Rockabilly Red Hot & Rare

Various Artists - Hard-Headed Woman: A Celebration Of Wanda Jackson (2004) {Bloodshot Records BS077}
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© 2004 Bloodshot Records | BS 077
Country / Rock / Folk / Alternative Country Rock

Nick Tosches once famously described Wanda Jackson as "the greatest menstruating rock & roll singer whom the world has ever known," and while he doubtless chose those words for comic effect, the nervy crudity is not entirely inappropriate. At her best, Wanda Jackson sounded wild and ravenously sensual in a way that few artists dared in the mid-'50s, especially not female vocalists, and sides like "Let's Have a Party," "Hot Dog! That Made Him Mad," and "Fujiama Mama" run neck in neck with Jerry Lee Lewis or Billy Lee Riley for sheer frenzied rockabilly energy.

10CD box set containing 200 original recordings of extremely rare rock and roll songs, you're unlikely to find in any other collection. Featuring Gene Vincent, Boyd Bennett & His Rockers, The Threeteens, Jimmy Isle, Sonny Williams, Gene La Marr and others.

Sleepy LaBeef - Larger Than Life (1955-1979) {6CD Deluxe Box Set, Bear Family BCD15662 rel 1996}
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© 1955-79, 1996 Sun / Bear Family Records | BCD 15662
Rockabilly / Country / Traditional Country

All of Sleepy LaBeef's most important records – from his early singles for Starday to his latter-day sides for Sun – are included on the mammoth, six-disc box set Larger Than Life. LaBeef recorded for a number of different labels during his career, and during that time, he explored a variety of roots music, from rockabilly and country to blues and soul. Spanning three full decades, Larger Than Life contains 158 tracks, including all of his recordings for Starday, Dixie, Columbia, and Sun.

Various Artists - The Rama Story (1999) {2CD Set, Westside Records WESD215 rec 1953-1956}
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© 1953-56, 1999 Rama Recordings / Westside Records | WESD 215
Rhythm & Blues / Doo Wop / Oldies / Rockabilly / Rock 'n' Roll

This 2 disc set brings together 61 tracks from this early George Goldner run label. Although Rama only had a three year run as a label, they made significant inroads, especially as a doo-wop specialist with seminal tracks from the Crows ("Gee"), the Wrens ("Come Back My Love"), the Valentines ("Lily Maybelle") and the Heartbeats ("A Thousand Miles Away"). But there's also some errant pop sides and some fine rockabilly aboard as well from Don "Red" Roberts, Little Billy Mason (a white Frankie Lymon sound-alike with guitar band backing), and Roc LaRue. A delightful two disc set that shows off the many sides of this interesting label.

Various Artists - Boppin' By The Bayou: Made In The Shade (2014) {Ace Records CDCHD 1415}
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© 2014 Ace Records | CDCHD 1415
Rock & Roll / Rhythm & Blues / South Louisiana / South East Texas / Cajun

The ninth release in the “…By The Bayou” series brings you some hot rockers from South Louisiana and Southeast Texas, an area where Cajun culture has had a strong influence over its music – and never more so than in the heyday of real rock’n’roll, the 1950s. Rock’n’roll was a hybrid of C&W and R&B right across the USA, but in Cajun country the influences were more specific; the country music was from Texas, the R&B from New Orleans, and into this mix went rockabilly from Memphis via Shreveport and Cajun music. In this exciting compilation you will find all of those influences to varying degrees.

Buck Owens - Buck 'Em! - The Music Of Buck Owens (1955-1967) (2013) {2CD Omnivore Recordings OVCD-75}
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© 1955-67, 2013 Omnivore Recordings | OVCD-75
Country / Bakersfield Sound / Honky Tonk / Traditional Country

Omnivore's 2013 double-disc set Buck Em! The Music of Buck Owens (1955-1967) provides an interesting spin on Buck Owens: through a collection of mono singles, live tracks, alternate takes, early 45s, and other rarities, it tells an alternate history of Buck's prime years. If there's a hit on this 50-track collection, it's almost always in a version that's slightly different than what usually shows up on a standard greatest-hits. "Second Fiddle," "Love's Gonna Live Here," "I Don't Care (Just as Long as You Love Me)," "I've Got a Tiger by the Tail," and "Before You Go" are all in mono, there's an early version of "Ain't It Amazing Gracie," and "Act Naturally" is live, so they're familiar enough to not feel jarring and they do provide the core of a collection that winds up wandering into some pretty interesting territory.