THE JUKEBOX SERIES
PINK FLOYD JUKEBOX
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Truly original and wholly unique,
Pink Floyd are renowned for their sonic experimentation and
musical innovation, creating a sound all of their own in the
process. But while their music would greatly inspire a huge
range of artists who came along in their wake, it was not
created without its own influences. Indeed Floyd members have
never been shy to name-check an eclectic range of songwriters
and performers who had come before. Across the whimsical
psychedelia of the Barrett era through the ambient progressive
groove that would propel the band towards the enormous success
they eventually achieved, they were informed and inspired by
numerous different genres and artists. The raw country blues of
Pink Anderson and Floyd Council – who of course additionally
inspired the band’s name – were favourites of Syd Barrett, with
Dave Gilmour citing Tommy Steele as important as Elvis! The
pioneering work of electronic mavericks Stockhausen and Varese
co-exist with Dylan, Miles Davis and Bo Diddley, who all played
their part in what would become the Pink Floyd sound too. This
compilation, complete with 16 page booklet featuring notes by
music historian Derek Barker, documents these influences and
many more besides, across 23, always surprising, often obscure
tracks on his quite extraordinary ‘jukebox’ collection.
1. Every Day In The Week Blues - Pink Anderson 2. Runaway Man
Blues - Floyd Council 3. Not Fade Away - Buddy Holly 4. (I’m a)
King Bee - Slim Harpo 5. Pretty Thing - Bo Diddley) 6. Beautiful
Delilah - Chuck Berry 7. Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Frankie
Lymon & The Teenagers 8. Song Of Youths (edit) - Karlheinz
Stockhausen 9. Money Honey - Elvis Presley 10. Singing The Blues
- Tommy Steele 11. Blue Sands - Chico Hamilton 12. Bye Bye Love
- Everly Brothers 13. Apache - The Shadows 14. Midnight Special
- Pete Seeger 15. Blowin’ In The Wind - Bob Dylan 16. Prologue
From West Side Story - Max Goberman Orchestra 17. Hey Joe - Jimi
Hendrix 18. Gone - Miles Davis 19. Up On Cripple Creek - The
Band 20. Heart Full Of Soul - The Yardbirds 21. So What - Miles
Davis 22. Louie, Louie - Richard Berry 23. Déserts - Edgard
Varèse
Nick Drake's Jukebox
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One of contemporary music’s true
originals, the inimitable songs of Nick Drake are often
difficult to imagine having been influenced by anyone but
himself. But as with all true musical giants, Drake’s
compositions and style were informed by a diverse range of
musicians, songwriters and performers who came before. From the
sublime finger-picking and glorious tunes of the wholly
under-rated Bert Jansch to the country blues styles of Big Bill
Broonzy and Reverend Gary Davis - via Donovan, The Yardbirds and
Miles Davis, he listened to all of them and many others besides.
The inspiration these mavericks provided motivated the often
manically depressed Nick Drake into writing, recording and, on
the very rare occasion, performing some of the most beautiful
music ever written – albeit, tragically, the process would
contribute in no small way to his untimely death at the age of
just 26. This compilation traces the roots of Nick Drake’s
astonishing music and features all of the above mentioned
artists and many others– with 24 superb and moving tracks, which
now can be appreciated all together on this collection, enabling
the appreciation of where this mysterious and legendary figure
found much of his musical muse and hopefully, for a man often
tortured by his own existence, at least a little comfort. The
set is completed with a 16-page booklet featuring extensive
sleevenotes by music historian, Derek Barker.
1. St James Infirmary -
Louis Armstrong 2. Heart Full Of Soul - The Yardbirds
3. Parchman Farm - Bukka White 4. Gallows Tree - Odetta 5. Blue In Green
- Miles Davis 6. Careless Love - Josh White 7. Betty and Dupree
- Brownie McGhee 8. Chega de Saudade João - Gilberto
9. Summertime - Billie Holiday 10. If You Leave Me Pretty Mama
- Dave Van Ronk
11. Black Mountain Blues - Dave Van Ronk 12. Little
Woman Your So Sweet - Blind Boy Fuller 13. Cocaine Blues -
Ramblin’ Jack Elliott 14. Samson and Delilah - Reverend Gary
Davis 15. Guinevere - Donovan
16. Girl From The North Country - Bob Dylan 17. Gypsy Davey
- Woody
Guthrie 18. Black Girl - Pete Seeger 19. I Ain’t
Marching Anymore - Phil Ochs 20. I Wish I Was a Mole In The
Ground - Bascom Lamar Lunsford 21. Blackwaterside -
Bert Jansch 22. Wedding Dress Pentangle - 23. When Do I Get To
Be Called a Man - Big Bill Broonzy 24. Hellhound On My
Trail - Robert Johnson
NEIL YOUNG JUKEBOX
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From Hank to Hendrix, Neil Young’s
self-described bumpy ride has seen him create a body of work
that has embraced musical genres from pop to protest, rockabilly
to rock and garage to grunge with everything including
contemporary folk, country, blues and synth-rock in between.
Young understands the importance of self-renewal. He recognizes
that to stand still is to stagnate, which is why he has
repeatedly delved into new musical territories. This CD
compilation explores these territories and influences and
presents them as the music that you might find on Neil Young’s
personal jukebox. The set is completed with a 16-page booklet
featuring extensive sleevenotes by music historian, Derek
Barker.
1. Forty Days – Ronnie Hawkins 2. Send Me Some Lovin’
– Little Richard 3. Bony Moronie – Larry
Williams 4. Rawhide – Link Wray 5. Framed – Ritchie Valens 6.
Yes I Love You Baby – Gene Vincent 7. Tennessee
Waltz– Bobby Comstock & the Counts 8. Alone And
Forsaken – Hank Williams 9. Bop-a-lena – Ronnie Self 10. Only
the Lonely – Roy Orbison 11. Bongo Rock – Preston Epps 12.
Little Rain – Jimmy Reed 13. Walk On – Sonny Terry and Brownie
McGhee 14. Apache – The Shadows 15. Taking Care Of Business – Bachman Turner Overdrive
16. Blackwaterside – Bert Jansch 17. Girl
From The North Country – Bob Dylan 18. Oh, Lonesome Me –
Don Gibson 19. Theme For Ernie – John Coltrane 20. Hey Joe – Jimi Hendrix 21. Four Strong Winds – Ian
and Sylvia 22. Mystery Train – Elvis Presley
23. Betty Lou Got a New Pair Of Shoes – Bobby
Freeman 24. The Wayward Wind – Gogi Grant 25. Farmer John – Don & Dewey
NICK CAVE'S
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Characterized by his intense vocal performances, Nick Cave’s
music, which might be considered as post-punk / alternate, is
actually a rich stew of eclectic influences which displays his
great fascination with American roots music. Add to this Cave’s
gospel, country, and folk influences, plus the music he now
plays with the recently (2006) formed garage rock band
Grinderman, and you have a wealth of material for a stunning
jukebox collection.
The set is completed with a
16-page booklet featuring extensive sleevenotes by music
historian, Derek Barker.
1. Cat Man - Gene Vincent 2. Gotta Serve Somebody
- Bob
Dylan 3. I Put a Spell On You - Screaming J. Hawkins
4. Rye Whiskey - Tex Ritter 5. Hey Joe -
Jimi Hendrix 6. Black Betty - Lead Belly 7.
I’m Gonna Kill That Woman - John Lee Hooker 8. Wanted Man - Johnny Cash 9. Man In Black
- Johnny Cash 10.
Bottle It Up And Go - Tommy McClennan 11.
Blue Suede Shoes - Elvis Presley 12. I’m Gonna Run To The
City Of Refuge - Blind Willie Johnson 13. Helpless - Neil
Young 14. Fever - Little Willy John 15. How Long, How Long Blues
- Leroy Carr 16. The
Body Of An American - The Pogues 17. Down In The Willow
Garden - Everly Brothers 18. Stack O’ Lee -
Mississippi John Hurt 19. Knoxville Girl - Louvin Brothers 20. Henry Lee
- Dick Justice 21. King Kong Kitchie-Kitchie Ki-Me-O - Chubby Parker 22. Mack The Knife
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Louis Armstrong 23. Grinder Man - Blues Memphis
Slim
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN'S JUKEBOX -
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The working-man’s hero, Bruce
Frederick Joseph Springsteen was born of Irish-Italian ancestry
on September 23, 1949 in Long Branch, New Jersey. The eldest of
three children, Springsteen spent his childhood and high school
years in Freehold Borough NJ. Schooled by strict nuns, his Roman
Catholic upbringing would have a profound affect both on his
life and his song-writing. Legend has it that Bruce’s interest
in music began at the tender age of seven after seeing Elvis
Presley on The Ed Sullivan Show. Springsteen, who as a child was
something of a loner, got his first guitar at the age of
thirteen. His earliest band, the Castiles, recorded two songs
co-written by him in 1966 but these early efforts were never
released. After leaving this garage rock combo in the summer of
’68 Bruce formed a power trio called Earth. Following that
fleeting enterprise Springsteen worked with a succession of
short-lived bands including Child – who changed their name to
Steel Mill – Dr. Zoom and the Sonic Boom, the Sundance Blues
Band and eventually the Bruce Springsteen Band whose members
included Vini Lopez, Danny Federici, David Sancious, Garry
Tallent, Steve Van Zandt and the soon to be added Clarence “Big
Man” Clemons. After some fine tuning this short-lived line-up
became the E Street Band. In May 1972, and after persistent
pressure from Springsteen’s new managers, Mike Appel and Jim
Cretecos, Bruce was signed to Columbia by the legendary John
Hammond. Hammond saw Springsteen as following in Bob Dylan’s
footsteps and, within a month of signing with the label, Bruce
had completed work on his début album “Greetings From Asbury
Park, N.J.”.
The set is completed with a
16-page booklet featuring extensive sleevenotes by music
historian, Derek Barker.
1. Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis Presley 2. Mystery
Train - Little Junior Parker and the Blue Flames 3. Good Rockin’ Tonight
- Wynonie Harris 4. Twist And Shout -
Beatles 5. Maggie’s Farm - Bob Dylan
6. Paint It Black - Rolling Stones 7. Louie Louie -
Richard Berry 8. Chicken Shack Boogie - Amos Milburn 9. Be My Baby
- Ronettes
10. Please, Please, Please - James Brown and his Famous Flames
11. Proud Mary - Creedence Clearwater Revival
12. The Ballad Of Thunder Road - Robert Mitchum 13.
Only The Lonely - Roy Orbison 14. Mona - Bo Diddley 15. Rave On Buddy
- Holly 16. Come
On In My Kitchen - Robert Johnson 17. A Mansion On The
Hill - Hank Williams Sr. 18. Tom Joad, Part 1 - Woody
Guthrie 19. Tom Joad, Part 2 - Woody Guthrie 20.
Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry 21. Angel Eyes - Frank Sinatra
22. I Walk The Line - Johnny Cash 23. Walking
The Dog - Rufus Thomas 24. John Henry - Pete Seeger 25. Summertime Blues
- Eddie Cochran
FRANK ZAPPA'S JUKEBOX - Chrome
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Of all the musicians and artists
who grew up in the 1950s listening to records that helped forge
successful recording careers in the 1960’s, Frank Zappa’s
choices were the most eclectic, leftfield and downright bizarre.
So while Frank listened to R‘n’B, Blues and Rock n’ Roll, in
common with many of his later contemporaries (and often with
local buddy Don Van Vliet - the artist later to be known as
Captain Beefheart - in tow) he would equally find time for
avant-garde jazz, modern classical and more New York doo-wop
than surely was good for a young man still in his mid-teens.
With extensive sleeve-notes by music historian Derek Barker,
explaining the relevance and stories behind each track, and a 16
page booklet packed with rare photographs, this collection will
prove a delight for both Frank Zappa fans and those interested
in how the music of the past influenced the artists of the
rock-era.
1. The Robins - Riot In Cell Block No. 9 2. Richard Berry
- Louie Louie Berry 3. Hank Ballard and
the Midnighters - Work With Me Annie Ballard 4. Edgard
Varèse - Ionisation 5. Lightnin’ Slim - My Starter
Won’t Work West 6. Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown - Okie Dokie
Stomp 7. Don & Dewey - Leavin’ It All Up To You 8. Howlin’ Wolf
- I Asked For Water (She Gave Me
Gasoline) 9. The Channels - The Closer You Are 10. The Clovers - Your Cash Ain’t Nothing But
Trash 11. Muddy Waters - Louisiana Blues
12. Cecil Taylor - Song 13. Andre Williams - Bacon Fat
14. The Chips - Rubber Biscuit 15. Anton Webern - Bagatelle 16. Anton Webern
- Symphony
17. Four Deuces - W-P-L-J 18. The Turbans No No Cherry 19. Eric Dolphy
- Out There 20. Guitar
Slim - The Story Of My Life 21. Johnny “Guitar” Watson -
Three Hours Past Midnight 22. Little Richard - Directly From My
Heart 23. The Cadets - Stranded In
The Jungle 24. Igor Stravinsky - Rite
Of Spring (extract)
25. Igor Stravinsky - Rite Of Spring (extract) 26. Tony Allen - Nite Owl
