Blowing The Fuse - 26 R&B Classics That Rocked The Jukebox In 1945 - BCD 16700 AS

CD-Album-Series by Bear Family , 1945

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Private Cecil Gant: I Wonder -

Cootie Williams: Somebody's Gotta Go -

Joe Turner: S.K. Blues, Part 1 -

Erskine Hawkins: Tippin’ In -

Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Strange Things Happening Every Day -

Arthur Crudup: Rock Me Mama -

The Four Clefs: V Day Stomp -

Lucky Millinder: Who Threw The Whiskey In The Well? -

Louis Jordan: Caldonia -

Five Red Caps: Boogie Woogie On A Saturday Nite -

Buddy Johnson: That's The Stuff You Gotta Watch -

Golden Gate Quartet: I Will Be Home Again -

Joe Liggins: The Honeydripper, Part 1 -

Count Basie: Jimmy's Blues -

Hadda Brooks: Swingin' The Boogie -

T-Bone Walker: Sail On Boogie -

Big Maceo: Things Have Changed -

Herb Jeffries: Left A Good Deal In Mobile -

Gatemouth Moore: I Ain't Mad At You Pretty baby -

Ivory Joe Hunter: Blues At Sunrise -

Wynonie Harris: Baby Look At You -

Helen Humes: Be-Baba-Leba -

Johnny Otis: Harlem Nocturne -

Jay McShann: Garfield Avenue Blues -

Julia Lee: If It's Good -

Lionel Hampton: Beulah's Boogie

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Blowing The Fuse CD Series

Blowing The Fuse starts at the dawn of the Post-War era in 1945 and continues up until 1960 with Rhythm and Blues Music: compiler Dave ‘Daddy Cool’ Booth, a guy with the DJ experience to know how to program music, went through his incredible collection and then through ‘Billboard’ year-by-year and picked out more than just the hits.

Absolutely the best stuff from back then, some of it never reissued on CDs. Each volume is accompanied by a fantastic booklet with biographies, detailed song-by-song notes and incredibly rare pictures. Blowing The Fuse - The Gold Standard in Rhythm and Blues Reissues Critics Raved!

The annual committee of the German record review awards has awarded the CD series

Nowadays, when journalists talk about '50 years of pop music' they are ignoring the fact that popular music existed prior to 1955. Pop music did not appear from nowhere but has a rich 'pre' history. Keywords like Big Band Sound, Gospel, Jump Blues, Vocal Groups and Boogie Woogie characterize this period. The first eleven compact discs in the 'Blowing The Fuse'-series are a compilation splendid in sound and detail, dealing with important years in the progress of pop music in the range of black r&b, imaginatively compiled by the Canadian collector and DJ Dave 'Daddy Cool' Booth, and knowledgeably annotated by

Hank Williams-biographer Colin Escott.

Berlin, November 19, 2005

THE NEW GOLD STANDARD IN R&B REISSUES IS NOW COMPLETE!

Critics raved. Finally a series that really made sense of the wealth of music from R&B’s early years! Now that series is complete. Here are the years 1956-1960, and here's why 'Blowing The Fuse' will be the standard for R&B reissues now and forever!

YEARS! YEARS! YEARS! Many companies have issued compilations of out-of-copyright recordings (ie. records more than 50 years old). That's why you'll find that their series stop at 1955. Bear Family's 'Blowing The Fuse' starts at the dawn of the Post-War R&B era in 1945, and now goes through until 1960! And, unlike the out-of-copyright labels who won't get to 1960 until 2011, we're there now because Bear Family pays the companies that own the music

COMPILATIONS! COMPILATIONS! COMPILATIONS! Most out-of-copyright labels do their compilations from chart books compiled by Joel Whitburn. Compiling from Whitburn is the easy way out. We hired

Dave 'Daddy Cool' Booth, a guy with one of North America’s biggest R&B collections and the dee-jay experience to know how to program music. He went through his incredible collection and then he went through 'Billboard' year-by-year, and picked out more than just the hits. We selected the absolute best music, some of it never reissued on CD until now, as well as the biggest hits, and we have no more than two songs by any artist on any CD. These are true, properly thought-out compilations in the spirit of Guy Stevens, Paul Oliver, Mike Leadbitter, and the others who compiled groundbreaking blues/R&B LPs back in the 1960s and 1970s.

SOUND! SOUND! SOUND! We used the absolute best sources from the original labels, then carefully remastered for the absolute best-ever sound.

If you're sick of R&B reissues that look and sound like a 'Proper' mess, then go for the best. And you won't have to wait until 2011 to get the complete story of R&B's golden years!