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The King will always be affiliated first and foremost with the swinging hips of his Rock 'N' Roll days, when he emerged as a star who would change the course of pop music, yet his ability to sing songs of love is second to none. Witness his unrivalled passion and tenderness across 3 discs of classic love songs.

The use of slide guitar techniques within blues music is usually taken as a given, although the genesis of the form is not the easiest to trace. It is widely agreed that the roots of slide guitar<br/>playing lie in Africa. There was also another probable route via the Hawaiian Islands, they developed their 'slack key' playing style and began to add the use of metal held along the fretboard. However the story is complicated by the famed composer W.C. Handy who reported witnessing a blues player at a train station using a knife blade along the strings as early as 1903. It's quite likely that all these scenarios fed into the mix, and by the later 1920s blues players were often using the style. Our collection covers a wide period of time from the late 1920s onwards, and features many well known names and highly influential songs.

180 gram vinyl.<br/><br/>Where were you in '62?" asked the poster for George Lucas's iconic 1973 film American Graffiti. One of those "event movies" that exploded way beyond its humble origins, American Graffiti became one of the box-office smashes of the year. Dollar for dollar (with an estimated take of $55 million) it has been called "the most profitable film ever made". Gathered together here are 36 of the songs that graced the soundtrack of American Graffiti.

180 gram vinyl.

180 gram vinyl.<br/><br/>'My Favorite Things' is a key item in Coltrane's discography. He had already recorded some sides for Atlantic Records but these had been made with pick-up groups and showed 'Trane' very much in the accepted hard bop idiom, albeit making grand strides forward with his playing and harmonic searching. Here though, was the first album recorded with his new working outfit with McCoy Tyner and Elvin Jones (Steve Davis, although perfectly capable was merely the first in a line of bassists Coltrane worked his way through before settling on Jimmy Garrison). The music created for this album in late 1960 differed radically from what had preceded it as Coltrane forged his own pioneering path drawing on the modal experiments he'd been involved in with his final leader, Miles Davis.

180 gram vinyl.<br/><br/>Fats Domino was and is, a big man in both build and talent. He was the most consistent hitmaker of the Fifties. Inspection of the R&B charts between April 1950 and December 1960 reveals that he registered 58 hits, 18 of them million-sellers. This vinyl reissue constitutes essential Domino : twenty tracks that include all of the major hits as well as a handful of comparative rarities that are almost as good. There's no such thing as a bad Fats Domino record!

Music That Inspired Oh Brother Where Art Thou [Digipack / 2 CD]