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Crystal, Chief, Chance, Tempus, and Oriole as well as the more famous Vee-Jay and Chess. Artists featured include Bo Diddley, Betty Everett, the Spaniels, Chuck Berry, Dale Hawkins and Jimmy McCracklin, but genre aficionados will also savor the less-known names Compiled and annotated by former BBC Radio 1 DJ, record producer and music historian Stuart Colman.

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The argument will forever rage, but Memphis, Tennessee, is as much the fountainhead of rock ’n’ roll as is Cleveland, Ohio. Whilst the north had Alan Freed as its turntable champion, the south was blessed with the madcap deejay, Dewey Phillips. Chances are, ole Dewey would have played most of the 75 titles that go to make up Raunchy Sugar on his Red Hot and Blue show that aired over WHBQ in Memphis. During the 1950s the city was alive with labels, record hops, musicians and the general chaos that goes hand in hand with the big beat. The geographical lie of the land helped a great deal, because the city was central to so many rural areas that harboured musical talent and style. Carl Perkins and Carl Mann gravitated to the area from Jackson, Tennessee, Billy Riley and Conway Twitty did the same from Arkansas, and Elvis Presley hit the trail from Mississippi in order to soak up some of that unique Shelby County action. Outside of Sam Phillips’ legendary Sun Records, the labels included such names as Hi, Cover, Fernwood, Meteor, Vaden Moon and Satellite.

Born in 1971 and raised in Bowling Green, Ohio, Sugar Brown was born as Ken Chester Kawashima to a Japanese father and Korean mother who both immigrated to the United States in the mid-1960s. Now a permanent resident of Toronto, Canada, Sugar Brown is a modern blues musician, singer and songwriter. His brand of dark, sweet, and inconsolable blues has caught the attention of the Canadian music scene, winning the 2013 Toronto Blues Society Talent Search and quickly receiving invitations to play at the Kitchener Blues Festival and the prestigious Mariposa Folk Festival in 2014.

After 17 years of kicking out increasingly dancy garage-punk with the Gossip, Beth Ditto released her solo debut with "Fake Sugar". As lead singer of the Gossip, non-conformist Beth Ditto became just as famous for challenging the perceptions of female beauty and sexuality as she did for her spellbindingly raw gospel-soul voice. On "Fake Sugar", Ditto approaches love, loss, looking back and moving forward with all the sexiness, poignancy, power and beauty befitting such an iconoclastic artist. The album is a mash-up of driving blues, malt-shop pop, swooning rock and countrified soul.

Erin Mulrooney (sings and shakes things), a native of the Philadelphia area, began singing as a young child in church choir and in elementary school chorus. Soon she was performing in a rock band covering a wide variety of 70s and 80s music. After a 25-year hiatus from performing, Erin was drawn back into her passion while living in Chicago.