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YAZ 1008C-LP
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Color vinyl version. "180 gram exact repro reissue of this 1968 Yazoo anthology documenting proto/prewar blues form Memphis. Three songs are by Frank Stokes; the rest are by Tom Dickson, Pearl Dickson, Furry Lewis, Noah Lewis, Will Weldon, Memphis Minnie, and Kansas Joe and Cannon's Jug Stompers."
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YAZ 1001C-LP
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Color vinyl version. "180 gram reissue of this essential Yazoo compilation from 1967. Artists: Henry Sims, William Harris, Skip James, Charley Patton, Geeshie Wiley, Mattie Delaney, John Bird, Bobby Grant, Son House, Harvey Hull, and Robert Johnson."
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YAZ 1080C-LP
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"These recordings, dating between 1927 and 1929, are a unique body of work: work songs, minstrel numbers, rags, and what we now define as the blues, all offered in an unpretentious form that would have been every bit as compelling had Henry Thomas cut them this way 40 years later. Songs such as 'Arkansas,' 'Fox and the Hounds' (featuring the reed pipes that Thomas also excelled at playing), and 'Little Red Caboose' represent a brand of upbeat dance music associated with late-19th century entertainment, a tradition already largely lost or becoming lost when Thomas cut these numbers. Yet Thomas, who was already in his 50s when he recorded these tracks, sings and plays them with a beguiling ease and honesty, not to mention a dexterity on the guitar that makes him sound every bit as vital and urgent as Big Bill Broonzy or any of the other up-and-coming blues legends just starting out at the time these sides were laid down. The blues numbers, including 'Shanty Blues,' 'Woodhouse Blues,' 'Honey, Won't You Allow Me One More Chance?,' and 'Bull Doze Blues' are compelling in their own right -- they display musical and lyrical virtuosity and, in the latter two cases, offer a chance to hear the sources for classic works by Bob Dylan and Canned Heat, respectively. Luckily for historians, Henry Thomas recorded for Vocalion and not for one of the truly lost labels like Paramount, and all 23 surviving sides of his work sound very good on this CD." --Bruce Eder, AllMusic
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YAZ 1035CLP
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2022 restock; color vinyl version. Originally released in 1973. "The late Big Bill Broonzy looms as one of the few country blues greats whose career seems as remarkable as his musicianship. He played every professional role available to the untutored black guitarist of his generation: that of the country blues soloist catering to dance audiences, the city bluesman beguiling record-buyers with full-dress lyric themes and a slow song delivery, and the folk entertainer trading on familiar standards ear-marked for white listening audiences... It is his early career as a country bluesman that this LP, like its companion volume The Young Bill Broonzy commemorates."
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YAZ 1005CLP
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2023 repress, color vinyl version. Reissue of Yazoo's 1968 compilation of rare 78 rpm recordings from Blind Willie McTell. A record that put Yazoo on the map as an essential archival label of roots music. The very best of the magnificent Willie Samuel McTell -- aka Blind Willie aka Hot Shot Willie aka Georgia Bill -- exploring spiritual, ragtime, hillbilly, and above all, the blues.
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YAZ 1050HLP
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2024 restock. 180 gram vinyl reissue, originally released on Yazoo in 1975. "Furry Lewis was an exceptional bluesman from Memphis who combined raggy and bottleneck guitar arrangements with wry lyrics. His first recordings, presented here, captured him at the height of his inventive power. His renditions of 'I Will Turn Your Money Green' and 'Kassie Jones' have become standards on the blues repertoire."
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YAZ 1035HLP
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2022 restock. 180 gram reissue, originally released in 1973. "The late Big Bill Broonzy looms as one of the few country blues greats whose career seems as remarkable as his musicianship. He played every professional role available to the untutored black guitarist of his generation: that of the country blues soloist catering to dance audiences, the city bluesman beguiling record-buyers with full-dress lyric themes and a slow song delivery, and the folk entertainer trading on familiar standards ear-marked for white listening audiences... It is his early career as a country bluesman that this LP, like its companion volume The Young Bill Broonzy commemorates."
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YAZ 1011HLP
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2017 repress. 180 gram reissue, originally released in 1968. "Big Bill Broonzy was probably the most important Chicago blues artist of the thirties and early forties (that's before the period of 'Chicago blues' represented by Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf)."
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YAZ 1078HLP
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2023 restock. 180 gram reissue, originally released in 1990. "Blind Willie Johnson (1902-1947) is one of the great gospel blues legends. Initially a preacher who gave sermons in the street, Johnson first became known for his powerful voice, but it was his masterful slide guitar playing that would soon write his name in the annals of blues."
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YAZ 1080HLP
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2024 restock. 180 gram double vinyl reissue of this 1989 collection; housed in a gatefold sleeve with extensive liner notes by Stephen Calt and Mack McCormick. "Representing the oldest style captured on record, Henry Thomas was a singular and important figure. Coming out of Texas at the turn of the century, he left behind a total of 23 issued selections that represent one of the richest contributions to our musical culture. Playing panpipes and guitar with a thrusting drive that evokes a country dance, he gives us a glimpse of black music as it existed late in the 19th century."
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YAZ 1067HLP
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2023 restock; gatefold double LP reissue of Yazoo's 28 song collection of the Memphis Jug Band; on 180 gram vinyl. R. Crumb cover art. "The Memphis Jug Band is the most entertaining and historically important jug band of all time. Especially fascinating is the very wide range of American music that their repertoire covers: blues, rags, stomps, breakdowns, vaudeville, minstrel and more. They were the premier practitioner of the extremely popular Memphis style of the 1920's."
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YAZ 1072HLP
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180 gram repro of this 1986 release from Yazoo. Some -- but not all -- of these tracks appeared on Mississippi's now out-of-print 1931 Sessions LP.
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YAZ 1060HLP
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2023 restock. 180 gram repro of the 1978 album from North Carolina's Blind Boy Fuller. Blues circa 1935-1939, including "Homesick and Lonesome Blues," "Truckin' My Blues Away," "I Crave My Pig Meat," "Walking My Troubles Away" and "Sweet Honey Hole."
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YAZ 1064HLP
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2023 restock. 180 gram repro of Yazoo's 1979 collection of Delta bluesman Bo Carter. Recordings from 1931-1936. "Bo Carter's recorded repertoire demonstrates his unusual flair for sexual motifs. While bluesmen like Charlie Patton used sexual subjects as a performing stock-in-trade, they did not share Carter's affinity for recording them. Perhaps they balked at doing so through fear of giving offense to whites."
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YAZ 1058HLP
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2019 repress. Repro of Yazoo's 1977 collection of Blind Willie Johnson, master slide guitar player and one of the most powerful gospel blues musician of all time. Songs recorded between 1927-1930, including "Dark Was The Night," later covered by Ry Cooder. 180 gram vinyl.
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YAZ 1036HLP
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2023 restock. 180 gram reissue, originally released in 1973. 1930s records of guitarist Scrapper Blackwell and pianist Leroy Carr. "Drunk or sober, Leroy was nice. Scrapper was a damn fool drunk or sober." -- Pete Franklin
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YAZ 1051HLP
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2022 restock; 180 gram vinyl. Features cover art by Robert Crumb. A collection of recordings from a number of "Hokum" groups, mostly from the 1920s. "...the Hokum Boys were less an actual group and more of a term that race labels could use to market ensemble recordings of material with salacious lyrics that were filled with sexual double entendre and references to vice." --Record-Fiend
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YAZ 1019HLP
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2022 restock. 180 gram vinyl. Music recorded between 1929-1934. Includes "Penal Farm Blues" and "Good Woman Blues", a duet with Leroy Carr. "No musician ever surpassed Indianapolis' Francis (Scrapper) Blackwell for the gifted guitar playing that makes for so much of the blues' charm and durability."
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YAZ 1001HLP
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2022 restock. 180 gram reissue of this essential Yazoo compilation from 1967. Artists: Henry Sims, William Harris, Skip James, Charley Patton, Geeshie Wiley, Mattie Delaney, John Bird, Bobby Grant, Son House, Harvey Hull and Robert Johnson.
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YAZ 1043HLP
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2023 restock. 180 gram reissue of Yazoo's scholarly 1974 collection of "bawdy and vaudeville-inspired" songs from the '20s and '30s. Classic Robert Crumb cover art. Artists: Whistling Bob Howe & Frankie Griggs, Tommie Bradley & James Cole, Buddie Burton, Georgia Tom & Tampa Red, Rufus & Ben Quillian, Hokum Boys, Papa Charlie Jackson, Butterbeans & Susie, Robert & Charlie Hicks, Yazoo All Stars, Memphis Minnie, Leola B. Wilson & Kid Wesley Wilson and Bo Carter.
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YAZ 1049HLP
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2024 restock. 180 gram exact repro reissue of this Yazoo's collection of these two blues guitarists, originally released in 1975. "Kokomo Arnold and Casey Bill Weldon were two of the most popular and original-sounding bottleneck guitarists of the Thirties, a generally dismal period for blues recording. In terms of contemporary appeal (the only yardstick that mattered to blues men themselves) they far outstripped Robert Johnson, Bukka White, and other bottleneck artists of the era.... Arnold, a left-handed guitarist, confronts the listener as one of the zaniest, most manic guitarists ever recorded; Weldon's work is an outright rejection of traditional blues harmony, and invites comparison to Western swing."
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YAZ 1020HLP
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2024 restock. "Charley (a.k.a. Charlie) Patton was the most powerful blues recording artist of all time, considered by many to be the single most important figure in the history of traditional blues. He was a profound shaper and a giant figure in early Mississippi Delta music. The combined power of his vocal and guitar dynamics is unparalleled and he was the Delta's first blues celebrity." This reissue reproduces the front and back cover of Yazoo's original 1970 release. Pressed on 180 gram vinyl.
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YAZ 1008HLP
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180 gram exact repro reissue of this 1968 Yazoo anthology documenting proto/prewar blues form Memphis. Three songs are by Frank Stokes; the rest are by Tom Dickson, Pearl Dickson, Furry Lewis, Noah Lewis, Will Weldon, Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe and Cannon's Jug Stompers.
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YAZ 1005HLP
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2024 restock. 180 gram exact repro reissue of Yazoo's 1968 compilation of rare 78 rpm recordings from Blind Willie McTell. A record that put Yazoo on the map as an essential archival label of roots music. The very best of the magnificent Willie Samuel McTell -- aka Blind Willie aka Hot Shot Willie aka Georgia Bill -- exploring spiritual, ragtime, hillbilly, and above all, the blues.
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YAZ 7008CD
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1997 release. Subtitled: Classic Recordings From The 1920's & 30's. "A collection of all-time great performances of Irish traditional music, including selections by such legendary artists as Michael Coleman, James Morrison, Patrick Touhey, Mullaney and Stack, Flannagan Brothers, Packie Dolan, and many, many more. These recordings were made primarily in the 1920s when the pure power of this wonderful tradition was at its peak, and were all made in America, to which a great many of the master Irish musicians had immigrated. Many of these very recordings played a huge role in establishing the basic repertoire of tunes played by Irish musicians for the rest of the 20th century." "Chronicles some of the seminal performers of the first generation of Irish-Americans to record. Among the fiddlers, two stand out in particular - Michael Coleman for the depth and subtlety of his interpretations and James Morrison for his brilliants technique. And Patrick J. Touhey's uillean pipes are a revelation." -- Newark Star Ledger
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