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Lee Dickey - I Saw Linda Yesterday (CD)
€13,00Quick ViewAlthough he would become a big Country star in the 1970s and 80s, singer/songwriter DICKEY LEE started out as a heads-down Rock’n’Roller in the 1950s.
His first release, ’Stay True Baby’, is nowadays a hugely collectable R&R rarity, as are the two 45s he cut for Sun Records in 1957/58, ’Good Lovin” / ’Memories Never Grow Old’ and ’Dreamy Nights’ / ’Fool, Fool, Fool’.
Dickey eventually registered with a controversial death disc, ’Patches’, in 1962, which he followed with the hit album, ’The Tale Of Patches’, the superlative, Dion-inspired, ’I Saw Linda Yesterday’, and the popcorn ’Don’t Wanna Think About Paula’.
This compilation anthologises all his early recordings, between 1957-62, many of which are hard to find on CD.
He would subsequently find his way into Country music via songwriting; included herein as a Bonus track is Dickey’s first major success as a songwriter, George Jones’ effortlessly magnificent ’She Thinks I Still Care’.
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Black Jeanne - He’ll Have to Stay (CD)
€13,00Quick ViewCountry singer JEANNE BLACK registered a massive, million-selling, worldwide hit in 1960 with her first record, ’He’ll Have To Stay’, the answer disc to Jim Reeves ’He’ll Have To Go’.
In a brief career which was eventually curtailed by family commitments, she registered a couple more chart records and cut a critically-acclaimed LP, ’A Little Bit Lonely’.
She also recorded with her younger sister, JANIE BLACK, sometimes billed as JEANNE & JANIE, and occasionally unbilled, as a duettist.
This compilation features Jeanne’s entire recorded output between 1960-62, both solo and as one half of Jeanne & Janie, plus a pair of Janie’s 45’s on which she makes an audible contribution.
This is the first time that this overlooked, vastly underrated body of work has been thus compiled.
It includes many tracks which have never previously been reissued in any format, while more than a half of these sides are making their digital debuts.
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Various - Banjos, Tea Chests, Thimbles and Washboards – The Great UK Skiffle Boom! (2CD) (CD)
€15,00Quick ViewVery nearly seventy years after the event, it’s impossible to convey just how big an impact SKIFFLE had upon the teenaged youth of an austere, sepia-tinted, post-WW2 UK.
It was an almost exclusively British phenomenon, propelled by home-made, DIY simplicity; a cheap, bottom-of-the-range banjo or acoustic guitar; a stand-up tea chest bass; a washboard; a handful of thimbles; and a kazoo, from Woolworths (optional).
It’s no exaggeration to say that Lonnie Donegan’s frantic ’Rock Island Line’, which made the charts in January 1956, changed everything; it threw the ’rule book’ out of the window.
Following Lonnie’s breakthrough, along came The Vipers, Chas McDevitt & Nancy Whiskey, Johnny Duncan, Dickie Bishop, Alexis Korner & Cyril Davies, and dozens more.
This compilation features all the singers, strummers, strokers and scratchers at the forefront of the UK Skiffle Boom – more than 40 different groups/artists are featured – and includes many of the genre’s biggest hits.
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Smith Carl - You Are The One – Biggest Hits 1951-1962 (CD)
€13,00Quick ViewCARL ’Mr. Country’ SMITH (also known as ’The Gentleman Honky-Tonker’) was one of the genre’s most consistent hitmakers of the 1950s, notching up more than thirty Top 10 C&W records.
Although he’d emerged from a Honky-Tonk background, Smith became one of the first Country singers to experiment with a more ’cosmopolitan’ style, which smoothed out a lot of the rougher edges and took him, musically, away from diehard traditional towards the late 50s Nashville Countrypolitan sound.
His chart success continued well into the late 1970s, when he abruptly retired from singing to raise a family and breed horses, on his 500-acre ranch in Franklin, Tennessee.
This compilation, which includes five #1s and more than a dozen further Top 5 records, features all but two of Carl’s Top 10 Country hits between 1951-62 (we had to omit a couple of top tenners, as they simply wouldn’t all fit).
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Sovine Red - Simply Red – The Solo Singles – 1954-1959 Plus! (CD)
€13,00Quick ViewThe general public knows him chiefly for his sentimental, posthumous 1980 UK chart topper ’Teddy Bear’ – but Red Sovine had a long career in country music stretching back to the early 1950s, recording dozens of sides for many labels and scoring more than 30 US country chart hits between 1955 and 1980.
His earliest recordings are about as far away from ’Teddy Bear’ as it’s possible to get – driving, hardcore honky tonk hillbilly classics that are greatly favoured by vintage country and indeed, many rockabilly collectors. Almost all of them are gathered here in this new Jasmine collection that features every one of Red’s solo sides from the 1950s, including classics like ’Juke Joint Johnny’, ’Don’t Drop It’ and ’You Used To Be My Baby’ (the latter featuring its writer Roger Miller on harmony vocals).
These high-quality recordings were made in Nashville with a crack team of ’A’ list studio musicians of the calibre of Chet Atkins, Grady Martin, Hank Garland, Ernie Newton, Floyd Cramer and Buddy Harman. Collectively they epitomise just how great country music sounded in the years before ’The Nashville Sound’ became the norm in Music City – simply great songs, sung with feeling by one of the most underrated artists of their era.
There have been previous Sovine compilations showcasing his work from 1960 onwards, but this is the first time that so many of Red’s trailblazing 50s records, across all the labels he recorded for in that decade, have been presented in the same place and in the same collection.
As with all Jasmine CDs, here’s music of the highest quality, brought to you in the highest quality, mastered from the best possible sources and coming to you with an expertly annotated booklet.
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Grammer Billy - Gotta Travel On – The Singles Collection and More 1958-1962 (CD)
€13,00Quick ViewSinger, guitarist, session picker and (eventually) guitar designer & manufacturer BILLY GRAMMER enjoyed an extraordinary career, which included a lifetime’s, 50+ years’ membership of The Grand Ole Opry.
He is perhaps chiefly remembered by collectors for his million-selling worldwide hit ’Gotta Travel On’, the first release on Fred Foster’s Monument label in 1958.
This compilation is based on his singles releases between 1958-62, complemented by EP and LP tracks, presenting the Very Best of Billy’s output during this period.
Includes further US hits like ’Bonaparte’s Retreat’, ’The Kissing Tree’, ’Willy, Quit Your Playing’, ’Rainbow Round My Shoulder’, ’Have A Drink On Me’ and of course ’I Wanna Go Home’, the template for Bobby Bare and Tom Jones’ later million-seller, ’Detroit City’.
This is the first time this body of work has been thus compiled, and much of this material is difficult to find elsewhere on CD.
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Kershaw Rusty & Doug - The Nashville Sessions – 1955-1962 (CD)
€13,00Quick View36 tracks by the brothers Kershaw – Rusty & Doug, including all five of their country hits between 1955 and 1961.
Contains their complete output for Hickory Records in Nashville, along with the dates of the individual recording sessions and includes recordings with Wiley Barkdull and Carolee.
Includes ’Louisiana Man’, Doug Kershaw’s classic song that made the country Top 10 and has been recorded by artists as diverse as The Hollies, The Seekers, Gene Pitney and Connie Smith.
Country, rock-a-billy and Cajun music all wrapped up in the duo’s music, reflecting their upbringing and the diversity of the country music scene in the fifties.
The CD comes with an informative booklet, telling the story of the duo along with label scans and other visuals.
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Jolo Holy Rollers - They Call Us Holy Rollers (LP)
€33,00Quick View* Fourteen Explosive Unreleased live recordings from the Legendary Church of Lord Jesus,Jolo,West Virginia.
* 12” Vinyl,Limited Edition.
* Gatefold Sleeve including historic Jolo collage & liner notes from the man who made these momentous recordings possible Anthony Feyer.
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Cash Johnny With Carl Perkins - Little Fauss And Big Halsy (soundtrack) (Käytetty LP/12)
€17,00Quick ViewLittle Fauss and Big Halsy is a soundtrack album to the 1970 film of the same name. Released on Columbia Records in 1971, it is composed entirely of songs by country singer Johnny Cash (and is his 36th overal album). The album includes tracks written by Cash, Carl Perkins and Bob Dylan, but did not chart.
