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The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of is a two-CD album of blues, country, and old-time music recordings that were originally released in the 1920s and 1930s on 78 rpm records. Subtitled The Dead Sea Scrolls of Record Collecting, it is a compilation of songs from rare and hard-to-find records. It was released in 2006.
The company relied on offices and agents in nearby Chicago to find and record artists for its blues and jazz offerings. [4] Paramount's race record series was launched in 1922 with vaudeville blues songs by Lucille Hegamin and Alberta Hunter. [5] The company had a large mail-order operation which was a key to its early success. [2]
[9] Blues standards that appeared on the main charts [b] in the 1960s and 1970s often had been recorded by rhythm and blues, soul, and rock musicians. [10] Each song listed has been identified by five or more music writers as a blues standard. Spellings and titles may differ; the most common are used.
American Epic: The Best of Blues is a compilation of early blues songs recorded between 1927 and 1936 and released to accompany the American Epic films in 2017. [1] The album was released as a 17-track download and a 13-track vinyl LP. [1] The album was praised by critics as the definitive pre-war blues compilation. [2] [3] [4]
The discography listings include a five star rating, the music label it was released on, and the date as well as possibly reviews of certain albums. All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues also includes 30 essays covering different styles of blues, along with "top lists" and extensive charts on the evolution and lineage ...
In 1961, Columbia released King of the Delta Blues Singers, the first album to feature Johnson exclusively. [32] It includes a mix of recordings originally issued on 78s and previously unreleased material. A follow-up album, King of the Delta Blues Singers, Vol. II was issued in 1970, [33] again with some original and unreleased recordings.
Even those in circulated condition are worth anywhere from $15,000 to $100,000. 1920-S Indian Head $10 Gold Eagle: $2 Million. As NGC noted, the vast majority of these coins were melted in the ...
Vaudevillean Mamie Smith records "Crazy Blues" for Okeh Records, the first blues song commercially recorded by an African-American singer, [1] [2] [3] the first blues song recorded at all by an African-American woman, [4] and the first vocal blues recording of any kind, [5] a few months after making the first documented recording by an African-American female singer, [6] "You Can't Keep a Good ...