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  • Audio CD (25 Feb 2008)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Label: Ace Records
  • ASIN: B00149ND8C
  • Other Editions: Audio CD
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 25,739 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

Disc: 1
1. Turn Your Radio On - Grandpa Jones
2. Papa's On The Housetop - Leroy Carr And Scrapper Blackwell
3. Shortnin' Bread - Paul Chaplain & His Emeralds
4. Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes
5. Gun Fever (Blam Blam Fever) - The Valentines
6. Pistol Packin' Mama - Al Dexter & His Troopers
7. Pistol Packin' Mama - The Hurricanes
8. Homework - Otis Rush
9. He Will Break Your Heart - Jerry Butler
10. Take It Away Lucky - Eddie Noack
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Disc: 2
1. Chain Of Fools - Aretha Franklin
2. Walk A Mile In My Shoes - Joe South & The Believers
3. Cry Tough - Alton Ellis & The Flames
4. Tommy Gun - The Clash
5. (Everytime I Hear) That Mellow Saxophone - Roy Montrell
6. Those Dj Shows - Patrice Holloway
7. I Ain\x{2019}T Drunk - Lonnie \x{201c}The Cat\x{201d}
8. Eat That Chicken - Charles Mingus
9. Mama, Get Your Hammer - Bobby Peterson Quintet
10. How High The Moon - Slim Gaillard
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Product Description

Album Description
* Ace is proud to present a double CD paying tribute to Theme Time Radio Hour - hosted by Bob Dylan. The first series aired last year and a new series is currently under way in the USA.

* For those that are new to the show, each programme lasts an hour and has a different theme each week, for example Drink or Mother. Each track is introduced by Dylan with his dry humour, eclectic interest and vast musical knowledge. His voice does not appear on this CD, just tracks selected from the shows. It can be regarded as the best introduction to music ever.

* This is the only officially-authorised release - and is compiled by the show's producer Eddie Gorodetsky and Ace's own Roger Armstrong.

* A 2CD set featuring 50 tracks, representing the 50 shows of the first series of radio shows. The tracklisting reflects Dylan's wide taste and ranges from Billie Holiday and George Jones, through Aretha Franklin to the Clash and the White Stripes.

* The luxury package contains a 2CD jewel case, with an accompanying 48-page full colour book, all in a cardboard slipcase. The sleeve notes include a track-by-track commentary by some of the world's great music writers including Barney Hoskyns, Colin Escott, Billy Vera and Fred Dellar. Each track, no matter how obscure, is illustrated with a sleeve, label shot or photo of the artist.

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46 of 50 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Magnificent, 13 Mar 2008
By Tony Floyd "Travis Pickle" (UK) - See all my reviews
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If I was Prime Minister or President I would make Ace Records the national musical curator, and let them pick and choose any recording that they wanted for any project they wanted. They get it right time and time again, and this set is no exception, in fact this release even ups their game. You get two CDs containing 50 tracks and a beautiful 48 page accompanying booklet with a commentary for each track and illustrations galore. All housed in a neat card cover.

But, hang on, let's start at the beginning. Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour (or TTRH for short), the radio show, is everything you would expect of that eclectic, eccentric and electric troubadour. If you don't know it, though surely you do, each programme is an hour long and revolves around a specific theme (radio, jail, Christmas, luck, drink or whatever) with DJ Bob introducing each song in his sandpaper whisper, giving a brief and incisive commentary on the track or perhaps a pertinent quote or maybe a whimsical digression. The music played is hugely diverse, stretching back to the beginning of the 20th Century right up to last week. It covers all bases: country, blues, R&B, jazz, reggae, soul, rockabilly, punk, swing, any tributary that feeds into the great flowing meandering river of popular music. Each show is a delight and makes for fascinating listening whether you're a Dylan fan or not (though perhaps slightly more fascinating if you fall into the former category).

Show by show, then, the listener is being treated to nothing less than an alternative history of popular music. The themed approach prevents it from being a po-faced academic and ploddingly chronological exercise, rooting it instead in the realities of lived human experience, whether noble or mean, gleeful or grim. (Tony Blackburn used to do a similar theme based thing in his `Golden Hour' back in his Radio 1 days but of course with barely a hint of the wit and grace with which Bob acquits his role.) Bob Dylan is using his drawing power to expand our horizons by bringing to our attention songs and recordings that we should know about if we take music seriously (and serious doesn't mean joyless). If you think you know music but you've never listened to a song recorded before 2005, or 1990, or 1979, or 1967, or 1955 then TTRH demonstrates that being so blinkered isn't good for your soul.

This wonderful double CD then is a selection of highlights from the first series of TTRH. There is no involvement from Bob Dylan directly, though the producer of his show is a co-producer/compiler here, but really that's not the name of the game. Even if there isn't one linking theme, the track selection is wayward and intoxicating as you would expect, mixing the old, the new, the familiar, the unfamiliar into a big ole cauldron (or maybe a copper kettle) packed with flavours and spices that shouldn't mix together but act and react to one another to produce a mighty potent brew. The time span covered is as expansive as a typical show too. The second track here dates from 1930 and that's followed by Shortnin' Bread from 1960 and then the mighty Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes from 2002. That's eight decades straddled in the course of three songs. And they fit together just Jim Dandy.

This is real music for real people, as it is meant to be, with all facets of life addressed with wit and grit and sauce and elegance (in other words you'll find no hollow empty processed Westlife/Blue/Pop Idol/X Factor style bleating here). If you don't find the prospect of this set appealing then I guess you're in the wrong section on Amazon - home and garden is over there. To everyone else I say, don't think twice, it's alright to buy it.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars WORTHY OF 6 STARS, 24 Mar 2008
By T. C. Casagranda - See all my reviews
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Quite frankly, this is the best reissue of 2008, already. It shows that not only has Dylan been the cultural commentator of the world, but that he is also the cultural curator of some amazing music. It is almost as if this is the music that has even shaped his own recordings. It is not that far from Louis Jordan to "Open The Door, Homer" on the Basement Tapes, or the early blues on this album in relation to Love & Theft. But, isn't all pop/rock music Love & Theft ?
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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars GOLDMINE, 21 Mar 2008
By P. D. Warburton (london, england) - See all my reviews
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Ace Records could hardly go wrong with this aesthetically. Whether it sells or not is anyone's guess. OK, we'll all have our individual misgivings about some of the 50 songs chosen here, but they're just quibbles. The cumulative effect of hearing so many great original voices and players is mindboggling. The sound fidelity is so much better than the Theme Time Radio Show MPEGs that most of us have been listening to. Rhythms, styles and subject matter are as diverse as anyone could wish for. For all the diversity, however, all the tracks share a common humanity and integrity, which seems to be the main point of Bob's radio show in the first place.

I can't imagine anyone being disappointed at shelling out money for this. One thing I've liked about TTRH is its balance: male/female, black/white, 1930s/40s, 20s/60s and so on. We've all been taken aback by Dylan's knowledge, and obvious love, of Caribbean and Hispanic music, the latter of which, I would like to see better represented on the collection. But this is overwhelmingly a celebration of American vernacular music. It's also an affirmation that, for all its inventions, its movies, its self-marketing, vernacular music has always been America's best expression of itself.

PW
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5.0 out of 5 stars Where's Bob?
Great music but actually this is Theme Tme Radio Hour WITHOUT Your Host Bob Dylan. His terrific links, indeed anything of Bob, are absent.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Bob's NOT There
Whilst I have no argument with the music on this album, it's all great stuff, if you are hoping to hear the great man introducing each track, then think again "he's NOT there" and... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Richard Walker

4.0 out of 5 stars Great, but a note of caution
Just a quick review here. Although the music on here is fantastic and as eclectic as you could hope for I was under the impression (maybe I missed something) that the tracks... Read more
Published 8 months ago by M. Sanderson

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderfully eclectic collection.
Theme Time Radio Hour is one of the most original and enlightening music programmes on the air. It's brilliantly presented by Bob Dylan who plays an eclectic mix of often obscure... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Jazzrook

5.0 out of 5 stars Is this the same man ?
The guy who in the 60s used to wind up the Press and tell anyone who asked that some song was about light bulbs or something seems to have suddenly acquired vast knowledge over... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Richard

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