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CD, £12.00 (Label: EMI, Cat.No: 367 2502) (Label: Ace, Cat.No: CDCHD 1115) Fascinating twenty track Everything from Jump to Down Home to Boogie compilation CD of Rolling Stones Woogie babes on this collection of West Coast covers by some of the greatest Blues cut for and by Dootsie Williams. Includes recording artists ever known. rare sides from Joe Turner (with Dootsie Williams Recorded around the time of the & Rhythm Kings) and Bobby Nunn (pre-Coasters) originals, this CD features "Jumpin' in this collection of hard-to-find records. In fact, Jack Flash" by Aretha Franklin, a virtually everything on the Blue label is so rare it great "Let's Spend The Night Together" by David hurts!None of these sides have been re-issued on CD or LP before Bowie, "Honky Tonk Women" by Ike & Tina & Turner and with 30 tracks it’s positively packed to the gills. Also includes a and a surprising "Sympathy For The Devil" by Bryan fascinating and highly-informative booklet, with notes by Jim Ferry. Also includes The Ramones, Linda Ronstadt, Dawson, drawn from his in-depth interviews with Dootsie. Otis Redding and Rod Stewart. This product normally ships within 4-7 days This product normally ships within 1-2 weeks The Trip Created By Jarvis Cocker - Various. CD, Gaz's Rockin' Blues - Various. CD, £11.50 £14.99 (Label: Ace, Cat.No: CDCHD 1071) (Label: UMC, Cat.No: 9832862) A compilation of the very best tunes spun at the An amazing journey through power legendary London nightspot owned and managed pop, expansive soundtracks, blues, by John Mayall's eldest son Gaz Mayall, who is alternative cover versions, junk probably (after his father) the UK's leading shop breaks and genuinely authority on blues as we know it. The club opened unexpected musical nuggets. in 1980 and still offers the best in rock and blues into the 21st century- thus, the first 14 tracks on This product normally ships within this disc comprise the club's first compilation album from 1981, and 1-2 weeks the remaining 14 are newies again selected by Gaz himself. Eleven of the overall tracks have never appeared on CD anywhere before, including John Lee Hooker's 'Shake, Holler and Run', and the whole fascinating story is told in Gaz's lavishly illustrated sleevenotes. This product normally ships on the next business day. Jamnation - Various. CD, £17.00 What's Shakin' - Various. CD, £10.00 (Label: , Cat.No: MVT 20051) (Label: Collectors Choice, Cat.No: CCM0622) Compilation of all contemporary CD re-issue of this legendary 1966 rarities Texas heavy blues/psych/space rock compilation, and it boasted a couple of big-name giants including "King Rat" by JPT artists, the Lovin Spoonful and Eric Clapton, who Scare Band, Gas Giant,"Conga were not known for their association with the label. Jam", Josefus "Dead Man", ILDHU The Lovin Spoonful tracks stem from the bands "Poetry Rock Freakout", JPT Scare almost having signed with the label; Jac Holzman Band,"Time To Cry" and Eternal states in the notes that it was John Sebastian's Elysium "Green Song". Dan McGuire add spoken way of making amends, and these four tracks-'Good Time Music' word to this heavy psychedelic music making this 'Almost Grown' 'Don't Bank on It Baby', and 'Searchin'-were never quite a unique release as the music serves as a recorded by the band, not even in different versions. The Clapton background score for a spoken word soundtrack tracks, meanwhile, feature him with Powerhouse, a supergroup reminiscent of beat generation poets. This is a composed of Jack Bruce, Stevie Winwood and Manfred Mann lead limited edition and won't be around long. Housed in singer Paul Jones; produced by Joe Boyd, the tracks are 'I Want to a digi pack. Know; Crossroads', and 'Steppin Out'. Five Paul Butterfield Blues Band tracks appear here from their ill-fated debut recording session This product normally ships on the next business for Elektra: 'Lovin Cup; Good Morning Little Schoolgirl; Spoonful', day. and two that appear nowhere else, 'Off the Wall' and 'One More Mile'. Tom Rush's 'I'm in Love Again' is an outtake from his 1966 LP 'Take a Little Walk with Me', and Al Kooper's 'I Cant Keep from Crying Sometimes' is something of a rehearsal for the later, fuller Blues Project version. This product normally ships on the next business day. Rolling Stones - Satisfaction- Covers & Cookies 30th Birthday Sampler - Blues And R&B (Various). CD, £5.50 Of The Rolling Stones (Variou. Dble CD, £12.00 (Label: Ace, Cat.No: CDCHK 1076) (Label: Harmless, Cat.No: HURTCD062) It's all here- for just over five of your earth Double CD set of unusual Stones pounds, 20 tracks of some of the finest R'n'B (in covers, leaning toward the soul and the PROPER sense of the term) toonery ever laid funk genre and featuring a variety down. Elmore James, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee of artists one wouldn't necessarily Hooker, BB King, Pee Wee Crayton, Johnny Guitar associate with the Stones, but who Watson, Ike Turner, Richard Berry and a squozen all share some musical kinship with other more obscure artists- including 'The Great them (The Meters, Herbie Mann, Gates' and the wonderfully named Drifting Slim. Lonesome, brother. Ruth Copeland, PP Arnold, Rotary Connection, The Staple Singers and even Ananda Shankar. There's This product normally ships within 4-7 days also the by-now-legendary (and oft compiled, but here it is again) version of "Gimme Shelter" laid down by Merry Clayton, who sang on the original, and Muddy Waters running through "Let's Spend The Night Together" - the influence coming full circle. CD2 is a "4 Hero Mix"- a continuous dance mix with a Strolling Bones theme. Should get those Hoxton parties going nicely. This product normally ships within 3-6 weeks 20 Great Blues Recordings Of The 50s And 60s - Various Artists. CD, £7.50 (Label: Cascade, Cat.No: CDROP 1005) Mid-price CD compilation of blues from the Modern label. Tracks:- Lightnin' Hopkins - Rolling And Rolling; Bobby Bland - Drifting From Town To Town; Roosevelt Sykes - Gone With The Wind; Big Mama Thornton - Me And My Chauffeur; Jimmy Witherspoon - No Rollin' Blues; Little George Smith - Blues In The Dark; B B King - You Upset Me Baby; Elmore James - Dark And Dreary; Lonnie "The Cat" - I Ain't Drunk; Howling Wolf - Crying At Daybreak; Johnny "Guitar" Watson - Three Hours Past Midnight; Lowell Fulson - Talkin' Woman; Little George Smith - Telephone Blues; Eddie Burns - Moonrise Blues (Aka She Keeps Me Guessing); Pee Wee Crayton - Central Avenue Blues; B B King - Ten Long Years; Jimmy McCracklin - The Panic's On; Elmore James - Sunnyland; Floyd Dixon - Cow Town; Joe Hill Louis - Heartache Baby; This product normally ships within 4-7 days © Delerium Mailorder 1991-2007 About the Freak Emporium | Terms & Conditions | Help / Questions | Contact Us.
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