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The track listings for these albums read like a "who's who" of black music from the 50s and 60s. Admittedly, it's occasionally more of a "who's he?" for the less obsessive blues and soul fan, but the famous names are here in force, and the great tunes are even more prevalent.
Every one of the six volumes in this series have a good mix of the well known and the forgotten gems of Chess' catalogue- there are mercifully few that feel over-familiar (at least to this reviewer) from those ten-a-penny blues and soul compilations, and a surprising variety of styles on display for anyone who, like me, mistakenly had Chess pegged as predominantly a blues label. With the cost of these CDs as low as it is, I'd recommend that you do what I did and buy all six! The sleeve notes include a potted history of the Chess label (the same in every volume), as well as a short note to accompany each track. If you fancy yourself as a bit of a "musicologist" (that is, a nerd, or the person everyone wants on their team for the music round of the pub quiz), the booklets ought to prove diverting for a few minutes, which is a welcome change in the field of budget-priced compilations.
Every one of the six volumes in this series have a good mix of the well known and the forgotten gems of Chess' catalogue- there are mercifully few that feel over-familiar (at least to this reviewer) from those ten-a-penny blues and soul compilations, and a surprising variety of styles on display for anyone who, like me, mistakenly had Chess pegged as predominantly a blues label. With the cost of these CDs as low as it is, I'd recommend that you do what I did and buy all six! The sleeve notes include a potted history of the Chess label (the same in every volume), as well as a short note to accompany each track. If you fancy yourself as a bit of a "musicologist" (that is, a nerd, or the person everyone wants on their team for the music round of the pub quiz), the booklets ought to prove diverting for a few minutes, which is a welcome change in the field of budget-priced compilations.
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