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Ruby Short and his Dragsters - Hot Rodders Battle Rock and Roll ['64]
More Hot Rod sounds on Surfadelic. This time you got to deal with this pretty rare all instro 60's Lp by RUBY SHORT ?!? [not the guy on cover pic :-)] and his crew. It features sax driven, organ...
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IT CAME FROM THE BEACH - Surf, Drag And Rockin' Instros From Downey Records
Downey Records has a place in surf music history for releasing the Chantays' hit "Pipeline" alone, though that single didn't become a smash until it and the group were sold to Dot Records. This...
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CHUCK BERRY - The Chess Box [3xCD]
Over the course of three compact discs, The Chess Box contains most of the highlights from Chuck Berry's career, including all of the hit singles. In addition to the familiar items, which are all...
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JERRY COLE And His SPACEMEN - Hot Rod Dance Party [1964]
 As one of the busiest and most versatile session guitarists of the '60s, Jerry Cole recorded with a litany of legends, including Phil Spector, the Beach Boys and the Byrds. But to those in the know,...
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THE ECSTASY OF GOLD Vol.1-23 Killer Bullets from the Spaghetti West
A killer batch of Spaghetti Western soundtrack grooves – one that features some of the coolest and most representative sounds of the genre – by the Italian composers who both invented and perfected the...
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CHUCK BERRY - St. Louis To Liverpool [1964]
Chuck Berry spent much of 1962 and all of 1963 in jail after being convicted on a Mann Act charge. When he emerged in January of 1964, the popular music landscape had been forever changed by the...
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THE ECSTASY OF GOLD Vol.2-22 Killer Bullets from the Spaghetti West
A second round in the Ecstasy Of Gold series of groovy Spaghetti Western soundtrack treasures – a full chamber of scorchers by the best of the best Italian soundtrack composers of the 60s & 70s –...
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CHUCK BERRY - Fresh Berry's [1965]
Chuck Berry's last album for Chess, for the next four years, has him back in the U.S., and running smack into the mid-'60s blues revival, playing with the likes of Paul Butterfield and Mike Bloomfield...
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THE ECSTASY OF GOLD Vol.3-25 Killer Bullets from the Spaghetti West
A third sureshot selection of prime Spaghetti Western soundtrack gems on the Semi Automatic label – mostly galloping, groovy instrumentals and dusty title themes, but with some vocal bits, too – in a...
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CHUCK BERRY - Rockin' At The Hops [1960]
The two classic cuts that bookend this album should be enough to attract the uninitiated -- Berry at his best wrote danceable little "vest-pocket" screenplays dealing with teen life, of which "Bye Bye...
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NAMELOSERS - Fabulous Sounds From Southern Sweden [1964-1966]
The Namelosers were among the rowdier mid-Swedish '60s bands, heavily influenced by the British Invasion sounds of the Rolling Stones, Who, and Beatles. Unfortunately, their recorded repertoire...
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JERRY McCAIN - Choo Choo Rock [Unreleased Recordings 1956/57]
Jerry McCain is an inexplicably obscure Alabama-born harmonica player who was most active in the 1950s. His first recordings were on Trumpet Records for Lillian McMurray (who also discovered Elmore...
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CHUCK BERRY - Chuck Berry Is On Top [1959]
If you had to sweat all of Chuck Berry's early albums on Chess (and some, but not all, of his subsequent greatest-hits packages), this would be the one to own. The song lineup is exemplary, cobbling...
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JAMES BROWN - Jump Around With [1962] Vinyl Rip!!!
Originally issued in 1962, Jump Around is a reissue of the hard hitting King Records instrumental compilation Night Train from 1961 featuring six tracks from James Brown and company including "Hold...
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HOWLIN' WOLF - The Real Folk Blues [1966] Vinyl Rip!!!
This was originally released by Chess in 1966 to capitalize on the then-current folk music boom. The music, however -- a collection of Howlin' Wolf singles from 1956 to 1966 -- is full-blown electric,...
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MUDDY WATERS - Mud In Your Ear [1973] Vinyl Rip!!!
Pretty interesting and somehow overlooked electric Chicago blues Lp recorded by Muddy Waters Blues Band [mostly] without the boss himself. Well, owing to his contractual obligations, Muddy Waters...
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THE KAISERS - A Sides & B Sides [1996-1999]
The Kaisers was a Scottish garage beat revival band formed in 1992 in Edinburgh, Scotland. The band recorded several albums and singles under a number of record labels, including No-Hit Records,...
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DON & THE GOODTIMES - Original Northwest Sound Of [1964 - 66]
Although Don & the Goodtimes continued to record until 1968 or so, this 25-song anthology focuses exclusively on what most fans would agree was their prime era, 1964-1966. The group might be...
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PRESTON EPPS - Bongo Bongo Bongo [1960]
Besides Sandy Nelson's "Teen Beat," can you name another instrumental rock & roll hit from the '50s that features the drums as its lead instrument? The answer is Preston Epps'"Bongo Rock," which...
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