Established in 1950, Elektra spent its first decade signing folk artists, fast becoming the chief competition of the most successful folk label at the time, Vanguard. Forever Changing begins in the early-ΓÇÿ60s when a new flock of folk music troubadours and vagabonds nested in coffeehouses and festivals.
The label changed with the times, stretching in different directions and experimenting with artists and music that were wholly un-commercial. The good, bad, strange, and sublime are all present and accounted for across these five discs.
(Christian John Wikane, popmatters.com)
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VA - Forever Changing- Golden Age of Elektra 1963-1973
(5CD Rhino 2007
1. Turn! Turn! Turn! / To Everything There Is A Session - Judy Collins
2. He Was A Friend - Dian & The Greenbriar Boys
3. High Flying Bird - Judy Henske
4. Dink's Song (Fare Thee Well) - Bob Gibson
5. Casey - Dick Rosmini
6. Shady Grove - Dick Rosmini
7. Little Brown Dog - Dick Rosmini
8. Linin' Track - Koerner, Ray & Glover
9. Wild Child In A World Of Trouble - Vince Martin & Fred Neil
10. Wild Child In A World Of Trouble - Vince Martin & Fred Neil
11. Good Luck Child - 'Spider' John Koerner
12. Downtown Blues - Geoff Muldaur
13. I Ain't Marching Anymore - Phil Ochs
14. The Last Thing On My Mind - Tom Paxton
15. Pride Of Man - Hamilton Camp
16. Tommorrow Is A Long Time - Judy Collins
17. Black Mountain Rag - The Dillards
18. Green Rocky Road - Kathy & Carol
19. Cocaine - Phil Boroff
20. House Un-American Blues Activity Dream - Richard Farina
21. West Egg Rag - Dave Ray
22. Two Trains Running - Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis
23. Breeze - Oliver Smith
24. Joshua Gone Barbados - Tom Rush
25. Other Side To This Life - Fred Neil
26. Birdses - Dino Valente
27. Blues With A Feeling - The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
28. Moonlight Drive - The Doors
29. My Little Red Book - Love
30. Wings - Tim Buckley
31. So Easy She Goes By - David Blue
32. I Got A Mind To Give Up Living - The Butterfield Blues Band
33. The Magic Carpet - Pat Kilroy
34. First Girl I Loved - The Incredible String Band
35. The Invisible Backwards-Facing Grocer Who Rose To Fame - Alasdair Clayre
36. One Time And One Time Only (Electric Version) - Tom Paxton
37. Changes - Phil Ochs
38. Hard Lovin' Loser - Judy Collins
39. Shes Comes In Colors - Love
40. Light My Fire - The Doors
41. Black Roses - Clear Light
42. Once I Was - Tim Buckley
43. Virgo - The Zodiac
44. Buy For Me The Rain - Steve Noonan
45. Nevertheless - Eclection
46. Fields Of People - Ars Nova
47. Dame Fortune - The Oly Modal Rounders
48. Girl Of The Seasons - Bamboo
49. Magazine Lady - 'Spider' John Koerner
50. The Red Sox Are Winning - Earth Opera
51. I Want You - The Waphphle
52. Alone Again Or - Love
53. Both Sides Now - Judy Collins
54. No Regrets - Tom Rush
55. Jennifer's Rabbit - Tom Paxton
56. Swift As The Wind - The Incredible String Band
57. Frozen Warnings - Nico
58. Down River - David Ackles
59. Mad Lydia's Waltz - Earth Opera
60. Sing A Song For You - Tim Buckley
61. The Sun Comes Up Each Day - David Stoughton
62. Early Morning Blues & Greens - Diane Hildebrand
63. She Sang Hymns Out Of Tune - The Dillards
64. Arthur Comics - Stalk-Forrest Group
65. Five To One - The Doors
66. Apricot Brandy - Rhinoceros
67. When The Battle Is Over - Delaney & Bonnie And Friends
68. Mt. Healty Blues - Lonnie Mack
69. Kick Out The Jams - MC5
70. I Wanna Be Your Dog - The Stooges
71. Go Back - Crabby Appleton
72. Dismal Day - Bread
73. August - Love
74. Down On The Street (Single Version) - The Stooges
75. Louise - Paul Siebel
76. Amazing Grace - Judy Collins
77. That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be - Carly Simon
78. Riders On The Storm - The Doors
79. The Future's Not What It Used To Be - Mickey Newbury
80. Start Living - Farquahr
81. Taxi - Harry Chapin
82. True Story Of Amelia Earhart - Plainsong
83. I Hardly Know Her Name - The Wackers
84. Ballad Of The Ship Of State - David Ackles
85. The Guitar Man - Bread
86. You're So Vain - Carly Simon
87. You Don't Grow Old - Courtland Pickett
88. Dolphins - Cyrus Faryar
89. Shadows On The Wall - Hamid Hamilton Camp
90. Burning Love - Dennis Linde
91. Keep Yourself Alive - Queen
92. Wind Chimes - WIND CHIMES
93. Don't Be Long - The Beefeaters
94. I'll Be Back - Joshua Rifkin
95. Baldheaded End Of The Broom - Don't Be Long
96. We Shall Be Happy - Joseph Spence
97. Good Time Music - The Lovin' Spoonful
98. Good Time Music - The Lovin' Spoonful
99. Crossroads - Eric Clapton & The Powerhouse
100. I'll Keep It With Mine - Judy Collins
101. She A Woman - The Charles River Valley Boys
102. Sunshine Sunshine - Tom Rush
103. Bird Song - The Holy Modal Rounders
104. She's Ready To Be Free - Clear Light
105. Wayfaring Stranger - Tim Buckley
106. Laissez-Faire - David Ackles
107. Alphabet Song - David Peel & The Lower East Side
108. Voodoo Woman - Simon Stokes & The Nighthawks
109. Please (Mark II) - Eclection
110. Flames (Single Version) - Leviathon
111. No Words Between Us - Show Of Hands
112. Listening To Music - Jack S. Margolis
113. Lotus - The Rainbow Band
114. The Persecution & Restoration Of Dean Moriarty - Aztec Two-Step
115. P.O.W. - Goodthunder
116. All Around My Grandmother's Floor - Andy Roberts
117. World Without End - Jobriath
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John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts 2013 - Deluxe 2CD Edition
Second studio album from the former Czars frontman John Grant. Featuring the title track 'Pale Green Ghosts' and ten further brand new songs, the album entered the UK Albums Chart at no.16. The title refers to the Russian olive trees that grow alongside the I-25 highway near Grant's home in Parker, Colorado. This deluxe edition includes a second disc of remixes. Recorded in Iceland with a cameo by Sinead O'Connor. (amazon.com)
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John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts 2013 - Deluxe 2CD Edition
(Bella Union)
1. Pale green ghosts
2. Black belt
3. GMF
4. Vietnam
5. It doesn't matter to him
6. Why don't you love me anymore
7. You don't have to
8. Sensitive new age guy
9. Ernest borgnine
10. I hate this town
11. Glacier
12. Black belt (Hercules & Love Affair rmx)
13. Black belt (Gluteus Maximus Vocal rmx)
14. Pale green ghosts (Nivolt rmx)
15. Pale green ghosts (No Ceremony /// rmx)
16. Why don't you love me (Nivolt rmx)
17. Why don't you love me (Bon Homme rmx)
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Ghost - Infestissumam 2013
Ghost is a Swedish heavy metal band, formed in Linköping in 2008. In 2010 they released their debut full-length album Opus Eponymous. The Grammis-nominated album was widely praised and increased their popularity significantly.
Ghost are often recognized due to their eccentric on-stage presence. Five of the group’s six members wear hooded robes, while the vocalist appears in a skull mask and a cardinal outfit. The band is highly secretive in nature and has kept their identities unknown. (hasitleaked.com)
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Ghost - Infestissumam 2013
(Sonet)
1. Infestissumam
2. Per aspera ad inferi
3. Secular haze
4. Jigolo har megiddo
5. Ghuleh / Zombie queen
6. Year zero
7. Idolatrine
8. Body and blood
9. Depth of satans eyes
10. Monstrance clock
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Free Fall - Power and volume 2013
2013 debut album from the Swedish rockers featuring guitarist Mattias Bärjed (Soundtrack Of Our Lives) and drummer Ludwig Dahlberg (The International Noise Conspiracy). The band plays a personally composed ‘Freedom Rock’ that swings hard with an energetic, authoritarian and uncompromising sound. (amazon.com)
Free Fall seem to have made the perfect start with this album. The four-piece, one-guitar lineup is the ultimate epitome of a classic heavy rock band, and with this exact type of lineup, Free Fall do things in the right earnest. For fans of classic hard rock, Free Fall’s ‘Power & Volume’ is an absolute must. A fantastic debut without a doubt!
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Free Fall - Power and Volume 2013
(Nuclear Blast)
1. Power & Volume
2. Free Fall
3. Midnight Vulture
4. Top Of The World
5. Attila
6. World Domination
7. Love Bombing
8. Damnation
9. Meriola Blues
10. Meat
11. Change Coming
12. Yeah
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Hardcore Superstar - C\'mon take on me 2013
2013 album from the Swedish Metal quartet. Many bands play it safe. Hardcore Superstar do not. They had the guts to marry two styles that grew up hating each other - Thrash Metal and Sleaze Rock. The former hard, aggressive and ugly, the latter catchy, melodic and decadent. The bastard child s name? Street metal! C mon Take On Me is produced by the band and mixed by no less a figure than Randy Staub (Metallica, Mötley Crüe, The Cult), slapping you in the face like a highly-energized slab of Crüe and Poison. (amazon.com)
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Hardcore Superstar - C\'mon take on me 2013
(Gain)
1. Cutting The Slack
2. C\'mon Take On Me
3. One More Minute
4. Above The Law
5. Are You Gonna Cry Now
6. Stranger Of Mine
7. Won\'t Take The Blame (part 1)
8. Won\'t Take The Blame (part 2)
9. Dead Man\'s Shoes
10. Because Of You
11. Too Much Business
12. Long Time No See
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Petter - Borjan pa allt 2013
Femton år efter debutalbumet har Petter inte tappat bort sig bland enkla formuleringar, politiska värderingar och introspektiva sanningar. Tvärtom är det detta som kännetecknar hans musik och som gör honom ständigt aktuell. På Början på allt har han bland annat tagit hjälp av Daniel Adams Ray och Salem Al Fakir, vilket skapar en popigare ljudbild. Här finns färre hitlåtar och mer integritet. Modet att vara uppriktig väger tyngre än avsaknaden av medryckande beats och genom sina brinnande texter visar Petter att han på långa vägar inte är klar med hiphopen ännu. (digitallife.se)
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Petter - Början på allt 2013
(Baba Recordings)
1. Mighty med Newkid
2. Början på allt med Eye-N-I
3. Natt & dag med Chords
4. April
5. Håll om mig med Daniel Adams-Ray
6. Tills döden skiljer oss åt
7. King med Lilla Namo
8. Maj
9. Arbete
10. Alla vet med Agnes
11. Fristad
12. Juni
13. Sitter på en dröm
14. Minnen del 2
15. Släpp mig fri
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Miss Li - Wolves - 2CD 2013
Nya albumet Wolves + Bonus CD med tolkningarna från Så mycket bättre.
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Hennes frenetiska kabaretpop från de första albumen är långt borta, tack och lov, och Miss Li modell 2013 låter på många sätt radikalt annorlunda än vad hon gjorde under den intensiva perioden 2006 och 2007 då hon fullkomligt sprutade ur sig skivor.
Musiken på Wolves känns vuxnare, mognare, mörkare. Avslutande The room ekar närmast ödesmättat och i en låt som Russian roulette, bäst på plattan tillsammans med snygga öppningsspåret Spaceship, påminner Miss Li mycket om Marissa Nadler och hur Kate Bush lät på det sena 80-talet (The sensual world) men utan att tappa något av de kännetecken som hon gjort till sina, nerven, drivet, den säregna rösten.
(Jan Andersson i gp.se)
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Miss Li - Wolves - 2CD 2013
(National)
1. Spaceship
2. Sugar coma
3. Transformer
4. Dancing in the dark
5. Happy birthday
6. Black widow
7. Russian roulette
8. Interlude
9. The room
10. Här kommer natten
11. Nåt för dom som väntar
12. Under isen (ligger himlen)
13. 1:a gången
14. När tåget går
15. No one sleeps when I\'m awake
16. Lovekiller
17. Somebody loves you
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Ansiktet - Dennyarnbmannen 2013
En lång klagosång om den nya r&b-mannens underlägsenhet och hur illa Baby beter sig. Hon vill bara knulla, går över alla gränser, kväver och sätter sig över andra, gör honom sinnessjuk, låter honom gå ett extra varv runt kvarteret medan hon ligger med andra. Ansiktet konstaterar att ’hon har ett varmt hjärta, men ger kalla kårar’ och hade de haft någon moral så skulle de ha gått. Musiken bär en oproblematiserad moralism: ’när hon bryter normer knakar det i samhällskroppen’. Den dubbeltydiga För stor (som i sin mest explicita tolkning handlar om en alldeles för stor fitta) är en 2013 års variant av Snooks gamla Längst fram i taxin framförd av Fråga Olle och påminner om att Ansiktets r&b alltid vilar balanserandes på en knivsegg mellan seriös, blottlagd skam och plojtolkning av R Kellys snuskigaste. Produktionsmässigt är det här lysande. Sångmässigt likaså. (nojesguiden.se)
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Ansiktet - Dennyarnbmannen 2013
(Universal)
1. Mingla
2. För Stor
3. 666
4. Låtsas Som Inget Hänt
5. Over Mig
6. Nprpt
7. Stanna Kvar
8. Ackligt
9. Singel
10. X
11. Någon Annan
12. Vi Drar
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Hastpojken - En magisk tanke 2013
Hästpojken kombinerar ytterligheter och är mjuk och rakbladsvass på samma gång. Skör, nästan vek, men också fylld med atombombskraft.
Nya ’En magisk tanke’ har kanske inte riktigt samma intensitet som ’Från där jag ropar’. Men kompenserar det med en större sensibilitet. Och spår som Sommarvin, Huset vid ån och Olskroken stomp är oemotståndliga.
Hade det varit Håkan Hellström som gjort den här skivan - och det hade det kunnat vara - hade den ansetts vara en klassiker. (barometern.se)
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Hästpojken - En magisk tanke 2013
(Parlophone)
1. Sommarvin
2. Cruisers
3. Samma himlar
4. Något stort för dig
5. Brinner
6. Huset vid ån
7. Olskroken stomp
8. Imperial
9. Noll igen
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Yohio - Break the Border 2013
Yohio är sjuttonåringen som redan gjort stor succe i Japan med sitt otroliga gitarrspel och sina egna tolkningar av den japanska musikstilen visual kei. Han gick direkt till final i melodifestivalen med sin visuella show och här är hans debutalbum! (ginza.se)
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Yohio - Break the Border 2013
(Ninetones/Universal)
1. 2013 beginning of the end
2. My murdeous urge
3. Revolution
4. Heartbreak hotel
5. Our story
6. Sakura falling
7. Innocence
8. On the verge
9. Rain, A scene drenched in rain
10. Timescape
11. Aggressive beauty
12. Break the border
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Olle Ljungstrom - Slang in en clown 2013
Släng in en clown är, precis som förra albumet Sju, ett samarbete med parhästen Torsten Larsson. Olle skriver om spanjorer som fortfarande bär fez, världens minsta hund och en man som är 3,5 miljarder två komma två. Bland annat.
Allt är som vanligt, med andra ord. Eller, eftersom det är Olle Ljungström vi pratar om, alldeles ovanligt. (ginza.se)
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Olle Ljungström - Släng in en clown 2013
(Metronome)
1. Han kommer förbi
2. Kärlek och en balkong
3. Världen är så mycket bättre nu
4. Från a till dig (och tillbaks igen)
5. Vi låtsas att det regnar
6. Anna Karina
7. Släng in en clown
8. Dansa och dö
9. Man lever tills man dör
10. Jag vet att vi nån gång får va med om allt
11. Hallå! Bibi Andersson
12. Lalalalalalalalalala
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Magnus Uggla - Magnus Den Store 2013
Musiken från Magnus Ugglas krogshow Magnus Den Store på en CD inspelad live på plats. Låtarna är skrivna tillsammans med den ständige parhästen Anders Henriksson. Viljan att gång på gång återfödas som en ny artist, delvis eller helt väsensskild den tidigare, är i själva verket det enda som tålatt kallas konstant under Magnus Ugglas snart fyrtio år långa karriär. (ginza.se)
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Magnus Uggla - Magnus Den Store 2013
(Uggly Music)
1. Stäng av mobilen
2. Jag är jag
3. Nallebjörn
4. Vill inte ha dig
5. Tick tack
6. Alla flickor visslar
7. Leva med min afro
8. Arhundradets fest
9. Finalen
10. Montezumas hämnd
11. På egen hand
12. Jag och min far
13. Tycker om dig
14. Har hört om en tjej
15. Jag skiter i Amerika
16. Försvinn ur mitt liv
17. Vandrar i ett regn
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Alan Jackson - A Lot About Livin\' 1992
A Lot About Livin' (And a Little 'bout Love) is the third studio album by American country music artist Alan Jackson. It was released on October 9, 1992, and produced the singles Chattahoochee, She's Got the Rhythm (And I Got the Blues), Tonight I Climbed the Wall, (Who Says) You Can't Have It All and Mercury Blues. Chattahoochee and She's Got the Rhythm were both Number One hits on the Hot Country Songs charts, while the other three songs all reached Top Five. Keith Stegall produced the entire album, working with Scott Hendricks on Tonight I Climbed the Wall. (wikipedia)
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Alan Jackson - A Lot About Livin' 1992
(Sony Music 2011)
1. Chattohoochie
2. She's Got The Rythm, I Got The Blues
3. Tonight I Climbed The Wall
4. I Don't Need The Booze (To Get A Buzz On)
5. (Who Says) You Can't Have It All
6. Up To My Ears In Tears
7. Tropical Depresssion
8. She Likes It Too
9. If It Ain't One Thing (It's You)
10. Mercury Blues
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Bobby Bare - Lullabys, Legends and Lies 1973 - 2CD
This lovingly produced 2-CD set celebrates the prolific musical partnership of country legend Bobby Bare and folk singer-songwriter and provocative Playboy cartoonist Shel Silverstein. Bare’s classic 1973 concept album is here reissued along with a second disc of 16 alternately witty and insightful Silverstein songs from subsequent Bare albums on Columbia, Mercury and RCA. (recordcollectormag.com)
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Bobby Bare - Lullabys, Legends & Lies 1973 - 2CD
(Sony Music 2011)
1. Lullabys, Legends, and Lies
2. Paul
3. Marie Laveau
4. Daddy What If (& Bobby Bare Jr.)
5. The Wonderful Soup Stone
6. The Winner
7. Inthe Hills of Shiloh
8. She\'s My Ever Lovin\' Machine
9. The Mermaid
10. Rest Awhile
11. Bottomless Well
12. True Story
13. Sure Hit Songwriters Pen
14. Roasalie\'s Good Eats Café
15. Sylvia\'s Mother
16. Singin\' in the Kitchen
17. $100, 000 in Pennies
18. Alimony
19. Back Home in Huntsville Again
20. Brian Hennessey
21. Too Many Nights Alone
22. This Guitar Is for Sale
23. Rough on the Living
24. Numbers
25. Tequila Sheila
26. Qualudes Again
27. Food Blues
28. The Jogger
29. Me and Jimmy Rodgers
30. Time
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Ashbury Heights - Take Cair Paramour - 2CD 2010
Ashbury Heights is an electronic music band formed in 2005 in Sundsvall, Medelpad, Sweden. The group\'s original membership consisted of Anders Hagström (male vocals, songwriter, music, and programming) and Yasmine Uhlin (vocals). Yasmine left the band after the release of their EP, Morning Star In A Black Car, and was replaced by Kari Berg (female vocals) as lead female vocalist at the end of 2008.
The record Take Cair Paramour is the first record with Kari Berg as the lead female vocalist. The album was released on July 2, 2010. A limited edition of the album was also released, including a bonus CD with remixes, demos, and exclusive tracks. (wikipedia)
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Ashbury Heights - Take Cair Paramour - 2CD 2010
(Out Of Line)
1. Anti Ordinary
2. Beautiful Scum
3. Scars Of A Lighthouse
4. I Can Kill You So Easily
5. Hope
6. Crescendo
7. Shades Of Black
8. The Ashes In Her Breath
9. Night Creature
10. Medicine
11. Dancer’s Nocturne
12. Kingdom Confession
13. Unbearable Beauty
14. Invisible Man
15. Invisible Man - Electro Remix
16. Dark Clouds Gather Over Vanity Fair
17. Shades Of Black - Charriere Remix
18. Sensual Nothing - Exclusive Track
19. Unbearable Beauty - DeLorean Remix
20. Unbearable Beauty - Twisted Remix
21. Unbearable Beauty - Technological Remix
22. Traffic - TCP demo 2008
23. The Velvets - TCP Demo 2008
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Waylon Jennings - Honky Tonk Heroes 1973
Honky Tonk Heroes is a country music album by Waylon Jennings, released in 1973 on RCA Victor. With the exception of We Had It All, all of the songs on the album were written or co-written by Billy Joe Shaver. The album is considered an important piece in the development of the outlaw sub-genre in country music as it helped revive the honky tonk music of Nashville by injecting a rock and roll attitude. (wikipedia)
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Waylon Jennings - Honky Tonk Heroes 1973
(Sony Music 2011)
1. Honky Tonk Heroes
2. Old Five and Dimers (Like Me)
3. Willy the Wandering Gypsy and Me
4. Low Down Freedom
5. Omaha
6. You Ask Me to
7. Ride Me Down Easy
8. Ain't No God in Mexico
9. Black Rose
10. We Had It All
11. Slow Rollin' Low
12. You Ask Me to (Single Version)
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VA - Electric Blues 1939-2005 - 12CD-BOX 2011
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! (petsounds.se)
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VA - Electric Blues 1939-2005
(12CD Bear Family 2011)
VA - Electric Blues 1939-2005 Part 1- Beginnings 1939-1954 (Disc 1-3)
VA - Electric Blues 1939-2005 Part 2- 1954-1967 (Disc 4-6)
VA - Electric Blues 1939-2005 Part 3- 1960-1969 (Disc 7-9)
VA - Electric Blues 1939-2005 Part 4- 1970-2005 (Disc 10-12)
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Part one takes us from the beginnings in 1939 through 1954. The honor of the first example of electric blues guitar on record goes to Andy Kirk and His Twelve Clouds of Joy for Floyd Guitar Blues, recorded March 16, 1939 (Decca 2483). Close on their heels was T-Bone Walker, universally considered the father of electric blues, with his Mean Old World from July 1942. Over the course of this volume are more examples from Johnny Moores Three Blazers, Louis Jordan, Lightnin Hopkins, Sonny Boy Williamson, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin Wolf and many other luminaries, as well as regional phenoms such as Louisianas Bon Ton Clarence Garlow, and blues women including Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Big Mama Thornton, and Memphis Minnie. For many blues enthusiasts, or those eager to learn about the roots of electric blues and rock, this volume will likely be a favorite.
Part two, featuring post-war recordings from 1954-1967, covers an era when blues had become electric, loud, and in-your-face while lonesome southern bluesmen stroking acoustic axes were a dying breed. This era also saw the rise in manufacturing of electric guitars, the amplification of harmonicas, and of course the dominance of rock n roll. Dahl refers to this period as the golden age, with blues recordings emanating from all corners of the country. Major figures included in this set are B.B. King, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Sonny Boy Williamson, Jackie Brenston, Hank Ballard, Jimmy Reed, Little Milton, Earl Hooker, Memphis Slim, Ike Turner, Albert Collins, plus many more.
Part three covers 1960-1969, notable for the concept of the blues guitar hero and the emergence of a new generation of bluesmen and women, including British groups who pioneered a new form of blues-rock. Dahl attempts to showcase that tumultuous decades electric blues highlights over the course of the next three CDs in the series. Featured musicians on the first two discs include Buddy Guy, Freddie King, Junior Wells, Elmore James, Aretha Franklin, Mable John, Etta James, Koko Taylor, Albert King and Taj Mahal, while disc three is devoted to blues-rock with Johnny Winter, The Animals, Fleetwood Mac, and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, among others.
Part four features recordings from 1970-2005. According to Dahl, blues music was at a crossroads by 1970, a victim of the natural ebb and flow of musical tastes. Likewise, out of the four volumes, this one is the most likely to cause enthusiasts to quibble over the content. The first two discs span the 1970s, beginning with Ted Taylor, Al Green, B.B. King, Otis Rush, and Hound Dog Taylor, and slowly branching out to explore various permutations of folk-blues, blues-rock, and R&B through artists such as Ann Peebles, Denise LaSalle, Syl Johnson, Betty Lavette, ZZ Top, and Bonnie Rait. The final disc covers the 80s and early 90s through performers such as Stevie Ray Vaughan, Lonnie Brooks, Robert Cray and Buddy Guy. The final track fast forwards to a 2005 recording by Nick Moss, who Dahl hails as a savior of traditional Chicago blues, fully conversant on guitar, harmonica and bass, and capable of changing up his sound at regular intervals to keep things interesting, and to keep the blues alive for another generation.
This set is highly recommended for college and conservatory libraries, and would serve as a fine resource for courses on the blues.
Reviewed by Brenda Nelson-Strauss (blackgrooves.org)
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Skriet - Shanana 2013
Skriet passar alla. Till exempel singeln Det kommer en våg, är nästan åtta minuter lång där de första fem har ett dansbandsbeat och textrader som, vi pissade på liken och skrattade, innan låten faller samman i kaos med den upprepade refrängen som enda livboj. En annan låter som Albatross, och heter De kosmiska mörka åren, och en tredje får en att tänka på dvärgar som talar baklänges i rum med röda draperier. Ni hör ju, kul för hela familjen. (metro.se)
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Skriet - Shanana 2013
(Novoton)
1. Ignoramus et ignorabimus
2. Det kommer en våg
3. Wir werden wissen
4. Epigram
5. De enklas dag
6. De kosmiska mörka åren
7. Godnattvalsen
8. Kärlekspriset
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Looptroop Rockers - Mitt hjarta ar en bomb 2013
På sitt första album på svenska Mitt hjärta är en bomb, har Promoe, Embee, Supreme och CosM.I.C. skapat 14 låtar som berör samhällsfrågor, barndom, kärlek och humor. Mitt hjärta är en bomb, får finbesök av Timbuktu, Kapten Röd, Jose Gonzalez, Cleo, Lilla Namo och Seinabo Sey. (ginza.se)
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Looptroop Rockers - Mitt hjärta är en bomb 2013
(DVSG)
1. Flimmer
2. Hälsa Hatarna
3. Aldrig
4. Hårt Mot Hårt (Feat. Cleo)
5. Den Obekväma Tystnaden
6. Priset På Allt (Feat. Jose Gonzalez)
7. Med Facit I Hand (Feat. Kapten Röd)
8. Oavsett Vad Som Händer
9. Universum
10. Lortsverige (Feat. Timbuktu)
11. Pyromantiker (Feat. Lilla Namo)
12. Efterfest
13. Lillebror
14. Mitt Hjärta Ar En Bomb (Feat. Seinabo Sey)
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Broder Daniel - Singles 2011
Broder Daniel - Singles 1995-2005
(Capitol EMI 2011)
1. Cadillac
2. On the Count 2 3
3. Luke Skywalker
4. What's Good
5. Iceage
6. You Split the Night
7. Mr. Cloudman
8. Work
9. Misery and Harmony
10. Go My Own Way
11. Lemon
12. No One Listens to No One Else
13. Hospital
14. I'll Be Gone
15. You Bury Me
16. Sitting out in the Cold (Demo 89)
17. Happy People Never Fantasize
18. On My Own (T&A Demo 96)
19. When We Were Winning
20. Shoreline
21. What Clowns Are We
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