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This album was unusual on several counts. For starters, it was a soundtrack (for Sam Peckinpah's movie of the same title), a first venture of its kind for Bob Dylan. For another, it was Dylan's first new LP in three years – he hadn't been heard from in any form other than the single "George Jackson," his appearance at the Bangladesh benefit concert in 1971, in all of that time…

The story goes that the legendary Huey P. Meaux, the self-described "Crazy Cajun," figured a band that combined Cajun musical sensibilities with the then dominant and popular British Invasion sound might go over big on the pop charts (no one can say that Meaux, offbeat as he was, didn't have prescient vision). Enter Doug Sahm and the Sir Douglas Quintet were born. Recording for Meaux's Pacemaker and Tribe imprints, the Quintet mixed a garage band approach and some British jangle with informed bits of conjunto, R&B, Cajun, country, and blues elements to create an amazingly fresh and accessible hybrid that prefigured the roots-driven Americana movement of the 1990s by three decades. Meaux packaged up the group's various singles for his labels in 1965 and released them on an LP called The Best of the Sir Douglas Quintet, which – along with some additional material from the time period – forms the basis for this CD collection.

Limited Edition 2009 three CD set from the Australian rockers containing their first three releases: The Axman's Jazz (1984), Sour Mash (1989) and Black Milk (1990). Over their lifetime, the Beasts Of Bourbon have delivered seven albums of excoriating low-life Rock 'n' Roll and have carved their name indelibly in Australian folklore cementing themselves a one Of Australia's true supergroups…