he was found hanged in jail, a sad end for a talented musician who was only 48 years of age.
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Waters Muddy - Electric Mud / After The Rain (CD)
€18,00Quick ViewTwo hard-edged albums from Bluesman Muddy Waters, originally recorded for the Chess label. Dating from 1968 and 1969, the albums were directed at a new younger audience for Muddy and his band. Critically, these recordings had a mixed reaction but commercially they were a success, with ’Electric Mud’ being Muddy’s first US Top 200 album. Digitally remastered and slipcased, and with new notes.
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Price Ray - Another Bridge To Burn/Touch My Heart/Danny Boy/Take Me As I (2CD) (CD)
€20,00Quick ViewFrom 1966, 1967 and 1968 come four of Ray’s Columbia country albums. Collectively, this package includes the country hits ’Danny Boy’, ’Touch My Heart’, ’Way To Survive’ and ’I’m Still Not Over You’. ’Another Bridge To Burn’ and ’Touch My Heart’ both reached No.1 in the US country albums charts. Price actively recorded and toured almost right up to his sad death in 2013. Digitally remastered and slipcased with extensive new notes.
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Williamson Sonny Boy - Down And Out Blues / In Memoriam (CD)
€18,00Quick ViewDown And Out Blues” is one of the finest albums ever from the renowned Chicago blues label Chess Records. First issued in 1959, it is 34 minutes worth of some of the best electric blues ever recorded…Aleck ”Rice” Miller (Sonny Boy Williamson II) was the best songwriter of all the legendary Chess artists, an elegant and expressive singer (in spite of his hoarse, slightly nasal voice), and a tremendous harmonica player.
Claims that he sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for not having to breathe while he performed were once recounted with utter seriousness in the liner notes to one of his 60s LPs.”His memorial album for Sonny Boy Williamson, issued in the year of his death, was only the second long-player ever issued on the blues legend.
The powers-that-were at Chess grouped recognized classics such as ”Bring It on Home” with a brace of previously unissued titles, including ”Too Young to Die,” ”One Way Out,” ”Peach Tree,” etc., all carefully sequenced to alternate hard, stomping numbers and slow, quieter ballad-style pieces, all of them showing the singer/harpist to fine advantage with a full electric backing. In Memoriam was later supplanted by numerous compilations of Williamson’s Chess Records library, but in its time this was a welcomed vault raid. And despite the somewhat slapped-together nature of the album, it still holds up surprisingly well, even in the wake of those bigger, more ambitious collections.
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Waters Muddy - Muddy, Brass & The Blues / Can’t Get No Grindin’ (CD)
€18,00Quick ViewTwo Chess Records albums from Blues great Muddy Waters: 1966’s ’Muddy, Brass And The Blues’ and 1973’s ’Can’t Get No Grindin”’.
’Muddy, Brass And The Blues’ was a massive undertaking in direction which a couple of years later John Mayall copied on his ’Crusade’ album. Digitally remastered and slipcased, and with new notes.
