T Bone Walker You're My Best Poker Hand: The Definitive Collection (2011) 3cd Set

For a talent like Amy Winehouse, it's safe to say that a regular old "best-of" compilation doesn't feel like a proper encapsulation of a brilliant career that was cut tragically short in 2011. With a voice that contained so much passion, pain, and soul, the best way to experience her work is to just sit back and take it all in. Featuring her 2003 debut, Frank, as well as her R&B-charged 2006 follow-up Back to Black and the 2011 B-sides compilation Lioness: Hidden Treasures, The Album Collection provides the opportunity to do just that, packaging the singer's studio work into a neat little box set that gives you everything you need to take a journey through her discography.

A founding father of electric blues in general and Texas blues in particular, guitarist T-Bone Walker influenced countless blues players and, by extension, countless rock & rollers as well. The Complete Imperial Recordings date from the early to mid-1950s, when the idea of electric blues was really taking hold, and the two-disc set is a wealth of classic songs exquisitely performed. While definitely blues, there's more difference between this and the acoustic blues that predated Walker than amplification can account for; there's jazz and swing mixed in as well, as on tracks like "I Walked Away" and "Strollin' with Bone," and something of that feel has remained in electric blues ever since. From B.B. King to Buddy Guy to Stevie Ray Vaughan and beyond, Walker's influence is felt in the blues up through the present day.

Louis Armstrong - The Complete Louis Armstrong and The Dukes of Dixieland (2011) {3CD Set, Solar Records 4569905 rec 1959-1960}
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Jazz / Dixieland / Trumpet

The complete recorded output, on a 3CD Deluxe Boxed Edition, by Louis Armstrong and The Dukes Of Dixieland - for the first time ever in a single collection. This collection contains both the master takes and all the alternates. Half of this music appears here on CD for the first time ever. These original LPs “The Definitive Album by Louis Armstrong” (1959) and “Louis and the Dukes of Dixieland” (1960) were among the first stereo recordings to fully capture Louis’ magic sound. His trumpet playing & vocals were as fine as ever - on classic songs that weren’t part of his usual repertoire, such as “Dixie”, “New Orleans” and “Sweet Georgia Brown”, which he had never previously recorded.

Modern electric blues guitar can be traced directly back to this Texas-born pioneer, who began amplifying his sumptuous lead lines for public consumption circa 1940 and thus initiated a revolution so total that its tremors are still being felt today. Few major postwar blues guitarists come to mind that don't owe T-Bone Walker an unpayable debt of gratitude. B.B. King has long cited him as a primary influence, marveling at Walker's penchant for holding the body of his guitar outward while he played it. Gatemouth Brown, Pee Wee Crayton, Goree Carter, Pete Mayes, and a wealth of other prominent Texas-bred axemen came stylistically right out of Walker during the late '40s and early '50s.

Greatest Ever Sixties brings you the best-loved songs and artists from one of the most eclectic decades in music. Rock, Country, Folk, Pop and Soul all vie for attention in this incredible value-for-money 3CD set. Featuring Lulu , Tom Jones , Diana Ross & The Supremes , Small Faces, Spencer Davis Group , Julie Driscol, Brian Auger & The Trinity , Marvin Gaye , The Mamas And The Papas , Jose Feliciano , Procol Harum , Long John Baldry , Donovan , Dusty Springfield , 5th Dimension , Scott McKenzie , Ralph McTell , Jackie Trent , Lonnie Donegan and much more.

If you're male, aged 30-50, have kids and are fond of your Playstation / stereo / football / shed / 'man-time', chances are you re a fan of Dad Rock. We know that making such sweeping generalisations is really out of order, but there's no smoke without fire and let's face it, you love a lot of the songs on this album. So, a quick vox pop of the kind of thing you're going to hear: Ocean Colour Scene Check. The Jam Check. The Quo Check. The La's Check. Super Furry Animals Yes, sir. We could go on… Greatest Ever Dad Rock brings together 3CDs of tracks designed to bring out the Dad in you. And possibly your wife and kids too. So get down to the shed (sorry, 'office') and crank up the volume: this album is for all you Dads out there. You rock.