CD1 Bush Doctor
CD2 Mystic Man
CD3 Wanted Dread & Alive
CD4 Mama Africa
CD5 No Nuclear War
VA - Plug In It Turn It Up - Electric Blues - The Definitive Collection! 1954 - 1967 [3 CD, 2011]
The second volume of Bear Family's four-part electric blues series Plug It In! Turn It Up! features
the years 1954-1967 but that's slightly misleading, as much of the
latter years are bunched up on the third disc, which rounds up 29
significant instrumentals. The rest of the collection concentrates on
continuing the story the first volume began, as West Coast, Delta, and
Chicago blues all began to swing harder and play louder, working their
way onto rock & roll jukeboxes as they did so. Some of these singles
do play like rock & roll -- that's particularly true of Bo
Diddley's heavy-footed rumble and Hank Ballard's easy shuffle on "Look
at Little Sister" -- but this is primarily devoted to electrified blues
that jolts and jumps like a bare wire. There are plenty of big names and
classics here, songs that would later be standards in any number of
house bands across the country: "Kansas City," "I'm Ready," "My Babe,"
"I'm a Man," "I Wish You Wouldn't," "I Can't Quit You Baby," "Got My
Mojo Working," "I'm a King Bee," "Texas Flood," "Kansas City," "Baby
What You Want Me to Do," "The Sky Is Crying," "Wham!," "Frosty."
Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup - Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order (4 CD, 1993/FLAC)
When the fusion between traditional country and blues which would come to be called Rockabilly erupted in the early to mid-Fifties, most proponents - including Elvis and Carl Perkins - could name Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup as being among their primary influences.
Born on August 24, 1905 in Forest, Mississippi, he was among a small number of blues musicians to get a recording contract with a major label, in his case the RCA Victor subsidiary Bluebird, and in 1945 he put out a double-sided hit, Rock Me Mamma b/w Who's Been Foolin' You. The A-side peaked at # 3 on what then passed as the R&B charts - Most-Played Juke Box Race Records - while the flipside topped out at # 5 on Bluebird 34-0725.
Before the year was out he had Keep Your Arms Around Me climbing the charts to # 3 in January 1946 on Bluebird 34-0738 b/w Cool Disposition. Later that year he scored again, this time on the parent RCA Victor label with another twin hit, seeing So Glad You're Mine reach # 3 and Ethel Mae one notch lower at # 4 in October and November respectively on Rca Victor 20-1949. The A-side would later be recorded by Elvis in 1956 (two years after he recorded another Crudup single, That's All Right (Mama), which itself had failed to chart for Big Boy on RCA Victor 20-2205 in 1946 as simply That's All Right. His last nationally-charting single was I'm Gonna Dig Myself A Hole which peaked at # 9 in November 1951 on Rca Victor 50-0141 b/w Too Much Competition.
King Crimson - Starless (23 CD Super Deluxe Edition, 2014)
When we say ‘in-depth’ that’s what we mean since this set will contain a staggering 27 discs, made of up 23 CDs, two DVD-As and two blu-ray audio discs.
19 of the CDs are of live performance material with a 20th disc offering the 2011 stereo mix of Starless And Bible Black by Steven Wilson and Robert Fripp. The other three CDs are described as ‘ bonus’ discs and contain ‘restored soundboard/bootlegs and audio curios’.
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