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Plug It In! Turn It Up! Electric Blues 1939-2005 - The Definitive Collection! Part 4: 1970-2005

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3-CD Digipak (8-plated) with 156-page booklet, 65 tracks. Total playing time approx. 263 minutes. Part four of the most comprehensive history EVER of electrified blues on 12 electrifying CDs! Every significant artist ... every significant recording from the 1930s to the present day, including T-Bone Walker, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, George Thorogood, and Freddie, B. B. and Albert King, Jeff Beck, Fleetwood Mac, Charlie Musselwhite, Johnny Winter, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, and literally hundreds more! In all, fifteen-and-a-half hours! Compiled and annotated by renowned blues expert, Bill Dahl. Every 3-CD set comes with a 160-page booklet including biographies, illustrations, original release info, and rare photos! Cross-licensed from every record company to be truly comprehensive! 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!

Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.91 x 0.95 x 4.92 inches; 9.28 ounces


Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Bear Family Germany


Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2012


Date First Available ‏ : ‎ April 27, 2012


Label ‏ : ‎ Bear Family Germany


Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA


Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 3


Best Sellers Rank: #217,747 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl) #1,827 in Electric Blues


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  • Fantastic compilation and part of 4 must have sets
Fantastic compilation and part of 4 must have sets.I want more compilations from the Bear Family on the Blues.Thank you!
Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2017 by R. FINNEGAN

  • Five Stars
Great collection; love it!
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2017 by ire.mike

  • Pristine recording an unqualified introduction to The Blues
"Blues" were not mainstream for many years. Robert Cray, was to be an accepted mass market phenomenon, sort of reopening America's eyes to "the Blues" circa's late-70s. This 3-CD set is a fantastic introduction of the missing years (in a mass popularity sense), uniting the years soon after, with the 50's blues phenomenons, Chicago blues, Kansas City, Rockabilly, etc. ; and vaulting on to the now neglected contemporary years (did ya ever hear of Hollywood Fats?, for example). There is some audio inconsistency, evidenced by disc manufacturers now vastly buying into the "loudness" phenomenon (spare us the clipping from our amps). Overall, from an audiophile perspective, this package is also a "strong buy". This set can also awaken your understanding of the blues, making it a valuable historical educational source. Pricey - but - if you have the beans, drop em' on this. And, know, I had never heard of Hollywood Fats, either. Did you? ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2018 by Virtuoso

  • Awesome. Thanks
Kool. Awesome. Thanks.
Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2016 by Rowdy Viking

  • Blues??? What a loser this volume is!
After doing a really good job on the first three volumes of this series this last volume is a SUPER DISAPPOINTMENT!! The first disc is a nice soul collection, but blues?? When you title something as definitive,AND then switch gears you've made a huge mistake! Don't get me wrong, I love deep soul and these are some of the very best tracks....but...they are NOT definitive BLUES tracks! I understand that the compilers wanted to show how the soul/blues crossover took place, BUT, Bonnie Raitt covering a Del Shannon song?? Really?? This has something to do with the BLUES going electric?? Bear Family has really dropped the ball on this one, it's really too bad because there was some wonderful blues recorded in the the time period covered but precious little is here in Volume 4. The choices of some of the tracks on the final two discs are also somewhat puzzling, while I agree that both George Thorogood and the Fabulous Thunderbirds deserve to be here, but who made these choices?? Al Bundy?? I know that track selection is always debatable, but these selections are so dubious...the sound quality is first rate as always but the booklets need to be read with a magnifying glass, really a dumb thing to do. If Bear Family is going to put out these expensive sets they should initiate some kind of voucher system where they put vouchers in every volume so that when you have all 4 vouchers you then should be able to get one book that an actual human being can read. Remember that buying all 4 of these sets is like buying a 12 cd boxset, and it's going to cost some $200.00 C'mon Bear Family you know better... ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2012 by rjtwangs

  • OVERPRICED!
3 CDs for $ 64...You must be kidding!!! (and look what the used disks are going for, although $ 39 is still too much for 3 CDs)
Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2012 by Robert L. R. Wesly

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