Blues Vinyl 120 Items

Original US stereo pressing.
Record has some hairlines and a few superficial scratches.
Label side 1 is missing.

Vinyl with many scuffs and hairlines

Cover has slight ring wear.

Japanese pressing with OBI!

Cover has storage wear, yellowing and writings on the back! Record has scuffs and scratches.

Label sleeve is VG.

Cover lamination is slightly peeling.

Seam split.

Promo copy with stamp. tear in spine

US original.
Sleeve has heavy wear.

Still sealed. Price tag. Cover has waterdamage stains.

Cover close to VG+

Cover has two seam splits.

label variation

Vinyl with scuffs and hairlines. Cover with shelf wear

Born in 1923 in Clarksdale MS, Wade Walton, besides working as barber, was a strong blues guitarist and harp player who toured with minstrel shows in his teens and formed the Kings of Rhythms with Ike Turner in the 40's. Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in 1962 and originally released by Bluesville Records, "Shake ’em on Down" was his biggest album, a great piece of downhome blues which earned him international attention. People said that no trip to Clarksdale would be complete without a trip to Wade’s Barber Shop (Delta Boogie)

Close to VG+. Seam split.

taped seam split

Cover with shelf and ring wear.

Santa Maria Pressing.
Ships in a brand new plain sleeve.

Vinyl with a couple of light scuffs and hairlines. Cover with seam damage on the bottom spine.

Cover close to VG+

tear in top spine. Mono Research Craft Press.

1970 reissue. Terre Haute pessing.

Pop up cover. Terre Haute pressing. torn spines

EU reissue.

Writing on back cover.

US reissue from 1980. Still in shrink but opened. Cover variation with pink typography.

Bottom spine is torn. Original inner sleeve.

Copy closer to VG+

Vinyl with many scuffs and hairlines. Cover with completely open spines and shelf wear.

180 gram vinyl!

180 gram vinyl!

Yellowed cover with seam split, small writing on back cover and tiny tear at the opening side. Record has hairlines.

Vinyl with scuffs and hairlines

Splits in seams.

Fully licensed ! Ltd to 500 copies. Singer and guitarist Ram John Holder was born in. 1939 in Georgetown, British Guiana, then moved to Cincinnati in 1954, and to the East Coast to work as folk blues singer in the early 1960s. In 1963, he took residency in England where he recorded several albums. Released in 1969 Black London Blues is surely is masterpiece. A socio-political manifesto the album chronicles the trials and tribulations that were the result of being a black-immigrant in London, and it contains all the pathos and pain one can imagine. Self-conscious, as concept albums often are, the record is almost like an audio A-Z or pub guide. It’s funky and represents his own black experience. It is a must have for all the blues revivalist out there, a record to rank along the lines of early Mike Cooper and american stalwarts like Eugene McDaniels or Sixto Rodriguez !

There is little doubt that John Lee Hooker was one of the most commercially successful blues artists that ever lived. He rose above his contemporaries with worldwide hit records and a particularly long series of albums, and a career that lasted for over sixty years. He was always prolific and attracted other artists to collaborate with him without ever losing his own highly distinctive style. One of the real and lasting strengths of "That's My Story" as an album is in its immediacy. Orrin Keepnews knew just how to use studio microphone placement to make the listener feel right in the middle of the session. Nothing extraneous is used to move John Lee away from you, making it evident that the producer's original intention with the album has certainly been fulfilled. No wonder that this laid-back work, so quickly recorded, has stood the test of time as one of John Lee Hooker's most revered records.

180 gram pressing!

Terre Haute pressing. US repress.

Aaron Thebeaux "T-Bone" Walker was all but destined for performance from the start. After all both of his parents were musicians, who taught him how to play guitar, ukulele, banjo, violin, mandolin, and piano. He was even an early protege of Blind Lemon Jefferson, who was a friend of the family, and often came over to dinner. Walker began performing blues music during the late 1920s and early 1930s, cutting his first singles, while performing as a sideman across the country, often performing alongside Blind Lemon Jefferson himself, as well as contemporaries like Douglas Fernell, Big Jim Wynn, and Charlie Christian. By the 1940s, Walker had begun to perform more frequently as a solo act, recruiting his own backing band, and being among the first to adapt a guitar technique that would change the course of music history: electric amplification.Were it not for Walker leading the charge and pioneering the electric blues sound, contemporary music might have been very different. His sound help set the stage for essential Chicago Blues artists like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Willie Dixon, while providing key influence to the likes of B.B. King, Jimi Hendrix, Chuck Berry, and innumerable others.

2018 reissue. Tiny wear. Original inner sleeve.

1971 reissue.

Original US pressing.