Leadbelly

A holiday compilation with a difference, this assembles a couple dozen Christmas-themed recordings from 1917-1959 that represent roots music of all stripes – blues, gospel, early jazz, early country, Appalachian folk, and even some ethnic sounds of Trinidad, Puerto Rico, Italy, and Ukraine. There are some pretty famous names here, like Leadbelly, Bessie Smith, and Lightnin' Hopkins, as well as some artists who are not as famous but still pretty renowned, like Rev. J.M. Gates, Buell Kazee, and the Maddox Brothers & Rose.

John Mayall, 69 years of age at the time of this recording, is at the very least irrepressible. He and his many versions of the Bluesbreakers have hit the road every year for decades, and the five years leading up to the release of Stories offer a flurry of activity that hasn't been seen from him since the 1970s…

Thirty-five years have now come and gone since the 'rediscoveries' of the blues revival startled us with their corporeal presence. IT seems little short of miraculous that so many of the greatest pre-War bluesman were found ready, willing, and able to recreate the passion of their youth's music for a moving Last Hurrah. Now they are, to a man, gone, making the window which briefly shown into their world all the more precious. That these men were filmed in performance is fortuitous for us today; they need no longer be disembodied voices.

Ry Cooder - Vigilante Man (2017) {6CD Box Set, Sandoz SNZCD2005 rec 1972-1995}
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© 1972-95, 2017 Sandoz | SNZCD2005
Rock / Blues / Blues Rock / Country Rock / Roots Rock

Limited edition 6CD Box Set featuring six live performances from 1972, 1974, 1989 and 1995. Consummate playing, from the master, throughout these great sounding recordings. Mastered from the original FM broadcasts. Also includes a cd of influences and original versions. I have been a fan of Mr. Cooder since the 70s, he has such a defined sound on the string instruments he plays - various acoustic and electric guitars and mandolins, and musically I can (almost) travel the world with him, Regardless of who he is accompanying, there is always something coherent that inspires me.

The resulting 2 box set, unlike any other available today, groups together the main vocalists in the story of jazz from the first half of the 20th century. Each of these 20 CDs offers in more or less the same proportion, the purest of African-American song with gospel and blues singers, from truculent Ma Rainey to majestic Bessie Smith, sophisticated Sarah Vaughan to popular Louis Prima, the folk-related tones of Charlie Patton to the honeyed voice of Frank Sinatra.