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"Junior Kimbrough is the beginning and end of all music."At the time, I thought to myself, a Charlie Feathers feature is in order. So, today's freeload is some great early rockabilly from a true legend of the genre, who never really got the credit he deserved.
Charlie was many things to many fans of rock and country music. To
some, he was a superb country stylist who could take almost any piece of
material and stamp it with the full force of his personality. To
others, he was one of rockabilly's great pioneers, there at the dawn of
Sun Records. Charlie's almost stubborn insistence on combining elements of
country, raw blues, and bluegrass to make his own version of the
rockabilly experience showed him to be one of the genre's most original artists.
'Jungle Fever' (1955–1962 Recordings) is a special collector’s edition containing 30 remastered recordings by Charlie Feathers, consisting of a selection of the wonderful tunes he made at his peak for different labels including Sun, Meteor, Kay, Wal-May and King Records between 1955 and 1962. All of his most famous songs and enduring singles are featured on this CD, which is a timeless testament to the true genius of rockabilly.
'Jungle Fever' (1955–1962 Recordings) is a special collector’s edition containing 30 remastered recordings by Charlie Feathers, consisting of a selection of the wonderful tunes he made at his peak for different labels including Sun, Meteor, Kay, Wal-May and King Records between 1955 and 1962. All of his most famous songs and enduring singles are featured on this CD, which is a timeless testament to the true genius of rockabilly.
Speaking of things recently posted, "Anonymous" wrote in the comments of the Miles Davis 'Nefertiti' post:
"Re: "Kind of Blue" I don't know how many times I've bought this one (a lot)..."For the freeload, what albums have you rebought numerous times?
A ton.
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Kind of Blue (various vinilys and cds)
Sketches of Spain (vinyly and Cd)
Swiss Movement - McCann & Harris (cd, vinyl, download)
Ellington Live at Newport (vinyl and cd)
Host of others
Flamenco:
Paco de Lucia - Concierto de Aranguez (variou vinyls)
Cameron de la Isla - Leyenda del Tiemp (cd/vinyl)
Rock/Blues
Allmans - Live at the Fillmore (everything except reel to reel)
Rory Gallagher - EU Tour 74 (vinyl and cd)
Classical
Bernstein - American in Paris (cd and lp)
Bernstein - West Side Story (various vinyl)
various orchestras of Beethoven, Haydn, Bartok and others all in various vinyls
Too many to otherwise recall
Dexter Gordon’s Blue Note albums
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All The Band’s albums, many of the Beatles
Who’s Next, John Barleycorn Must Die, Dr. Sardonicus, After the Goldrush, Pretzel Logic, Countdown to Ecstasy
And like Pmac, loads of classical, for example:
Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra & MSPC (Pierre Boulez)
Sibelius Symphony No. 5 (Eugene Ormandy)
Andrezj Panufnik conducts Panufnik
Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas (Charles MacKerras)
Haydn’s Symphony No. 91 & 92 (Karl Bohm)
Many others
Gbrand
ABB: At the Fillmore East
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Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited
Gould: Bach: The Goldberg Variations
Joni: Blue
Neville Brothers: Fiyo on the Bayou
Stones: Exile on Main Street
and, tbh, too many others to count. But those multiple times
Other than a bunch that didn't make it through a housefire, I think I actually purchased Live/Dead 4 times. Nowadays, many reissues and anniversary editions are "available" digitally, so I've got a multiples of a select bunch of those...
ReplyDeleteMy old man instilled in me the careful handling of records so LPs I rebought were mostly due to unreturned loans and mishaps, the titles of which I no longer remember. But off the top of my head, I know I've bought multiple copies of Bag's Groove, Astral Weeks, A Love Supreme, Bobby Bland's Two Steps from the Blues, Sergeant Pepper's Sonny Boy II's Down and Out Blues,and The Band's self-titled LP. Of course, I also bought many duplicates in updated formats—often beloved but sometimes barely listenable 78s and 45s originally bought used and later offered in anthologies .
ReplyDeleteThrobbing at 2000 cd. Hardcore tekno that got stolen at least 6 times
ReplyDeleteANON RF: Obviously Department: White Album, Beggars Banquet, A Salty Dog; Happy Jack; Smile; Led Zep II, et al.
ReplyDeleteBit Surprising Department: A More (Flying Doesn't Help), Iron Butterfly first LP; Moby Grape first LP; Joni Mitchell Blue; Soft Machine Third; Caravan For Girls Who Grow Plump In The Night; Firesign Theatre first four LPs et al.
(Who is this guy "al"?)
Flying Doesn't Help is a terrific record.
DeleteSteely Dan - "Aja"
ReplyDeletePink Floyd - "Dark Side of the Moon"
Neil Young - "Harvest"
Stevie Wonder - "Songs in the Key of Life"
Sold very many albums prior to move in 1994, very regretful. By 94 already had most of them replaced with cds, also regretful. To my old ears vinyl sounds better.
ReplyDeleteOld stereo is currently stored in the basement, recently bought new turntable, preamp & powered speakers. Recently washed approx. 250 albums, still have 30 or so to go. Currently buying replacement albums thru various sources. All kindsa music. Frank, Steely, Feat, Miles & many, many more. Thanks Babs
Oregon – Winter Light (1974). I can't remember how often i gave the LP as a gift to my friends (especially girlfriends...). The same happend later with the CD.
ReplyDeleteIn literally 50 years of getting music I've not had to replace anything because I took care from the get-go to take care of my LPs and then CDs. And I digitized those LPs (and what cassettes I had: stuff not otherwise available) in 2006 so I wouldn't risk them any further (and kept the LPs anyway cuz I love records). Being hardcore about this, I didn't lend stuff out, so didn't have to worry about attrition via that, either (not that my friends necessarily wanted to hear what I had, anyway!).
ReplyDeleteSo far, so good, thankfully!!
C in California
I would guess I have CD copies of about one third of my vinyl collection and 'backup copies of most of the Jam's vinyl. Now the album I probably have most copies of is the Who's "My Generation" album which I have the original Brunswick Album, The Virgin reissue (which I bought before I came across the original at a boot fair), the original CD and the 5CD Super Deluxe Edition which includes both a remastered mono and a remastered stereo version as well as two CD's of alternate takes. So that's at least 6 copies of it by my reckoning and if I spotted a reasonably priced copy of the 2006 Shel Talmy mixed stereo version or the 'deluxe edition' I'd probably buy that too.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't do it for many bands but the Who, The Zombies and Paul Weller's output I'd tempted buy all the significant reissues that offered something different. I'd probably include the Kinks In that list as well.
Seigen Ono – La Movida
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A couple other albums of his I also rebought when I found them as they are very hard to come by...
Guilty pleasures rebought numerous times through decades, and still listening, usually after 2 A.M.
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Beatles '65, Sgt. Pepper & All Things Must Pass
Notorious Byrd Brothers
CSN & Déjà Vu
Jefferson Airplane Takes Off
Tull's Benefit (U.S.)
Are You Experienced & Electric Ladyland
Led Z 1 2 3 4
Love first 3
Joni's Hejira
In Search Of The Lost Chord
Ummagumma & Meddle
QMS Happy Trails
Stones all 60s to Ya-yas
Santana, Caravanserai, Welcome
S & G Bookends
Spooky Two
Steppenwolf At Your Birthday Party
Steve Miller Brave New World & Anthology
Ssssh, Cricklewood Green, Watt
and they were bought the week they were released. Take Care.
Link
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Most albums I have rebought, are upgrades to the original releases from Blue Note Tone Poet Audiophile Series, Mobile Fidelity, Acoustic Sounds Series, Analogue Productions etc.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing this, Babs. Love what you wrote, especially this part: "Charlie's almost stubborn insistence on combining elements of country, raw blues, and bluegrass to make his own version of the rockabilly experience showed him to be one of the genre's most original artists."
ReplyDeleteEnjoy, my friend!
DeleteFor the life of me, I can't think of albums I rebought numerous times. I surely must've at least once or twice, but come up empty. Then again, I'm a child of the CD age, so I never had to switch from vinyl to digital, and I often already bought remastered and/or expanded editions.
ReplyDeleteNow, movies, that's another thing. I have rebought numeous films, first when switching from VHS to DVD, and then to upgrade some, not necessarily to Blu Ray, but for either the bonus material of special editions, or because the original releases had defaults (wrong aspect ratio, no original language track etc.)
The other day, I played Weather Reports 'Night Passage', and realized the CD was from 1982. It played as it did when it was new.
DeleteYeah, the fear and panic of CD rot has been widely exaggerated. I have a couple of burned discs (heresy to you, I'm sure!) that have gotten some holes, but every store-bought CD is still playing as expected.
DeleteI once was gifted the old 5 CD set "The Genuine Basement Tapes" & the discs turned out to have been pressed in the jungle. At any rate, within 6 months the mold/mildew in the blue layer are visible & the discs became "artifacts."
ReplyDeleteLeaving aside bootlegs (I probably have 8 variations of Dylan's infamous "Royal Albert Hall"), I think I probably have bought John Wesley Harding more times than any other. Two CDs & a couple of vinyls. I still have the LP I bought in 1968, although the record has fewer grooves than the President's cerebrum now.
ReplyDeleteI've probably posted this before, but if you're ever wandering around the Square in Oxford, Mississippi, there's a terrific vinyl shop called "The End of All Music."
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