Craft Recordings

Jimmy Reed - Mr. Luck: The Complete Vee-Jay Singles (2017) {3CD Set, Craft Recordings CR00006 rec 1953-1965}
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© 1953-65, 2017 Vee-Jay / Craft Recordings / Concord / Universal | CR00006
Blues / Rhythm and Blues / Chicago Blues / Electric Blues

Jimmy Reed signed with Chicago's Vee-Jay Records in 1953 and he stayed with the label for nearly a dozen years, during a decade where blues had its last great run as a hit singles medium. Reed was partially responsible for the golden age of blues hits on the R&B charts in the '50s, racking up nine Billboard R&B Top 10 singles between 1955 and 1961. All the hits, along with their flipsides – and, sometimes, the spoken introduction not released on a 45 – are here on this magnificent triple-disc set from Craft Recordings.

Little Richard - Here's Little Richard (1957) {2017 2CD Set Reissued & Expanded Craft Recordings - CR00012}
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© 1957, 2017 Craft Recordings / Concord Music | CR00012
Rock & Roll / Early R&B

Little Richard had been making records for four years before he rolled into Cosimo Matassa's J&M Studio in New Orleans and cut the epochal "Tutti Frutti" in the fall of 1955, but everything else he'd done – and much of what others had recorded – faded into insignificance when Richard wailed "A wop bop a loo mop a lomp bomp bomp" and kicked off one of the first great wailers in rock history. In retrospect, Little Richard's style doesn't seem so strikingly innovative as captured in 1956's Here's Little Richard – his boogie-woogie piano stylings weren't all that different from what Fats Domino had been laying down since 1949, and his band pumped out the New Orleans backbeat that would define the Crescent City's R&B for the next two decades, albeit with precision and plenty of groove.

R.E.M. - The Best Of R.E.M. At The BBC (2018) {2CD Set Craft Recordings}
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© 2018 Craft Recordings | 00888072068544
Rock / Alternative

A generous sampling from a generous box, The Best of R.E.M. at the BBC culls 34 highlights from its parent eight-disc/single-DVD set. This means this double-disc is swift, passing quickly through the group's various incarnations, as it offers a disc of sessions accompanied by a disc of BBC broadcasts.

Various Artists - The Complete Cuban Jam Sessions (2018) {5CD Set Craft Recordings CR00100 rec 1956-1965}
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© 1956-65, 2018 Panart / Craft Recordings / Concord Music | CR00100
Jazz / Latin Jazz / Cuban / Charanga / Salsa / Cha-Cha / Descarga / Mambo

Five legendary Cuban jam sessions originally released over a span of almost a decade (1956-1965) by Cuba's first independent record label Panart. Reissued together as a set in their entirety and original format here for the first time, The Complete Cuban Jam Sessions albums encapsulate a stylistic and historic panorama of Cuban music, from big band son montuno to Afro-Cuban rumba, mambo, cha-cha-cha and country acoustic guajira music.