Player Baby Come Back

It's interesting that many of the blues artists listeners have come to love — from Robert Johnson to Robert Lockwood — never set out to be immortalized. Their high goals — making money playing music, chasing women, and drinking — didn't necessarily consider art. Paul Oscher harks back to this non-noble tradition on Down in the Delta, an album that — save for the occasional appearance of electric guitar and piano — sounds like it was made on the back porch or perhaps at a local rent party…….

A characteristically humongous (8-CD) box set from the wonderful obsessive-compulsives at Bear Family, documenting the Killer's '60s tenure at Smash Records. Lewis made consistently good music during this period, but the combination of his personal scandals and the British Invasion made him a pariah to radio programmers until mid-decade, when he returned to his country roots. Highlights of the set include the entirety of a Texas live show, with Lewis and his crack band rendering various early rock standards at dangerously high (i.e., proto punk) speed, some excellent duets with his (then) wife Linda Gail, and gorgeous renditions of standards like Willie Nelson's "Funny How Time Slips Away" and Merle Haggard's "Lonesome Fugitive." Lewis fans with deep pockets should grab this one immediately…

Quicksilver Messenger Service - 7 Albums Paper Sleeve CD Vinyl Replica (1968-72) {2012 Strictly Limited Collector's Edition, Culture Factory USA}
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© 1968-72, 2012 Culture Factory USA / Capitol | 24-bit remaster
Rock / Psychedelic

Deluxe Vinyl Replicas by Culture Factory constitute high quality reissued compact-discs which reproduce all the components of the original LPs and are their exact replicas in compact-disc size (5.3 x 5.3 inches), with authentic single or gatefold cardboard jackets and paper sleeves. In addition to the above, each compact-disc Deluxe Vinyl Replica includes a black finish CD complete with the original label to give it the look and feel of the original record album. The music is encoded using state of the art, high definition remastering in 96 kHz / 24 BIT audio.

As the elder statesman of British blues, it is John Mayall's lot to be more renowned as a bandleader and mentor than as a performer in his own right. Throughout the '60s, his band, the Bluesbreakers, acted as a finishing school for the leading British blues-rock musicians of the era…