STORY OF THE BLUES - 4 LP Box Set CBS German Press Son House Charley Patton RARE
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ARTIST: VA
TITLE: The Story of the Blues
YEAR: 1981
LABEL: CBS / Germany
CONDITION: Sleeve is VG+ a little wear / All 4 LP's are in Excellent Cond.
DETAILS: 64 Tracks compiled by Paul Oliver When writer and blues scholar Paul Oliver first came along, the genre he specialized in was something of a mystery to the music audience. Young listeners hearing the Rolling Stones do an old Delta blues number on the group's very first record usually thought this was some kind of original concept, not a tribute to a great Afro-American art form which at that point had been languishing in obscurity. The growing popularity and staying power that has accompanied the blues into the millennium has of course brought with it enormous amounts of additional research and the release of old and new blues material on what can only be considered a massive scale. The work of Oliver has certainly lost much of what used to make it exclusive. Fans no longer have to turn to his productions or books out of desperation. For the most part, the seasoned blues listener would see this set not as a thorough history but as a collection of country blues tracks, although there are short excursions into the area of classic female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and a slight nod toward the electric urban blues sound.
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