Mountain Top represents Meltdown Three, "Legends" a two disc fully live CD recorded in Santa Cruz, California. Meltdown Three features blues and harmonica legends, Lazy Lester, Carey Bell, Cephas and Wiggins, Wille "Big Eyes" Smith, Steve Freund, Mark Hummel and his band, The Blues Survivors! This is the live blues harmonica meltdown at it's ever loving best!
VOLUME TWO: 5CD set. Collects his five "Gold Records" compilation albums, in card LP replica sleeves! Features Elvis' Golden Records - Volume One (1958); Volume Two (1959); Volume Three (1963); Volume Four (1968) and Volume Five (1984).
"The EP Collection… Plus" offers a great overview of the Pretty Things, who played alongside the Rolling Stones in the small clubs of mid-60s London. The Pretty Things offer a brand of hard R&B that was similar to the Stones of that period, but harder and rawer…
Of all the British acts that started messing with the blues in the early '60s, the Animals always sounded the toughest and most committed to the cause. They didn't have a genius guitarist like the Yardbirds or the Bluesbreakers, and couldn't write memorable original material like the Rolling Stones, but Eric Burdon was one of the few singers in the U.K. whose guts and ferocity approached that of his influences (without sounding like he was simply copying what he'd heard), and the tough, no-nonsense attack of guitarist Hilton Valentine, bassist Chas Chandler, and drummer John Steel drove the Animals with style and power, while keyboard man Alan Price gave the band plenty of welcome melodic flair…