on 7/31/03 12:37 PM, Tosh at tosh3@earthlink.net wrote:
Is there a specific collection of Blues Singers on Sun Records? Most of the stuff I have seen out there are Sun Records samplers (many versions of course) -but none that focused on just the Blues recordings. Also strange enough there weren't any female artists on the samplers(at least the one's I saw), but I did see the Sun Records Female artist sampler. I will pick it up the next time I see it.
Charly has a couple single disc comps, my fav being "Big Bad Blues". Guitar tones that make Thurston Moore look like the kinda guy that would hang out with Jasper Jo... oh.
Besides the obvious greats on that label : Jerry Lee, Cash, Elvis, etc. I really love Carl Mann (and his guitar player is fantastic!) & Sonny Burgress.
I learned that "Mona Lisa" solo when I was in junior high and I can STILL play it. Sonny is the ultimate avant-garde musician.
As for the two-part Elvis bios - it's a must read. And yes, Skip is correct, the second one is one long depressing ride. But then again, all the rockabilly bios I read lately are really sad (i.e. Buddy Holly & Gene Vincent). Especially the Buddy bio - because I think at the moment of his death he could have gone in numerous exciting different directions. One got the impression that he was artistically hungry for change. What a horrible lost.
I think Buddy was moving towards soft rock. Cochran was kind of the most innovative. As for Gene Vincent, he was never all that bright. With Elvis, you get the feeling that his talent outstripped any judgement he had after about 1957. skip h