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More extracts from reviews in Record Collector, Blues & Rhythm, In Tune, Now Dig This, Vintage Rock and The Jazz Rag
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Reviewers at In-Tune magazine, Vintage Rock, The Jazz Rag, Now Dig This, Blues & Rhythm, UK Vibe, Country Music Magazine impressed by recent releases
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The 1950s saw the emergence of a new and more adventurous strand of political and social satire evidenced in books and newspapers, on stage and on radio, and especially on the burgeoning new medium of...
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Hank Snow was one of the most successful and influential country stars in the history of the genre, racking up over 80 hits in a career that spanned half a century. He endured a harsh early life in hi...
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Anita O’Day has long been admired as one of the very best jazz singers, with a rhythmic and dynamic style that she could readily deploy in big band, small group and sophisticated orchestral envi...
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Horace Heidt was one of the bandleaders who achieved huge commercial and popular success during the 1930s and ‘40s playing what was called the “sweet” middle-of-the-road blend of orc...
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The Modern Jazz Quartet were one of the most innovative, distinctive and influential groups in jazz in the 1950s and subsequent decades, pioneering a refined, classically-influenced style of cool jazz...
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Julius La Rosa was a traditional pop singer typical of the style prevalent in the early ‘50s who came to fame on the all-powerful Arthur Godfrey’s radio and TV shows, on which he was a reg...
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Jesse Fuller was an extraordinary and unique blues and folk performer, born in Georgia in 1896, who was an itinerant worker and performer until settled in Oakland, California in 1929. He was an accomp...
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George Hamilton IV was a country singer and musician who started his professional life a teen idol pop singer with the 1956 Top 10 hit with his debut single “A Rose and a Baby Ruth” on the...
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Jimmie Davis combined a career singing risque country hits with that of a politician, serving two terms as Governor of Louisiana in the 1940s and '60s
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