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JSP 77215CD
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"From the golden age of field recordings of early country and old timey from the early 1920s to mid-1930s, these fabulously rare recordings from the Chris King collection stand out as some of the most important. This collection focuses on the Mississippi region and features performances by true folk musicians-Leake County Revellers, Nations Brothers, Mississippi 'Possum Hunters and many more."
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JSP 77214CD
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"This is a superbly remastered and presented 4 CD set of the earliest, deepest and most soulful Gospel recordings. There is an intensity about all these recordings that illustrates a profound faith and belief but also is a 'cry of pain' of people struggling for dignity and rights which were being denied them. These are seminal early Gospel from some of the great legends-essential music!"
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JSP 77211CD
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"This superbly remastered and presented 4 cd box set presents both classic and rare and collectible slide guitar blues from some of the best ever. From early legends like Tampa Red, Blind Lemon Jefferson and Charley Patton. Through to electric blues guitar icons like J.B. Hutto and Homesick James and finally the modern blues guys-Joe Louis Walker, Lucky Peterson and Louisiana Red."
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JSP 11004LP
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"This set of recordings was one of the artistic peaks of the pre-war country blues recording boom. Intense and passionate, these songs are filled with social comment, harsh observations of the life he was subjected to and all performed with an intensity and brilliant hard rhythm. Essential!"
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JSP 77204CD
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"All the vintage recordings of this seminal figure, rightly described as the 'Father Of Rock & Roll' are meticulously gathered here in the best ever sound. The presentation is superb-vintage pictures, wonderful design and a detailed sleevenote from Neil Slaven who was one of the main figures in the 1960's British Blues explosion and 'was there' when Arthur came back on the scene."
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JSP 11002LP
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"Few were more important to the development of pre-Robert Johnson delta blues than Tommy Johnson. His reputation rests upon six records and a few songs issued after his death. His unique singing style - with an ululating falsetto - turned speech defects to advantage. He was born in 1896, one of thirteen children, on a plantation in Mississippi. Musically, he learned quickly and from age sixteen, when he left home, a born traveller. After two years he returned an accomplished bluesman. Musicians including Ishmon Bracey gathered round him. In February 1928 Johnson, Bracey and Rosie Mae Moore visited Memphis to record for Victor. On February 3, with Charlie McCoy on second guitar, he cut 'Cool Drink Of Water Blues' and 'Big Road Blues'. The forthright 'Big Road' was a marked contrast to the reflective 'Drink'. The records sold well. Johnson and Bracey, were called back. Another four songs were cut, including the prophetic Canned Heat Blues. (Sterno, a cooking fuel, was known as 'canned heat' and Johnson was addicted to it.) Later, the Mississippi Sheiks cut a version of 'Big Road Blues' on OKeh. Victor sued. Johnson believed the settlement meant he'd sold his right to record again. He played for tips during the 1930s, often with Ishmon Bracey. He entered a decline which continued through the 1940s and into the Fifties. The end came in November 1956, after he'd played at a party for his brother LeDell's oldest daughter. He was buried in an unmarked grave. 'I thought a heap of Tommy and I just loved to hear him sing and play. We learned one from another.' Rube LaceyBorn in Byram, MS in 1901. Ishmon Bracey had one hit, 'Saturday Blues'. Bracey's fate was to be rarely mentioned without Johnson. His fellow musicians thought better of him. Rube Lacey said 'Ishmon was a really good musician. Ishmon had, I thought, a gift to sing...' Towards the end of the 1930s, Bracey became an ordained minister. He was rediscovered in 1963 but refused to play blues. He died in 1970."
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JSP 77130CD
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"In the 1920s and 1930s, Gennett may have been small in comparison to labels like Victor and Columbia but they recorded some of the most important slices of American music. Although their catalogue is best known for jazz, they also recorded many rural performers and string bands. Here are some of the rarest and best. Gennett were ahead of the game. Just three months after Victor had an initial session with Robertson and Gilliland, they themselves had fiddle player William B. Houchins cut three sides. Then they recorded John D. Foster a month before Jimmy Rodgers' debut for the Victor label. Foster was not a `singing brakeman' or a `blue yodeller', but he was nonetheless a fine vocalist and guitar player whose recording career would continue after Rodger's death. On this anthology we feature nineteen of Foster's best recordings. Also featured are sizeable helpings of fine talents like Ernest Stoneman, the Red Fox Chasers, Fiddlin' Doc Roberts and Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters among many others. This is genuine `country' music, performed by artists who had first-hand experience of the triumphs and troubles they describe - a far cry, arguably, from the sounds of today. But most important, this was music that was designed to help hard-pressed folks to forget their cares for an hour or two. Even if it doesn't have you leaping up with a hoot and a holler, you'll find your feet tapping along."
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JSP 77123CD
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"Vassilis Tsitsanis was the key figure in Rembetika, the music that is popularly named as 'Greek Blues' -- a vibrant and funky folk music of the common man that is for both dancing and rebellion. The previous JSP Rembetika box sets have brought a new standard to the re-issue of this music and brought it to a brand new market. This four CD set presents the complete picture."
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