Blues Vinyl 135 Items

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

Cover with long open seam splits

Writing on cover.

Record is close to VG.

Seam split on top spine

Sleeve has handwriting.

Vinyl with many scuffs and hairlines

Seam split.

US original.
Sleeve and label have handwriting.

Original US stereo pressing.

Still sealed. Price tag. Cover has waterdamage stains.

Original US Terre Haute pressing.

Tear in top spine. Original US Mono pressing.

Vinyl with scuffs and hairlines. Cover with shelf wear

Vinyl with many scuffs and hairlines. Cover with heavy shelf wear and writing on the back.

Original US mono pressing. Tear in top spine.

Still shrink wrapped but opened.
Record is slightly warped but still enjoyable.

Tiny seam wear.

1980 reissue.

label variation

With OBI.

tear in top spine. Mono Research Craft Press.

Close to VG+. Seam split.

Japanese pressing with obi.

taped seam split

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

Cover with ring, shelf wear. Vinyl with scuffs and hairlines

US original.

US original, club edition.

Cover with punch hole

Bottom spine is torn. Original inner sleeve.

Copy closer to VG+

Born Booker T. Washington White, Bukka’s trajectory as a blues performer follows a familiar template for his
time. Born in Mississippi, maybe in Houston, MS – maybe in Aberdeen, MS – maybe in 1902, maybe in 1909
or even 1906 he recorded throughout the 1930s. Bukka even recorded while incarcerated in the Mississippi
State Penitentiary aka Parchman Farm. Asked about his time at Parchman White commented “Well, I mostly
played guitar.”
During the 1940s and 50s as Blues moved from the Delta to Chicago, from rural to urban, Bukka’s career went
dormant. And then, like many of his time, his talent was “rediscovered” in the early 60s, in no small part thanks
to a brilliant guitarist in his own right, John Fahey. Performances and all new recordings happened throughout
the 60s, building interest in Bukka White’s Delta roots. This compilation of White’s best early material was first
issued in 1969 (1970 in the US), collecting Bukka’s 78s recorded for Vocalion and Okeh. His influence on rock
performers of that day cannot be understated. He opened for rock bands he’d inspired at venues like The
Fillmore, played his instrument in such a fashion that some said it’s like he was trying to destroy that guitar, his
most famous guitar, a 1933 National Duolian, was even known as “Hard Rock.” And then there’s the fact that
his song “Shake‘em On Down” was so influential on Led Zeppelin that they, “borrowed” from the song for both
“Hats Off To Roy Harper” and “Custard Pie.”
Bukka White was many things, a strong influence on his cousin B.B. King, a cotton picker, a mule driver, a hobo,
a player in the old Negro Leagues, a boxer, a preacher, a convict, a factory laborer and, as celebrated here,
one of America’s blues pioneers.

Cover has strong wear on the front and back. Label inner sleeve.
Original US pressing with 360 sound labels.

close to NM. 1981 reissue

Record has some hairlines and a few superficial scratches.
Writing on label. Cover with faint ring wear and small seam split.

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

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 !