The latest release from Bear Family Records’ Juke Box Pearls series celebrates the work of American jazz artist Dinah Washington. A Rockin’ Good Way includes some cracking standards which have […]
Music
Introduction Bear Family Records, following recent compilations of Link Wray and Billy Lee Riley, have added another artist to their prolific Rocks series. Scotty McKay, real name Max Lipscomb, is […]
Bear Family Records have released a brand new compilation themed around love and eroticism. Destination Lust: The World of Love, Sex and Violence features the naughty, the erotic and the […]
Following compilations of Tommy Steele and Billy Fury, Bear Family Records have continued their ‘The Brits Are Rocking’ with an album of material by King Size Taylor. Ted ‘King Size’ […]
That’ll Flat Git It! is a long-running series of Rockabilly compilations from Bear Family Records. This latest edition, volume 33, comprises recordings from North Carolina’s Renown Records and its subsidiary […]
Big Joe Turner, these days, is best remembered for his R&B and Rock n Roll recordings from the mid-1950s onwards. Songs like ‘Shake, Rattle and Roll’ have become part of […]
On February 3rd 1959, a tragic plane crash killed three performers from the era. Eventually known as ‘The Day The Music Died’, it claimed the lives of the pilot, Buddy […]
We take a look at the new BGO Records quadruple re-release box set of mid-1970s Jonny Paycheck albums. Disc One This set begins with Mr Lovemaker from 1973, after Billy […]
A fast follow up to 2019’s ‘The Elvis Presley Connection‘, Bear Family Records have started a new decade with a 33 track compilation that picks up where the last finished; […]
Compilation promises “33 Rockin’ Rollin’ Christmas Blasters For The Cool Season“, but does it deliver? Many Christmas compilations are released each year, with most of them boasting the same selection […]