Assorted Best Of Jazz Vol 81 - A Handful Of Great Jazz Guitar Players Vol 06
Just Walkin' (1955-2018)
Welcome to my compilations of great Blues, R&B, Soul, Gospel, Jazz, Rockabilly, Early Rock & Roll, Hillbilly & Country music.
Assorted Best Of Jazz Vol 81 - A Handful Of Great Jazz Guitar Players Vol 06
Just Walkin' (1955-2018)
Blues, R&B, Soul & Gospel Records Vol 66 (1948-2022)
The Best Of Country, Pre-War & Acoustic Blues Vol 68
I'm A Crawling King Snake
Blues, R&B, Soul & Gospel Records Vol 65 (1954-2022)
Soul Party Vol 73 - Without A Heart
Blues, R&B, Soul & Gospel Records Vol 64 (1947-1972)
Rockabilly & Early Rock & Roll Recordings Vol 82
706 Union Avenue Vol 02 - I Feel Like Rockin'
Blues, R&B, Soul & Gospel Records Vol 63 (1940-2022)
A chatbox where we can post comments and have discussions on artists & songs. However, if you just want to say thank you for a particular post then please continue using the usual comment box located below each post.
Blues, R&B, Soul & Gospel Records Volume 62 today brings you 21 great tracks dating from 1956 to 1988. As usual a mixed bag of goodies: blues/R&B artists like Johnny Guitar Watson, Bobby Blue Bland, Roebuck Staples, Little Milton & Syl Johnson, to bluesy jazz from Jimmy Smith, Gene Harris & Freddie Hubbard, plus some soul & gospel to round it off.
And Assorted Hillbilly & Country Recordings Vol 119 presents the forth volume in "Train Track Shuffle" titled "Pan American Boogie". A fine mix of artists here, which includes The Carter Family, Grandpa Jones, Roy Acuff, Johnny Cash, The Monroe Brothers, Rhonda Vincent, James Luther Dickinson along with several other great performers.
It's interesting making up these compilations according to themes as there's so much similarity between the white Hillbilly/Country and the black Country/Pre-War/Acoustic Blues. Both deal frequently with riding trains, having broken hearts, sitting drinking because of broken hearts, feeling sad & lonesome, traveling around from town to town, having bad cases of the blues, singing about Jesus and heaven. Much of the early Hillbilly music was very bluesy, and certainly many of the early blues singers were influenced by the white Country/Hillbilly singers they heard on the radios, and saw singing in films at the local cinemas.
Also as I've mentioned before I make these compilations up in batches, usually batches of 10 or 12 volumes in each genre. When the next batch begins, in about a month, you'll notice a slight change in the titles, which have become rather lengthy, so I've cut them down a bit. For example "Assorted Hillbilly & Country Recordings" will become "Hillbilly & Country", likewise other genres will lose "Assorted" and "Recordings" from their titles.
I'm pleased to report that 'Bob's Cellar' has taken off nicely, most of the old team from 'The Buzzment' have dropped by to share a few things. So don't forget to regularly check it out and help yourselves to whatever takes your fancy. Also don't forget to thank the posters. It only take a few seconds to type "thank you..." and it means a lot to the person who has spent considerable time ripping an album and uploading it. And if you have any requests then fire away, whatever your want list, there's a good chance one of us will have it. Also remember that everyone is invited to share something. So if you have an album that you think others would like to hear then by all means post a link in "The Cellar".
As always my friends, dig in and dig the great music available here.
Assorted Hillbilly & Country Recordings Vol 119
Train Track Shuffle Vol 04 - Pan American Boogie
Blues, R&B, Soul & Gospel Records Vol 62 (1956-1988)
Assorted Best Of Jazz Vol 80 - Women In Jazz Vol 04
Blues On Mars (1958-2024)
Blues, R&B, Soul & Gospel Records Vol 61 (1954-2022)
The Best Of Country, Pre-War & Acoustic Blues Vol 67
He's In The Jailhouse Now
Blues, R&B, Soul & Gospel Records Vol 60 (1968-2020)
Soul Party Vol 72 - Chains Of Fools
Blues, R&B, Soul & Gospel Records Vol 59 (1960-2022)
Rockabilly & Early Rock & Roll Recordings Vol 81
Cadillacs & Hot Rods Vol 02 - Hot Rod Boogie
Blues, R&B, Soul & Gospel Records Vol 58 (1941-1988)
Sunrise over NW Australia
Well, greetings from Perth, Western Australia. I arrived back here yesterday morning and have been flat out shopping and cleaning. Also it was a night flight from Bangkok to Perth and I just can't sleep sitting up on a plane, so I missed out of Friday night's sleep. Last night however (Saturday), after a few beers, I had the most wonderful night's sleep.
A few people have asked me what happened with The Basement/Buzzment. When I first set it up many moons ago the idea was for it to be a simple chatbox or comment page, like many other blogs have, where you can make requests and post links to albums you wish to share with others. However, it soon morphed into a whole new blog, which I had very little involvement in as I already have my own blog. But, last week it all came to an end as the team who were running it decided to move on to other things. They did an excellent job and shared lots of interesting things with us. I certainly picked up a few albums for my own collection. So I'd like to wish them all the best and thank them for the great job they did.
Anyway, The Buzzment was closed and I have now returned to my original plan of having a simple comment page where you can make requests and post links to albums you wish to share with others. You'll find the link on the right to "Bob's Cellar", there are already a few good things there, so have a look and help yourselves. Don't forget this is open for anyone to share, and any genre, so if you have an album you think others will enjoy just upload it to one of the many free file hosting sites that are available and put the link in the comments in Bob's Cellar.
Assorted Hillbilly & Country Recordings Vol 118
Duos & Trios Vol 02 - The Right Combination
Blues, R&B, Soul & Gospel Records Vol 57 (1953-2004)
A chatbox where we can post comments and have discussions on artists & songs. However, if you just want to say thank you for a particular post then please continue using the usual comment box located below each post.
Up until recently only the "Blues, R&B, Soul & Gospel Records" compilations have the year of the recording given for each track, however you may have noticed that now the jazz compilations also have the years added. With all the new batches of compilations that I'm currently compiling I'm now including the recording year for all tracks. So, the good news is in the future every compilation will have the recording years given with the track titles. The bad news is it's probably going to take about a year before they begin to appear on the blog as I have many compilations made up in advance waiting their turns to be posted.
Anyway, I'm sure you'll all agree that providing the recording year for each track is a good step forward and will make the compilations more interesting, especially the rare and old historical recordings.
Also you probably all know that the blog is now public again. So feel free to inform your friends and pass the word around. The blog is open to all, no registering and no password required. Everyone is welcome. Here's the blog address again: https://countrybluessoul.blogspot.com
Here today are 2 more compilations for your listening pleasure: "Blues, R&B, Soul & Gospel Records Vol 56", with 21 tracks from 1947 to 2022 by Dinah Washington, Wild Child Butler, Ray Charles, Ruth Brown, Eartha Kitt, and several other fine blues/R&B/Soul performers.
And "Assorted Best Of Jazz Vol 79" today puts the spotlight on a handful of jazz bass players with recordings from 1952 to 2023. Among the greats featured here are: Charles Mingus, Joe Chambers, Ray Brown, Jaco Pastorius, Wendell Marshall, Milt Hinton, along with a few lesser known players.
This Friday I'll be flying down to Perth for a few weeks break, so I'll probably won't post again for some days. I'll try get the next post up by Sunday.
As always my friends dig in and enjoy the music.
Assorted Best Of Jazz Vol 79 - A Handful Of Great Jazz Bass Players Vol 01
Polka's Playtime (1952-2023)
Blues, R&B, Soul & Gospel Records Vol 56 (1947-2022)
The Best Of Country, Pre-War & Acoustic Blues Vol 66
Bottleneck & Slide Vol 01 - You've Got To Move
Blues, R&B, Soul & Gospel Records Vol 55 (1947-2017)
Soul Party Vol 71 - Happy In Love Vol 01 - Hold On To What We've Got
Blues, R&B, Soul & Gospel Records Vol 54 (1964-1979)
Rockabilly & Early Rock & Roll Recordings Vol 80
Rock & Roll Party Vol 02 - Rip It Up
Blues, R&B, Soul & Gospel Records Vol 53 (1942-2012)
Assorted Hillbilly & Country Recordings Vol 117 - Cowgirls Get The Blues Vol 02
Down The Trail Of Archin' Hearts
Blues, R&B, Soul & Gospel Records Vol 52 (1953-2022)