Blues

Ella Fitzgerald – Misty Blue

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@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review!Title: Ella Fitzgerald - Misty BlueYear/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1968, Vocal Jazz, Country Pop, Blues, Newport News, Virginia 10/26Matrix #: SY 14668Condition: VG+ - sounds great (TC) | Members: Ella F (17' - 96') | Producer: Dave Dexter Jr.Cultural Facts: Ella Went Country: Misty Blue was an unusual detour for Fitzgerald, built largely from contemporary country songs by writers including Harlan Howard, Hank Cochran, ...

Tom Waits – Rain Dogs

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@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review!Title: Tom Waits - Rain DogsYear/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1985, Experimental Rock, Blues, Avant-Folk, Los Angeles, California 10/26Matrix #: N/ACondition: VG+ (LM) | Members: Tom W (49' - ) | Producer: Tom WaitsCultural Facts: Written in a Manhattan Basement: Waits wrote much of Rain Dogs in a basement room at Washington and Horatio Streets in lower Manhattan. He wandered the neighborhood with a cassette recorder captu...

Carlos Santana – Havana Moon

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@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review!Title: Carlos Santana - Havana MoonYear/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1983,  Blues Rock, Tex-Mex, San Francisco, California 10/26Matrix #: 38642Condition: VG+ Sounds great (TC) | Members: Carlos S (47' - ) | Producer: Jerry Wexler, Barry BeckettCultural Facts: His Father Sings on the Album: Carlos brought his father, José Santana, into the studio to sing “Vereda Tropical,” a song Carlos remembered hearing ...

Leadbelly – Easy Rider

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@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review!Title: Lead Belly - Easy RiderYear/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 2018, Blues, Folk Blues and Country Blues, Mooringsport, Louisiana 9/26Matrix #: CATLP 133Condition: VG+, very clean copy (TC) | Members: Lead Belly (88' - 49')Cultural Facts: Prison Lore: Lead Belly was serving time at Angola Prison when folklorists John and Alan Lomax encountered him in 1933 while collecting songs for the Library of Congress, beginning the r...

Sonny Boy Williamson - Sonny Boy Williamson

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Circus Maximus – Circus Maximus

CIRCUS MAXIMUS – Circus Maximus 1967 | Psychedelic Rock / Folk Rock / Jazz Rock | New...

CIRCUS MAXIMUS – Circus Maximus 1967 | Psychedelic Rock / Folk Rock / Jazz Rock | New York City | 8/26Matrix #: VSD-79260Condition: VG  Sounds Good (TC)Members: Jerry Jeff Walker (42'–20') • Bob Bruno • Gary White • David Scherstrom (46'–17') • Peter Troutner (–08') Cultural Facts: Before Bojangles: Jerry Jeff Walker co-founded Circus Maximus with jazz-minded multi-instrumentalist Bob Bruno. Just a year later, Walker recorded “Mr. Bojangles,” launching the songwriting career for...

Buddy Miles- A Message To The People

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The Doors – Greatest Hits

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Steve Miller Band - Living in the 20th Century

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The Animals With Eric Burdon – In The Beginning

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@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review!Title: The Animals With Eric Burdon - In The BeginningYear/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1970,  Blues Rock and Rhythm & Blues, Newcastle upon Tyne, England 7/26 Matrix #: WDS690Condition: G+, shows wear but plays fine with surface noise (TC) | Members: Eric B (41' - ), Alan P (42' - ), Hilton V (43' - 21'), Chas C (38' - 96'), John S (41' - )Cultural Facts: Recording Story: These raw performances were record...

Traffic-'Last Exit'

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@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review!Title: Traffic - Last ExitYear/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1969, Rock, Psychedelic Rock Blues Rock, Birmingham, England 7/26Matrix #: N/ACondition: VG+ (LM) | Members: Steve W (48' - Alive), Jim C (44' - 05'), Chris W (44' - 83'), Dave M (46' - Alive)Cultural Facts: Album Lore: Last Exit is a partly odds-and-ends release, mixing studio tracks with live recordings after Traffic’s first breakup. Scene Ecology: Th...

Various - Mississippi Delta Blues Vol. 1

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@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review!Title: Various - Mississippi Delta Blues Vol. 1Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1960s, Blues, Delta Blues Compilation, Mississippi Delta 7/26Matrix #: ST 1041Condition: VG++ (LM) | Members: Various Artists (N/A)Cultural Facts: Personal Struggle: Delta blues was born from poverty, racial terror, prison farms, sharecropping, and dangerous travel, with many players recording only a few sides before disappearing from public r...

Jimmy Reed – The Best Of Jimmy Reed

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B.B. King - Indianola Mississippi Seeds

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@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review!Title: B.B. King - Indianola Mississippi SeedsYear/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1970, Blues, Electric Blues, Indianola, Mississippi 6/26Matrix #: abcs-713Condition: VG+ (CC) | Members: B.B. K (25' - 15')Cultural Facts: Personal Struggle: King grew up in Mississippi poverty, worked as a sharecropper, and lost his mother young before music became his escape route. Studio Lore: Producer Bill Szymczyk brought in rock and soul...

John Mayall – Down The Line

Title: John Mayall – Down The LineYear/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1972, Blues/Rock, British Blues / Bl...

Title: John Mayall – Down The LineYear/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1972, Blues/Rock, British Blues / Blues Rock / Electric Blues, Macclesfield, EnglandMatrix #: BP-619Condition: VG+Staff: LM Cultural Facts: British Blues Giant: John Mayall was one of the central figures of the British blues boom, helping bring American blues influence into the UK rock scene. Bluesbreakers Legacy: Mayall’s bands became a launching pad for major players, including Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Mick Taylor, and John M...

LP The Edgar Winter Group – They Only Come Out ...

The Edgar Winter Group – They Only Come Out At Night Title: The Edgar Winter Group – They Only Co...

The Edgar Winter Group – They Only Come Out At Night Title: The Edgar Winter Group – They Only Come Out At NightYear/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1979 reissue, Rock, Hard Rock / Blues Rock, Beaumont, TXMatrix #: PE 31584Condition: VG Cultural Facts: Monster Hit LP: Originally released in 1972, They Only Come Out At Night became the Edgar Winter Group’s biggest album, featuring both “Frankenstein” and “Free Ride.” (Wikipedia) Heavy Lineup: The record brought together Edgar Winter, Dan Hartman, Ro...

Iron Butterfly – In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

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@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review!Title: Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-VidaYear/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1968, Psychedelic Rock, Acid Rock/Heavy Psych, San Diego, California 6/26Matrix #: SD 33250Condition: VG, shows wear but sounds good TC | Members: Doug I (45' - 24'), Erik B (50' - 03'), Lee D (42' - 12'), Ron B (41' - 21')Cultural Facts: Studio Lore The title came from a slurred version of “In the Garden of Eden,” turning a simple phrase into one ...

Vanilla Fudge – Vanilla Fudge

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Vanilla Fudge – Vanilla Fudge

Title: Vanilla Fudge | Vanilla Fudge Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1967, Rock, Psychedelic R...

Title: Vanilla Fudge | Vanilla Fudge Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1967, Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Long Island Matrix #: SD 33-224 Condition: VG+, sounds great, lots of marks (CC) Cultural Facts: Personal Struggle Mark Stein was only in his early 20s when the band broke big, carrying sudden fame inside a group already living in the chemically heavy chaos of the late-60s scene. Studio Lore Their slowed-down, dramatic rearranging of pop songs became the whole formula, turning familiar mat...

Billie Holiday – God Bless The Child

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@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review! Title: Billie Holiday – God Bless The Child Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1972, Jazz, Blues, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania / New York, New York 5/26 Matrix #: G 30782 Condition: VG+, sounds great TC | Members: Billie H (15' - 59') Cultural Facts: Personal Struggle Holiday’s childhood included poverty, sexual assault, and time in reform school, giving her adult voice a lived-in weight that was never just “sad jazz singer”...

John Mayall - Looking Back

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@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review!Title: John Mayall - Looking BackYear/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1969, Blues, British Blues, Macclesfield, England 5/26Matrix #: PS 562Condition: VG+ (VZ) | Members: John M (33' - 24')Cultural Facts: Personal Struggle: Mayall spent years as an older outsider in British beat culture, building his scene slowly while younger guitar heroes kept passing through his bands. Scene Ecology: Looking Back documents the Br...

Junior Kimbrough – First Recordings

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The Mothers Of Invention - Freak Out (Frank Za...

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@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review!Title: The Mothers Of Invention - Freak Out!Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1966,  Psych Rock, Los Angeles, California 5/26Matrix #: V50052Condition: G+ (shows lots of wear but plays fine with light surface noise) (TC) | Members: Frank Z (40' - 93'), Ray C (36' - 24'), Jimmy B (38' - 08'), Roy E (42' - Alive), Elliot I (43' - Alive)Cultural Facts: Personal Struggle: Frank Zappa’s early outsider streak came from illness, ...

Iron Butterfly - Heavy

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@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review!Title: Iron Butterfly - HeavyYear/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1968, Psychedelia, Heavy Psych, San Diego, California 5/26Matrix #: SD33-227Condition: VG+ (LM) | Members: Doug I (46' - 99'), Ron B (45' - 03'), Jerry P (43' - 12'), Danny W (45' - Alive)Cultural Facts: Personal Struggle: Darryl DeLoach, heard on this debut lineup, later died of liver cancer at 56, a reminder that Iron Butterfly’s pre-fame story had real human...

Van Morrison - Enlightenment

Little Feat - Shake Me Up