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Various Artists
The Legendary Sounds of Sun Studios
Genres: Country, Blues, Pop, R&B, Rock

Track Listings (22) - Disc #1
1. Rocket 88 - Jackie Brenston
2. When it Rains it Pours - Billy "The Kid" Emerson
3. Booted! - Rosco Gordon
4. Dixie Fried - Carl Perkins
5. Whirlwind - Charlie Rich
6. Red Hot - Billy Lee Riley
7. Just Walkin' In the Rain - The Prisonaires
8. Gospel Train - The Jones Brothers
9. Walk That Lonesome Valley - Million Dollar Quartet
10. Drinkin' Wind Spo-Dee-O-Dee - Malcolm Yelvington
11. Rockhouse - Roy Orbison
12. Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin On - Jerry Lee Lewis
13. Flying Saucers Rock N'Roll - Billy Lee Riley
14. Miss Froggie - Warren Smith
15. Raunchy - Bill Justis
16. Sitting By My Window - The Five Tinos
17. Juiced - Billy Love
18. Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis
19. Ubangi Stomp - Warren Smith
20. Ooby Dooby - Roy Orbison
21. Don't Be Cruel - Million Dollar Quartet
22. Mona Lisa - Carl Mann
Track Listings (21) - Disc #2
1. Defrost Your Heart - Charlie Feathers
2. Howlin' Tom Cat - Harmonica Frank Floyd
3. Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
4. Blackland Farmer - Sleepy LaBeef
5. Runnin' Around - Charlie Feathers
6. Pool Shark - Dave Dudley
7. Who Will the Next Fool Be - Charlie Rich
8. Thanks A Lot - Jeanne Newman
9. Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins
10. Girl Most Likely - Jeannie C. Riley
11. Where the Old Red River Flows - Jimmie Davis
12. Southbound Line - Tracy Pendarvis and the Swampers
13. In the Jailhouse Now - Webb Pierce
14. Sweet Country - Dane Stinit
15. My Kind of Carryin' On - Doug Poindexter & the Starlite Wranglers
16. Jump Right Out of this Jukebox - Onie Wheeler
17. Two Young Fools In Love - Barbara Pittman
18. I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash
19. How Long - Maggie Sue Wimberley
20. Another - Roy Drusky
21. Feelin' Low - Ernie Chaffin
Track Listings (22) - Disc #3
1. Mystery Train - Little Junior's Blue Flames
2. Bear Cat - Rufus Thomas
3. How Many More Years - Howlin'Wolf
4. The Boogie Disease - Dr. Ross
5. Easy - Jimmy & Walter
6. Sweet Home Chicago - David 'Honeyboy' Edwards
7. Just Come On Home - Frank Frost
8. Policy Man Blues - Sleepy John Estes
9. Cotton Crop Blues - James Cotton
10. Blue Guitar - Earl Hooker
11. We All Gotta Go Sometime - Joe Hill Louis
12. I'm Gonna Murder My Baby - Pat Hare
13. Seems Like A Million Years - Willie Nix
14. So Long Baby, Goodbye - Sammy Lewis & Willie Johnson
15. Time Has Made a Change - Jimmy De Berry
16. She May be Yours - Joe Hill Louis
17. If You Love Me Baby - Little Milton
18. Feelin' Good - Little Junior's Blue Flames
19. Come Back Baby - Dr. Ross
20. The Wolf Is At Your Door - Howlin' Wolf
21. The Last Time - Woodrow Adams
22. Tiger Man (King of the Jungle) - Rufus Thomas

CD Details

All Artists: Various Artists
Title: The Legendary Sounds of Sun Studios
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Metro Music
Original Release Date: 1/1/2006
Re-Release Date: 10/31/2006
Album Type: Import
Genres: Country, Blues, Pop, R&B, Rock
Styles: Roadhouse Country, Classic Country, Traditional Blues, Electric Blues, Oldies & Retro
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 698458332325, 0698458332325

Synopsis

Album Description

Sun Records was the label that orchestrated the sublime careers of so many legendary artists: Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Howlin'Wolf and Carl Perkins were some of the who's who list of artists that began their careers in this backwater record company in America. This 3 CD box set tells the story of Blues, Country, and Rockabilly, and features all of these artists and more. Over 60 tracks featuring well-loved classics and rarities.

CD Reviews

Terrific Budget-priced Compilation of Essential Music

T. Davis | Seattle, WA | 04/25/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This 3-disc set, imported from England, captures the broad spectrum of vital music produced by Sam Phillips in Memphis during the 1950s. These new sounds transformed the United States and then the entire world. Rarities abound in this 65-track collection, and both they and classic cuts are presented with the best possible sound quality.

The first CD, entitled "Rockin'," includes tracks by all of the major rock 'n' roll greats that made Sun immortal: Jerry Lee Lewis ("Whole Lotta Shakin' Going' On," "Great Balls of Fire"), Carl Perkins ('Dixie Fried"), Charlie Rich ("Whirlwind"), Roy Orbison ("Ooby Booby"), and the Million Dollar Quartet ("Don't Be Cruel"), which in 1956 brought Jerry Lee, Carl, and Johnny Cash together with Elvis Presley. (Elvis' recordings are not included for contractual reasons.) But the disc also contains many classic singles by lesser-knowns, among them Jackie Brentson, whose "Rocket 88" is arguably the first rock record. Add Billy Lee Riley's "Red Hot," Bill Justis' "Raunchy," Warren Smith's "Ubangi Stomp," and many more for a rockin' good time.

The second disc is called "Cotton Crop Country." It includes Cash ("Folsom Prison Blues," "I Walk the Line"), Rich ("Who Will the Next Fool Be"), and Perkins ("Blue Suede Shoes"), together with such underappreciated greats as Charlie Feathers, Sleepy LaBeef, Jimmie Davis, Webb Pierce ("In the Jailhouse Now"), and other more "countrified" artists.

Disc 3 is titled "Beale Street Blues." Among the bluesmen represented are Rufus Thomas ("Bear Cat," "Tiger Man"), Howlin' Wolf ("How Many More Years," "The Wolf Is at Your Door"), Honeyboy Edwards ("Sweet Home Chicago") and many others, such as Sleepy John Estes, James Cotton, Joe Hill Louis, and Little Milton. Desperate love songs to unfaithful women are a popular theme: "If You Love Me Baby," "Come Back Baby," "So Long Baby, Goodbye," "I'm Gonna Murder My Baby," and so on.

This set is both a pleasure and a bargain. Snap it up!"