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Product: BUDDY HOLLY
Author: Visitor
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El Toro pursues its superb work of reissue of Buddy Holly's complete recordings. Three cd's have been necessary to gather every sides Buddy played on in 1957.
The amount of work is impressive both from Holly and 50 years later from the label. 1957 ..
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Product: BUDDY HOLLY
Author: Visitor
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Someday, if all the legal issues are resolved or most likely when his recordings fall into the public domain, someone will release an ultimate and definitive Buddy Holly boxset. In the meantime we'll enjoy this reissue of his early material recorded ..
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Product: CHARLIE FEATHERS
Author: Visitor
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May the gods of Rock'n'roll bless ElToro. Here you have the complete 50's recordings of Charlie Feathers, in other words "the ultimate rockabilly album" :47 songs from the best stylist of the genre, a great country singer (Sam Phillips once said "He ..
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Product: PAT CUPP
Author: Visitor
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Pat Cupp's fifties recordings stand as some of the finest rockabilly ever made.
His legacy may be modest in term of quantity (18 cuts for only 7 different songs) but the quality equals the likes of Carl Perkins and Mac Curtis (to name two that pop ..
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Product: JOHNNY BURNETTE AND THE ROCK'N'ROLL TRIO
Author: Visitor
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El Toro released another batch of rockabilly classics with one of the most influential band of the era : The Johnny Burnette Trio.
I won't make a song by song review as they are all familiar to almost everybody here and the interest of this release..
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Product: BOBBY DARIN
Author: Visitor
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It's hard to imagine while listening to this compilation album that Bobby Darin, with hits like Beyond The Sea or Mack The Knife would later be able to challenge Frank Sinatra on his own ground, or recorded rock'n'roll (Splish Splash) and swingin' tu..
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Product: BOB LUMAN
Author: Visitor
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Slowly but surely and with an impeccable taste, El Toro makes its place in the world of reissues and is now a label you have to count on.
After Buddy Holly, Pat Cupp and Johnny Burnette, the new legend to receive the El Toro treatment is Bob Luman. ..
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Product: SONNY BURGESS AND THE PACERS
Author: Visitor
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The cover shows a picture taken in the fifties but this album contains recordings made during a trip to Spain by Sonny and the Pacers in 2007.Listening to the sound, the energy, the voice you wouldn't believe it's played by men in their 70. Burgess r..
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Product: MR. WHIZ
Author: Visitor
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This good surprise comes from Spain as the slight accent of Klaus Villarrel (singer and double bass player) reveals.
This trio (guitar, light drums mostly played with brushes and double bass) plays an excellent brand of roots music they call hillbi..
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Product: MITCH WOODS WITH THE LAZY JUMPERS
Author: Visitor
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For 20 years Mitch Woods has made quite a name on the blues/jump scene, releasing numerous albums. He also worked with legends such as John Lee Hooker and Earl King to name but two.. His touring led him to Europe where he stopped in Barcelona, Spain...
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