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Edna Hicks/Hazel Meyers/Laura Smith Vol.2 1923-1927

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by: Edna Hicks

Release Date July 22, 2002

CD-Charts Position 132

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Butterbeans & Susie Vol.2: 1924-1927

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by: Butterbeans & Susie

Release Date March 01, 2000

CD-Charts Position 133

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These Foolish Things

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by: Etta James

Release Date October 14, 1997

CD-Charts Position 134
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I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!

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by: Janis Joplin

Release Date August 31, 1999
Listen to this album and then tell me that JJ couldn't move you to your soul! I think that 'Little Girl Blue' is the finest performance Janis ever put on record, it's so deep and beautiful. 'Try (Just a little bit harder)' swings and rocks like crazy. 'Maybe' features some of Janis's most magical flights into her high-register. 'Work Me, Lord' is the record to put on when you're feeling like you're having a 'Long Dark Night of the Soul', the closing moments are absolutely wrenching. JJ might have been having some of her hardest battles with drink and heroin at the time, but on this album she pulled out performances any singer would have been proud of.

Rolling Stone repeatedly panned Janis throughout her brief career, then eulogised ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 135
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Ma Rainey Vol.1 1923-1924

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by: Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey

Release Date October 28, 1997
Listen to this album and then tell me that JJ couldn't move you to your soul! I think that 'Little Girl Blue' is the finest performance Janis ever put on record, it's so deep and beautiful. 'Try (Just a little bit harder)' swings and rocks like crazy. 'Maybe' features some of Janis's most magical flights into her high-register. 'Work Me, Lord' is the record to put on when you're feeling like you're having a 'Long Dark Night of the Soul', the closing moments are absolutely wrenching. JJ might have been having some of her hardest battles with drink and heroin at the time, but on this album she pulled out performances any singer would have been proud of.

Rolling Stone repeatedly panned Janis throughout her brief career, then eulogised ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 136
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Bessie Smith 1925 - 1933

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by: Bessie Smith

Release Date August 23, 2004
Listen to this album and then tell me that JJ couldn't move you to your soul! I think that 'Little Girl Blue' is the finest performance Janis ever put on record, it's so deep and beautiful. 'Try (Just a little bit harder)' swings and rocks like crazy. 'Maybe' features some of Janis's most magical flights into her high-register. 'Work Me, Lord' is the record to put on when you're feeling like you're having a 'Long Dark Night of the Soul', the closing moments are absolutely wrenching. JJ might have been having some of her hardest battles with drink and heroin at the time, but on this album she pulled out performances any singer would have been proud of.

Rolling Stone repeatedly panned Janis throughout her brief career, then eulogised ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 137
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The Original Hound Dog

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by: Willie Mae 'Big Mama' Thornton

Release Date June 25, 1990
Willlie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton was a superb blues shouter in the tradition of Bessie Smith and Memphis Minnie. When she sang blues she didn't need to pose, like Elvis and Janis Joplin. She was the real thing.

No one denies that Elvis could sing, and his version of 'Hound Dog' is exciting--but Willie Mae's version has bite, thrust, and a hard-won emotional truth. And the song only makes sense when sung by a woman; the hound dog is clearly a no-account male (dig Willie Mae's take on the line 'You can wag your tail'). The previous reviwer calls the original version 'comfy R and B.' Talk about (mental) Anarchy in the U.K.!

For the record: Willie Mae Thornton died penniless in a Los Angeles rooming house in 1984, so it's ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 138
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Live at Woodstock 1969

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by: Janis Joplin

Release Date June 06, 2005
It is not the best live performance of Janis, definitely. Nevertheless, it shines by these elements: first, it is a rare recording, until recently unavailable. Perhaps because of Janis' open criticism to the lack of logistics in the festival -documented in this recordings-, no part of her performance was issued in the original Woodstock One and Two Albums. Second, Janis sings with such an intensity that she loses the voice at the end of the show. Third, the "Work Me, Lord" rendition is of such a passion and drama that it truly deserves the whole album. Fourth, though it is considered that the Kosmic Blues Band was not the best support for Janis, it is argueable that their blend had a unique and nice flavor of its own - No Stax, No Atlantic, No Motown... ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 139
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Butterbeans & Susie Vol.1: 1924-1925

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by: Butterbeans & Susie

Release Date July 22, 2002
It is not the best live performance of Janis, definitely. Nevertheless, it shines by these elements: first, it is a rare recording, until recently unavailable. Perhaps because of Janis' open criticism to the lack of logistics in the festival -documented in this recordings-, no part of her performance was issued in the original Woodstock One and Two Albums. Second, Janis sings with such an intensity that she loses the voice at the end of the show. Third, the "Work Me, Lord" rendition is of such a passion and drama that it truly deserves the whole album. Fourth, though it is considered that the Kosmic Blues Band was not the best support for Janis, it is argueable that their blend had a unique and nice flavor of its own - No Stax, No Atlantic, No Motown... ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 140
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Pickin' the Blues

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by: Memphis Minnie

Release Date July 24, 2000
Big Bill Broonzy said that Memphis Minnie played guitar as well as any man he'd ever heard.

This CD features some instrumentals as well as some accompanied songs. Some - maybe the best ones - are duets with Minnie's (one time) husband Kansas Joe. In these the guitar playing is quite delightful, one guitar playing rhythm, the other filling some great licks and riffs. Historically Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe were important as pioneers of the new National (steel-bodied) guitar.

As usual, Catfish have packaged this album nicely and got their usual good sound quality.