If you're looking for a collection of how the electric guitar changed a number of music genres, this is it. This collection does a good job across the entire gamut of the electric guitar, and how it was used in several genres. Included are good/great examples of blues, r&b, jazz, r'n'r, and even a little country. (The Guardian)
trax disc 1:
1. Misirlou - Dick Dale 2. Three O'clock Blues - B.B. King 3. Rumble - Link Wray & His Ray Men 4. Space Guitar - Johnny "Guitar" Watson 5. Lightnin' Blues - Lightnin' Slim 6. Waiting For Benny - Charlie Christian 7. Cotton Pickin' - Mickey Hawks & The Night Raiders 8. Susie Q - Dale Hawkins 9. Dust My Broom - Elmore James 10. On The Rocks - Jimmy Raney 11. Raunchy - Bill Justis 12. Blue Guitar - Earl Hooker 13. Blue Guitar Stomp - Leon McAuliffe 14. Ghost Riders In The Sky - The Ramrods 15. Sleepwalk - Santo & Johnny 16. Bye Bye Blues - Les Paul & Mary Ford 17. Big Beat Boogie - Bert Weedon 18. Walk Don't Run - The Ventures 19. The Story Of My Life - Guitar Slim 20. Mister Sandman - Schet Atkins 21. Guitar Boogie Shuffle - The Virtues 22. The James Bond Theme - The John Barry Seven 23. Treat Me Like I Treat You - Eddie Burns 24. Spoonful - Howlin' Wolf 25. Shakin' All Over - Johnny Kidd & The Pirates
trax disc 2:
1. Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry 2. Hide Away - Freddie King 3. Have Guitar Will Travel - Scotty Moore Trio 4. West Coast Blues - Wes Montgomery 5. Out Of Limits - The Marketts 6. Taking Off (Instrumental) - Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies 7. Miss Ann's Tempo - Grant Green 8. Guitar Bustin' - Arthur Smith 9. Nuages - Django Reinhardt 10. Potato Peeler - Bobby Gregg & His Friends 11. Guitar Shuffle - Lowell Fulsom 12. Ellis In Wonderland - Herb Ellis 13. Freeze - Albert Collins 14. Foot Patter - The Fireballs 15. Travellin' To California - Albert King 16. This Time The Dream's On Me - Kenny Burrell 17. Teen Scene - The Hunters 18. Mumblin' Guitar - Bo Diddley 19. Chicken Wire - Roy Clark 20. Lullaby Of The Leaves - Mickey Baker 21. I'm Gonna Murder My Baby - Pat Hare 22. Okie Dokie Stomp - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown 23. Jordu - Barney Kessel 24. Shazam! - Duane Eddy 25. Boggie Chillun - John Lee Hooker
trax disc 3:
1. Green Onions - Booker T. & The MG's 2. Old Joe Clark - Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant 3. Sand Storm - Johnny & The Hurricanes 4. Flying Fingers - Joe Maphis And Larry Collins 5. Blues In B Flat - The Oscar Moore Quartet 6. Blues After Hours - Pee Wee Crayton 7. All Your Love - Magic Sam 8. Her Love Rubbed Off - Carl Perkins 9. The Beat - The Rockin' R's 10. Strollin' With Bones - T-Bone Walker 11. Yes Sir, That's My Baby! - Dick Hyman, Mundell Lowe & Trigger Alpert 12. I Need You, Baby - Eddie Kirkland 13. Liza (And The Clouds'll Roll Away) - George Barnes 14. Jimmy's Rock - Jimmy Reed 15. Have You Met Miss Jones - George Van Eps 16. Apache - The Shadows 17. Boogie Guitar - Johnny Otis 18. Skippin' - Buddy Guy 19. Yardbirds Suite - Tal Farlow 20. Mannish Boy - Muddy Waters 21. Kissing In The Dark - Memphis Minnie 22. Gonna Find My Baby - Arthur 'Big Boy' Cradup 23. Sweet Little Angel - Tampa Red 24. I Can't Quit You Baby - Otis Rush 25. The Train Kept A-Rollin' - Johnny Burnette
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