The latest offering in Ace’s ongoing King Acetates series presents Wynonie Harris as no collector has ever heard him before. Scheduled as a single CD some years back, further research into the acetates has enabled Ace to expand this into an unbeatable 2CD set. The first CD contains the master takes of every surviving previously issued acetate master of Wynonie’s.

The second features two dozen alternate takes of his earliest King successes, featuring not a single previously released version among them. CD2 also includes several previously unreleased songs from the King of Blues Shouters. Although he has been extensively anthologised on CD in the past, this is a Wynonie-fest guaranteed to satisfy even the most ardent collector with a sound quality that no previously released anthology of these recordings could hope to match.