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sábado, 19 de junho de 2010

EP SUN 113 (US, 1958)

JOHNNY CASH: "I WALK THE LINE"
This EP was released just as Johnny Cash was leaving Sun Records for Columbia Records and some of these tracks were previously released on Sun as early as 1956. In 1957, Johnny Cash became the first Sun Records artist to release a full length LP ("Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar") which included all four of these tracks.
(I've found this rare EP on Dualtrack blog. Thanks for sharin' it)

sábado, 24 de outubro de 2009

quarta-feira, 21 de outubro de 2009

WE ARE THE CHANTELS

Original Released on LP End 301 (1958)
The first LP ever issued on the End label was a natural product of the success of "Maybe," one of the great ballads to come out of the rock & roll boom and one of the most beloved R&B singles ever to emanate from the orbit of label owner George Goldner. For the album, all Goldner did was assemble the two sides of each of the existing six Chantels singles, but it's still a pretty impressive body of music, a fact that makes it a tribute to producer Richard Barrett. "Maybe" is the best song here, to be sure, with a career-making performance by Arlene Smith, but the rest of the album is not to be ignored: "The Plea" (co-authored by Smith and Barrett), which offers shimmering backing vocals by the group and a memorably passionate lyric; the radiant "Come My Little Baby," with its exquisite chorus and a honking sax solo thick enough to cut with a knife; the bluesy "Congratulations," with its "lead" bass instrumental arrangement; the ethereal ballads "Prayee," "He's Gone," and "I Love You So" — even Richard Barrett's attempt to emulate "Maybe," "Every Night (I Pray)," is worth hearing as a refinement and expansion of the hit.
[Note: This album was originally released as We Are the Chantels, with the image below of the five-member group on the cover; such were the racial sensitivities of the time, however, that it was withdrawn and reissued in 1959 with the same catalog number and the title The Chantels, packaged in a more innocuous cover depicting two white teenagers standing next to a jukebox.] (Bruce Eder in AllMusic)
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