Vendor: Jimmy Reed
Type: CD
Price:
15.00
A compilation of singles released from 1953 and 1958, I’m Jimmy Reed is Jimmy Reed’s debut full length album. Initially released in 1958 on Vee-Jay Records, this album features “Ain’t That Lovin’ You Baby,” which hit #8 on the Billboard R&B chart. This reissue was remastered from the original tapes. Record Collector Magazine hails the album as “Arguably the first great blues album” and “testament to the thrilling talent of one of the form’s most influential figures.
Vendor: Reverend Gary Davis
Type: CD
Price:
15.00
Harlem Street Singer is Reverend Gary Davis’ 1960 album, originally released on Prestige Records’ Bluesville imprint. The album features a combination of Davis-penned tracks, including “Death Don’t Have No Mercy,” and standards such as “Samson and Delilah.” All Music declared that the album is “essential listening for fans of country blues or gospel.” This reissue has been remastered from the original tapes.
Vendor: Bush
Type: CD
Price:
25.00
Loaded provides an expansive view of the band’s incredible legacy with 21 tracks spanning nearly 30 years.
Vendor: Johnnie Taylor
Type: CD
Price:
12.00
Released to celebrate soul legend Johnnie Taylor’s 90th birthday, One Step From The Blues is a 12 song collection from the “The Philosopher of Soul”. Delivered in Taylor’s distinctive style with roots in Blues and Gospel, the tracklist includes “Steal Away,” “Cheaper To Keep Her,” “Stop Doggin’ Me,” and the Hayes/Porter penned “I Had A Dream”. One Step From The Blues is released on Stax Records and including new liner notes by Memphis journalist Andria Lisle.
Vendor: Albert King
Type: CD
Price:
20.00
Albert King’s 1999 live album In Session with Stevie Ray Vaughan is now available in its entirely for the first time on 3-LP, 2-CD and Digital. Recorded live for television at CHCH-TV studios in Ontario, Canada in 1983, this is the only known recording of Vaughan and King playing together. Also featured are Tony Llorens (piano/organ), Gus Thornton (bass), and Michael Llorens (drums). This deluxe edition features the audio debut of “Born Under A Bad Sign,” “Texas Flood,” and “I’m Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town,” and has been newly remastered by Paul Blakemore.
Vendor: Brenton Wood
Type: CD
Price:
13.00
18 Brenton Wood classics in one album! Featuring hits like “The Oogum Boogum Song,” “Gimme Little Sign,” “Baby You Got It,” and many more, the quintessential compilation Brenton Wood’s 18 Best was initially released in 1992 and serves as a showcase of Wood’s smooth, sure-handed delivery that cemented his place as one of the finest soul singers of his generation.
Vendor: Miles Davis
Type: CD
Price:
25.00
Released to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of these sessions, “Miles ’54” brings together 20 tracks recorded by the trumpet legend in 1954, across 2CDs. Including cuts from albums released that year it features Sonny Rollins, Charles Mingus, Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Thelonious Monk and more. Included are new liner notes by GRAMMY® Award-winning music historian Ashley Kahn and session notes by Dan Morgenstern, with mastering by Paul Blakemore.
Vendor: Albert King
Type: CD
Price:
11.00
Vendor: Specialty Records
Type: CD
Price:
14.99
Rip It Up: The Best Of Specialty Records brings together some of the most important tracks to be released on the notable Los Angeles record label. Founded in 1945 by Art Rupe, Specialty Records made a giant impact in the fields of gospel, rock n roll, and R&B. With legendary artists including Little Richard, Lloyd Price, Sam Cooke and Roy Milton – this completion features 18 tracks that helped to shape R&B as we know it.
1. LLOYD PRICE: Lawdy Miss Clawdy
2. LITTLE RICHARD: Long Tall Sally
3. ROY MILTON: R.M. Blues
4. SAM COOKE: I’ll Come Running Back to You
5. JOE LIGGINS: Pink Champagne
6. LITTLE RICHARD: Tutti Frutti
7. PERCY MAYFIELD: Please Send Me Someone to Love
8. ROY MILTON: Information Blues
9. LARRY WILLIAMS: Bony Moronie
10. LITTLE RICHARD: Lucille
11. JESSE & MARVIN: Dream Girl
12. JIMMY LIGGINS: Drunk
13. LLOYD PRICE: Ain’t It a Shame?
14. LARRY WILLIAMS: Short Fat Fannie
15. PERCY MAYFIELD: Lost Love (Baby, Please)
16. LLOYD PRICE: Oooh-Oooh-Oooh
17. ROY MILTON: Best Wishes
18. LITTLE RICHARD: Rip It Up
• Brand new compilation featuring Specialty Records artists Little Richard, Lloyd Price, Sam Cooke, Roy Milton and more
• Extensive liner notes by Billy Vera
• Release is in conjunction with Specialty Records’ 75th anniversary
Vendor: Mavis Staples
Type: CD
Price:
11.00
Vendor: Creed
Type: CD
Price:
10.99
Though the Tallahassee, FL–based band had already found enormous success on the rock charts with their multiplatinum-selling 1997 debut, Human Clay would make them mainstream stars. Driven by the anthemic, first single “Higher,” Human Clay debuted at Number One on the Billboard 200, and Creed quickly became one of the biggest bands in the world. “Higher” spent a whopping 57 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at Number Seven. In July of the following year, the band scored their first Number One hit on the pop charts with the third single, “With Arms Wide Open.” The track—which frontman Scott Stapp wrote when he found out that he was going to be a father—earned the band a GRAMMY for Best Rock Song in 2001.
To-date, Human Clay has sold well over 11 million copies in the U.S., earning a rare Diamond certification from the RIAA, joining the ranks of the Beatles’ Abbey Road, Prince’s Purple Rain and Nirvana’s Nevermind. It remains one of the top-selling albums of all-time in the United States.
Vendor: R.E.M.
Type: CD
Price:
24.99
R.E.M. grew up with the BBC, and this historic relationship is lovingly celebrated across an incredible collection that beautifully illustrates the career trajectory of one of modern music’s greatest bands. The collection comprises a treasure trove of rare and unreleased live and studio recordings culled from the BBC and band archives. This is a must-have collection for R.E.M. fans and an authoritative introduction for newcomers.
Vendor: Charlie Parker
Type: CD
Price:
11.00
“Ornithology: The Best of Bird” is a new collection bringing together 11 cuts from legendary jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker. It covers the legendary artists prime Savoy Records years between 1945 and 1953, with cuts including “Ko-Ko,” “Billie’s Bounce,” and “Groovin’ High”. Included on the back of the newly designed sleeve is a new essay by GRAMMY® award winning writer Ashley Kahn.
Vendor: Lightnin' Hopkins & Sonny Terry
Type: CD
Price:
15.00
Last Night Blues is Lightnin’ Hopkins’ 1961 album, featuring Sonny Terry. The second of three album collaborations, Last Night Blues showcases Hopkins’ and Terry’s different yet complementary styles to create a well-rounded listening experience. AllMusic declared, “this dynamite disc represents what the blues should be: stripped-down, soulful, and full of truth.” This edition has been remastered from the original tapes.
Vendor: Albert King
Type: CD
Price:
15.00
Live Wire/Blues Power is a live album from Albert King recorded in 1968 at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, CA. Featuring originals and King’s rendition of classics, the album demonstrates Albert King’s blues prowess. According to Rolling Stone, this album is “Just the unadulterated pure and simple blues.
Vendor: Creed
Type: CD
Price:
20.00
25th anniversary deluxe edition of Creed's Billboard #1, Diamond-certified studio album, Human Clay. First released in 1999 and enduring as one of the best-selling albums of all time, this remastered edition features the smash hits “Higher,” “What If” and GRAMMY®-award winning "With Arms Wide Open” (Best Rock Song), alongside a complete never-before-released 13-song 1999 concert from San Antonio, TX, plus three additional bonus tracks.
Vendor: Sylvester
Type: CD
Price:
20.00
Live At the Opera House is the first-ever full release of Sylvester’s iconic 1979 concert at the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House, previously available only as heavily edited excerpts. The album features 13 unedited songs from the performance, plus a recording of the mid-concert ceremony where Sylvester was awarded the key to San Francisco, culminating in over an hour of previously unreleased music and a total runtime of over 2 hours. The album package includes recently discovered photographs from the evening, plus new liner notes by Joshua Gamson, author of The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, The Music, The Seventies in San Francisco.
Vendor: Sylvester
Type: CD
Price:
11.00
A powerhouse 2013 collection including some of the disco mastermind’s very best, this release features a number of Sylvester’s classic hits, as well as the brand-new remix of the iconic “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)” by GRAMMY®-nominated remixer and DJ, Ralphi Rosario, who worked with global pop superstars like Rihanna, Mariah Carey, Beyoncé, Madonna, and more.
Vendor: Albert King
Type: CD
Price:
18.99
On December 6, 1983, legendary blues guitarist Albert King joined his disciple Stevie Ray Vaughan on a Canadian sound stage for the live music television series In Session. Magic happened. The highly sought after video footage from that one-time renowned summit becomes available for the first time ever with the release of Stax Records' deluxe two-disc CD/DVD In Session.
CD 1
1. Call It Stormy Monday
2. Old Times
3. Pride and Joy
4. Ask Me No Questions
5. Pep Talk
6. Blues At Sunrise
7. Turn It Over
8. Overall Junction
9. Match Box Blues
10. Who is Stevie
11. Don't Lie To Me
DVD
1. Live video footage
Vendor: AFI
Type: CD
Price:
15.00
Recorded at Megawatt Studios in Los Angeles, AFI (The Blood Album) was produced by Jade Puget and co-produced by Matt Hyde (Deftones) and is the follow-up to 2013’s Burials, which hit Top 10 on The Billboard 200. Since the release of 1995’s debut album Answer That and Stay Fashionable, AFI has written and recorded five top ten hit singles, hit No. 1 on The Billboard 200 (with the stunning Decemberunderground), garnered worldwide critical acclaim and amassed a fiercely loyal global following whose members number in the millions. AFI (The Blood Album) is the band’s 10th full-length studio album and first for Concord Records.
Vendor: Skip James
Type: CD
Price:
15.00
Today! is Skip James’ second album, originally released in 1966. The album features James solo on all but one track, “How Long,” which includes Russ Savakus on bass. (AAA) lacquers cut from the original master tapes by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab. AllMusic asserts, “wonderful vocals, superb guitar and a couple of tunes with tasty piano make this essential.”
Vendor: John Lee Hooker
Type: CD
Price:
15.00
Burning Hell was recorded in 1959 in Detroit, MI, but wasn’t released until 1964. Even then, it was only available in the UK. Pressed at QRP as part of the Bluesville Records / Acoustic Sounds series, the album features Hooker solo as he plays originals and classics. AllMusic states that, on this album, “Hooker shows himself to be an excellent interpreter who could have held his own with Delta bluesmen of any era.”
Vendor: John Lee Hooker
Type: CD
Price:
11.99
John Lee Hooker was already being hailed as a living legend in the '60s, but by the time of this 1986 release he was a larger-than-life figure, his iconic stature unquestioned. From his earliest collaborations with Canned Heat and on through the '70s and '80s, the rock world never got tired of trying to endear Hooker to a crossover audience.
Jealous is an attempt to adapt Hooker's lonesome blues to full-band arrangements. Unlike his band recordings of the '50s, though, there's a decided rock edge to his accompaniment here, providing a sharp contrast to the down-home, earthy sound of Hooker's voice and guitar. Organ, electric guitar, and a forceful rhythm section baked in reverb back Hooker on Jealous. Instead of overpowering Hooker, though, these new arrangements place the bluesman on a sonic pedestal, from which he sounds like the voice of God dispensing wisdom through the blues.
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Vendor: John Lee Hooker
Type: CD
Price:
11.99
Since he won a Grammy Award for 1989's The Healer, John Lee Hooker, now 79 years old, has been an unusually hot property. He has played with the likes of Rolling Stones, Branford Marsalis and B.B. King. Don't Look Back finds the party continuing, with old friend/disciple Van Morrison, who guested on 1995's Chill Out, now in the producer's seat.
Apart from a raucous reading of the old Hooker standard "Dimples," which features backing from Los Lobos, Don't Look Back leans towards varying shades of slow blues. Emotion is stressed over barn-burning instrumental heroics, particularly on the songs that ride along on Charles Brown's melancholic piano playing. Producer Morrison's duets with his idol on "Travellin' Blues" and Morrison's "The Healing Game" bring out the best in both legends.
Vendor: John Lee Hooker
Type: CD
Price:
11.99
One of a series of superb John Lee Hooker albums recorded in the '90s, Chill Out clearly shows that he remains at the top of his game. The opening (and title) track features guitar god and long time Hooker fan Carlos Santana (with his band). Although quite slick sounding, Santana's Latin funk grooves and typically blistering solo fit surprisingly well with John Lee's gutbucket vocals--a testament to the aging blues man's incredible versatility. Roy Rogers (the blues guy, not the cowboy fast food mogul) reveals himself as an adept and sensitive producer and also adds some very tasty slide guitar on four tunes. Whether with a full band or all alone, John Lee Hooker's talent burns brightly throughout the album.