Description
3-CD Digipak (8-plated) with 172-page booklet, 79 tracks. Total playing time approx. 221 mns
Part two of the most comprehensive history EVER of electrified blues on 12 electrifying CDs!
Every significant artist ... every significant recording from the 1930s to the present day, including T-Bone Walker, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, George Thorogood, and Freddie, B. B. and Albert King, Jeff Beck, Fleetwood Mac, Charlie Musselwhite, Johnny Winter, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, and literally hundreds more!In all, fifteen-and-a-half hours!
Compiled and annotated by renowned blues expert, Bill Dahl.
Every 3-CD set comes with a 160-page booklet including biographies, illustrations, original release info, and rare photos!
Cross-licensed from every record company to be truly comprehensive!
Blues historian and musicologist, Bill Dahl from Chicago, has produced the most comprehensive history of electric blues ... ever! With nearly 300 tracks, Bear Family Records is telling the story from the beginning into the new millennium. In the 1930s, the invention of Gibson's ES-150 - the first electric guitar - changed popular music forever. The first generation of blues pioneers played acoustic instruments, but with the invention of amplification, guitar and harmonica players could be heard over the piano, drums and horns. Music was revolutionized!
The 12 generously full CDs are in four sets of three CDs in elegant digipaks. On more than 650 pages in four lavishly illustrated booklets, Bill Dahl writes authoritatively about the history of electric blues, and how it influenced rock music during the 1960s and beyond. Here's the complete story from jazz-inspired jump numbers in the late 1930s to hard-driving blues/rock from the States and Great Britain in the 1960s, '70s, and beyond. The journey closes with today's contemporary blues. This is it! Truly definitive! Done as only Bear Family can do it!
Track Listing
Disc 1:- King, B. B. 'Blues Boy' and His Orchestra - You Upset Me Baby
- Waters, Muddy and his Guitar - I'm Ready
- Lenore, J. B. (sic) - Mamma Talk To Your Daughter
- Big Walter and his Combo - Hard-Hearted Woman
- Crayton, Pee Wee - You Know ââ¬' Yeah
- King, Earl And His Band - A Mother's Love
- Taylor, Eddie - Bad Boy
- Little Walter And His Jukes - My Babe
- McKinley, L. C. - She's Five Feet Three
- Robert Jr. And His Combo - Aw Aw Baby
- Diddley, Bo - I'm A Man
- Guitar Slim - Quicksand
- Berry, Chuck - Wee Wee Hours
- Billy Boy - I Wish You Would
- Watson, Johnny 'Guitar' - Three Hours Past Midnight
- Williamson, 'Sonny Boy' - Don't Start Me Talkin'
- Little Willie John - Need Your Love So Bad
- Smith, Little George - Rockin'
- Reed, Jimmy - Ain't That Lovin' You Baby
- McCain, Jerry - My Next Door Neighbor
- Howlin' Wolf - Smoke Stack Lightning
- Gayles, Billy - I'm Tore Up
- Hooker, John Lee - Dimples
- Rush, Otis - I Can't Quit You Baby
- Parker, Little Junior with Bill Harvey's Band - Next Time You See Me
- Diddley, Bo - Who Do You Love
- Doggett, Bill - Honky Tonk (Part 1)
- Brown, Clarence & Orchestra - Rock My Blues Away
- Brenston, Jackie - Gonna Wait For My Chance
- Rogers, Jimmy - Walking By Myself
- Lonesome Sundown - My Home Is A Prison
- Waters, Muddy - Got My Mojo Working
- Harpo, Slim - I'm A King Bee
- Bland, Bobby 'Blue' with Bill Harvey Orchestra - Farther Up The Road
- Sims, Frankie Lee - Walking With Frankie
- Magic Sam - All Your Love
- Guitar Jr. - Family Rules
- Rush, Otis - All Your Love (I Miss Loving)
- Davis, Larry - Texas Flood
- Lazy Lester - Sugar Coated Love
- McGhee, Brownie - Living With The Blues
- Little Milton - That Will Never Do
- Robinson, Fention - As The Years Go By
- Harrison, Wilbert - Kansas City
- Ballard, Hank & the Midnighters - Look At Little Sister
- Reed, Jimmy - Baby What You Want Me To Do
- Memphis Slim - Messin' Around
- Lightnin' Slim - Rooster Blues
- Brown, Buster - Fannie Mae
- James, Elmore and His Broomdusters - The Sky Is Crying
- Crayton, Pee Wee - Texas Hop
- Milton, Roy And His Solid Senders - Junior Jives
- Walker, T-Bone - Strollin' With Bones
- Tiny Grimes Quintet - Tiny's Boogie
- James, Elmore - Hawaiian Boogie
- Jimmy & Walter - Easy
- Hooker, Earl - The Huckle-Buck
- Watson, Young John - Space Guitar
- Hopkins, Lightnin' - Hopkins' Sky Hop
- Brown, Clarence 'Gatemouth' with Pluma Davis Orchestra - Okie Dokie Stomp
- Bill Jennings Quintet - Big Boy
- Baker, Mickey - Shake Walkin'
- Nolen, Jimmy - Strollin' With Nolen
- Guitar Gable and the Musical Kings - Congo Mambo
- Williams, Jody - Lucky Lou
- Heartsman, Johnny - Johnny's House Party (Parts 1 & 2)
- Berry, Chuck - Guitar Boogie
- Green, Cal - The Big Push
- Little Walter - Back Track
- Memphis Slim & His House Rockers - Steppin' Out
- Spurill, Wild Jimmy (sic) - Hard Grind
- Royal Earl & The Swingin' Kools - Royal Earl Shuffle
- Ike & Tina's Kings of Rhythm - Prancing
- Green, Clarence - Red Light
- King, Freddie - Remington Ride
- Mack, Lonnie - Wham!
- Collins, Albert - Frosty
- Jones, Johnny & The Beat Boys - Finger Lickin'
- Magic Sam - Looking Good
Additional Details
Label: Bear Family Records
Genre: Blues
Run Time: 221 mins
Release Date: 06/15/12
UPC: 4000127169228
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