Sales Rank:1816 List Price: $19.98 Lowest New Price: $9.94 Lowest Used Price: $8.90 Artist(s):
Bob Dylan
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Limited edition Japanese pressing of the remastered 1971 album features 2 CD's with the 21 original tracks packaged in a miniature LP sleeve. Sony. 2005.
Sales Rank:2033 List Price: $18.98 Lowest New Price: $9.95 Lowest Used Price: $7.45 Artist(s):
Dr. John and the Lower 911
Tracks:
Keep on Goin'
Time for a Change - Featuring Eric Clapton
Promises, Promises - Featuring Willie Nelson
You Might Be Surprised
Dream Warrior
Black Gold
We Gettin' There - Featuring Terence Blanchard
Stripped Away - Featuring Eric Clapton
Say Whut?
My People Need a Second Line Featuring James "12" Andrews and Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews
Land Grab - Featuring Terence Blanchard
City That Care Forgot - Featuring Eric Clapton and Ani DiFranco
Save Our Wetlands - Featuring Terrance Simien
Eric Clapton, Willie Nelson, Ani Difranco and Terence Blanchard join Dr. John and the Lower 911 in this musical paean to Dr. John's beloved New Orleans. This powerful new recording features stirring and thought-provoking songs about the post-Katrina crises in the ravaged jewel of the American South, including "City That Care Forgot," "Time for a Change," "Promises, Promises," "We Gettin' There" and many more.
Sales Rank:2394 List Price: $11.98 Lowest New Price: $5.30 Lowest Used Price: $4.00 Artist(s):
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Tracks:
Love Struck Baby
Pride And Joy
Texas Flood
Tell Me
Testify
Rude Mood
Mary Had A Little Lamb
Dirty Pool
I'm Crying
Lenny
SRV Speaks - (previously unreleased)
Tin Pan Alley - (previously unreleased)
Testify - (previously unreleased, live)
Mary Had A Little Lamb - (previously unreleased, live)
Wham - (previously unreleased, live)
This legendary 1983 debut by the fallen torchbearer of the '80s-'90s blues revival sounds even more dramatic in its remixed and expanded edition. Stevie Ray Vaughan's guitar and vocals are a bit brighter and more present on this 14-track CD. And the newly included bonus numbers (an incendiary studio version of the slow blues "Tin Pan Alley" that was left off the original release, and live takes of "Testify," "Mary Had a Little Lamb," and the instrumental "Wham!" from a 1983 Hollywood concert) illuminate the raw soul and passion that propelled his artistry even when he was under the spell of drug addiction. Texas Flood captures Vaughan as rockin' blues purist, paying tribute in his inspired six-string diction to his influences Larry Davis (who wrote the title track), Buddy Guy, Albert King, and Jimi Hendrix. His own contemplative "Lenny," a tribute to his wife at the time, also suggests a jazz-fueled complexity that would infuse his later work. --Ted Drozdowski
Sales Rank:7764 List Price: $14.98 Lowest New Price: $7.36 Lowest Used Price: $6.00 Artist(s):
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Few guitarists ever mastered the Fender Stratocaster like the late, great Texas bluesman Stevie Ray Vaughan, and this priceless digital video disc collects both of the sizzling appearances that Vaughan and his solid band, Double Trouble, made on the PBS concert series Austin City Limits. Combined to form the most popular program in the show's distinguished history, the concerts were taped in 1983 and 1989; both provide a valuable portrait of Vaughan's astounding artistic development. The performances serve as bookends to Vaughan's brilliant career with Double Trouble, showing (in the words of producer Terry Lickona) a striking contrast between "zero self-confidence" and "pure magic," but in both cases you can see a master at work. Songs include "Pride and Joy," "Texas Flood," "Voodoo Chile," "Cold Shot," and "Riviera Paradise." This great-sounding DVD also includes the posthumous music video "Little Wing," featuring clips of Double Trouble and archival footage of blues greats from the 1920s to the mid-1990s. If you're even a part-time blues fan, Stevie Ray Vaughan: Live from Austin, Texas is a must-have disc. --Jeff Shannon
Sales Rank:1968 List Price: $24.98 Lowest New Price: $14.96 Lowest Used Price: $14.00 Artist(s):
Robert Johnson
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This two-CD box contains all 41 recordings Johnson made, including 12 alternate takes, and each cut remains a classic. This set's release in 1990 caused quite a stir, selling more than 500,000 copies, and, on the basis of endorsements from Eric Clapton and Keith Richards, introduced a great number of rock fans to Delta blues. Amazingly, Johnson built his enormous legacy on the strength of just two recording sessions: the first session, in November of 1936, produced among others "I Believe I'll Dust My Broom," "Sweet Home Chicago," "Cross Road Blues," and "Walkin' Blues," making it perhaps the most influential single session in blues history. --Marc Greilsamer
Sales Rank:2445 List Price: $13.98 Lowest New Price: $6.96 Lowest Used Price: $0.49 Artist(s):
Annie Lennox
Tracks:
Why
Walking on Broken Glass
Precious
Legend in My Living Room
Cold
Money Can't Buy It
Little Bird
Primitive
Stay by Me
The Gift
Keep Young and Beautiful - Annie Lennox, Dubin, Al
Although traces of her synthpop roots certainly showed through, Annie Lennox's solo debut, Diva, made it abundantly clear that her new material would veer away from gender-bending robotics of the early Eurythmics sound and continue toward the more emotionally grounded soul of later releases. On Diva, Lennox infuses each song with tenderly perceptive lyrics, hypnotic rhythms, and irresistibly soulful wailings. Her arrangements are clean and simple, utilizing bare instrumentation and sometimes-languid chord work. The singles "Walking on Broken Glass," "Little Bird," and "Why" became radio mainstays, while gems such as the Eastern-influenced dream ballad "Primitive," the hauntingly autobiographical pop-lament "Legend in My Living Room," and the cheerfully satirical "Keep Young and Beautiful" gave the album a plump maturity. --Sally Weinbach
Sales Rank:2117 List Price: $9.98 Lowest New Price: $4.75 Lowest Used Price: $4.25 Artist(s):
Etta James
Tracks:
At Last - Etta James, Warren, Harry
A Sunday Kind of Love - Etta James, Belle, Barbara
My Dearest Darling - Etta James, Bocage, Eddie
Trust in Me - Etta James, Wever, Ned
If I Can't Have You - Etta James, James, Etta
How Do You Speak to an Angel - Etta James, Styne, Jule
Someone to Watch over Me - Etta James, Gershwin, George
Again - Etta James, Newman, Lionel
I Want to Be Loved (But Only by You) - Etta James, Churchill, Savannah
Lovin' Arms - Etta James, Jans, Tom
Lovin' You More Every Day - Etta James, Mitchell, James
The Love of My Man - Etta James, Townsend, Ed
It Must Be Your Love - Etta James, Higgins, Monk
Never My Love - Etta James, Addrisi, Don
She's no stranger to the towering highs and lows of the heart, and Etta James's soaring, gospel-tinged pipes match up well with the rigors of unabashed bliss. Happily, the good people at Chess Records recognize this, and they have thoughtfully collected some of the best examples into one tidy record. Kicking off with her classic treatment of "At Last," the collection moves through the lilting strings of "My Dearest Darling" on into the expressive tones of "I Want to Be Loved (But Only by You)" with grace and emotional candor. James can be simultaneously tender and deeply honest and her ability to express the desperate joy that is the soul of love remains one of life's marvelous pleasures. --Matthew Cooke