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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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Bare Bobby - The Travelin’ Bare / Constant Sorrow / The Streets Of Baltimore (2CD) (CD)
€18,00Quick ViewBobby Bare, and what was to become known as The Nashville Sound, go hand in hand. He was one of the most successful exponents of the sound and it opened up the doorway for his success in Nashville.
He was born Robert Joseph ‘Bobby’ Bare on April, 7th 1935 in Lawrence County, Ohio and raised on a farm. In his early teens he first envisaged himself as an entertainer. That’s when he started listening to the live radio shows and to the records of Hank Williams, Carl Smith, Ernest Tubb and Frankie Laine.
The three albums in this collection “The Travelin’ Bare” (1964), “Constant Sorrow” (1965) and “The Streets of Baltimore” (1966) perfectly fitted RCA’s Folk/Country marketing tag. The recordings covered a diverse music field that moved from Dylan and 60s pop culture to Nashville’s new breed of writers like Harlan Howard, Willie Nelson and Hank Cochran, plus a few of his own originals thrown into the mix.
The albums give an early indication of Bare’s ability as a talented judge of songs, a skill that led Waylon Jennings to later cite him as the best songhound in the world.
He achieved 69 chart singles and 28 chart albums – an illustrious career.
In 2013 he received Country Music’s highest honour – induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
All three albums appear on CD for the first time.
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Jennings Waylon - Just To Satisfy You / Waylon / Country Folk With The Kimberleys (2CD) (CD)
€18,00Quick Viewhree original Waylon Jennings albums from 1969 and 1970 on a 2CD set.
The Kimberlys were a Las Vegas folk four-piece that Waylon encouraged RCA to sign. They comprised two brothers, Carl and Harold, married to two sisters, Vera and Verna.
The album was a #13 chart success and produced a Grammy award-winning hit single for ‘MacArthur Park’, a powerful Jimmy Webb song which had first become an international hit when recorded by actor Richard Harris.
Anita Carter, a great country voice in her own right, joins Waylon on three tracks in this package, two on ‘Just To Satisfy You’ and one on ‘Waylon’, the eponymous 1970 album.
One of the finest country singers of all time, Waylon Jennings ranked No. 7 in Rolling Stone magazine’s poll of 100 Greatest Country Artists. In a 37-year recording career, he achieved 100 country chart singles and 60 chart albums. Along the way, he led the “Outlaw” music movement of the mid-1970s together with Willie Nelson and Tompall Glaser. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001 and died of diabetes on 13th February 2002 aged 64.
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Various - Rhythm & Western Vol. 7 – Jambalaya (CD)
€15,00Quick ViewFriends, you are holding the fifth opus of ”Rhythm & Western” and we got 5 more boss volumes on ice. I must confess Solomon Burke’s classic ”How Many Times” always sounded like a Country song to me, so I’m glad I could include it here, Damita Jo delivers does a fantastic version of Ray Price’s classic C&W hit ”Crazy Arms” also recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis, Patsy Cline, Waylon Jennings, and countless others, another Country hit ”You’re The Reason” (originally recorded by Bobby Edwards) is delivered by Arthur Alexander. The great Fats Domino is next with his famous version of ”Jambalaya” (originally written and recorded by Hank Williams), King Curtis gives a splendid rendition of Hank Snow’s ”I’m Movin’ On” also recorded by a buttload of other artists. To my knowledge, Little Richard never recorded a ”bonafide” country song, but some of his Gospel stuff sounds just like it. Just listen to ”Do Lord, Remember Me” if you have any doubt. Sonny Boy Williamson II (a.k.a. Rice Miller) and Peppermint Harris, with ”Wake Up Baby” and ”I Got Loaded” are offering two delightful bronze hillbilly tunes, and ””Solid As A Rock” is probably the closest thing to country music ever recorded by Jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald. More fave black C&W of mine by The Twilighters (Hootenanny Stomp), The Sharps (Look At Me), Ruth Brown (Jack O’Diamonds), Magic Sam (Square Dance Rock Part 1), Ted Taylor (Keep Walking On), Pee Wee Crayton (Little Bitty Things) , Bobby Day (Undecided), Fats Domino (Bo Weavil). Smokey Hogg (Late Prowling Girl), Ketty Lester (Love Letters), Ben E. King (My Heart Cries For You), and Rochell & The Candles (When My Baby Is Gone) are all top-notch tracks. Country Music fans probably heard ”Hearts Of Stone” by Red Foley and the song has been recorded by tons of other artists. I picked the cool version recorded by Otis Williams and The Charms over the one by The Jewels for this volume -but they are both great. Johnny Nash is next with another Western classic ”Cigareetes, Whusky & Wild Wild” originally recorded by The Sons Of The Pioneers. R&B diva Dinah Washington had a top 3 R&B hit in 1954 with the Hank Snow’s number ”I Don’t Hurt Anymore” but I heard versions of this song by Eddie Fisher, Faron Young, Johnny Cash, Narvel Felts, Bill Haley, and Janis Martin. Another western tune penned and first recorded by Hank Williams: ”Cold Cold Heart” is sung by Nat King Cole and two gospel songs that sound just like C&W by Sister Rosetta (On My Way) and Professor Johnson and his Gospel Singers (Where Shall I Be) are really worth more than a spin. The closing number is an older classic blues recording from the 1930s the great Casey Bill Weldon which sounds just like Western Swing. Enjoy!
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Various - Destination Jail – 31 Prison Songs From Behind The Bars (CD)
€10,00Quick View1 CD with 20 page booklet, 31 tracks. Total playing time approx. 79 min.
Incarceration is a common theme in American roots music.
Songs tell of gruesome crimes, daring escapes, self-pity, repentant pleas for a second chance in exchange for promises of category XYZ.
Bear Family Records® delivers ’Destination Jail’, a cross-stylistic CD compilation centered around the ubiquitous phenomenon of jail in the USA.
This CD in our midprice series delivers contributions from Marty Robbins, Jimmie Skinner, the Johnny Burnette Trio and more obscure songs from Benny Hess, Helen Grayco and Bill Carter, rock ’n’ roll and country music, a.o.
Song titles such as The Hanging Tree, One Dead Man Ago, Midnight Train, Walking the Last Mile, Lilly’s Lament (Cell 29) and Shot Four Times And Dying describe what this CD album is all about.
Notes and illustrations for each song in the booklet.Incarceration is a frequent theme in American roots music. There is plenty of songs about hideous crimes, boastful escapes, self-pity, and remorseful pleading for a second chance in exchange for XYZ.
Especially in old-time and early country music, we find good examples of the jail theme. One might think the motif may have been derived from pieces from the Anglo-Celtic tradition.
Indeed, songs about murder, theft, and other sinful deeds are frequent in the British songbook, yet, jail, as a metaphor or as a place of self-reflection and transformation, is an American specialty: In the Land of the Free and the Home of the Evangelically Oppressed, incarceration serves as a mirror of the self. Jail is an implicitness, like death, heaven and hell.
With Destination Jail (BCD 17689), Bear Family Records® offers a hodgepodge of hillbilly and rock & roll obscurities and classics dealing with life behind bars. The songs feature all the various elements of the US detention system: prison – county farm, prison, and penitentiary.
Among the better-known highlights, we find The Hanging Tree by Marty Robbins, Ronnie Hawkins’ tragical ballad about the “red light bandit” Caryl Chessman, One Dead Man Ago by honky tonk pioneer Jimmie Skinner, and the passionate Midnight Train by the Johnny Burnette Trio.
Top tunes of the obscure portion of the sampled goodies are Benny Hess’ morbid Walking the Last Mile, Helen Grayco’s haunting Lilly’s Lament (Cell 29), and the amazing Shot Four Times and Dying by Bill Carter.
In between, Bear Family Records® offers many goodies by Skeets McDonald, Stonewall Jackson, Webb Pierce, Bobby Darin, and many more – and no Johnny Cash (yet his spirit is evoked by several tracks on the CD).
Bear Family Records®’ ‘Destination Jail’ is an exciting and wallet-friendly introduction to the gangsta tunes of rockabilly and classic country.
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Various - Rhythm & Western Vol. 6 – I´m Moving On (CD)
€15,00Quick ViewFriends, you are holding the fifth opus of ”Rhythm & Western” and we got 5 more boss volumes on ice. I must confess Solomon Burke’s classic ”How Many Times” always sounded like a Country song to me, so I’m glad I could include it here, Damita Jo delivers does a fantastic version of Ray Price’s classic C&W hit ”Crazy Arms” also recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis, Patsy Cline, Waylon Jennings, and countless others, another Country hit ”You’re The Reason” (originally recorded by Bobby Edwards) is delivered by Arthur Alexander. The great Fats Domino is next with his famous version of ”Jambalaya” (originally written and recorded by Hank Williams), King Curtis gives a splendid rendition of Hank Snow’s ”I’m Movin’ On” also recorded by a buttload of other artists. To my knowledge, Little Richard never recorded a ”bonafide” country song, but some of his Gospel stuff sounds just like it. Just listen to ”Do Lord, Remember Me” if you have any doubt. Sonny Boy Williamson II (a.k.a. Rice Miller) and Peppermint Harris, with ”Wake Up Baby” and ”I Got Loaded” are offering two delightful bronze hillbilly tunes, and ””Solid As A Rock” is probably the closest thing to country music ever recorded by Jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald. More fave black C&W of mine by The Twilighters (Hootenanny Stomp), The Sharps (Look At Me), Ruth Brown (Jack O’Diamonds), Magic Sam (Square Dance Rock Part 1), Ted Taylor (Keep Walking On), Pee Wee Crayton (Little Bitty Things) , Bobby Day (Undecided), Fats Domino (Bo Weavil). Smokey Hogg (Late Prowling Girl), Ketty Lester (Love Letters), Ben E. King (My Heart Cries For You), and Rochell & The Candles (When My Baby Is Gone) are all top-notch tracks. Country Music fans probably heard ”Hearts Of Stone” by Red Foley and the song has been recorded by tons of other artists. I picked the cool version recorded by Otis Williams and The Charms over the one by The Jewels for this volume -but they are both great. Johnny Nash is next with another Western classic ”Cigareetes, Whusky & Wild Wild” originally recorded by The Sons Of The Pioneers. R&B diva Dinah Washington had a top 3 R&B hit in 1954 with the Hank Snow’s number ”I Don’t Hurt Anymore” but I heard versions of this song by Eddie Fisher, Faron Young, Johnny Cash, Narvel Felts, Bill Haley, and Janis Martin. Another western tune penned and first recorded by Hank Williams: ”Cold Cold Heart” is sung by Nat King Cole and two gospel songs that sound just like C&W by Sister Rosetta (On My Way) and Professor Johnson and his Gospel Singers (Where Shall I Be) are really worth more than a spin. The closing number is an older classic blues recording from the 1930s the great Casey Bill Weldon which sounds just like Western Swing. Enjoy!
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Carter Family - Collection Vol. 2 1935-41 (6CD Box) (CD)
€25,00Quick ViewThe Carter Family are among the most important artists in the entire history of popular music. They were pioneers in writing and recording folk and country music for the commercial market, and their huge output of songs and recordings has become a major influence on music that has come after them in bluegrass, country, gospel, folk, skiffle, pop and rock. Acrobat has recognised their importance by creating two 6-CD sets to present the primary element of their recorded output – those recordings between 1927 and 1941 featuring the original incarnation of the group, A.P. Carter, his wife Sara Carter, and his sister in-law Maybelle Carter. This is the second of those sets, and addresses the years from 1935 to 1941, in a 130-track 6-CD collection comprising just about all their releases from this era on the Conqueror, Decca and Bluebird labels. It features their landmark1935 hit “Can The Circle Be Unbroken”, along with many other classics which have become standards in folk and country repertoire, and provides a substantial and enlightening showcase for their unique talents. These two highly significant releases will give enthusiasts the chance to have a comprehensive collection of the first era Carter Family recordings, complete with Acrobat’s usual substantial booklet with comprehensive discographical information and detailed narrative.
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Carter Family - Collection Vol. 1 1927-34 (6CD Box) (CD)
€25,00Quick ViewThe Carter Family are among the most important artists in the entire history of popular music. They were pioneers in writing and recording folk and country music for the commercial market, and their huge output of songs and recordings has become a major influence on music that has come after them in bluegrass, country, gospel, folk, skiffle, pop and rock. Acrobat has recognised their importance by creating two 6-CD sets to present the primary element of their recorded output – those recordings between 1927 and 1941 featuring the original incarnation of the group, A.P. Carter, his wife Sara Carter, and his sister in-law Maybelle Carter. This first of the sets addresses the years from 1927 to 1934, in a 125-track 6-CD collection comprising just about all their releases from this era on the Victor, Montgomery Ward and Bluebird labels. It features their famous hits from these years, including “Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow”, Keep On the Sunny Side”, Wildwood Flower”, “I’m Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes”, “Little Darling Pal of Mine”, “Worried Man Blues”, and “Lonesome Valley” along with other classics like “My Clinch Mountain Home”, “Foggy Mountain Top”, “John Hardy” and “Jimmie Brown The Newsboy”. These two highly significant releases will give enthusiasts the chance to have a comprehensive collection of the first era Carter Family recordings, complete with Acrobat’s usual comprehensive discographical information and detailed narrative.
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Jennings Waylon - The Journey: Destiny’s Child 6-CD Boxset + BOOK (CD)
€140,00Quick View(6-CD LP-sized box set with 60-page hard cover book) Set traces country music legend’s early career, starting with his Buddy Holly-produced first single in 1958 all the way to April 1968; his legendary rare album Waylon At J. D.’s is here, together with singles & demos from his years in Arizona – also included are early folk/country recordings for A&M, all of his RCA recordings prior to June 1968 & six early, rare albums in their entirety.
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Lewis Linda Gail - Early Sides 1963-1973 (Digipak) (CD)
€20,00Quick ViewVintage early recordings from a true pioneering female rock artist, and sister of Jerry Lee Lewis, Linda Gail Lewis!
These early singles represent a diverse mix of musical styles from rockabilly to country to good old fashion rock ‘n’ roll!
Includes 2 tracks with special guest Jerry Lee Lewis!
Full color gatefold jacket with detailed personnel credits and vintage photos!
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Robinson Floyd - Makin’ Love- The Floyd Robinson Story 1952-1962 (CD)
€13,00Quick ViewAlthough FLOYD ROBINSON is largely remembered as the archetypal ’One-Hit-Wonder’, for his 1959 million-seller ’Makin’ Love’, there was rather more to him than that.
A multi-talented performer, he carved out parallel careers as a Country singer (he was a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 1949, at the age of seventeen), Pop singer, songwriter, and session guitarist / pedal steel player, while in the 1970s, he went on to cut a hugely successful series of Christian-themed children’s albums.
This compilation presents a ’Very Best Of’ Floyd’s early career, between 1952-62, starting with his recordings with Autry Inman as Jack & Daniel, and finds him involved in Hillbilly, Honky-Tonk, Country and mainstream Pop.
This is the first time that this body of work has been thus compiled (earlier anthologies have concentrated entirely on Robinson’s Pop and Novelty recordings) and many sides featured herein have never previously appeared in the digital format.
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Vipers Skiffle Group - Don’t You Rock Me Daddy-O (CD)
€13,00Quick ViewTHE VIPERS SKIFFLE GROUP formed in the Spring of 1956 and in terms of commercial success, were the second Skifflers out of the blocks after the mighty Lonnie Donegan.
Indeed, it’s probably fair to say that apart from Lonnie, they left Skiffle’s strongest recorded legacy.
This compilation comprises everything that they released under their own name on EMI’s Parlophone label, between 1956-58.
These include their four UK hits, ’Don’t You Rock Me Daddy-O’, ’Cumberland Gap’, ’Maggie May’ and ’Streamline Train’, as well as popular near-misses like ’Ain’t You Glad’, ’Hey Liley, Liley Lo’, ’No Other Baby’, etc., and their ’Coffee Bar Session’ LP.
They also recorded under various other aliases; hopefully, their extra-curricular recordings might be the subject of a future Jasmine compilation.
Like many Skiffle groups their personnel fluctuated, but their one constant factor was their founder, Wally Whyton, later a popular BBC TV and radio presenter.
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Lightfoot Gordon - 1962 Also Featuring The Two Tones (CD)
€13,00Quick ViewCanada’s most successful contemporary Folk artist, GORDON LIGHTFOOT, is frequently referred to as that nation’s greatest songwriter.
However, once he’d finally ’made it’ in the late 1960s, he immediately set about trying to distance himself from much of his early recording career.
Indeed, when a compilation LP titled Early Lightfoot – comprising his first solo recordings, from a pair of Spring 1962 Nashville sessions – appeared in 1971, he is rumoured to have bought up all known copies and destroyed them.
The story may of course be apocryphal, but those rare-as-hens-teeth recordings are included herein in their entirety, augmented by a 45rpm and live album which Lightfoot had recorded a couple of months earlier, with singer/guitarist Terry Whelan, in a short-lived Folk duo called The Two Tones.
This material is all exceptionally rare, and has never previously been thus compiled; the majority of these sides are impossible to find elsewhere on CD.
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Acuff Roy - The King of Country Music – The 45s 1957-1962 (CD)
€13,00Quick ViewRoy Acuff is a legendary country music artist alongside other early legends Jimmy Rodgers and The Carter Family.
Acuff joined Hickory Records, the label he co-owned, in 1957 and this is the first time his releases for the label between 1957 and 1962 have been compiled in such a comprehensive way.
Includes country music classics like ’The Wreck On The Highway’, ’The Great Speckled Bird’, ’Wabash Cannonball’ and ’Fireball Mail’.
26 tracks covering every Hickory label 7′ single released by the artist between 1957 and 1962.
The accompanying booklet contains the recording dates, the original catalogue numbers, all writers’ credits and a detailed history of Acuff’s life and career, together with scans of adverts and record labels.
A package sure to be well received by fans of country music from the 1950s and 1960s, the original glory days of the genre.
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Willing Foy And The Riders Of The Purple Sage - Texas Blues: The Classic Years 1944-50 (2CD) (CD)
€15,00Quick ViewTaking their name from the landmark 1912 western novel by Zane Grey ”Riders Of The Purple Sage”, Foy Willing And The Riders Of The Purple Sage were a country group who combined recording and performing with appearing in a string of Western movies in the later heyday of the genre in the ’40s and early ’50s. Foy Willing, who hailed from Texas, landed up in California in the early ’40s and became popular on radio, forming the band around the same time. With their screen commitments they did not record prolifically, but had five country hits through the second half of the 1940s.
This 48-track 2-CD set comprises most of the A & B sides of their releases on the Capitol, Decca, Majestic, Varsity and Columbia labels during this era, including a release with the orchestra of Louis Prima. It features all their career chart entries including the No. 3 country hit ”Texas Blues”, the No. 4 hit ”Have I Told You Lately That I Love You” and the No. 6 hit ”Detour” along with the Top 20 hits ”Anytime” and ”Brush Those Tears From Your Eyes”. Noted for their fine vocal harmonies, their style reflected their Hollywood outlook, with more then a hint of western swing about it, even though they recorded many songs by top Nashville writers. This collection offers a solid and representative overview of the key era of their career. They clearly had a significant influence on the west coast, their name being borrowed in the ’60s psychedelic era by The New Riders Of The Purple Sage, a west coast country-rock band that was part of the genesis of Grateful Dead.
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Lewis Jerry Lee - The Locust Years (8CD Boxset + Book) (CD)
€160,00Quick View8-CD box (LP-size) incl. interview cd, with 48-page book, 166 tracks. Playing time approx. 428 mns.
In 1963 Jerry Lee Lewis signed with Smash Records, and battled the British Invasion, radio apathy and general neglect. The result was a lot of good music that fell on deaf ears. Here’s everything from five frustrating years, including the complete contents of great Jerry Lee albums like ’Memphis Beat’, ’Return Of Rock’, ’Country Songs For City Folks’, as well as wonderful forgotten singles like I’m On Fire and She Was My Baby He Was My Friend. The set covers the years from 1963 to 1969 and concludes with the country hits from 1968 and 1969, like Another Place Another Time, What’s Made Milwaukee Famous, and
She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye, when Jerry Lee Lewis’ career was spectacularly reborn in country music. As a bonus, there’s a complete interview with music conducted in 1976.
