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Howlin´ Wolf - Moanin` In The Moonlight + 4 bonus (180 gram) (LP)
€17,00Quick ViewYksi kovimmista albumeista!
1959s Moanin’ in the Moonlight was Howlin’ Wolf’s first long-playing album for the Chicago-based Chess label. It was a compilation of previously released singles spanning an eight year period (from 1951-1958), beginning with his first single1951s How Many More Years b/w Moanin At Midnightwhich immediately shot to the top of the R&B charts, all the way through to 1958s Moanin for My Baby. During the 1950s, the Wolf had two more top 10 hits, Smokestack Lightnin (perhaps his single most influential song) and I Asked For Water (She Gave Me Gasoline), also featured here.
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Presley Elvis - Elvis Presley Rocks (180 gram, Limited Edition) (LP)
€13,00Quick ViewThis is the special collector’s edition of Elvis Presley’s harder-to-find albums, ’Elvis Presley Rocks’. It’s a valued item for serious collectors, as it was only released on the RCA label in South Africa in the late 1950s (probably 1958) and has been long unavailable on any format. Inlcuding ’I Got Stung’, ‘My Baby Left Me’ and two bonus tracks.
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King B.B. - King Of The Blues (180 gram) + 2 bonus track (LP)
€20,00Quick ViewKlassikko albumin uusintapainos!!
• Limited edition high-definition 180g vinyl LP
• 1960 long player released by Crown Records. BB King was tirelessly touring the chitlin circuit and regularly scoring hits on the R&B charts but had yet to reach a wider audience.
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Cooke Sam - Songs By (180 gram) (LP)
€20,00Quick ViewHigh Quality, Bonus Tracks, Limited Edition
This LP contains Cooke’s debut album, the highly acclaimed Songs by Sam Cooke originally issued by the Keen label in 1957. This fantastic record boasts some of his finest songs, with accompaniment by The Bumps Blackwell Orchestra (featuring fabulous musicians such as guitarists Cliff White and René Hall, bass player Ted Brinson, and drummers Earl Palmer and Chris Blackwell). In addition to the original album, this Vinyl Lovers collector’s LP includes 3 bonus tracks from the same sessions: “All of My Life,” “You Were Made for Me,” and “Stealing Kisses.”
There’s no better proof of Sam Cooke’s genius than these soulful, passionate, stylish and exuberant recordings.
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Various - Burt Bacharach – The Story Of My Life (180 gram) (LP)
€20,00Quick ViewBurt Bacharach’s most essential and enduring works from the beginning of his career, gathering a variety of the great sides he composed (and in several cases, also arranged) for different labels, between 1955 and 1962. Included here are classics like Dionne Warwick’s ’Don’t Make Me Over,’ Gene Pitney’s ’Only Love Can Break a Heart,’ Tommy Hunt’s ’I Just Don’t Know What to Do with Myself,’ and *The Shirelles’ ’Baby It’s You,’ to name a few.
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Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry - Sing + 2 bonus (LP)
€20,00Quick View• This essential LP edition includes one of Terry & McGhee’s finest albums as a duo, which was recorded during their most inspired years: the masterpiece Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry Sing, originally released in 1958 by the Folkways label. Drummer Gene Moore accompanied the legendary blues duo on this inspired set. Highlights include the opener “Better Day,” the traditional folk song “John Henry,” “Preaching the Blues,” and “Old Jabo” (the latter a minstrel tune). Sonny sings a tribute to Huddie Ledbetter (“Leadbelly”) in “Best of Friends,” a tune he also recorded on the Bluesville label.
• In addition to the original masterpiece, this Vinyl Lovers collector’s edition includes 2 bonus tracks performed by the duo in the early 1950s, consisting of their personal readings of the great traditional songs “The Midnight Special” and “Raise a Ruckus Tonight.”
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Odetta - Sometimes I Feel Like Cryin’ + 2 bonus (180g) (LP)
€20,00Quick ViewOdetta’s strong, booming voice and spare guitar rang out with the insurrection and passion of the ‘50s and ‘60s, and her powerful music was one of the engines that helped drive the Civil Rights Movement. She gave life to the songs by workingmen and convicts, housewives and peasants, blacks and whites. Social protest was evident in Odetta’s vast repertory. Glamorous and powerful, she transfixed audiences with her commanding frame, flamboyant dresses, large earrings, flashing eyes, engulfing smile, striking hair and unusually expressive features.
This essential LP edition includes one of Odetta’s finest albums, the excellent Sometimes I Feel Like Cryin’ (RCA, 1962). This bluesy masterpiece has been long unavailable on vinyl. It marked her first album for RCA Victor, and featured a superlative blues sound and repertoire influenced by blues pioneers like Bessie Smith and Blind Lemon Jefferson. While there is a distinct folk feel to some of the material, all of it is injected with the blues. Odetta’s voice was ideal for the slow, weighty blues of the 1920s, and she made the material her own, with no attempt at re-creation.
Here there is also a hint of jazz, with the likes of Dick Wellstood (piano), Buster Bailey (clarinet), Vic Dickenson (trombone), Buck Clayton (trumpet), Tedell Saunders (harmonica), Leonard Gaskin and Abdul Ahmed Malik (bass), and Panama Francis (drums) providing musical accompaniment. Of all her albums (eighteen studio recordings during the course of her career), this is probably the most compelling. Odetta always thought of her voice as her instrument, and here, with a range that runs from coloratura to baritone, it is allowed to shine. I
n addition to the original LP, this Vinyl Lover’s collector’s edition includes 2 bonus tracks, consisting of blues gems from the same period: “Believe I’ll Go” and Leroy Carr’s “How Long Blues.”
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Diddley Bo - Road Runner (LP)
€22,00Quick View• This remastered collector’s item includes one of the lesser-known LPs Bo Diddley recorded for Chess’ subsidiary, Checker Records: Road Runner. Most of the material here was rushed out in half-finished form, in order to get an album out that cashed in on the “twist” craze of early 1962.
This album has also appeared, with different cover art, as Bo Diddley Is a Twister. There may well have been words intended for the opening track, “Detour”, which came out of the 1961 session featuring Peggy “Lady Bo” Jones that also produced the excellent “Pills” and the rather perfunctory reading of Willie Dixon’s “My Babe”. In addition, the record contains some lackluster earlier instrumental material, such as “Shank” and “The Twister” (both recorded in late 1960 at Bo Diddley’s home studio, in Washington, D.C.). It also includes a smoking reading of “Here ‘Tis”, the soulful Bo Diddley original that would serve a young Eric Clapton –during The Yardbirds’ era– in very good stead on stage (Diddley’s version is far superior to Clapton’s), as well as the classics “Road Runner”, “Hey!, Bo Diddley” and “Who Do You Love?”.
Between hypnotic and rhythmic guitar lines and swaggering vocals, these songs capture a young Bo Diddley at his raw and primal best, while confirming that even at the onset of his career he didn’t sound like anyone else in rock & roll. In addition to the original masterpiece, this Vinyl Lovers remastered reissue contains 2 bonus tracks from the same period.
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Burke Solomon - If You Need Me (LP)
€20,00Quick View• Rousing, romantic and confident at the same time, Solomon Burke brought a country influence into rhythm and blues, with emotional phrasing and intricately constructed, melodic ballads and mid-tempo songs. Burke’s versatile, force-of-nature voice combined gospel fervor, country gentility and R&B grit. He could swing from a satiny croon to a gruff soul shout to a deep, caressing baritone. Burke was also surrounded with sophisticated “uptown” arrangements and was provided with much of his material by his producers. The combination of gospel, blues, country, and production polish was basic to the recipe of early soul. He preached, moaned and shouted, with horns and choirs wrapped around his golden voice, and when you hear him, you know he’s telling you the truth.
• This essential LP edition includes one of Solomon Burke’s finest albums, the splendid If You Need Me. Originally released by Atlantic Records, and long unavailable on vinyl, this long play contains 12 songs recorded between 1959 and 1962. It is named for the opening cut, Solomon’s take on Wilson Pickett’s “If You Need Me,” which was a successful single for Burke, who sent the song to number two on the R&B charts. These mostly mid-tempo songs find Burke’s gritty pleas at home in sultry, bluesy surroundings (“Send Me Some Loving”) and sweetened up for the occasional exoticatinged arrangement (“Tonight My Heart She Is Crying”). In addition to the original masterpiece, this Vinyl Lover’s collector’s edition includes 2 bonus tracks, from the same period: “Gotta Travel On” and “Looking for My Baby”.
• This is the material upon which Solomon Burke’s legend was built. It is enduring music and the epitome of southern soul up north.
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James Etta - Tears Of Joy (Modern And Kent Sides 1956-1962 (180g) (LP)
€20,00Quick View• Etta James was one of the greatest R&B singers of all time, with an incredible soulful voice and an amazing ability to interpret songs from a variety of different musical genres. She sang with unmatched emotional hunger and a pain that could chill the listener.
• This special release on vinyl includes 18 studio tracks, consisting of a wide selection of those sensational sides Etta James made for the Bihari brothers’ Modern and Kent labels between 1955 and 1961. Highlights include “Good Rockin’ Daddy,” “W-O-M-A-N” (a response to Bo Diddley’s “I’m a Man”), “Hey Henry”, “Be Mine” and “How Big a Fool.” It also features touching mid-tempos (“Tears of Joy”), novelties (“Shortnin’ Bread Rock”), and a convincing attempt to beat Little Richard at his own game (“Tough Lover”), among many other R&B staples.
• This set also contains a number of James’ hard to find sides and lesser-known songs which were not originally released as singles (7-inch format). They were included instead on the obscure long play compilation, The Best of Etta James (issued by the Bihari’s subsidiary Crown label in 1961). The compilation features lesser-known songs like “Nobody Loves You Like Me,” and the funny “Hickory Dickory Dock,” as well as the splendid “You Know What I Mean” (which was written by Tamla-Motown’s founder, Berry Gordy, Jr.).
• These tunes are just as enjoyable as James’ most celebrated numbers from that period. All of these fabulous recordings have been remastered and packaged together in this collector’s edition LP, which gives ample proof of Etta James’ versatility as well as her rightful place in the R&B pantheon. This release contains the cream of the crop from Etta’s early years. Although she was just 16-years old when she started to record for Modern Records, her blossoming talent is evident throughout these seminal sides. Without a doubt, this is the material upon which Etta James’ kingdom was built.
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King Freddy - Texas Oil – Federal Recordings 1960-62 (Gatefold 180 g) (LP)
€20,00Quick View• This Vinyl Lovers LP collector’s edition contains 19 remastered studio tracks, including a selection of the fabulous early singles Freddy King made for Federal* Records between 1960 and 1962. Most of the major hits from Freddy King’s early career are contained here, including his songs that most influenced such guitarists as Eric Clapton, Albert Collins, Jeff Beck, Peter Green and Luther Allison. Present here are the vigorous R&B of “See See Baby” with its delightfully honkin’ sax, the sensual strut of “Lonesome Whistle Blues,” a hard-swingin’ early version of “I’m Tore Down,” the boogie stomp of “Takin’ Care of Business,” and the legendary guitar brilliance of “You’ve Got to Love Her with a Feeling,” among other highlights.
• This collection also contains a number of instrumental tunes like the B-side “Texas Oil,” the smash “Hide Away” (which became Freddy King’s signature tune; it also became a standard for bluesy bar bands on both sides of the Atlantic, and a regular feature of Eric Clapton’s live sets), and the blues standards “San-Ho- Zay” and “The Stumble,” which demonstrate why King is widely regarded as a guitar colossus.
• All these sensational sides constitute the foundation of Freddy King’s incomparable discography. It is an indispensable set for any fan of modern blues.
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Lightnin´ Hopkins - Same (1959) + 2 bonus (180 g) (LP)
€20,00Quick ViewAlthough Lightnin’ Hopkins had known regional success as a recording artist in the late forties and early fifties, changing musical tastes soon left him without an audience. However, it was not long before a whole new generation of fans – sparked by the blues folk revival – were knocking on Hopkins’ door once more. This time it was musicologist Sam Charters who tracked Lightnin’ down. Lured by a bottle of gin, Hopkins took Charters back to his one room apartment in Houston and recorded these ten songs (with Charters holding the sole microphone up to Lightnin’s guitar). The resulting album, released in 1959 on Folkways, catapulted Hopkins for the very first time into the national spotlight where he was soon being heralded across the country as a giant of the genre
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Witherspoon Jimmy - Same + 2 bonus (LP)
€20,00Quick View• This essential LP edition includes the blues giant’s 1960 self-titled LP for the Crown label, Jimmy Witherspoon. It is a good overview of his early career (featuring material recorded between 1949 and 1951), when he – like other R&B singers of the period was purveying a brand of West Coast blues that could both swing and croon. Spoon’s inimitable vocal style is ideally suited to the intimate, relaxed musical accompaniment that Modern label executive Joe Bihari surrounded him with here. On this LP you can find some R&B staples recorded in the studio (“Have a Ball,” “Fickle Woman,” and “Good Jumpin’”), featuring some of the greatest session cats of the day, such as tenor men Buddy Floyd and Maxwell Davis, along with bassist Bill Davis, guitarist Mitchell “Tiny” Webb, and Spoon’s mentor from Kansas City, Jay McShann at the piano. There are also a bunch of fine sides recorded live on May 10, 1949, at a Just Jazz concert in Pasadena, California (including “Ain’t Nobody’s Business (If I Do),” “No Rollin’ Blues,” and “Big Fine Girl”), on which he is backed by the excellent quartet of Gene Gilbeaux with a spontaneous rawness unusual even by the standards of this period.
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Hooker John Lee - The Folk Blues Of + 3 Bonus Tracks (180 gram) (LP)
€20,00Quick View• Limited edition high definition 180g vinyl LP
• Released in 1959 in the USA with the title “The Country Blues of John Lee Hooker”, then in Britain with a slight change of wording, this is a solo acoustic recording intended to reach out to the growing folk/traditional blues audience.
This re-issue includes 3 bonus tracks
