A Walker in The City

Singles Collection: 1984-1990 (August 1991, only 10,000 copies produced) (also known as E.P. Collection 84 - 90, with only 500 copies produced). Many, many non-LP tracks on this very rare and out of print EP's. This collection contains 10 EP's Beggars Banquet released between 1989 (the first 3) & 1991 (the other 7). They are labeled "BBP 1 CD" up to "BBP 12 CD". (BBP 4 CD was a Bauhaus release; BBP 5 CD was a Gary Numan release). All releases contain hard to find B-sides, mixes, rarities & live-tracks that are taken mostly from out of print 7-inches, 12-inches & CD-maxis. Included are: Love Removal Machine/Lil' Devil, Rain/Revolution, Fire Woman/Edie (Ciao Baby)/Sun King, Spirit Walker/Go West, Sweet Soul Sister (Live 1987 / 1989), The Electric Mixes, The Manor Sessions, Resurrection Joe/She Sells Sanctuary and Wild Flower (Live 1986 / 1987).

The resulting 2 box set, unlike any other available today, groups together the main vocalists in the story of jazz from the first half of the 20th century. Each of these 20 CDs offers in more or less the same proportion, the purest of African-American song with gospel and blues singers, from truculent Ma Rainey to majestic Bessie Smith, sophisticated Sarah Vaughan to popular Louis Prima, the folk-related tones of Charlie Patton to the honeyed voice of Frank Sinatra.

Berry Gordy was more than just a visionary label owner, he was also an astute businessman who studied and understood how the pop charts worked, and his stable of songwriters, arrangers, musicians, and singers all worked toward the same aim of refining R&B and soul music into a pop product that appealed across race, gender, and generational lines. And Gordy knew – although the radio play and sales period was extremely brief – that nothing endured more than a good Christmas record, which could regenerate sales each and every year when the holiday season rolled around again. It should come as no surprise, then, that Motown issued a sizable amount of seasonal material, and as this two-disc, 51-track collection shows, a lot of it was done at a high level of quality.

With 158 hits on 10 CDs, the 'Golden Age of Country' is the most comprehensive collection ever devoted to country music of the 1950s and '60s. We've brought together all the major C&W stars and their hits from the two most important decades in the genre's history. It's a dream collection for any fan of classic country music.

'Transcendental Blues Live' is a no-holds-barred, shot-from-the-hip rock-fest from the old-school rocker, Steve Earle. If this DVD is any indication, Earle hasn't lost any of his drive over the years, as he burns into his set with the agility of a 20-year-old.He hammers through the songs one after another, blasting through a full 16 song set in barely more than an hour. The bulk of the tracks are new ones, as Earle has obviously sought to reinvent himself in the present instead of relying on old classics to carry him into the new millennium.