40 CD box set. Artists include John Lee 'Sonny Boy' Williamson, Leadbelly, Big Bill Broonzy, Bessie Smith, Muddy Waters, Mississippi John Hurt, Memphis Minnie, John Lee Hooker, Big Joe Williams and many more. 725 tracks all digitally remastered to enhance the original recordings without manipulating the character of the music. Recordings made between 1923 and 1948. 20 double slimline jewel cases housed together in a cardboard box.
Harry Nilsson spent almost all of his rich, idiosyncratic, sometimes maddening career at RCA Records, releasing his bravura debut, Pandemonium Shadow Show, in 1967 and fading into the sunset with 1977's Knnillssonn. During those ten years, he released 14 albums and left behind a bunch of stray tracks, almost all of which are gathered on Legacy's massive and wonderful 2013 box The RCA Albums Collection…
Elmore James was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and band leader. He was known as King of the Slide Guitar, but he was also noted for his use of loud amplification and his stirring voice. The definitive early recordings of Elmore James, the man who changed the face of post-war slide guitar, return to the Ace catalogue with this 3CD set. A huge influence on the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds and Fleetwood Mac, as well as being a giant on the blues scene, this set contains 71 tracks from Elmore's recordings for the Meteor, Flair and Modern labels, as well as the classic 'Dust My Broom' for Trumpet. The set includes many previously unknown and unreleased takes, plus an illustrated 40-page booklet.
Fill your world with 75 inspirational songs, perfect for starting your day, ending your day, and every moment in between! Beautiful, familiar melodies and uplifting, moving lyrics speak to our hearts, graciously filling our spirits and affirming our beliefs. Listen for yourself and feel the wonder music can make in your life. Be swept away by favorites like "Blowin' in the Wind" by Judy Collins, "The Battle Hymn Of The Republic / All My Trials" by J.D. Sumner & The Stamps, "God Bless The Child" by Rosemary Clooney, "Shenandoah" by The Michaels, "The Glory Of Love" by Patti Page, "Gone Fishin'" by Louis Armstrong with Bing Crosby and so many more.
Whitesnake‘s 1984 album Slide It In will be reissued as a 35th anniversary ‘ultimate special edition’. The album includes the hits ‘Love Ain’t No Stranger’ and ‘Slow An’ Easy’, both of which went top 40 in the USA at the time. The ‘ultimate special edition’ includes six CDs and a DVD and features remastered versions of both the UK and US mixes of the albums as well as new 35th anniversary stereo mixes, unreleased live and studio recordings, music videos, concert footage, and a new interview with Whitesnake founder and lead singer, David Coverdale.
Musicians play music, and when they play, they don't begin something so much as they pick something back up that was there all along, and music expands like a delta this way, an unbreakable loop that doesn't begin or end but just rolls onward like a wave. And rock & roll as an American musical form is very much like a delta, collecting elements from jazz, blues, country, gospel, R&B, show tunes, and whatever else was floating around into a high-charged, rambunctious music that defined and drove pop culture across the backwaters of the 20th century and into the 21st…