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VA - Time Machine - A Vertigo Retrospective 1969-73 (3 CD, 2005/FLAC)

This collection celebrates the vision of Olav Wyper and his A&R team during Vertigo's early years, (notably Patrick Campbell-Lyons of UK band Nirvana who produced many of the early Vertigo albums), and celebrates an age when musical creativity was the watch word. Although sometimes the resulting recordings were less than satisfactory, the musicians behind them were brave and hardy souls. Due to the vagaries of the rights reversion of some of the music released on the Vertigo label in its first three years of operation, it has not been possible to include some material by artists whose contributions were of equal merit to those artists featured here. Musicians such as Mike Absalom, Assagai, Graham Bond, Fairfield Parlour et al all deserve attention from aficionados of the "progressive" era. It is to them and the artists featured that this set is dedicated.

Bongo Boy Records is an American record label founded in 2010 by songwriter Gar Francis and Dutch entrepreneur Monique Grimme.

Founded in 2010 the label represents all genres and specializes in garage rock, rock and blues and Compilation albums.

4 CD series of the most bizarre and unusual covers of Beatles tracks ever recorded - featuring artists from all over the world.

With the release of the first of a total of four issues, Bear Family marks another milestone on the way to a comprehensive documentation of the history of popular music in Germany from the early 1960s to the mid-1980s. With Kraut! Die innovativen Jahre des Krautrock 1968-1979 Bear Family will release a double CD every three months in 2020 with a booklet of about 100 pages and biographies of each band, an exquisite selection of the exciting and influential bands of those days, some of which caused a sensation far beyond Germany. The four editions are regionally structured. All editions are compiled by Burghard Rausch and commented on in detail. The publisher of several books on ‘Rock in Germany’, radio author and presenter, drummer (Agitation Free, among others), vinyl collector and DeeJay with enormous expertise has already been in charge of the NDW series for Bear Family.

Today the American highways are populated by truckers but before the trucks arrived on the scene, goods were transported by railroad - leading to countless stories, anecdotes and legends that have found their way into the music of the country & western, rhythm & blues and rock & roll scenes and eventually into pop music. There were stories about specific trains, the heroic deeds of railroaders - and the hobos, those fare-dodging tramps who travelled the length and breadth of the country and who were brutally combated by the railroaders and their bosses. These stories have been compiled on this 10 CD box set - many performed by well-known stars while other tracks are true rarities. An absolute "must have" for fans of the great music of the 1950s.

CD1

01 - Mildred Bailey - Gulf Coast Blues

02 - Big Bill Broonzy - Big Bill Blues

03 - Ida Cox - Four Day Creep

04 - Blind Gary Davis - Lord I Wish I Could See

05 - Tom Dickson - Death Bell Blues

06 - Pearl Dickson - Little Rock Blues

07 - Blind Boy Fuller - Homesick and Lonesome Blues

08 - Woody Guthrie - John Henry

09 - W.C. Handy - Mister Crump

10 - Billie Holiday - Loveless Love

11 - John Lee Hooker - Black Man Blues

12 - Lighnin' Hopkins - Guitar Lightninґ

13 - Mississippi John Hurt - Louis Collins

14 - Blind Lemon Jefferson - Match Box Blues

15 - Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was The Night

16 - Robert Johnson - I Believe Iґll Dust My Broom

17 - Leadbelly - The Gallis Pole

18 - Furry Lewis - Billy Lyons And Stackolee

19 - Sara Martin - Atlanta Blues

20 - Blind Willie McTell - Scarey Day Blues

CD2

01 - Memphis Minnie - Where Is My Good Man At

02 - Charlie Patton - 34 Blues

03 - Ma Rainey - Sleep Talkin' Blues

04 - Tampa Red - Sugar Mama Blues

05 - Otis Rush - May Be The Last Time

06 - Bessie Smith - The Gin House Blues

07 - Otis Spann - I Just Want a Little Bit

08 - Victoria Spivey - Black Gal

09 - Sonny Terry - Mountain Blues

10 - Big Mama Thornton - Ball and Chain

11 - Sophie Tucker - Red Hot Mama

12 - T. Bone Walker - Doin' Time

13 - Little Walter - Blue Mood

14 - Ethel Waters - St. Louis Blues

15 - Muddy Waters - Hoochie Coochie Man

16 - Bukka White - Special Stream Line

17 - Josh White - Black and Evil Blues

18 - Sonny Boy Williamson - Cool Cool Blues

19 - Jimmy Witherspoon - Skidrow Blues

20 - Howlin' Wolf - Evil

VA - Slavery in America : Redemption Songs 1914-1972 (3 CD, 2014/FLAC)

Work songs, ritual and festive music... the slavery sounds and rhythms have left a considerable mark on American popular music. In a 44-page critical essay Bruno Blum here details recordings inspired by that legacy, alongside performances of music composed in the days of slavery. He shows their influences from the Congo to the Caribbean and from Brazil to the USA. The intensity of these magnificient recordings – from songs of hope to the abolition of slavery, up to the Civil Rights movement and the flowering of free jazz – is a testimony of human resiliency. The titles included here recount the course of a major socio cultural event in our history.

CD1:
01. Santana - Soul Sacrifice
02. Canned Heat - On The Road Again
03. Asia - Sole Survivor
04. Canned Heat - Going Up The Country
05. Santana - Persuasion
06. Chicago - 25 Or 6 To 4
07. Asia - Heat Of The Moment
08. Foghat - Slow Ride
09. Vanilla Fudge - You Keep Me Hangin' On
10. Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues (Live)
11. The Outlaws - Green Grass
12. Molly Hatchet - Flirtin' With Disaster
13. Brian Connolly's Sweet - Fox On The Run
14. Great White - Once Bitten, Twice Shy
15. Dave Mustaine & Marty Friedman Of Megadeth - School's Out
16. Charlie Daniels With Molly Hatchet - Freebird
17. Alan White & Tony Kaye Of Yes - More Than A Feeling

CD2:
01. Loverboy - Workin' For The Weekend
02. Mickey Thomas And Starship - Don't Stop Believin'
03. Slash & Roger Daltrey - No More Mr. Nice Guy
04. Ted Nugent - Rag Doll
05. Jake E. Lee & Phil Lewis - Journey To The Center Of The Mind
06. Steve Lukather - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
07. Rick Derringer - Rock N' Roll Hoochie Koo
08. Santana - Jingo
09. Pat Travers - Snortin' Whiskey, Drinkin' Cocaine
10. George Lynch - He's A Woman, She's A Man
11. Yngwie Malmsteen & Ronnie James Dio - Dream On
12. Mick Taylor - Jailbreak
13. Dweezil Zappa - Unchained
14. Mick Mars Of Motley Crue - Cold Ethyl
15. Pat Travers - Boom, Boom (Out Go The Lights)
16. Johnny Ramone - Viva Las Vegas
17. Richie Kotzen Of Mr. Big - Money
18. Phil Collen Of Def Leppard - Back In Black

CD3:
01. George Lynch - Rock You Like A Hurricane
02. Ronnie Montrose - Another Brick In The Wall Part 2
03. Robby Krieger - Brain Damage
04. Albert Lee - Back In The Saddle
05. Zakk Wylde - Go To Hell
06. Steve Morse Of Deep Purple - Another Brick In The Wall Part 1
07. Jeff "Skunk" Baxter - Breathe (In The Air)
08. Ted Nugent - Tie Your Mother Down
09. Elliot Easton - Young Lust
10. Paul Gilbert Of Mr. Big - Children Of The Grave
11. Tommy Shaw Of Styx - Sweet Emotion
12. Tracii Guns & Gilby Clarke - Welcome To The Jungle
13. Wayne Kramer Of Mc5 - Cherry Bomb
14. Reb Beach Of Winger - I Don't Know
15. Bruce Kulick - Shot In The Dark
16. Adrian Belew - Mother
17. Santana - Evil Ways
18. Steve Jones & Billy Duffy - Elected

VA - The Greatest in Country Blues (3 CD, 1991/FLAC)

Country blues (also folk blues, rural blues, backwoods blues, or downhome blues) is one of the earliest forms of blues music. The mainly solo vocal with acoustic fingerstyle guitar accompaniment developed in the rural Southern United States in the early 20th century. Artists such as Blind Lemon Jefferson (Texas), Charley Patton (Mississippi), Blind Willie McTell (Georgia) were among the first to record blues songs in the 1920s. Country blues ran parallel to urban blues, which was popular in cities.

Folklorist Alan Lomax was one of the first to use the term and applied it to a field recording he made of Muddy Waters at the Stovall Plantation, Mississippi, in 1941. In 1959, music historian Samuel Charters wrote The Country Blues, an influential scholarly work on the subject. He also produced an album, also titled The Country Blues, with early recordings by Jefferson, McTell, Sleepy John Estes, Bukka White, and Robert Johnson.

Charters's works helped to introduce the then-nearly forgotten music to the American folk music revival of the late 1950s and 1960s. The acoustic roots-focused movement also gave rise to the terms "folk blues" and "acoustic blues", especially being applied to performances and recordings made around this period. "Country blues" has also been used to describe regional acoustic styles, such as Delta blues, Piedmont blues, or the earliest Chicago, Texas, and Memphis blues.

New Orleans of a hundred years ago teemed with a host of pianists playing blues and boogie in establishments both legal and recreational. Then came the guitarists. Here’s one: ‘You ought to have heard Smiley Lewis in person – he made the walls rattle!’ said drummer Earl Palmer.

Lewis was born in July 1913 in DeQuincy, LA. His mother may have died while he was young – a sister-in-law recalled the family moving to West Lake, LA, where he was raised by a stepmother. Somewhere in his teens, he took up the guitar. Then he ran across trumpeter Thomas Jefferson’s band which he joined. ‘(He) always was a good entertainer,’ Tuts Washington remembered. ‘He sang the blues and all of them sentimental numbers. He would walk off the bandstand and sing to the people in the audience. See, Lewis had a voice so strong he could sing over the band, and that was before we had microphones.’ During WW2, Lewis found work where he could – ending up in a band with Tuts. At the end of the war, the band split up but Smiley and Tuts recruited drummer Herman Seale to form a blues trio. ‘We had the hottest trio in town,’ Washington boasted. They also hung around J&M Records. The following year, the New York label DeLuxe came to record local talent, using J&M as a source. When DeLuxe returned in September 1947, Lewis’ trio was one of the acts he decided to record. No copy has ever turned up. Although popular around New Orleans, Smiley’s record failed on the national market. He was dropped by DeLuxe. Nevertheless, his status as a recording artist ensured that Smiley’s trio was in demand around Louisiana and for some months they had a residency at the Cinq Sou Hall, next door to the Dew Drop Inn. Occasionally, he would drop into the Dew Drop to make guest appearances with Dave Bartholomew’s orchestra, billing himself as ‘the drifting blues singer’. As with most of the other artists here, Lewis had a life of ups and downs (his ‘One Night’ was cut by Presley). He died in 1966.

True to its description as "100 Pioneering Blues Classics," the 4-CD When the Sun Goes Down is a choice sample of blues and other related African-American styles from the vaults of Bluebird, one of the more productive roots labels of the past century. The "Secret History" tag is also apropos, given how many tunes here influenced or were directly copied by many of the well-known names in rock in the past 50 years.

The chronologically organized discs -- Walk Right In,The First Time I Met the Blues, That's Chicago's South Side, and That's All Right -- capture some of the best music from the mid-Twenties until the mid-Fifties. When the Sun Goes Down might exist thanks to the success of resurgent compilations like the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, but it is equally true that current technology facilitates its existence. Modern digital surgery converts scratchy old 78s into translucent documents on prison songs, fiddle tunes, jug band jigs, country blues, urban stomps, and a cappella sermons. There are too many gems to mention. Larger-than-life artist and activist Paul Robeson evokes the very meaning of spiritual in "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child." Leadbelly delivers on prison cuts "Ham an' Eggs" and "Midnight Special," a tune about a Texas train that symbolized freedom to Sugarland penitentiary prisoners, Leadbelly included. Dylan favorite Blind Willie McTell does up his standard "Statesboro Blues," while Bonnie Raitt-fave Sippie Wallace supplies a definitive "I'm a Mighty Tight Woman." Then there's Big Boy Crudup's "That's All Right," made famous by Elvis. And how about country crooner Jimmie Rodgers doing "Blue Yodel #9" with Louis Armstrong on cornet? A few cuts could have been omitted, but with 100 tunes, who's complaining? And with liner notes as entertaining as the songs they describe, When the Sun Goes Down is a time capsule of African-American sonic expression, nothing less than American popular music from the last century.

Early gospel and blues from the collections of Gayle Dean Wardlow and John Fahey.

John Aloysius Fahey (February 28, 1939 – February 22, 2001) was an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who played the steel-string acoustic guitar as a solo instrument. His style has been enormously influential and has been described as the foundation of the genre of American primitive guitar, a term borrowed from painting and referring mainly to the self-taught nature of the music and its minimalist style. Fahey borrowed from the folk and blues traditions in American roots music, having compiled many forgotten early recordings in these genres.

Gayle Dean Wardlow (born August 31, 1940) is an American historian of the blues. He is particularly associated with research into the lives of the musicians Charlie Patton and Robert Johnson and the historical development of the Delta blues, on which he is a leading authority.

2017 triple CD collection celebrating the music of guitar legend Jimi Hendrix. We start Disc One with Hendrix playing with Curtis Knight, a little-known Harlem artist, who had his own band, The Squires, in which Jimi played for a while. Next, we find Jimi playing with rock and roll pioneer Little Richard on the track 'I Do Not Know What You've Got But It's Got Me'. Then, we meet Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell, bass player and drummer of Experience, the trio with whom Hendrix became a superstar, guided by the hand of producer and manager Chas Chandler. We can hear Mitch Mitchell playing with Bruce Cameron, a fantastic guitarist with a style very reminiscent of Hendrix. We also include in The Many Faces the band Cork, that Noel Redding created along Corky Laing (from Mountain) and with guitarist Eric Schenkman from the Spin Doctors. Before joining Band Of Gypsys as it's drummer (the brief group that Jimi set up after the dissolution of Experience) Buddy Miles had a solid career as member of Electric Flag. As a fun trivia fact we decided to include two songs performed by Betty Davis, who used to be a very close friend of Jimi (many say she was his lover). The second CD of The Many Faces consists of recording sessions prior to Jimi's rise to stardom, some alongside saxophonist Lonnie Youngblood, others with the very same Experience (a brilliant version of the song 'Red House') and also with Little Richard's band. Finally, on CD 3 we immerse ourselves in Jimi's repertoire, his fantastic songs, songs that sometimes have ended up being eclipsed by the fact that he was a guitar God. These recordings are performed by artists who in many cases have Hendrix's music as a starting point for their own career. Needless to say the versions are amazing. Now, let's just get comfortable and enjoy The Many Faces Of Jimi Hendrix.

The music on this anthology has been derived from several notable albums of field recordings by ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax gathered in the South during the early 20th century. The primary components include the long-players Sounds of the South (1960), Blue Ridge Mountain Music (1960), Roots of the Blues (1960), Blues Roll On (1960), Negro Church Music (1960), White Spirituals (1960), and American Folk Songs for Children (1960). In Lomax's 1993 written introduction, he reveals that the four and a half hours housed in the package were "culled out of eight hours of field tapes" documented during a two-month tour in the summer of 1959 that began in Virginia and progressed into the Ozarks, the Mississippi Delta, and then the Georgia Sea Islands. While he goes on to explain the significance of his research, the authenticity of the living aural history really speaks for itself. Artists and songs of possible familiarity to enthusiasts of folk and blues are scattered throughout. Mississippi Fred McDowell's "Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning," "Shake 'Em on Down," and "Drop Down Mama," the Mountain Ramblers' "Cotton-Eyed Joe" and "Shady Grove," and Estil C. Ball & Orna Ball's "Jenny Jenkins" are taken from the Sounds of the South and Blue Ridge Mountain Music entries. The trio of Boy Blue (vocal/harmonica), Willie Jones (guitar), and Joe Lee (drums) provides a seminal reading of "Boogie Children," while Lonnie Young (vocal/bass drum), Ed Young (cane fife), and Lonnie Young, Jr. (snare drum) unleash a variation of "Sittin' on Top of the World" from Roots of the Blues and Blues Roll On. Negro Church Music and White Spirituals' sacred selections are highlighted by a "Sermon Fragment" from the Reverend G.I. Townsel as well as a "Sermon and Lining Hymn" featuring Reverend I.D. Back with his congregation and a stirring solo rendition of "Poor Wayfaring Stranger" by the previously mentioned Estil C. Ball. Perhaps most fascinating are the American Folk Songs for Children, as they transcend race or religious creed. Almeda Riddle's "Froggie Went A-Courtin'," Bessie Jones' "Hambone," Hobart Smith's "The Arkansas Traveler," the Mountain Ramblers' "Liza Jane," Mississippi Fred McDowell's "Freight Train Blues," James Shorty/Viola James & Congregation's inspired "This Little Light of Mine," and a rare confab between Felix Dukes and Mississippi Fred McDowell on "Motherless Children" all surpassed their era.

Another volume in the successful and fascinating series The Many Faces, which digs into the inner world of Motorhead, highlighting their roots, their side projects, his rarest recordings and his legacy.Intertwined amongst punk, hard rock, heavy metal or, as Lemmy himself has claimed, in the most classic rock n'roll, Motorhead has created a unique and recognizable sound right from the start. Motorhead is a true innovative band. And just as Ramones or AC / DC, they have created a unique sub culture surrounding their own unique sound.Packaged in a 3cd gatefold set, THE MANY FACES OF MOTORHEAD is a wild ride through the musical legacy of one of the most significant bands in the history of rock & roll.

The American medicine show came into its own shortly after the Civil War with the rise of so-called patent medicines and the almost complete lack of regulations concerning the ingredients that went into them, and any number of noxious tonics, elixirs, and nostrums with trumpeted healing powers were hawked by silver-tongued pitch doctors to the audiences who flocked to see the various acrobats, dancers, fire-eaters, snake handlers, comedians and musicians who entertained at these free extravaganzas. As a cost efficient way of merging entertainment with merchandising (and where manufacturing meant mixing ingredients in a bathtub), these medicine shows successfully traveled the so-called "kerosene circuit" of rural and small town America until the dawn of the 20th century, when the rise of radio and movies, and the passage of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act, combined to render them obsolete. The medicine show blueprint of offering free entertainment to attract audiences and then using intermissions to push products on them has hardly gone away, however, and is still the driving force behind radio and television in the 21st century.

The musicians featured in these colorful traveling medicine shows were professionals, at least professional enough to leave their home communities and take to the road, and luckily several of these musicians were still active in the 1920s and early '30s when the fledgling recording industry was just getting off the ground, and numerous commercial 78s by former medicine show entertainers were issued in the prewar era. Two discs' worth of these 78s have been assembled here by Old Hat Records, an independent label out of North Carolina dedicated to the preservation of American vernacular and regional music, and if listening to these tracks isn't exactly like standing out under those kerosene lights, it's the next best thing. Among the gems on Good for What Ails You are the version of "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal, You" by Daddy Stovepipe (Johnny Watson) and Mississippi Sarah (Sarah Watson) called "The Spasm" that opens the set; the bizarre "Beans" by Beans Hambone (James Albert) and El Morrow, a record so odd it is remarkable that it was ever considered for commercial release (a rambling, half-improvised monologue on beans, it rides over a maddening single-string guitar riff that seems always on the edge of breaking down completely); the delightful "Railroadin' Some" by Henry Thomas, which recalls a train trip across Texas and north to Chicago in an impressive litany of towns and train stops, and Jim Jackson's 1928 recording of "I Heard the Voice of a Porkchop," a surreal parody of the Scottish hymn "I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say." Mixed in are an engaging assortment of blues, rags, re-formatted minstrel tunes, jug and string band pieces that continually surprise and delight. Old Hat is to be commended for the obvious care in which this collection is assembled, and fans of Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music may well find that this one is even wilder.

CD 1

01. Daddy Stovepipe & Mississippi Sarah - The Spasm (2:52)

02. Gid Tanner & Riley Puckett - Tanner's Boarding House (3:05)

03. Lil McClintock - Don't Think I'm Santa Claus (3:06)

04. Dallas String Band with Coley Jones - Hokum Blues (3:14)

05. Shorty Godwin - Jimbo Jambo Land (2:58)

06. Fiddlin' John Carson & His Virginia Reelers - Gonna Swing on the Golden Gate (2:58)

07. Pink Anderson & Simmie Doley - Papa's 'Bout to Get Mad (3:00)

08. Charlie Parker & Mack Woolbright - The Man Who Wrote Home Sweet Home Never was a Married Man (3:14)

09. Jim Jackson - By, Bye, Policeman (3:04)

10. Walter Smith - The Bald-headed End of a Broom (2:56)

11. Allen Brothers - Bow Wow Blues (3:21)

12. Beans Hambone & El Morrow - Beans (2:54)

13. Stovepipe #1 & David Crockett - A Chicken Can Waltz the Gravy Around (3:08)

14. Grant Brothers & Their Music - Tell It to Me (2:57)

15. Carolina Tar Heels - Ain't No Use Working So Hard (3:09)

16. Walter Cole - Mama Keep Your Yes Ma'am Clean (2:48)

17. Kirk McGee & Blythe Poteet - C-H-I-C-K-E-N Spells Chicken (2:55)

18. Banjo Joe - My Money Never Runs Out (2:53)

19. Henry Thomas 'Ragtime Texas' - Railroadin' Some (3:20)

20. Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers - Travelling Man (2:55)

21. Johnson-Nelson-Porkchop - G. Burns is Gonna Rise Again (3:01)

22. Blue Ridge Mountain Entertainers - Baby All Night Long (2:47)

23. Chris Bouchillon - Born in Hard Luck (3:19)

24. Memphis Sheiks - He's In the Jailhouse Now (3:12)

CD 2

01. Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley - Gonna Tip Out Tonight (3:10)

02. Sam McGee - Chevrolet Car (3:10)

03. Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers - It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo' (2:58)

04. Cannon's Jug Stompers - Bring It With You When You Come (2:45)

05. Blind Sammie - Atlanta Strut (3:11)

06. Uncle Dave Macon & His Fruit Jar Drinkers - Go Along Mule (3:08)

07. Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band - Casey Bill (2:48)

08. Frank Stokes - I Got Mine (3:06)

09. Chris Bouchillon - Hannah (2:57)

10. Bogus Ben Covington - Adam & Eve in the Garden (2:43)

11. Alec Johnson & His Band - Mysterious Coon (3:16)

12. Carolina Tar Heels - Her Name was Hula Lou (3:00)

13. Three Tobacco Tags - Reno Blues (2:39)

14. Papa Charlie Jackson - Scoodle Um Skoo (3:17)

15. Frank Hutchison - Stackalee (3:06)

16. Walter Smith - The Cat's Got the Measles, the Dog's Got the Whooping Cough (3:00)

17. Hezekiah Jenkins - Shout You Cats (3:09)

18. Tommie Bradley - Nobody's Business if I Do (2:59)

19. Charlie Poole with The North Carolina Ramblers - Sweet Sixteen (2:53)

20. Charlie Parker & Mack Woolbright - Ticklish Reuben (2:40)

21. Jim Jackson - I Heard the Voice of a Porkchop (2:52)

22. Dallas String Band with Coley Jones - Shine (3:01)

23. Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers - The Gypsy (3:21)

24. J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers - Kiss Me Cindy (2:06)

VA - That 70's [5 CD, 2009]

Another collection of golden 70's

The Federal was the oldest of the Jamaican studios that shaped the history of Reggae. Opened in 1961 by Ken Khouri and associated to his companies Federal Records and Federal Record Mfg. Co. Ltd. and label Federal.

Ernest Ranglin was musical director and in the 1960s Sam Mitchell was the in-house producer, Keith Scott also involved in the production.

Recording and mixing engineers known to have worked at the studio include: George Raymond and Louis Davidson a.k.a. Buddy Davidson.

Acquired by Rita Marley in 1981 and reopened as the "New" Tuff Gong recording Studio.

2011 collection featuring tracks from Muddy Waters, Fleetwood Mac, ZZ Top, Stevie Ray Vaughn and Little Feat. The Old Grey Whistle Test has now been synonymous with quality music for 40 years. Although possibly best know as a show for Rock music, the show maintained an amazing variety when it came to choosing its artists, it really only had two criteria, 1, that the artists had released an album and 2 that they produced great music. This collection mostly features artists that appeared on the show but also include artists who for whatever reason didn't or couldn't appear on the show.

Jolly Joker presents

VA - Time Machine - A Vertigo Retrospective 1969-73 (3 CD, 2005/FLAC)

VA - Bongo Boy Records Backroom Blues Vol.1-3 (3 CD, 2016) (FLAC)

VA - Exotic Beatles Vol.1-4 (1993-2011)

VA – Kraut: Die innovativen Jahre des Krautrock 1968-1979 Teil 1 [Der Norden] & Teil 2 [Die Mitte] (4 CD, 2020/FLAC)

VA - Train Songs (10 CD, 2011/FLAC)

VA - The Ultimate Encyclopedia of American Blues Classics (2 CD, 1997/FLAC)

VA - Slavery in America : Redemption Songs 1914-1972 (3 CD, 2014/FLAC)

VA - Th'is Rock. The Rock Experience [3 CD, 2011]

VA - The Greatest in Country Blues (3 CD, 1991/FLAC)

VA - New Orleans Guitar (4 CD, 2006/FLAC)

VA - When the Sun Goes Down (The Secret History of Rock 'n Roll) [4 CD, 2002/FLAC]

VA - American Primitive Vol. I + II (3 CD, 1997-2005/FLAC)

VA - The Many Faces Of Jimi Hendrix (3 CD, 2017/FLAC)

VA - Alan Lomax : Sounds of the South (4 CD, 1993) [FLAC]

VA - The Many Faces of Motorhead (3 CD, 2015/FLAC)

VA - Good for What Ails You - Music of the Medicine Shows (1926-1937) [2 CD, 2005/FLAC]

VA - That 70's [5 CD, 2009]

VA - Reggae Anthology - The Definitive Collection of Federal Records (1964-1982) [2 CD, 2010/FLAC]

VA - Greatest Ever Decade 80's (4 CD, 2021/FLAC)

VA - The Old Grey Whistle Test - Blues (2011/FLAC)

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