Blues Vinyl Records

1. Broke Down Engine Blues (1931)
2. Mama 'Tain't Long For Day (1927)
3. Georgia Rag (1931)
4. Love Changing Blues (1929)
5. Statesboro Blues (1928)
6. Stomp Down Rider (1931)
7. Savannah Mama (1933)

Side Two

8. Travelin' Blues (1929)
9. Drive Away Blues (1929)
10. Warm It Up To Me (1933)
11. Three Women Blues (1928)
12. Writing Paper Blues (1927)
13. Southern Can Is Mine (1931)
14. Talkin' To Myself (1930)

Though born in the Mississippi Delta, Earl Hookers family moved to Chicago when he was just a baby and by the mid-40s he was performing with one of the early legends of Chicago blues, Robert Nighthawk. Hooker is perhaps best known for his distinct slide guitar style and as a sideman for such luminaries as Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, and John Lee Hooker (his cousin). In 1968, he assembled a crack band including Pinetop Perkins, and Freddie Roulette, and theyre heard here in fine form on what is probably Hookers most well-known and best recorded effort.

Track Listing:
1. Anna Lee
2. Off The Hook
3. Love Ain't A Plaything
4. You Don't Want Me
5. Two Bugs And A Roach
6. Wah Wah Blues
7. You Don't Love Me
8. Earl Hooker Blues

Early in 2012, Shemekia participated in two tribute concerts celebrating recently departed great Hubert Sumlin and Robert Johnson s centennial, both at New York s Apollo Theater in Harlem, not far from the neighborhood where Shemekia spent her childhood. Those nights she was a featured attraction along with Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Derek Trucks, Elvis Costello and Taj Mahal. Clearly, she's risen to the top of the field and that reckoning is underscored with the album release of 33 1/3.

For Shemekia, it s all about ushering the blues an art form that stretches back to the early 1900's into a fast-paced new century and keeping the music true to its roots, making it relevant to a new generation. Her latest step in this ongoing journey is 33 1/3, an 11-song CD set culled from a variety of high-profile sources, including Bob Dylan, Sam Cooke, pater familias Johnny Clyde Copeland and Randy Weeks. Shemekia weaves it all together with assistance from a skilled studio crew: guitarist/producer Oliver Wood (Wood Brothers), bassist Ted Pecchio (Susan Tedeschi) and drummer Gary Hansen. Various guest musicians step in along the way, including the Buddy Guy.

"Every one of these songs tells a story about where I am in my life", says Shemekia. "They all connect to something that has happened to me, both good and bad. I've experienced a lot since I started making records and touring more than 15 years ago, and I think people want to tap into the wisdom that comes with that experience. I tried to bring a little bit of that to every one of these songs."

Track Listing:
1. Lemon Pie
2. Can't Let Go
3. Ain't Gonna Be Your Tattoo
4. Somebody Else s Jesus
5. A Woman
6. I Sing The Blues
7. Mississippi Mud
8. One More Time
9. Ain't That Good News
10. Hangin' Up
11. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight

Featuring Christine Perfect (better known as the future Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac) the British ensemble Chicken Shack offers up a solid set of blues-influenced rock on their 1968 LP, fully titled 40 Blue Fingers Freshly Packed And Ready To Serve.

This LP was a promising debut, especially noteworthy for Stan Webb's Freddie King-inspired guitar playing and Christine Perfect's vocals. Webb does justice to his mentor with two instrumentals, King's San-Ho-Zay and his own Webbed Feet, and Christine proves the ideal counterpart: one of the few pianists paying homage to King's longtime collaborator Sonny Thompson.

It remains their finest work; Perfect left the band in 1969 when she married John McVie of Fleetwood Mac. Pianist Paul Raymond, bassist Andy Silvester, and drummer Dave Bidwell all left in 1971 to join Savoy Brown.

The album - with a nice spare sound, typical of Mike Vernon's Blue Horizon label- will be enjoyed again, this time on audiophile vinyl.

* 180 grams audiophile vinyl

Track Listing:
1. The Letter
2. Lonesome Whistle Blues
3. When the Train Comes Back
4. San-Ho-Zay
5. King of the World
6. See See Baby
7. First Time I Met the Blues
8. Webbed Feet
9. You Ain't No Good
10. What You Did Last Night

1967s A Hard Road proved to be every bit as powerful and innovative as its predecessor, thanks in large part to Mayalls discovery of Claptons equally brilliant replacement, Peter Green. A one-of-a-kind player with a highly distinctive sound, Green makes his instrumental presence felt throughout A Hard Road, while delivering compelling lead vocals on You Dont Love Me and The Same Way. With sterling support from bassist John McVie and drummer Aynsley Dunbar, the material here features such Mayall originals as Hit the Highway, Leaping Christine and the title track, along with standout interpretations of tunes by Freddie King, Elmore James and Willie Cobbs. The legendarily haunting Green-penned instrumental The Supernatural previews the guitarists groundbreaking work with the original incarnation of Fleetwood Mac, which he and fellow Bluesbreaker John McVie would form a few months later.

From the pristine U.K. mono masters, with complete original artwork and photos.

Track Listing:
1. A Hard Road
2. It's Over
3. You Don't Love Me
4. The Stumble
5. Another Kind Of Love
6. Hit The Highway
7. Leaping Christine
8. Dust My Blues
9. There's Always Work
10. The Same Way
11. The Supernatural
12. Top Of The Hill
13. Someday After A While (You'll Be Sorry)
14. Living Alone

Featuring the Original Restored Album Artwork with a Printed Inner Sleeve!

After releasing two albums in 1973 and a live, contract-fulfilling disc in 1974, Gallagher returned rested and recharged in 1975 with a new record label, Chrysalis, and a band with almost three years of hard touring under their belts. With its attention to detail, Against the Grain sounds more practiced and intricate than most of Gallagher's previous studio discs, but still includes some of his most powerful rockers. The supercharged "Souped-Up Ford," where Rory howls and wails, with his voice and smoking slide, and "All Around Man," an urgent blues rocker that begins with Gallagher screaming and crying together with just his electric guitar until the band kicks in with a stop-start blues rhythm, are two of the definitive moments. "Bought and Sold" adds congas to the mix to bring a more rootsy and even jazzy feel to Rory's table. But it's on the acoustic tracks where the guitarist and his band really lay into the groove. Gallagher's version of Leadbelly's "Out On the Western Plain," with its combination of Indian chords, American Delta folk and cowboy "yippee-ki-yay" chorus is one of the Irishman's unheralded highlights, and "Cross Me Off Your List" is affecting in its yearning melody, subtle keyboard and minor key. A playful and forceful romp through Sam and Dave's "I Take What I Want" shows Gallagher's soul roots. Its well-rounded menu of country, Delta blues, and blues-rock is indicative of his approach; though few of these songs became classics in the guitarist's extensive catalog, they're far more mature and eclectic than most blues-rock bands' best work. --Allmusic.com

Track Listing:
1. Let Me In
2. Cross Me Off Your List
3. Ain't Too Good
4. Souped-Up Ford
5. Bought And Sold
6. I Take What I Want
7. Lost At Sea
8. All Around Man
9. Out On The Western Plain
10. At The Bottom

Musicians:

• J. B. Lenoir (vocal, guitar)
• Willie Dixon (vocal)
• Freddie Below (drums)

Recording: May 1965 in Chicago, Ill.
Production: Horst Lippmann

About Pure Pleasure

At the beginning of the 90s, in the early days of audiophile vinyl re-releases, the situation was fairly straightforward. Companies such as DCC, Mobile Fidelity, Classic Records and, of course, Pure Pleasure all maintained a mutual, unwritten ethical code: we would only use analogue tapes to manufacture records.

During the course of the present vinyl hype, many others have jumped on the bandwagon in the hope of securing a corner of the market. Very often they are not so ethical and use every imaginable source to master from: CDs, LPs, digital files, MP3s – or employed existent tools from the 80s and 90s for manufacturing.

A digital delay is gladly used when cutting a lacquer disc because tape machines with an analogue delay have become quite rare and are therefore expensive. When cutting the lacquer, the audio signal is delayed by one LP revolution against the signal, which controls the cutter head, and for this a digital delay is very often employed. Of course, the resultant sound signal is completely digital and thus only as good as this delay.

We should like to emphasize that Pure Pleasure Records on principle only uses the original master tape as the basis for the entirely analogue cutting of lacquer discs. In addition, the pressing tool is newly manufactured as a matter of principle.

We only employ existing tools for manufacturing if an improved result is not forthcoming, e.g. the title Elvis Is Back, which was mastered by Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray, or several titles from our Philips Classics series, which in any case Willem Makkee cut from the original masters at the Emil Berliner Studios in the 90s. It goes without saying that we only used the mother and that new tools were made for our production.

To put it in a nutshell: we can ensure you that our releases are free from any kind of digital effects and that the lacquer discs are newly cut.

Mitch Ryders numerous appearances on national television shows, the concert circuit and continual airplay on all his records made him a fixture on the music charts. His next number of hit singles and albums truly impacted the way a lot of us listen to music to this day. The two and a half to three minute anthems like "Devil With a Blue Dress On/Good Golly Miss Molly," "Too Many Fish in the Sea/Three Little Fishes" and the near riot pandemonium of "Sock It to Me-Baby" have all truly stood the test of time.

Noting all of the chart successes and sales of the Mitch Ryder name brand, the good folks at New Voice Records honored this famed artist with his own greatest hits album, the magnificent All Mitch Ryder Hits in 1968. This original album has been out of print for many years and for several decades in the vinyl format, that is until now.

Friday Music is proud to offer the original New Voice Records masterpiece, the All Mitch Ryder Hits for the first time on 180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl. Mastered impeccably from the original New Voice stereo tapes by Joe Reagoso at Friday Music Studios and at Capitol Records in Hollywood, California, this amazing album truly sounds incredible in the audiophile vinyl domain. It is also the first installment in Friday Music's Mitch Ryder Original Recording Masters series, which will feature ongoing reissues from his classic and most important recordings from the classic rock era.

This greatest hits album features all of the Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels original hit recordings mentioned above as well as more killer workouts like "Little Latin Lupe Lu," "Joy," "Breakout," "Id Rather Go to Jail" and a super soul interpretation of Wilson Picketts classic "In the Midnight Hour."

Friday Music has also included the original rare album cover artwork featuring the hip full color live front cover photo and the live concert action shots on the back cover. Their All Mitch Ryder Hits LP also includes a poly bag to protect your album cover and a poly lined vinyl sleeve to protect your 180 Gram vinyl.

Track Listing:
1. Devil With a Blue Dress On/Good Golly Miss Molly
2. Jenny Take a Ride
3. Joy
4. Breakout
5. In the Midnight Hour
6. Sock It To Me, Baby!
7. Little Latin Lupe Lu
8. Takin' All I Can Get
9. Too Many Fish In the Sea/Three Little Fishes
10. I'd Rather Go To Jail
11. Shake a Tail Feather

No doubt Jimmie Lee Robinson offers a delightful taste of traditional blues. His work through the years with such stalwarts as Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Freddie King, Elmore James and Jimmy Reed have made their impressions on the man called The Lonely Traveler just as he has been credited with inspiring them.

On All My Life you'll hear standby classics like a haunting, slowed-down version of Muddy Waters' Forty Days and Forty Nights with eerie harmonica accompaniment by Madison Slim. And Jimmie Lee even covers a non-blues favorite with What a Wonderful World. His live version of that song at a 1999 concert in Blue Heaven Studios - the converted church that is home to APO Records - brought tears to scores of the 400 in attendance.

But All My Life is also packed with Jimmie Lee originals like the title track, which was once covered by John Mayall, where Jimmie Lee pleads with the woman of his dreams to return all the respect and love he's paid to her. That track is also a perfect showcase for the classic Jimmie Lee growling vocals and the spurs jangling from his boots as the only percussion.

Unlike his first APO release, Remember Me, an almost entirely-solo effort, Jimmie Lee is joined on most of the All My Life tracks by APO artist and noted-guitarist Jimmy D. Lane and journeyman harp player Madison Slim, whose knack for acoustic blues is highlighted on this release.

Jimmie Lee has gained national attention for his protest of the destruction of Chicago's famed Maxwell Street, said to be the birthplace of Chicago blues and the neighborhood where Jimmie Lee grew up. He fasted for 81 straight days, shunning solid food as if it was the wrecking ball he so badly wants to stop. His efforts were even documented on the front page of the New York Times.

This title is not eligible for discount.

Track Listing:
1. Forty Days and Forty Nights
2. I'll Be Around
3. Love My Baby
4. The Sun Is Shining
5. Driftin' Blues
6. The Girl I Love
7. Ludella
8. All My Life
9. I'm Ready
10. What A Wonderful World
11. Too Late
12. If I Get Lucky

This cadre of, mainly, white musicians, although clearly influenced by some African-American music, were the first generation not to be fixated solely by the music of black America. This was a flowering of something more general, less clearly defined, as hazy as an Los Angelean daybreak. What is notable about the music is that its neither black nor white, but contains elements of both, and though its influences undoubtedly derive from R&B (in the old meaning of the word), there are country, jazz, funk, rock and disco tinges to many of the songs.

The songs are no less good, the production no less shimmering than any Lenny Waronker job. Wed wager youve not heard of many of the artists here and thats ultimately the purpose: to shine a light on the darker corners of American pop culture. And they dont get much more radio-friendly than this shining collection here. The tracks for this compilation were selected by Zafar Chowdhry and Mark Taylor.

Track Listing:
LP 1
1. Babadu - I Love Music
2. Eric Tagg Living Off The Love
3. Jaye P. Morgan - Can't Hide Love
4. James Walsh Gypsy Band - I've Got The Feelin'
5. Jesse McFall and The Funk Elegant Orchestra - Thought You Ought To Know
6. Lil'Albert - My Girl Friday
7. Mike Lundy - Love One Another
8. Tender Leaf - Coast To Coast

LP 2
1. 1619 Bad Ass Band - Just For You
2. Michael Killen - A Little More Time
3. Breakaway - Who Was It This Time
4. Midnight Flyer - I Just Wan To Love You
5. Ian Willson - Four In The Morning (Goodking Edit)
6. Life Force - Slow Dancer
7. Society Of Seven - Between Hello And Goodbye
8. Evans Pyramid - Never Gonna Leave You

This session features an ALL STAR lineup.

Homesick James- Slide Guitar
Louis Myers/ Mighty Joe Young- Guitars
Dave Myers- Bass
Fred Below- Drums


Track Listing:
1. Miss Matie Mae
2. Stop Teasing Me
3. Mr. Charlie's Mule
4. Mighty Love Time
5. Can Be Your Friend
6. Break It On Down
7. Dirty News
8. Wrapped In Sin
9. Time Waits For No One
10. Call The Doctor

Side A:

1. My Black Mama - Part 1 (Son House)
2. My Black Mama - Part 2 (Son House)
3. Preachin’ The Blues - Part1 (Son House)
4. Preachin’ The Blues - Part 2 (Son House)
5. Dry Spell Blues - Part 1 (Son House)
6. Dry Spell Blues - Part 2 (Son House)
7. Walkin’ Blues (Son House)

Side B:

1. Mississippi Jail House Groan (Rube Lacy)
2. Ham Hound Crave (Rube Lacy)
3. Mississippi Bottom Blues (Kid Baley)
4. Rowdy Blues (Kid Baley)
5. M & O Blues (Willie Brown)
6. Future Blues W (Willie Brown)

Side C:

1. Cottonfield Blues - Part 1 (Garfield Akers)
2. Cotton field Blues - Part 2 (Garfield Akers)
3. Dough Roller Blues (Garfield Akers)
4. Jumpin’ And Shoutin’ Blues (Garfield Akers)
5. Fare Thee Well Blues (Joe Callicott)
6. Travelling Mama Blue (Joe Callicott)

Side D:

1. Bedside Blues (Jim Thompkins)
2. Outside Woman Blues (Blind Joe “Willie” Reynolds)
3. Nehi Blues (Blind Joe “Willie” Reynolds)
4. Married Man Blues (Blind Joe “Willie” Reynolds)
5. Third Street Woman Blue (Blind Joe “Willie” Reynolds)

After a self released debut solo LP Some Forgotten Country in 2007, Speer then sought out a public performance outlet with the Helix. His second solo LP Arghiledes brings a return focus upon acoustic instrumentation, with a still healthy dose of electric effects and speaker fry. Steeped in the sounds of the 1930s Piraeus Quartet, this selection of recordings is the outgrowth of a decade long engagement with the rich heritage of early 20th century Greek music.

Utilizing an array of traditional instrumentation (including trichordo bouzouki, baglamas, worry bead percussion on whiskey glass, zills and many more), Arghiledes is a work infused with improvisational fire. A true solo record in the overdub manner of Todd Rundgren and Tony McPhee, all sounds were performed, treated and mixed by D. Charles Speer.

Track Listing:
1. Markos's Cave
2. O Sinachis
3. Lost Dervish
4. Harmanis
5. Tsamiko Hijaz
6. Wildlife Preserve
7. The Heavy Heart of Ando-Yeap

The album "Ascension Heights" has always been a £100+ vinyl rarity, so its reissue here is to be welcomed. But it has also divided Blues purists for years because - for a blues label release - it's a slightly strange record! Firstly it's entirely instrumental - and not in a blues way either. It doesn't seem to quite know what it is. One minute it has the playfulness of Django Reinhardt jazz noodlings on "Spider Drag", the next minute it's Sixties Chet Atkins on "Globetrottin'", the next second its funky Blood, Sweat and Tears without the vocals on the brass filled "Mini-Minor-Mo". It also features Pete Wingfield on Piano. There are even times on "Hot Ginger" where it sounds like a soulful version of Fleetwood Mac's debut album! A heady mix to say the least! It's a varied album, daring in its choices and remember - most are original songs by Topham. "Ascension Heights" is a grower that bears repeated listening.

Attention: Both sides of this LP were cut at 45rpm.

Musicians:

• Top Topham (guitar, percussion)
• Greg Bowen (trumpet)
• Chris Pyne (trombone)
• Alan Skidmore (saxophone)
• Rick Hayward (guitar)
• Pete Wingfield (piano, organ)
• Herbie Flowers (bass)
• Duster Bennett (harmonica)
• Mike Vernon (percussion)
• John Marshall (drums)

Recording: Autumn 1969 at CBS Studios, London.
Production: Mike Vernon

About Pure Pleasure

At the beginning of the 90s, in the early days of audiophile vinyl re-releases, the situation was fairly straightforward. Companies such as DCC, Mobile Fidelity, Classic Records and, of course, Pure Pleasure all maintained a mutual, unwritten ethical code: we would only use analogue tapes to manufacture records.

During the course of the present vinyl hype, many others have jumped on the bandwagon in the hope of securing a corner of the market. Very often they are not so ethical and use every imaginable source to master from: CDs, LPs, digital files, MP3s – or employed existent tools from the 80s and 90s for manufacturing.

A digital delay is gladly used when cutting a lacquer disc because tape machines with an analogue delay have become quite rare and are therefore expensive. When cutting the lacquer, the audio signal is delayed by one LP revolution against the signal, which controls the cutter head, and for this a digital delay is very often employed. Of course, the resultant sound signal is completely digital and thus only as good as this delay.

We should like to emphasize that Pure Pleasure Records on principle only uses the original master tape as the basis for the entirely analogue cutting of lacquer discs. In addition, the pressing tool is newly manufactured as a matter of principle.

We only employ existing tools for manufacturing if an improved result is not forthcoming, e.g. the title Elvis Is Back, which was mastered by Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray, or several titles from our Philips Classics series, which in any case Willem Makkee cut from the original masters at the Emil Berliner Studios in the 90s. It goes without saying that we only used the mother and that new tools were made for our production.

To put it in a nutshell: we can ensure you that our releases are free from any kind of digital effects and that the lacquer discs are newly cut.

1. Sawbuk
2. Mini-Minor-Mo
3. Hop House
4. Ridin' The Blinds
5. Hot Ginger
6. Funks Elegy

Side Two

1. Ascension Heights
2. Tuxedo Junction
3. Globetrottin'
4. Spider Drag
5. Mean Old Pullman
6. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)

Lending strong support for Willie's recording debut is one of the brightest new blues lights to emerge in recent years, Susan Tedeschi, whose Just Won't Burn album has spent an unprecedented 41 weeks on the Billboard Blues Chart! The man behind Willie's emergence is none other than the great Mighty Sam McClain, a living R&B legend if there ever was one. Sam co-produced the album (along with Joe Harley) and also contributes his patented brand of soul singing and songwriting. Along with Jimmy D. Lane, who joins in on one track with his blazing guitar, At Last On Time proves the wisdom of the phrase better late than never!

This title is not eligible for discount.

Track Listing:
1. Love Call
2. Fever
3. Can't Go Wrong Woman
4. Big Mary's House
5. They Call Me Weepin' Willie / Mighty Mighty
6. Glory Train
7. At Last, On Time
8. Dirty Old Man
9. Weepin Willie Boogie
10. Love Me If You Want To
11. Let The Good Times Roll

Import

At Newport 1960 is a live album by Muddy Waters performed at Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island with his backing band, consisting of Otis Spann (piano, vocals), Pat Hare (guitar), James Cotton (harmonica), Andrew Stevens (bass) and Francis Clay (drums), in July 3. Water's performances across Europe in the 50s and at Newport helped popularize blues to broader audience, especially to whites. The album is often said to be one of the first blues live albums.

The album was released in the US on November 15 that year, featuring eight songs, from "I Got My Brand On You" to "Goodbye Newport Blues". Although At Newport 1960 never charted, it received critical acclaim and was influential for future bands.

Track Listing:
I Got My Brand On You
I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man
Baby, Please Don’t Go
Soon Forgotten
Tiger In Your Tank
I Feel So Good
I’ve Got My Mojo Working, Part 1
I’ve Got My Mojo Working, Part 2
Goodbye Newport Blues

Featuring Popa's signature searing guitar licks coupled with the power house rhythm section of A.J. Pappas (bass) and Dan Hickley (drums) results in his greatest work to date. From the Hendrix inflected wailings of "Back To New York City," to the Stevie Ray on steroied Texas boogie of "She Loves Everybody But Me," to the broken hearted dirge of "Pound Of Flesh," to the classical melodic strains of urban woe in "A Love That Will Not Die," Popa shows no signs of letting up.

Track Listing:
1. Back To New York City
2. She Loves Everybody But Me
3. Pound Of Flesh
4. Warrior God
5. The Future
6. Its About You
7. A Love That Will Not Die
8. Keep Your Woodpile Dry
9. Stand Before The Sun
10. She Made Me Beg For It
11. Jesus Joy Of Mans Desire

Side 2
1. Ball and Chain Blues
2. One For My Baby
3. Jim Crow Train
4. Told My Captain
5. So Soon in the Mornin
6. Bury My Body

Their fourth release, Be Kind To A Man When He's Down, contains songs from Frank Stokes, Pink Anderson, Big Chief Henry's String Band and many more. It features special guests Robert Crumb (underground comic legend, Cheap Suit Serenaders) on mandolin, Dom Flemons (Carolina Chocolate Drops) on guitar and old-time music legend Pat Conte (Canebreak Rattlers, Otis Brothers) on fiddle, banjo, guitar, harmonica and vocals. It features an amazing cover by Crumb as did their last two records, Drunken Barrel House Blues and Some Cold Rainy Day.

"Eden and John's East River String Band cover black country blues from the 78-rpm era with crisp fervor and a natural flair that suggests loving study and a respect for the hard lives and flight for joy on the original records." - David Fricke/Rolling Stone

Track Listing:
1. Gonna Tip Out Tonight
2. So Sorry Dear
3. Fare Thee Blues
4. Beaver Slide Rag
5. Be Kind To A Man When He's Down
6. Twelve Pound Daddy
7. On The Banks of the Kaney
8. Swanee River
9. How Long
10. There's More Pretty Girls Than One
11. Hy Patillion
12. Old Black Dog Medley
13. The Girl I Left Behind Me
14. Oh Suzanna

LP2
1. Bird On A Wire
2. Down Around My Place
3. I Know A Place
4. Blue And Evil
5. Walk In My Shadow
6. Fire And Water
7. Mountain Time
8. Young Man Blues
9. If Heartaches Were Nickles

This is the lone LP from Fort Worth bluesman, B.K. Turner, a.k.a. Black Ace, originally released in 1960. Black Ace was one of the first bluesmen to play a National steel guitar on his lap with a slide and this entire LP features just that guitar and his unique voice. An absolute stone cold blues classic reissued here on high quality vinyl with an exact reproduction of the paste-on sleeve.

Track Listing:
1. I Am The Black Ace
2. Bad Times Stomp
3. Drink On Little Girl
4. Santa Fe Blues
5. New Triflin' Woman
6. Farther Along
7. Evil Woman
8. 'Fore Day Creep
9. Little Augie
10. Your Leg's Too Little
11. No Good Woman
12. Santa Claus Blues
13. Golden Slipper

1. Black Betty
2. John Hardy
3. Midnight Special
4. Where Did You Sleep Last Night
5. Alberta
6. Rock Island Line
7. Goodnight Irene
8. Pick A Bale Of Cotton
9. In New Orleans (House Of The Rising Sun)
10. C.C. Rider
11. When The Boys Were Out On The Western Plain
12. Pretty Flowers In My Back Yard
13. Sail On Little Girl

LP 2

1. Take This Hammer
2. New York City
3. Packing Trunk Blues
4. Cotton Fields
5. The Bourgeois Blues
6. Easy Rider
7. Alabama Bound
8. Blue Tail Fly
9. Good Morning Blues
10. Roberta
11. Whoa Back, Buck
12. T.B. Blues
13. Bottle Up And Go

Features renditions of some of the band's best known songs such as the smash hit singles "Lonely Boy," "Tighten Up" and "Gold On The Ceiling" plus fan favorites "Howlin For You," "Everlasting Light," "Next Girl" and more! Mastered by Brian Lucey, who also mastered The Black Keys newest album El Camino!

Track Listing:
1. Lonely Boy - Iggy Pop & Ginger Baker
2. Tighten Up - Walter Trout
3. Girl Is On My Mind - Mike Zito & Cyril Neville
4. Gold On The Ceiling - Tab Benoit
5. I Got Mine - Leslie West
6. When The Lights Go Out - Papa Mali
7. Next Girl - Oli Brown Band
8. Money Maker - Dave Davies & Huw Lloyd-Langton
9. Howlin For You - Albert Lee
10. Everlasting Light - Pat Travers
11. Chop And Change - Larry McCray
12. Little Black Submarines - Devon Allman & Mani Neumeier

The first full-length album from the Grammy-nominated keyboardist's electric Experiment band (Casey Benjamin/sax & vocoderist, Derrick Hodge/bass and Chris Dave/drummer) also features many of Glasper's famous friends from the spectrum of urban music, seamlessly incorporating appearances from a jaw-dropping roll call of special guests including Erykah Badu, Bilal, Lupe Fiasco, Lalah Hathaway, Shafiq Husayn, KING, Ledisi, Chrisette Michele, Musiq Soulchild, Meshell Ndegeocello, Stokley Williams and Mos Def.

Throughout, the Experiment wears its eclecticism on its sleeve, presenting new collaborative originals and surprising cover songs. They transform the Afro-Cuban standard "Afro Blue" with Badu, Sade's "Cherish The Day" with Hathaway, David Bowie's "Letter to Hermione" with Bilal and Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" with Benjamin's vocoder vocal.

Track Listing:
1. Lift Off ft. Shafig Husayn/Mic Check
2. Afro Blue ft. Erykah Badu
3. Cherish the Day ft. Lalah Hathaway
4. Always Shine ft. Lupe Fiasco and Bilal
5. Gonna Be Alright (F.T.B.) ft. Ledisi
6. Move Love ft. KING
7. Ah Yeah ft. Musiq Soulchild and Chrisette Michele
8. The Consequences of Jealousy ft. Meshell Ndegeocello
9. Why Do We Try ft. Stokely Williams
10. Black Radio ft. Mos Def
11. Letter to Hermione ft. Bilal
12. Smells Like Teen Spirit

LP 2
1. Numb
2. Please Come Home
3. Things Are Changin'
4. Third Stone From The Sun/If You Love Me Like You Say
5. You Saved Me
6. Next Door Neighbor Blues

The songs on this album are especially significant because they represent the only existing recordings of John Hurt prior to the early 1960s when he was “rediscovered” by blues revivalists. In 1928, an unknown Mississippi sharecropper named John Hurt, played regular barn dances behind a white fiddle player who soon recommended Hurt to Okeh Records for recording. Okeh took the fiddle player’s advice and recorded two sessions with Hurt, one in Memphis and one in NYC, of which only a single (Nobody’s Dirty Business / Frankie) was ever recorded and promptly forgotten. Hurt spent the next 35 years sharecropping, and working for the railroad (where he learned songs like “Spike Driver Blues”, a variation on “John Henry”). “Avalon Blues”, an ode to his home town, was a song Hurt wrote during his recording session in NYC in 1928 and also the song that led to his rediscovery. Mississippi John Hurt today is one of the most appreciated of the Delta blues musicians, perhaps because his unique style makes him particularly accessible to modern audiences. Hurt, who died in 1966, lived just long enough to see his music finally appreciated by a wider audience.

Track Listing:
1. Frankie

The recordings we'll be presenting in this reissue series are the building blocks and DNA of American culture. Blues, R&B, Elvis, teenagerism, punk rock... it all goes back to these vital, breathtaking recordings. Third Man Records is proud to present these landmark albums in conjunction with Document Records, with brand new, jaw-dropping artwork by Rob Jones and new insightful liner notes, on vinyl for the first time in decades. Every record collection should have ample room for these highly important and endlessly listenable albums.

Track Listing:
1. Writin' Paper Blues
2. Stole Rider Blues
3. Mama, Tain't Long Fo' Day
4. Mr. McTell Got The Blues (tk. 1)
5. Mr. McTell Got The Blues (tk 2)
6. Three Women Blues
7. Dark Night Blues
8. Statesboro Blues
9. Loving Talking Blues
10. Atlanta Strut
11. Travelin' Blues
12. Come On Around To My House Mama
13. Kind Mama
14. Drive Away Blues
15. Love Changing Blues

Blueprint from 1973 presents a well-rounded picture of Gallagher's eclectic influences. Muddy Waters, Big Bill Broonzy, Roy Head are all shown their due. Includes the brooding 'Seventh Son Of The Seventh Son', which locks the band in a swampy groove for over eight mintues!

• Import
• Remastered

1. Race The Breeze
2. Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
3. Unmilitary Two-Step
4. If I Had A Reason

Lacquers Cut from the Original Tapes at Sterling Sound by Iconic Engineer George Marino Under the Supervision of Eddie Kramer

Pressed and Plated at RTI: Amazing Analog Sound Betters All Prior Vinyl and Digital Editions

Hear Hendrix Propel the 12-Bar Blues Into the Future: 11 Extraordinary Songs Recorded Between 1966 and 1970

Originally released in 1994, the Jimi Hendrix Blues album features 11 blues performances recorded by Hendrix between 1966 and 1970 showcasing the guitarist's mastery of the 12-bar form. This double-LP audiophile edition of Blues is arguably the best packaged, richest sounding, most coherent post-mortem release from the Hendrix archives.

Framed by his poignant 1967 acoustic 12-string rendition of "Hear My Train 'A Comin'" and a stirring 1970 trio performance, these 11 rough and ready tracks illustrate Hendrix's deep spiritual connections to his blues roots and his daring experimental take on the shape of future blues to come. And they've never sounded so vital, necessary, or dynamic.

Cut from the original tapes at Sterling Sound by iconic engineer George Marino under the supervision of Eddie Kramer, and pressed and plated at RTI, this 2LP version will forever stand as the definitive-sounding, high-performance edition of this historic document. You know Hendrix and Co.'s penchant for thrusting the blues into new dimensions. Now experience it like never before.

"Jimi's music is as alive today as it was 40 years ago, and the success of our most recent releases with Sony Legacy provides thrilling confirmation. We have long maintained that the power of Jimi's music and the power of his message would stand the test of time and provide its own bridge to the future," said Janie Hendrix, CEO of Experience Hendrix LLC.

"Being partnered with Legacy enables us to reach a more global audience with that message. And the best is yet to come. What we have in store will propel Jimi into a new decade, with unseen footage and unheard versions of his songs that will absolutely amaze today's music lovers. And we're confident that the distribution is in good hands, opening the door to new and fresh markets. The focus of our endeavors is, and always will be, all about Jimi's music."

Track Listing:
1. Hear My Train A Comin' (Acoustic)
2. Born Under A Bad Sign
3. Red House
4. Catfish Blues
5. Voodoo Chile Blues
6. Mannish Boy
7. Once I Had A Woman
8. Bleeding Heart
9. Jam 292
10. Electric Church Red House
11. Hear My Train A Comin' (Electric)

Side A:

1. Boogie Chillen
2. I'm In The Mood
3. Crawling King Snake
4. Queen Bee
5. Hobo Blues
6.Weeping Willow

Side B:

1. Cold Chills
2. Hoogie Boogie
3. Whistlin' And Moanin' Blues
4. Sally Mae
5. House Rent Boogie
6. Anybody Seen My Baby

Mono Edition

1966s seminal Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton marked John Mayalls emergence as a major recording artist, as well as his commercial breakthrough. The 12-song LP, considered by many to be the most influential British blues album of all time, marked the official introduction of Mayalls long-running, ever-evolving combo the Bluesbreakers. Mayall shares the spotlight here with soon-to-be-superstar guitarist Eric Clapton (who quit the Yardbirds in order to pursue his blues muse with Mayall), along with future Fleetwood Mac co-founder John McVie on bass and Hughie Flint on drums. Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton is generally acknowledged as a musical milestone for Clapton; his scorching playing and over-the-top tone dominates the entire album. With the groups punchy performances captured in straightforward style by noted producer Mike Vernon, the album offers a potent combination of Mayall originals and distinctive interpretations of songs by Ray Charles, Freddie King, Little Walter and Otis Rush.

From the pristine U.K. mono masters, with complete original artwork and photos.

Track Listing:
1. All Your Love
2. Hideaway
3. Little Girl
4. Another Man
5. Double Crossing Time
6. What'd I Say
7. Key To Love
8. Parchman Farm
9. Have You Heard
10. Ramblin' On My Mind
11. Steppin' Out
12. It Ain't Right

John Mayall is known as the white king of black blues. His way of singing, his harmonica playing and his typical Hammond organ sound reigned supreme in the realm of the blues during the sixties and seventies. “I never made commercial compromises; everything I did, I did for myself and nobody else”, Mayall confessed – words that are as honest and credible as his music. His singing, which he himself described as “rough but bursting with energy”, just can’t be imitated and the solo passages prove how the man grooves for himself alone, nobody else.

The sound on this recording clearly carries the stamp of the young Eric Clapton who plays here on the side line, as it were. His short sojourn with the Bluesbreakers was a training camp for the guitarist who not many years later was idolized by his fans everywhere.

The original release of this debut album is a highly sought-after and expensive collectors item whose artistic level has, according to the specialists, never been surpassed.

Recording: 1966 by Gus Dudgeon
Production: Mike Vernon

About Speakers Corner

At the beginning of the 90s, in the early days of audiophile vinyl re-releases, the situation was fairly straightforward. Companies such as DCC, Mobile Fidelity, Classic Records and, of course, Speakers Corner all maintained a mutual, unwritten ethical code: we would only use analogue tapes to manufacture records.

During the course of the present vinyl hype, many others have jumped on the bandwagon in the hope of securing a corner of the market. Very often they are not so ethical and use every imaginable source to master from: CDs, LPs, digital files, MP3s – or employed existant tools from the 80s and 90s for manufacturing.

A digital delay is gladly used when cutting a lacquer disc because tape machines with an analogue delay have become quite rare and are therefore expensive. When cutting the lacquer, the audio signal is delayed by one LP revolution against the signal, which controls the cutter head, and for this a digital delay is very often employed. Of course, the resultant sound signal is completely digital and thus only as good as this delay.

We should like to emphasise that Speakers Corner Records on principle only uses the original master tape as the basis for the entirely analogue cutting of lacquer discs. In addition, the pressing tool is newly manufactured as a matter of principle. We have one digital recording in our catalogue (Alan Parsons / Eye In The Sky“), but even in this particular case we used the analogue tapes for cutting.

We only employ existing tools for manufacturing if an improved result is not forthcoming, e.g. the title Elvis Is Back, which was mastered by Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray, or several titles from our Philips Classics series, which in any case Willem Makkee cut from the original masters at the Emil Berliner Studios in the 90s. It goes without saying that we only used the mother and that new tools were made for our production.

To put it in a nutshell: we can ensure you that our releases are free from any kind of digital effects – excluding the exception above – and that the lacquer discs are newly cut.

LP2
1. Crawlin’ King Snake
2. Until The Wells Run Dry
3. Real World
4. Shadow On My Door
5. Lies
6. (Down The Road Of) Temptation
7. Downsize Blues (Repossess My Body)
8. Feeling Good
9. Time Keeps Slipping Away

Line-up:
Gary Moore (guitar, vocals); Dave Bronze (bass); Darrin Mooney (drums) with Billy Cox (bass on tracks 9-11) and Mitch Mitchell (drums on tracks 9-11)

Track Listing:
1. Purple Haze
2. Manic Depression
3. Foxy Lady
4. The Wind Cries Mary
5. I Don't Live Today
6. My Angel
7. Angel
8. Fire
9. Red House
10. Stone Free
11. Hey Joe
12. Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

1. Spoonful
2. Evil (Is Going On)
3. Smokestack Lightnin'
4. Don't Mess With My Baby
5. How Many More Years
6. I've Been Abused
7. I Better Go Now
8. Forty Four
9. I Asked For Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)
10. My Life
11. Nature
12. Poor Boy
13. Mr. Airplane Man
14. Who Will Be Next?

LP 2

1. Moanin' For My Baby
2. Crying At Daybreak
3. Who's Been Talking?
4. My Baby Stole Off
5. I Have A Little Girl
6. Change My Way
7. The Wolf Is At Your Door
8. Moanin' At Midnight
9. The Natchez Burnin'
10. Getting Old And Grey
11. You Can't Be Beat
12. No Place To Go
13. Goin' Back Home

Blues from Laurel Canyon is a 1968 album by John Mayall, featuring British blues music. It was his first album after the breakup of his band the Bluesbreakers on 14 July 1968. It was also his last album with Decca before moving to Polydor.

Track Listing:
1. Vacation
2. Walking on Sunset
3. Laurel Canyon Home
4. 2401
5. Ready to Ride
6. Medicine Man
7. Somebody's Acting Like a Child
8. The Bear
9. Miss James
10. First Time Alone
11. Long Gone Midnight
12. Fly Tomorrow

John Mayall is known as the white king of black blues. His way of singing, his harmonica playing and his typical Hammond organ sound reigned supreme in the realm of the blues during the sixties and seventies. “I never made commercial compromises; everything I did, I did for myself and nobody else”, Mayall confessed – words that are as honest and credible as his music. His singing, which he himself described as “rough but bursting with energy”, just can’t be imitated and the solo passages prove how the man grooves for himself alone, nobody else.

Track Listing:
1. All Your Love
2. Hideaway
3. Little Girl
4. Another Man
5. Double Crossing Time
6. What'd I Say
7. Key To Love
8. Parchman Farm
9. Have You Heard
10. Ramblin' On My Mind
11. Steppin' Out
12. It Ain't Right

The 65 tracks on this 5LP box set represent the best of the Boddies in-house Soul Kitchen, Luau, and Bounty labels, which released an unspoiled treasure trove of kitchen-sink eccentric soul, fuzzbox funk, shoestring doo-wop, and haunted, eerily hook-laden spirituals. Enclosed inside is a mountain of office-styled ephemera: two massive booklets brimming with detail on the Boddies and their artists; extensive notes and scores of unpublished photos; a complete detailed discography folio; reproduced fliers; and a Boddie greeting card, all rendered with the handcrafted charm that was the Boddie hallmark. Call it a self-contained record industry crammed into one box.

Featuring 65 tracks on 5 LPs, two massive booklets brimming with detail, extensive notes and scores of unpublished photos, detailed discography, and reproduced fliers and a Boddie greeting card.

Track Listing:
LP1
1. Creations Unlimited - Chrystal Illusion
2. Ricky Hodges & the Funky People - Don't Destroy Our Love
3. Frankie Pighee & Soulettes - Soul Feeling
4. Chantells - World Of Soul
5. Jackie Russell - If You Don't Want Me Let Me Be
6. Angela Alexander & J.D. Saddler - Spoilin' For A Fight
7. Inter-Circle - The Pusher
8. Eddie & the Ant Hill Mob - I'm A Number Runner
9. Bo & the Metros - Moving On
10. Inter-Circle - The Players
11. Creations Unlimited - Corruption Is The Thing
12. King James Version feat. King Solomon & Moses - He's Coming

LP2
13. Angela Alexander & J.D. Saddler - Don't Make Me Kill You
14. Chantells - Why Won't You Say (What You Want)
15. Frankie Pighee & Soulettes - If You Don't Think That I Love You
16. Jackie Russell - Don't Trade Love For Money
17. Bo & the Metros - Buttered Out
18. Ricky Hodges - I Feel It (The Love You Have For Me)
19. King James Version feat. King Solomon & Moses - He's Forever
20. A.C. Jones & the Atomic Aces - Oh Baby (I Love You)
21. Harvey Hall - Tell Me About it
22. Headlines - He's Looking For A Love
23. J.C. Akins - I've Got to Find A Way (To Get To Your Heart)
24. Little Anthony & the Modern Detergents - Monkey Hips & Yice
25. A.C. Jones & the Atomic Aces - Give Me Your Love

LP3
26. Harvey & the Phenomenals - Darlene (Instrumental)
27. Little Anthony & the Modern Detergents - Don't Make Me Blue
28. Penny North - Satisfied
29. J.C. Akins & the Dukes - You Upset My Very Soul
30. Harvey & the Phenomenals - All In Your Eyes
31. J.C. Akins - I Love You
32. J.C. Akins & the Dukes - New Dance
33. A.C. Jones & the Soulettes - Hole In Your Sole
34. Penny North - Thought I Had A Good Thing
35. Harvey & the Phenomenals - Darlene
36. Headlines - Baby
37. A.C. Jones & the Atomic Aces - Give Me Your Love (Instrumental)
38. Headlines - He's Looking For A Love (Demo)

LP4
39. Rev. R. L. Hubbard - Child Of The King
40. Brother Bill - Wha's Happ'nin'
41. Guiding Lights - Lost In Sin
42. Wings of Faith Juniors Of Grand Rapids, MI - I Can't Thank Him Enough
43. Seven Revelators - Keep Holding On
44. Victory 5 - Have You Been To The Pool
45. Sounds of Soul - Gospel Train
46. Corinthian Singers - Why? (It's A Shame)
47. Fantastic Lightning Ares - Jesus You Are My Shining Star
48. North Wind Of Cleveland, OH - If I've Done Any Wrong
49. Golden Harmonizers - Won't Be Back No More
50. Gospel Hebrews - Jesus Is All Over Me
51. Gospel Fabulators - Read It In The Bible
52. Spiritual Believers - Sweet To Know

LP5
53. Silver Kings Trouble - The Water
54. Cleveland Golden Echos - Used To Live On Broadway
55. Royal Kings - Look Out For Jesus
56. Swanee Nightingales - I Know The Lord Will Make A Way
57. Gospel Ensemble - What You Need
58. Juanita Ellis - Make A Joyful Noise
59. Headlines - Baby (Demo)
60. Delores White - Why Don't We Understand
61. Addie Pearl Rice - Sara Culture
62. Harvey & the Phenomenals - T.G.I.F.
63. Addie Pearl Rice - Flowers Are Blooming
64. Jackie Russell - If You Don't Want Me Let Me Be (Demo)
65. Delores White - Lover's Paradise

Musicians:

• Bob Hite (vocal)
• Alan Wilson (vocal, guitar, harmonica)
• Henry Vestine (guitar)
• Larry Taylor (bass)
• Adolfo de la Parra (drums)

Recording: 1968 in Liberty Studios, Los Angeles
Production: Dallas Smith

About Pure Pleasure

At the beginning of the 90s, in the early days of audiophile vinyl re-releases, the situation was fairly straightforward. Companies such as DCC, Mobile Fidelity, Classic Records and, of course, Pure Pleasure all maintained a mutual, unwritten ethical code: we would only use analogue tapes to manufacture records.

During the course of the present vinyl hype, many others have jumped on the bandwagon in the hope of securing a corner of the market. Very often they are not so ethical and use every imaginable source to master from: CDs, LPs, digital files, MP3s – or employed existent tools from the 80s and 90s for manufacturing.

A digital delay is gladly used when cutting a lacquer disc because tape machines with an analogue delay have become quite rare and are therefore expensive. When cutting the lacquer, the audio signal is delayed by one LP revolution against the signal, which controls the cutter head, and for this a digital delay is very often employed. Of course, the resultant sound signal is completely digital and thus only as good as this delay.

We should like to emphasize that Pure Pleasure Records on principle only uses the original master tape as the basis for the entirely analogue cutting of lacquer discs. In addition, the pressing tool is newly manufactured as a matter of principle.

We only employ existing tools for manufacturing if an improved result is not forthcoming, e.g. the title Elvis Is Back, which was mastered by Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray, or several titles from our Philips Classics series, which in any case Willem Makkee cut from the original masters at the Emil Berliner Studios in the 90s. It goes without saying that we only used the mother and that new tools were made for our production.

To put it in a nutshell: we can ensure you that our releases are free from any kind of digital effects and that the lacquer discs are newly cut.

In 1967, the future of electric blues guitar answered to the name of Albert King. It's not like Albert was a green newcomer to the blues world when he strolled through the doors of Memphis-based Stax Records in 1966. After all, he had his first taste of studio action as a band leader more than a dozen years earlier. But the massively constructed southpaw saved his best for Stax. It's virtually impossible to cite a more important or influential blues album from the latter half of the 1960's than BORN UNDER A BAND SIGN... This Sundazed vinyl edition features the entire classic album with its gorgeous vintage artwork, two rare single sides added as bonus cuts, original liner notes and new annotation by Bill Dahl.

Track Listing:
1. Born Under A Bad Sign
2. Crosscut Saw
3. Kansa City
4. Oh, Pretty Woman
5. Down Don't Bother Me
6. The Hunter
7. Funk-shun
8. I Almost Lost My Mind
9. Personal Manager
10. Laundromat Blues
11. As The Years Go Passing By
12. The Very Thought Of You
13. Overall Junction

Side B - Kokomo Arnold
8. The twelves (The dirty dozens)
9. I'll be up someday
10. Busty bootin'
11. Sagefield woman blues
12. Back to the woods
13. Salty dog
14. Feels so good

Brain Cycles' is Radio Moscow's second album, a new psychedelic trip into the musical territory originally charted by artists such as Randy Holden, Groundhogs, Peter Green and Flower Travellin' Band, just to name a few.

After releasing their debut-produced by Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys-and a full year on the road, Parker Griggs has headed back into the studio to cut the long awaited follow-up. On 'Brain Cycles,' he once again plays all the instruments (guitar, drums, and percussion) and assumes vocal duties as well as production credits, while the bass guitar is in the hands of young Zach Anderson.

Conceived as an homage to the thrilling days of yesteryear, when vinyl was king and analog stereo ruled the world, 'Brain Cycles' is a guilty pleasure best experienced at maximum volume while wearing headphones, if you want your brain to catch the waves! Radio Moscow will be back on the road all 2009.

Track Listing:
1. I Just Dont Know
2. Broke Down
3. Escape
4. No Good Woman
5. Brain Cycles
6. 250 Miles
7. Hold On Me
8. Black Boot
9. City Lights
10. No Jane

Both audiophile LP and CD versions reflect what the two top bibles of high-end audio decree as an impeccable production that has come to be regarded as a high-fidelity reference. Matched with Ian's very personal songs, delivered in a voice that draws you in close in confidence, Breaking Silence is one of the very few recordings of recent years that by reproducing a pure analogue sound, has attained true audiophile status.

Tracks were recorded at Nightingale Studio on a Studer 820, 24-track machine, 30 IPS, non-dolby, at the elevation of +6/250 nu using Ampex 499 tape.

Included among the mics used on the recording dates were: Nuemann M-49, AKG C-12, Telefunken 251, Sheffield C-9 and a custom built tube direct box on the bass. Janis' vocal was recorded using a Telefunken U-47 and a Mastering Lab mic preamp, linked with series-one Monster Cable direct to the back of the multi-track machine with no EQ or Limiting.

The album was mixed at Bill Schnee Studio to an Ampex ATR 1/2 machine, at 30 IPS, non-dolby, at the elevation of +3/250 nu on Ampex 499 tape. The reverb on the album was an EMT tube plate used along with natural room sounds captured in the recording. During the mixing of the album, Some People's Lives was recorded direct to two-track using the same vocal chain as above and Telefunken 251's on the piano. Take number two was used as the album cut. The album was mixed using Mastering Lab modified Tannoy SGM-10's powered by Sherwood-Sax mono-block tube amps.

Produced, engineered and mixed by Jeff Balding. Mastered by Doug Sax.

This title is not eligible for discount.

Track Listing:
1. All Roads To The River
2. Ride Me Like A Wave
3. Tatoo
4. What About The Love
5. His Hands
6. Walking On Sacred Ground
7. This Train Still Runs
8. Through The Years
9. This House
10. Some People's Lives
11. Breaking Silence

Includes the entire 1960 studio album, Mojo Hand, plus many more classics recorded between 1949 and 1960 with such timeless favorites as “Shake That Thing,” “I’m Leaving You Now” and lots more!

Track Listing:
Side A
1. Bring Me My Shotgun
2. Mojo Hand
3. Shake That Thing
4. Lonesome Dog Blues
5. Coffee For Mama
6. Shine On, Moon!

Side B
1. How Long Has The Train Been Gone?
2. Awful Dream
3. Last Night
4. Sometimes She Will
5. Have You Ever Loved A Woman?
6. Houston Bound

“Bringing It Back Home is the album I really wanted to make right now,” relates Ford, who was once a sideman for Miles Davis and Joni Mitchell. “My concept was to put great players together with songs that have deep roots and rich emotional terrain, and to just let something beautiful happen. As it turns out, that’s exactly what occurred. The results are really pure, and the most fun I’ve had making an album in years.”

Ford says that Miles Davis’ majestic Kind of Blue — a perfect study in how open spaces within the sounds on a recording can establish emotional timbre — was his guidepost for the record. “What I love best about blues and jazz is how great players — like Miles Davis or Jim Hall or Paul Desmond — allow a lot of space in their music. That’s where the beauty happens.”

Track Listing:
1. Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky
2. Birds Nest Bound
3. Fair Child
4. Oh, Virginia
5. Slick Capers Blues
6. Traveler’s Waltz
7. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine)
8. Trick Bag
9. Fool’s Paradise

“Finally I heard ‘Stormy Monday,’ by my guy T-Bone Walker and I went crazy for the guitar and then crazy in every sense. I’ve never heard anything sound like that guitar to me.” - B.B. King

Track Listing:
1. Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just As Bad)
2. Mean Old World
3. Strollin' With Bones
4. I Got A Break, Baby
5. Don't Leave Me, Baby
6. Travelin' Blues
7. The Hustle Is On
8. Evil Hearted Woman
9. Alimony Blues
10. Cold Cold Feeling
11. I Got The Blues Again
12. Tell Me What's The Reason

With Printed Inner Sleeve and Original Restored Album Artwork!

One year after releasing Against The Grain, Gallagher hit back with Calling Card, a balanced record with his quality brand of driving blues rock, mixed with some folk and country influences. Produced by Deep Purple's Roger Glover, Calling Card showcases a very strong and diverse set of songs which wound up to become concert staples for Gallagher. Incendiary riffs, groovy organ hooks and intense vocals make Calling Card one of Gallagher's best efforts.

Track Listing:
1. Do You Read Me
2. Country Mile
3. Moonchild
4. Calling Card
5. I'll Admit You're Gone
6. Secret Agent
7. Jackknife Beat
8. Edged In Blue
9. Barley And Grape Rag

27 Track 2 LP Collection

Track Listing:
LP 1

1. Every day I Have The Blues
2. The Woman I Love
3. Three O'Clock Blues
4. Early In The Morning
5. Bad Luck Soul
6. Treat Me Right
7. Sugar Mama
8. Please Love Me
9. That Ain't The Way To Do It
10. Sweet Thing
11. You've Been An Angel
12. The Fool
13. You Upset Me Baby
14. Please Accept My Love

LP 2

1. Sweet Little Angel
2. Let's Do The Boogie
3. Why Do Things Happen To Me
4. Come By Here
5. What Can I Do
6. Tomorrow Is Another Day
7. Troubles, Troubles, Troubles
8. Blind Love
9. When My Heart Beats Like A Hammer
10. Be Careful With A Fool
11. Sweet Sixteen (Part 1)
12. I Love You So
13. Hold That Train

'Live' was the watchword of the liberated and permissive post-Woodstock era, when anyone and everyone could do wonderful things and musicians really let themselves go – and it opened the door for Santana and his musicians. While devotees of pure styles found it hard to dip into the bubbling melting pot of progressive rock, others – hungry for emotion – plunged eagerly into the moloch world known as 'Sounds of the 70s'.

Among the great events during this time was the get-together of Santana and a grandiose group of musicians together with Jimmy Hendrix’s ex-drummer Buddy Miles at the Sunshine Festival in Hawaii. Inspired by the electrifying atmosphere we hear the smacking sound of an organ in John McLaughlin’s "Marbles", lush rocking Latin grooves ("Lava") and gospel-like vocal artistry ("Evil Ways"). After an intensively re-worked version of the old favourite "Them Changes", in which the band certainly lets one know that they can be 'heavy' when they want, the musicians let themselves go in 25 improvised minutes in "Free Form Funkafide Filth". Such unleashed power could never be tamed and captured on tape in the studio simply because it can only be created in the freedom of an open-air stage.

Musicians:

• Carlos Santana (guitar)
• Buddy Miles (drums, vocal)
• Robert Hogins (organ)
• Luis Gasca (trumpet)
• Hadley Caliman (saxophone, flute)
• Neal Schon (guitar)
• Ron Johnson (bass)
• Coke Escovedo (percussion)
• Gregg Errico (drums)
• Victor Pantoja, Michael Carabello (conga)

Recording: January 1972 live in the Diamond Head Crater, Hawaii, USA,
Production: Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles

About Speakers Corner

At the beginning of the 90s, in the early days of audiophile vinyl re-releases, the situation was fairly straightforward. Companies such as DCC, Mobile Fidelity, Classic Records and, of course, Speakers Corner all maintained a mutual, unwritten ethical code: we would only use analogue tapes to manufacture records.

During the course of the present vinyl hype, many others have jumped on the bandwagon in the hope of securing a corner of the market. Very often they are not so ethical and use every imaginable source to master from: CDs, LPs, digital files, MP3s – or employed existant tools from the 80s and 90s for manufacturing.

A digital delay is gladly used when cutting a lacquer disc because tape machines with an analogue delay have become quite rare and are therefore expensive. When cutting the lacquer, the audio signal is delayed by one LP revolution against the signal, which controls the cutter head, and for this a digital delay is very often employed. Of course, the resultant sound signal is completely digital and thus only as good as this delay.

We should like to emphasise that Speakers Corner Records on principle only uses the original master tape as the basis for the entirely analogue cutting of lacquer discs. In addition, the pressing tool is newly manufactured as a matter of principle. We have one digital recording in our catalogue (Alan Parsons / Eye In The Sky“), but even in this particular case we used the analogue tapes for cutting.

We only employ existing tools for manufacturing if an improved result is not forthcoming, e.g. the title Elvis Is Back, which was mastered by Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray, or several titles from our Philips Classics series, which in any case Willem Makkee cut from the original masters at the Emil Berliner Studios in the 90s. It goes without saying that we only used the mother and that new tools were made for our production.

To put it in a nutshell: we can ensure you that our releases are free from any kind of digital effects – excluding the exception above – and that the lacquer discs are newly cut.

The recordings we'll be presenting in this reissue series are the building blocks and DNA of American culture. Blues, R&B, Elvis, teenagerism, punk rock... it all goes back to these vital, breathtaking recordings. Third Man Records is proud to present these landmark albums in conjunction with Document Records, with brand new, jaw-dropping artwork by Rob Jones and new insightful liner notes, on vinyl for the first time in decades. Every record collection should have ample room for these highly important and endlessly listenable albums.

Track Listing:
1. Mississippi Boweavil Blues
2. Screamin' And Hollerin' The Blues
3. Down The Dirt Road Blues
4. Pony Blues
5. Banty Rooster Blues
6. It Won't Be Long
7. Pea Vine Blues
8. Tom Rushen Blues
9. A Spoonful Blues
10. Shake It And Break It (But Don't Let It Fall Mama)
11. Prayer Of Death - Part 1
12. Prayer Of Death-Part 2
13. Lord I'm Discouraged
14. Lord I'm Discouraged (alt take)
15. I'm Goin' Home
16. Going To Move To Alabama

Side B:
1. Messin' With The Kid
2. No Use Cryin'
3. Just To Be With You
4. Junior's Shuffle
5. Out Of Sight

A plus in the new packaging, is that it features a nice booklet with detailed, updated notes from Charters, a nice appreciation from Ed Ward, and absolutely eye-boggling session photos taken by Charters' wife, Ann. Even if you still have the original vinyl or CDs, this is one of the times when it would be best to spend the dough and add this one to your collection, because blues records seldom come as important, innovative, or just plain pleasurable to listen to as this set. File under 'essential'.

Musicians:

• J.B. Hutto
• Junior Wells
• Otis Spann
• Otis Rush
• Jimmy Cotton
• Johnny Shines Blues Band
• Johnny Young's South Side Blues Band
• Homesick James
• and Big Walter Horton's Blues Harp Band with Memphis Charlie Musselwhite

Recording: 1965 at RCA Studios, Chicago
Production: Samuel Chartersdeutsch

Format: 3LPs 33rpm / Box, booklet

About Pure Pleasure

At the beginning of the 90s, in the early days of audiophile vinyl re-releases, the situation was fairly straightforward. Companies such as DCC, Mobile Fidelity, Classic Records and, of course, Pure Pleasure all maintained a mutual, unwritten ethical code: we would only use analogue tapes to manufacture records.

During the course of the present vinyl hype, many others have jumped on the bandwagon in the hope of securing a corner of the market. Very often they are not so ethical and use every imaginable source to master from: CDs, LPs, digital files, MP3s – or employed existent tools from the 80s and 90s for manufacturing.

A digital delay is gladly used when cutting a lacquer disc because tape machines with an analogue delay have become quite rare and are therefore expensive. When cutting the lacquer, the audio signal is delayed by one LP revolution against the signal, which controls the cutter head, and for this a digital delay is very often employed. Of course, the resultant sound signal is completely digital and thus only as good as this delay.

We should like to emphasize that Pure Pleasure Records on principle only uses the original master tape as the basis for the entirely analogue cutting of lacquer discs. In addition, the pressing tool is newly manufactured as a matter of principle.

We only employ existing tools for manufacturing if an improved result is not forthcoming, e.g. the title Elvis Is Back, which was mastered by Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray, or several titles from our Philips Classics series, which in any case Willem Makkee cut from the original masters at the Emil Berliner Studios in the 90s. It goes without saying that we only used the mother and that new tools were made for our production.

To put it in a nutshell: we can ensure you that our releases are free from any kind of digital effects and that the lacquer discs are newly cut.

LP2
1. Cotton Crop Blues
2. The Blues Keep Falling
3. Love Me or Leave
4. Rocket 88
5. West Helena Blues
6. Everything's Gonna Turn Out Allright
7. It's a Mean Old World
8. I Can't Quit You Baby
9. Rock
10. It's My Own Fault
11. Dust my Broom
12. Somebody Been Talkin'
13. Set a Date
14. So Mean to Me

LP3
1. One More Time
2. Kid Man Blues
3. My Black Mare
4. Stealin' Back
5. I Got Mine In Time
6. Tighten Up On It
7. Dynaflow Blues
8. Black Spider Blues
9. Layin' Down My Shoes and Clothes
10. If I Get Lucky
11. Rockin' My Boogie
12. Mr. Boweevil
13. Hey Hey

Tip-on, thick cardboard gatefold jacket

Spend any time around Doug MacLeod and the stories from his years of road time with the likes of Big Joe Turner and Pee Wee Crayton start to flow as easily as a brook tickled by a breeze. And you know you're getting to the good part, the climax if you will, when Doug's eyes start to twinkle, his grin grows broader and out of his mouth pop the words "Come to find ..."

MacLeod was a widely acknowledged electric blues guitarist for many years, and the leader of his own band, yielding a number of U.S. and European tours and several albums to his credit. Doug disbanded the group to focus all his energies on his first love, acoustic blues.

Come To Find is the debut fruit of that effort. And now it's made even more remarkable, with this 331/3, 200-gram reissue by Analogue Productions. The pressing sounds spectacular. You're holding a hefty 200-gram masterpiece from our own Quality Record Pressings, our state-of-the-art LP pressing plant. And the gatefold jacket is hard-core, old-school style — thick cardboard, tip-on, with additional photos and liner notes inside. Sweet.

Come To Find is the sound of a consummate bluesman touching the core of his art in a program featuring ten originals by Doug. He is beautifully supported in this intimate setting by harmonica ace Charlie Musselwhite and the Mighty Flyer rhythm section, Jimi Bott and Bill Stuve. This is the album that deserves a place of honor in the music collections of even casual blues fans. And for those who love blues already, this is one of the best-sounding, most original works you'll ever hear.

This title is not eligible for discount.

Track Listing:
1. Bring It on Home
2. Since I Left St. Louis
3. Mystery Woman
4. Come to Find
5. Old Virginia Stomp
6. Master's Plan
7. Ain't No Grave
8. Lost Something This Morning
9. Rollin' & Tumblin'
10. Any Port in a Storm
11. When I Left Missouri

This original mammoth collection had something for everybody as it culled the hits not only from the Liberty vaults, but deeper album tracks and underground radio classics from the late-'60s period of the band’s output. Therefore, a good majority of the smash singles and definitive Canned Heat tracks are included on this career compendium of songs which will forever stand the test of time.

Their most familiar songs like the "Goin’ Up The Country", "On The Road Again" and "Bullfrog Blues" are all featured. Plus even more Canned Heat anthems are included like the lengthy power jam "Fried Hockey Boogie" from Boogie With Canned Heat as well as the jump blues of "Same All Over" from Hallelujah.

The music of the legendary Canned Heat has made them one of the most loved bands of all time. Their concerts were history making events, their albums and songs were of superstar proportion, and the cosmic energy between each individual member made them one of the most revered classic rock bands in music history!

Friday Music is honored to be the torchbearer for some of the finest music ever recorded by Canned Heat, and it is with much honor they announce the first time audiophile vinyl release of Canned Heat Cookbook: The Best Of Canned Heat. As with the Hooker ‘N’ Heat 180g release, this limited edition audiophile event was mastered impeccably from the original Liberty Records stereo tapes by Joe Reagoso and Ron McMaster. This wonderful album also now features all of the original album length versions of the original ten tracks, as well as the first time addition of their massive 1970 smash single "Let’s Work Together" in stereophonic sound.

For this special limited edition release, Friday is also including the original gatefold artwork which includes a bevy of rare photos as well as the original liner notes. And as always, they include a protective vinyl sleeve for the fine album cover and a poly-lined sleeve for the audiophile vinyl disc to help keep your musical investment in mint shape!

Track Listing:
1. Bullfrog Blues
2. Rollin' And Tumblin'
3. Goin' Up The Country
4. Amphetamine Annie
5. Time Was
6. Boogie Music
7. Let's Work Together
8. On The Road Again
9. Same All Over
10. Sic 'Em Pigs
11. Friday Hockey Boogie

Remastered Audio

Hailed as one of the greatest guitarists of all time, this second album of him & his band Double Trouble did everything a second album should do. It confirmed that Stevie Ray was no fluke, and it cemented his status as one of the modern blues giants. Original takes, outtakes and alternate takes of songs from the posthumously released The Sky Is Crying are also included on this double 180 grams audiophile vinyl, this version of "Couldn't Stand The Weather" has never been released before and is a Music On Vinyl exclusive!

1. Cold Shot
2. Tin Pan Alley (aka Roughest Place In Town)
3. Honey Bee
4. Stang's Swang

1. Empty Arms
2. Come On (Pt. III)
3. Look At Little Sister
4. The Sky Is Crying
5. Hide Away

1. Give Me Back My Wig
2. Boot Hill
3. Wham
4. Close To You
5. Little Wing
6. Stang's Swang

The Lone Star guitar god and his Double Trouble bandmates Tommy Shannon (bass) and Chris Layton (drums) hit full stride with their 1984 sophomore release Couldn't Stand the Weather. In addition to the hit Cold Shot and Vaughan's memorable reading of Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Chile (Slight Return), Couldn't Stand the Weather features the trademark Vaughan instrumentals "Scuttle Buttin'" and "Stang's Swang."

Track Listing:
1. Scuttle Buttin'
2. Couldn't Stand the Weather
3. The Things (That) I Used to Do
4. Vodoo Chile (Slight Return)
5. Cold Shot
6. Tin Pan Alley
7. Honey Bee
8. Stang's Swang

Musicians:

• Stevie Ray Vaughan (vocal, guitar)
• Jimmie Vaughan (guitar)
• Stan Harrison (tenor saxophone)
• Tommy Shannon (bass)
• Chris “Whipper” Layton, Fran Christina (drums)

Format: 2LPs 33rpm / standard sleeve

About Pure Pleasure

At the beginning of the 90s, in the early days of audiophile vinyl re-releases, the situation was fairly straightforward. Companies such as DCC, Mobile Fidelity, Classic Records and, of course, Pure Pleasure all maintained a mutual, unwritten ethical code: we would only use analogue tapes to manufacture records.

During the course of the present vinyl hype, many others have jumped on the bandwagon in the hope of securing a corner of the market. Very often they are not so ethical and use every imaginable source to master from: CDs, LPs, digital files, MP3s – or employed existent tools from the 80s and 90s for manufacturing.

A digital delay is gladly used when cutting a lacquer disc because tape machines with an analogue delay have become quite rare and are therefore expensive. When cutting the lacquer, the audio signal is delayed by one LP revolution against the signal, which controls the cutter head, and for this a digital delay is very often employed. Of course, the resultant sound signal is completely digital and thus only as good as this delay.

We should like to emphasize that Pure Pleasure Records on principle only uses the original master tape as the basis for the entirely analogue cutting of lacquer discs. In addition, the pressing tool is newly manufactured as a matter of principle.

We only employ existing tools for manufacturing if an improved result is not forthcoming, e.g. the title Elvis Is Back, which was mastered by Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray, or several titles from our Philips Classics series, which in any case Willem Makkee cut from the original masters at the Emil Berliner Studios in the 90s. It goes without saying that we only used the mother and that new tools were made for our production.

To put it in a nutshell: we can ensure you that our releases are free from any kind of digital effects and that the lacquer discs are newly cut.

Side 2
4. Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
5. Cold Shot

Side 3
6. Tin Pan Alley
7. Honey Bee
8. Stang's Swang

Side 4
9. SRV Speaks
10. Hide Away
11. Look at Little Sister
12. Give Me Back My Wig
13. Come On (Pt.3)

Side B:

1. Bluebird, Bluebird
2. See See Rider
3. Worrying My Mind
4. Til the Gin Gets Here
5. Bunion Stew
6. You Got to Work to Get Your Pay
7. Go Down Old Hannah
8. Hear My Black Dog Bark

1967s Crusade finds John Mayall welcoming another soon-to-be-famous young guitarist18-year-old fretboard phenom Mick Taylor, who would soon become a key member of the Rolling Stonesto the Bluesbreakers fold. With John McVie on bass and Hughie Flint and Keef Hartley sharing drumming duties, Mayall tackles an adventurous 12-song set that encompasses several Mayall originals and Taylors instrumental showcase Snowy Wood, as well as numbers by such notables as Willie Dixon, Eddie Kirkland and Sonny Boy Williamson. Regarded by many fans as the final third of the influential electric-blues trilogy that began with Blues Breakers and A Hard Road, Crusade followed its predecessors into the British Top Ten, while continuing to open young American ears to the timeless power of the blues.

From the pristine U.K. mono masters, with complete original artwork and photos.

Track Listing:
1. Oh Pretty Woman
2. Stand Back Baby
3. My Time After A While
4. Snowy Wood
5. Man Of Stone
6. Tears In My Eyes
7. Driving Sideways
8. The Death Of J.B. Lenoir
9. I Can't Quit You Baby
10. Streamline
11. Me And My Woman
12. Checkin' Up On My Baby

Although he spent years working in the industry, Dogg was simply not the standard-issue soul type. And that was good. Dogg continued to make records, albeit infrequently, after 1969, some good, a few great, and most all extremely difficult to find. With contemporary soul sounding increasingly mannered and sterile, Dogg's yelling, screaming, and general craziness is missed. Thankfully, he hasn't disappeared for good, although he only makes records when he feels like it. It would be wise to not count him out; just when you think this Dogg is down and out, he sneaks up and bites you. Originally released in 1972, Cuffed, Collared And Tagged is making a vinyl comeback via Fat Possum.
-AllMusic

Track Listing:
1. Sam Stone
2. Complication
3. Lady Madonna
4. You Say You Trust Your Mother
5. If It Hadn't Been for Sly
6. Your Last Dirty Trick
7. Knowing I'm Pleasing Me and You
8. In My Resume
9. Captain of Your Ship
10. Don't It Make You Wanna Go Home

Dyer was born and raised in the small east Texas town of Tool. He was given a guitar at age 5 but didn't learn to play until he was 18 and had moved to Austin, Texas. It was there that he began to study music seriously, attacking the guitar, and exploring his until-then untapped singing and songwriting powers.

While attending Texas State in San Marcos, Texas, Dyer formed a band, Breedlove, with guitarist Tyrone Vaughan (son of Jimmie Vaughan), drummer Jason White, keyboardist Ezra Reynolds and bassist Josh Dawkins. The group developed a dedicated following and released Reach Out in 1996 before disbanding in 1998.

From there, Dyer moved to New York City and began writing commercial music jingles, having songs placed in marketing campaigns for Budweiser, Chevrolet, Dr. Pepper and Campbell's Soup. While there, Lenny Kravitz, who had just begun a Warner Bros. imprint called Roxie Records, signed Dyer and produced his What Lies Beneath record in 2004, the first release on the label. Kravitz co-wrote four of the songs with Dyer and also played guitar on the record.

After touring for a year behind What Lies Beneath, Dyer moved to St. Louis and started a family. In 2007, he returned to Austin where he'd reunited with friend David Boyle, who recorded and produced Dyer in his converted-church studio for the self-titled Dan Dyer. The record was released in 2008 on Fat Caddy Records. From the chain gang-inspired sound of Love Chain to the gospel-tinged I Walk On Gilded Splinters and Stewart Copeland-esque syncopations of Play On Little Children, Dyer and Boyle weave a diverse fabric that extends beyond conventional musical boundaries.

This title is not eligible for discount.

Track Listing:
1. Prisoner Of Fear
2. Howling Wind
3. Come Home
4. Come Home Pt. 2
5. Reach Out

And talented...unbelievably talented. His voice conjures thoughts of Al Green, Stevie Wonder or Sly Stone. His songwriting is deeply introspective and serious.

Dyer, who now lives in Austin, Texas, adds guitar and keyboards to his singing and is joined on these recordings by drums and backing vocals (Michael Hale) along with bass alternating with cello (Mark Williams).

Previous to his APO direct-to-disc recordings, Dyers released records for Fat Caddy Records and for a Lenny Kravitz-run Warner Bros. imprint called Roxie Records.

This title is not eligible for discount.

Track Listing:
1. Two Caribou
2. I Emerged A Man
3. High Horse
4. On The Side
5. World Is Tumbling Down

And talented...unbelievably talented. His voice conjures thoughts of Al Green, Stevie Wonder or Sly Stone. His songwriting is deeply introspective and serious.

Dyer, who now lives in Austin, Texas, adds guitar and keyboards to his singing and is joined on these recordings by drums and backing vocals (Michael Hale) along with bass alternating with cello (Mark Williams).

Previous to his APO direct-to-disc recordings, Dyers released records for Fat Caddy Records and for a Lenny Kravitz-run Warner Bros. imprint called Roxie Records.

This title is not eligible for discount.

Track Listing:
1. Sorry, Baby
2. Words In My Head
3. Where I'm Going
4. Happier Than Ever
5. Runnin' For Your Life
6. Anne-Marie

LP2
1. Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning
2. Let Your Light Shine
3. God Don't Ever Change
4. Lord I'm Fully Saved Today
5. When The War Was On
6. God Moves On The Water
7. Your Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond
8. Nobodys Fault But Mine
9. Go With Me To That Land
10. Motherless Children
11. Can't Nobody Hide From God
12. Bye & Bye I'm Going To See The King

B-Side is a song written by Robert Johnson

Manufacturer: United Record Pressing

Track Listing:
A Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground
B Stop Breaking Down (Live At The BBC Studios Maida Vale)

Arguably the greatest recordings of the great Fred McDowell’s career were the two albums for Arhoolie, recorded at the height of the blues revival in 1964-65. This is the first of those two and an absolutely stunning piece of delta blues majesty. Stripped down beauty that’s reissued here on high quality vinyl with an exact reproduction of the paste-on sleeve.

Track Listing:
1. Write Me A Few Lines
2. Louise
3. I Heard Somebody Call
4. 61 Highway
5. Mama Don't Allow Me
6. Kokomo Blues
7. Fred's Worried Life Blues
8. You Gonna Be Sorry
9. Shake 'Em On Down
10. My Trouble Blues
11. Black Minnie
12. That's Alright
13. When I Lay My Burden Down

The Irish blues-rock multi-instrumentalist Rory Gallagher recorded quite some solo albums throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Music On Vinyl already released the 'lost' album 'Notes From San Francisco' in September 2011.

Now it's time for Gallagher's first two albums to get fully remastered and pressed on audiophile 180-grams vinyl. Rory Gallagher released his eponymous solo debut album in 1971.

This album marked the departure from Taste, the first band which Gallagher founded, and the start of his solo career. Gallagher wrote all the songs himself and recorded the album with two befriended Belfast musicians.

'Deuce' is Gallagher's second solo album and was originally released in 1971 as well. In contrast with his previous well-produced album, 'Deuce' was an effort by to capture the energy of a live performance.

In order to do so Gallagher would often record immediately before or after live performances while keeping production at a minimum.

• Import
  
• Remastered

1. In Your Town 5:43
2. Should've Learnt My Lesson 3:34
3. There's A Light 5:59
4. Out Of My Mind 3:00
5. Crest Of A Wave 5:52

Side B:
1. Dark Night 2:55
2. Lover's Gold 2:38
3. Cigarette Party 2:20
4. Brazil 3:36
5. Love Letters 2:58
6. The Wind Did Move 3:40
7. Grey Skies 5:15

This collection includes the best of Lightnin Hopkin's repertoire. Highlights include 'Lightnin's Special', title track 'Dirty House Blues', 'Tim Moore's Farm' and many more.

Track Listing:
LP1
1. Nothin' But The Blues
2. Remember Me
3. I Love You Baby
4. Shine On Moon
5. Lightnin's Special
6. Sittin' Here Thinkin'
7. My Baby's Gone
8. Had A Gal Called Sal
9. They Wonder Who I Am
10. Everybody's Down On Me
11. Down To The River
12. Long Way From Texas
13. Tap Dance Boogie
14. I'm Begging You

LP2
1. Freight Train Blues
2. Dirty House Blues
3. Coffee Blues
4. Unkind Blues
5. Fast Life Woman
6. Another Fool In Town
7. T-Model Blues
8. Bottle It Up And Go
9. Nightmare Blues
10. West Coast Blues
11. Life I Used To Live
12. Tim Moore's Farm
13. Buck Dance Boogie
14. Shotgun Blues

Since 2008, Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside has been intertwining elements of swinging roots rock, country, jazz and blues with a contemporary lyrical stance and Ford's instantly recognizable voice. The Portland quartet has steadily ascended through the ranks, earning a growing following throughout the Pacific Northwest.

For a thumbnail sketch of the band's aesthetic on Dirty Radio, lend an ear to "Write Me A Letter," wherein Sallie reminisces about snail mail correspondence while referencing contemporary authors and musicians. "Against the Law" juxtaposes skeletal percussion and haunting guitar licks with Sallie's blunt carnality, while "Miles" and "Thirteen Years Old" show off a more torchy side, complete with judicious fiddle.

Track Listing:
1. I Swear
2. Danger
3. Cage
4. Poison Milk
5. Against the Law
6. Thirteen Years Old
7. This Crew
8. Write Me A Letter
9. Where Did You Go?
10. Miles
11. Nightmares

Greenleaf, of Houston, Texas, has a background steeped in both blues and gospel. She's been influenced by the likes of Koko Taylor, Aretha Franklin, Rosetta Tharpe, Sam Cooke and Charles Brown, and she includes intricate patches of jazz and soul in her performances.

Greenleaf came to the life of professional performing quite late, considering how much talent she has to offer. She worked as a school counselor and occasionally sang rather informally for children's and educational benefits. She and her band played a small show at a hospice in celebration of Houston blues legend Teddy Cry Cry Reynolds' birthday. Afterwards, Reynolds told Greenleaf of how he'd known her parents, both gospel musicians, and how she was not only very talented but also had a duty to continue the family legacy of performing. So insistent was Reynolds that he solicited the opinion of his old friend Katie Webster, the Swamp Boogie Queen. Webster confirmed Reynolds' assessment and encouraged Greenleaf to seriously pursue a life in music, even giving her newfound protégé rules for forming and leading a band.

In 2005, Greenleaf and Blue Mercy represented Houston in the International Blues Challenge, an annual contest in Memphis that features the world's best-unsigned blues bands. Greenleaf and Blue Mercy finished first out of 84 bands from 32 states and eight countries. What's more, Blue Mercy's guitarist, John Richardson, earned the Albert King award for Most Promising Guitarist. From there, the gigs came steadily, and the group's been booked solid ever since.

Greenleaf also served for three years as president of the Houston Blues Society, becoming the first woman elected to that post. As president, she produced the Willie Mae Thorton Blues Festival, bringing in such talent as Texas Johnny Brown, I.J. Gosey, Koko Taylor, Bernard Allison, Mel Waiters and others.

This title is not eligible for discount.

Track Listing:
1. Crazy
2. Love Treasure
3. Double Dealing
4. The Backdoor Man (You Want To Be)
5. Resolutions

In 1979, historian David Evans, a Professor of Music at the University of Memphis, chanced upon Junior Kimbrough playing at Ethel's Juke Joint in Holly Springs, Mississippi. The University had recently created its own small record label called High Water and he brought Kimbrough in to cut some sides, including his next single at the time titled, "Keep Your Hands Off Her." The sides would be compiled for Junior's first full-length album, Do The Rump. The result has become hill country legend, and his band, featuring Calvin Jackson on drums (father to Cedric Burnside and one of the most rock steady drummers of all time), created a sound that launched a whole new generation of blues fans.

Track Listing:
1. Keep Your Hands Off Her
2. I Feel Good, Little Girl
3. You Better Run
4. Im So Glad Trouble Dont Last Always
5. Done Got Old
6. Please Dont Leave Me Baby
7. Come On and Go with Me
8. Do the Rump!
9. I Want to Know Whats Wrong with You
10. Nobody But You Baby
11. Too Late Baby
12. My Mama Done Told Me
13. Walk with Me

Dont Explain is scheduled for release on September 27 on J&R Adventuresthe independent label founded by Bonamassa and his longtime manager and business partner, Roy Weisman.

Track Listing:
1. Sinners Prayer
2. Chocolate Jesus
3. Your Heart Is As Black As Night
4. For My Friend
5. Dont Explain
6. Id Rather Go Blind
7. Somethings Got A Hold On Me
8. Ill Take Care Of You
9. Well, well
10. Aint No Way

2 LP Gatefold

Track Listing:
LP 1

1. All My Love In Vain
2. The Key (To Your Door)
3. Keep It To Yourself
4. Dissatisfied
5. Fattening Frogs And Snakes
6. Wake Up Baby
7. Your Funeral And My Trail
8. Ninety Nine
9. Cross My Heart
10. Let Me Explain
11. Don't Start Me Talkin'
12. I Don't Know
13. Your Imagination
14. Born Blind
15. Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide
16. Unseeing Eye

LP 2

1. Crazy 'Bout You Baby
2. Eyesight To The Blind
3. Cool, Cool Blues
4. Do It If You Wanta
5. Come On Back Home
6. Stop Crying
7. West Memphis Blues
8. Pontaic Blues
9. Sonny Boys' Christmas Blues
10. Mighty Long Time
11. Nine Below Zero
12. Mr Down Child
13. Stop Now Baby
14. Too Close Together

These recordings are from a NYC Club called The Cookery and feature Alberta with Gerald Cook (Piano) and Jimmy Lewis (Bass). The 2LP set also contains a bonus track.

Track Listing:
1. My Castle's Rockin'
2. Love I Have for You
3. I Got Rhythm
4. Downhearted Blues
5. Time Waits for No One
6. I'm Havin' a Good Time
7. Two-Fisted Double-Jointed Rough and Ready Man
8. Darktown Strutters' Ball
9. Sometimes I'm Happy
10. I've Got a Mind to Ramble
11. Old Fashioned Love
12. You Can't Tell the Difference After Dark
13. Remember My Name
14. When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You)
15. Georgia on My Mind
16. Handy Man
17. Never Knew My Kisses
18. You're Welcome to Come Back Home

African American singer and guitar player who got his start playing on the streets of Memphis around the turn of the century. His enormous repertoire of early folk, blues, old time country and popular music, along with his influence on local musicians has made many point to him as the true father of Memphis blues. He began touring the South with a black face Medicine Show comedian in the 1910s where it is said he met and influenced Jimmie Rodgers, among others. He then moved to Tennessee where he began playing with musician Dan Sane with whom he made his first recordings as the Beale Street Sheiks for Paramount in 1927. Throughout this period Stokes recorded a number of sides for Paramount and Victor until his old time style began to lose popularity with the record buying public.

Track Listing:
1. Downtown Blues
2. Bedtime Blues
3. Whats the Matter Blues
4. Mistreatin Blues
5. It Wont Be Long Now
6. Nehi Mamma Blues
7. I Got Mine
8. Stomp That Thing
9. 'Taint Nobodys Business If I Do
10. Take Me Back
11. How Long
12. South Memphis Blues
13. Bunker Hill Blues
14. Right Now Blues
15. Shiney Town Blues
16. Frank Stokes' Dream
17. Memphis Rounders Blues

There was an almost religious quality to the way John Lee Hooker saw himself as a musician: the way a preacher is a vessel for the Word of God, John Lee Hooker was a vessel for the blues. After running away from a life of back breaking labor in the cotton fields of Mississippi at the age of 14, Hooker drifted from town to town until he ended up in the booming city of Detroit, in the early 1940s. Although Detroit‟s blues scene was small compared to that of Chicago, it wasn‟t long until young John Lee from Mississippi was a big man on campus. The five tracks on side A were recorded in Detroit between 1949 and 1950 and feature stereo recordings of mainly solo performances by John Lee Hooker. The five tracks on Side B, also recorded in Detroit, are mono recordings primarily from 1954 and feature Hooker in a band format backed by tenor sax, piano and drums.

Track Listing:
Side A:

1. Driftin From Door To Door
2. She Left Me On My Bended Knee
3. Let Your Daddy Ride
4. Turn Over A New Leaf
5. Dont You Remember Me

Side B:

1. Hug And Squeeze You
2. I Love You Baby
3. The Syndicate
4. Boogie Woogie All Night Long
5. Good Rockin Mama

Recorded at The Village Recorder in Los Angeles, CA and Studio At The Palms in Las Vegas, NV, ‘Driving Towards The Daylight’ is a balanced back-to-basics album that highlights Bonamassa’s signature style of roots blues with rock-and-roll guts, while honouring the traditions of the original blues musicians.

“We’ve taken some really traditional old blues songs - the Howlin’ Wolf song ‘Who’s Been Talkin’ and the Robert Johnson song ‘Stones In My Passway,’ and we’ve tried to imagine how they would do them in a rock context,” said Shirley. “It’s a very exciting return to the blues in a very visceral way. It’s vibrant and it’s gutsy and it’s really, really rugged.”

The album features five Bonamassa-penned originals including the bruising opener ‘Dislocated Boy’, the road warrior title track (and first single) ‘Driving Towards The Daylight’, ‘I Got All You Need’, ‘Heavenly Soul’ and ‘Somewhere Trouble Don’t Go’. Other tracks include Bonamassa’s versions of Tom Waits’ ‘New Coat Of Paint’, Bill Withers’ ‘Lonely Town Lonely Street’, and ‘A Place In My Heart’ by Bernie Marsden. On the album closer, Australian rock singer Jimmy Barnes sings lead vocals on his 1987 hit ‘Too Much Ain't Enough Love’.

To challenge Joe and move him out of his comfort zone, a unique group of musicians was gathered including Aerosmith guitarist Brad Whitford (guitar), Blondie Chaplin (guitar), Anton Fig (drums and percussion), Arlan Schierbaum (keyboard), Michael Rhodes (bass), Carmine Rojas (bass), Jeff Bova and The Bovaland Brass, Pat Thrall (guitar), and Brad’s son Harrison Whitford (guitar).

Brad Whitford, speaking from the studio in Vegas, said, “This is definitely more influenced by the stuff that the guys and musicians in this room love, early ‘60s English and American rock and blues. I guess we’ll never get that out of our system and its fun to come in here and find our own path down that highway.”

Bonamassa’s last studio album ‘Dust Bowl ‘released in March 2011 charted at no.12 in the UK

Track Listing:
1. Dislocated Boy
2. Stones In My Passway
3. Driving Towards The Daylight
4. Who's Been Talking
5. I Got All You Need
6. A Place In My Heart
7. Lonely Town Lonely Street
8. Heavenly Soul
9. New Coat Of Paint
10. Somewhere Trouble Don't Go
11. Too Much Ain't Enough Love (w/ Jimmy Barnes)

Drunken Barrel House Blues is the third release from the New York City based duo Eden & John's East River String Band (Eden Brower: vocals, ukulele and guitar/John Heneghan: vocals, guitar, mandolin and kazoo). The 13-song set features classic country and blues masterpieces by legends such as Charlie Patton, Memphis Minnie and Ernest V. Stoneman and boasts the band's second cover by underground comic legend Robert Crumb (The Book Of Genesis, Heroes Of The Blues, American Splendor). Also includes special guest performances by Dom Flemons (The Carolina Chocolate Drops), Eli Smith (Down Home Radio Show, The Dust Busters) and Pat Conte (The Otis Brothers, The Secret Museum Of Mankind).

Track Listing:
1. Drunken Barrel House Blues
2. The Rain Don't Fall On Me
3. Johnson Boys
4. The Fate of Talmadge Osborne
5. Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues
6. Last Kind Word Blues
7. Gonna Raise a Ruckus Tonight
8. I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground
9. Yellow Bee
10. Too Tight Blues
11. Corrina Blues
12. Devilish Mary
13. The Spasm

Side B
1. Wee Midnight Hours
2. Honey It Must Be Love
3. Sending Up My Timber
4. Lord Have Mercy If You Please
5. Trying To Get Home (Climbing High Mountains)
6. River Jordan
7. How About You
8. Its My Desire
9. Hide Me In Thy Bosom

The album peaked at #127 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart. It was controversial for its fusion of electric blues with psychedelic elements, but was influential on psychedelic rock bands of the era.

Track Listing:
I Just Want To Make Love To You
Hoochie Coochie Man
Let's Spend The Night Together
She's All Right
I'm A Man
Herbert Harpers Free Press
Tom Cat
Same Thing

One step further into the life and music of this true superstar of early blues, this compilation features the two-part High Water Everywhere, considered to be one of the greatest blues songs of all time, along with other pearls like Devil Sent The Rain Blues, making this second episode of Monk's retrospective on Charley Patton, another must have. Patton's ability to put the harsh everyday struggle of the Delta dwellers into music makes him one of the most enduring and soulful musicians in the entire history of Blues.

Track Listing:
1. Hammer Blues [Take 1]
2. I Shall Not Be Moved (Alt. take)
3. High Water Everywhere, Pt. 1
4. High Water Everywhere, Pt. 2
5. I Shall Not Be Moved
6. Rattlesnake Blues
7. Going To Move To Alabama
8. Hammer Blues [Take 2]
9. Joe Kirby
10. Frankie And Albert
11. Magnolia Blues
12. Devil Sent The Rain Blues
13. Runnin Wild Blues
14. Some Happy Day
15. Mean Black Moan
16. Green River Blues

Twelve more tunes from Charley Patton's 1929 recording sessions. Here the 'Acknowledged King of the Delta Blues' perform some of his finest spiritual material, like the title track, and You're Gonna Need Somebody When You Die. One of the most seminal blues artists of all time, this collection helps keep the legend alive.

Track Listing:
1. Some Of These Days Ill Be Gone
2. Elder Green Blues [Take 2] (Alt.version)
3. Jim Lee, Pt.1
4. Jim Lee, Pt.2
5. Mean Black Cat Blues
6. Jesus Is A Dying-Bed Maker
7. Elder Green Blues [Take 2]
8. When Your Way Gets Dark
9. Some Of These Days Ill Be Gone [Take 2]
10. Heart Like Railwood Steel
11. Circle Round The Moon
12. Youre Gonna Need Somebody When You Die

From the granddaddy of Delta blues comes this incredible compilation of his greatest songs. Charley Patton's influence on music cannot be overstated. He began playing music around 1900 and by the time he was 19, about a decade later, he had already written his most popular tune Pony Blues and was on his way to becoming the first superstar of the Delta Blues and a household name. He was soon the most requested performer all over the South and influenced many young musicians, like Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker and Robert Johnson, to name a few. But it was not only his mastery of the guitar and incredible vocal style that gained him popularity. His rock star-style showmanship and stage antics, like playing guitar down on his knees or behind his back, with a girl on each arm and a drink in hand after the show, made him the idol of young would-be musicians everywhere he played. And like a true rock star, by age 42 he was dead, which of course, only fuelled his fame.

Track Listing:
1. Pony Blues
2. A Spoonful Blues
3. Down The Dirt Road Blues
4. Prayer Of Death, Pt. 1
5. Prayer Of Death, Pt. 2
6. Screamin' & Hollerin' The Blues
7. Banty Rooster Blues Side
8. Tom Rushen Blues
9. It Won't Be Long
10. Shake It & Break It (But Don't Let It Fall Mama)
11. Pea Vine Blues
12. Mississippi Boweavil Blues
13. Lord I'm Discouraged
14. I'm Goin' Home