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Conference mr1pst::music

Title:MUSIC V4
Notice:New Noters please read Note 1.*, Mod = someone else
Moderator:KDX200::COOPER
Created:Wed Oct 09 1991
Last Modified:Tue Mar 12 1996
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:762
Total number of notes:18706

559.0. "Blues boxed set suggestions?" by PINION::BUREK () Fri Nov 19 1993 15:19

    
    
    I'm looking for suggestions for boxed sets of blues CDs.
    
    My brother-in-law is a big blues fan (old and new stuff) and I was
    hoping to buy him a boxed set for Xmas.  I would like to get a boxed
    set with various artists.
    
    Any suggestions???
    
    Thanks, Rick
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559.1TAMRC::LAURENTHal Laurent @ COPFri Nov 19 1993 15:218
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>    I'm looking for suggestions for boxed sets of blues CDs.
    
You might want to ask in AKOFIN::AFTER_HOURS (the blues and R&B 
conference).

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559.2load up the carousel & listen all dayEZ2GET::STEWARTLife is a contact sport!Fri Nov 19 1993 16:176
    
    
    Atlantic issued an 8 or 9 volume set titled "Atlantic Rhythm and Blues
    1947-1974" that contains lots of great stuff.
559.3MSDOA::PWHEELERGet Yer Ya Yas OutFri Nov 19 1993 16:458
    
     Alligator put out a 20th anniversary 2 CD set a year or so ago 
    that is a great collection of modern blues. A good variety, everybody
    from Johnny Winter to Professor Longhair to Koko Taylor to Roy
    Buchanan. It was selling for under $15 every time i've seen it
    in the stores.
    
     Paul W.
559.4"The Blues: Smithsonian Collection of Classic Blues Singers"LEZAH::CLARKMon Nov 22 1993 09:4119
>    My brother-in-law is a big blues fan (old and new stuff) and I was
>    hoping to buy him a boxed set for Xmas.  I would like to get a boxed
>    set with various artists.

  See the "sampler" topic in AFTER_HOURS for a little bit of description of
  the new Smithsonian 4-CD set "The Blues".  This strikes me as a good set
  for someone who's already an "expert" and owns a lot of stuff.  It's only
  glaring omission is that B.B. King wouldn't license them his stuff --
  mostly everyone else you'd expect is there, and some of the material is
  not yet otherwise available on CD.  Great booklet w/ liner notes, very
  well done.  In the Boston area, it's available at Tower Records and
  Newbury Comics.
  
  The Atlantic R&B set mentioned in .-2 is great, but it is R&Bish variants
  of blues (Ray Charles, Joe Turner, Aretha, Otis Redding, etc.).  Fine if
  that's what you want.

  Your friend probably is already well aware of the 15 single-CD volumes of
  Rhino's "Blues Masters" series.    - Jay
559.5PINION::BUREKMon Nov 22 1993 13:106
    
    
    Many thanks!
    
    Rick