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Artist: Various Title: East Virginia Blues- The Appalachian Roots of the Blues Selection Number: 82876-60085-2 List Price: $13.98 Street Date: June 22, 2004
Artist: Various Title: Sacred Roots of the Blues Selection Number: 82876-60084-2 List Price: $13.98 Street Date: June 22, 2004
When The Sun Goes Down is a bold look at how the roots of rock & roll, r&b, soul, folk and country were all indelibly influenced by these early classics. The CD series features hundreds of the definitive songs by some of the century's most inventive artists. Each disc in the series concentrates on an exciting, wide-ranging listening experience and is painstakingly re-mastered to extraordinary fidelity.
"...the historic recordings on When The Sun Goes Down... could take blues collectors a lifetime to track down.. the sound quality is excellent, as are the song-by-song liner notes. It all makes for an entertaining blues history lesson." -ASSOCIATED PRESS
[East Virginia Blues] Folk music from Appalachia, rooted in hymnody and parlor ballads, brought the sound of black and white America together proving to be a solid foundation for what later became honky tonk and literally prefiguring rock 'n' roll.
[Sacred Roots of the Blues] The same sentiments captured in early blues were previously sent on-high via the spirited, emotional language of gospel music, a genre that quietly yet significantly has affected R&B, soul, and later rock & roll; but in the end, it's simply music that stirs the soul.
East Virginia Blues includes 25 tracks of classic Appalachian songs "Orange Blossom Special" and "Tom Dooley," and a NEVER-BEFORE-ISSUED recording of "Constant Sorrow" (made famous on the soundtrack Oh Brother Where Art Thou?). Fantastic artist list including The Carter Family, Jimmie Rogers, and Gene Autry, as well as more obscure recordings such as Roy Shaffer doing the Blind Lemon Jefferson song "Matchbox Blues." Sacred
Roots of the Blues includes key early gospel recording artists Paul Robeson
and Marian Anderson, as well as an amazing version of "Poor Mourner"
by the Dinwiddie Colored Quartette recorded in 1902! |
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