Part Three of the most comprehensive history EVER of electrified blues on 12 electrifying CDs!Every significant artist... every significant recording from the 1930s to the present day, including T-Bone Walker, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, George Thorogood, and Freddie, B. B. and Albert King, Jeff Beck, Fleetwood Mac, Charlie Musselwhite, Johnny Winter, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, and literally hundreds more! In all, fifteen-and-a-half hours!Compiled and annotated by renowned blues expert, Bill Dahl.Every 3-CD set comes with a 160-page booklet including biographies, illustrations, original release info, and rare photos!Cross-licensed from every record company to be truly comprehensive!Blues historian and musicologist, Bill Dahl from Chicago, has produced the most comprehensive history of electric blues... ever! With nearly 300 tracks, Bear Family Records is telling the story from the beginning into the new millennium. In the 1930s, the invention of Gibson's ES-150 - the first electric guitar - changed popular music forever. The first generation of blues pioneers played acoustic instruments, but with the invention of amplification, guitar and harmonica players could be heard over the piano, drums and horns. Music was revolutionized!The 12 generously full CDs are in four sets of three CDs in elegant digipaks. On more than 650 pages in four lavishly illustrated booklets, Bill Dahl writes authoritatively about the history of electric blues, and how it influenced rock music during the 1960s and beyond. Here's the complete story from jazz-inspired jump numbers in the late 1930s to hard-driving blues/rock from the States and Great Britain in the 1960s, '70s, and beyond. The journey closes with today's contemporary blues. This is it! Truly definitive! Done as only Bear Family can do it!
J**M
Maybe the best collection ever put together covering the blues
Maybe the best collection ever put together covering the blues. Of course with such a big history it is easy to pick out things I would have included but then the series might be 60 CD's. My suggestion is buying the series backwards as to the newest stuff first and work one's self back to the earliest collection. A good sampling of electric blues history. Some does come close to that rock/blues line on the 3rd collection but is part of blues history and needed to be included. Purists may disagree. Throw it on your whatever music source, on your the back porch or patio and you have a good start to an enjoyable afternoon. Did I hear American (It is American music) micro beers and top shelf bourbon?
R**N
... really dig this compilation and the rest of the fantastic 4 piece companion set
I really dig this compilation and the rest of the fantastic 4 piece companion set.A must have if you really love the Blues.
E**T
Five Stars
FANTASTIC collection, I kept catching myself, checking the song and singer on all three CD's. I am loving it!
L**C
Some hip sounds
I bought this set for my husband for Christmas and he is really diggin it....am happy with all the recordings something I was worried about
R**G
Awesome. Thanks
Kool. Awesome. Thanks.
S**6
my cup of tea
excellent
P**E
Five Stars
great anthology, love it
A**O
Buena Colección
Buena selección de temas de blues. A lo largo de los cuatro volúmenes aprecias la evolución del Blues con los años, así como la forma tan diferente de interpretarlo por parte de los músicos blancos ( especialmente los ingleses ). Muchos temas son clásicos y reconocibles por todos y todos forman parte de la cara amable del Blues, sin temas áridos. Una buena colección para iniciarse en el Blues.Sólo un pero, falta Willie Dixon , para mí el renovador e impulsor del Blues en los años cincuenta y sesenta. Sí está presente en algunos temas compuestos por él pero interpretados por otros artistas. Dixon fue músico, compositor, productor, mecenas , acompañante con su bajo...bien merecía unos cuantos temas en la colección.En este volumen se aprecian las diferencias entre el blues negro y el blanco.
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