Blind Pig Records 30th Anniversary Collection

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 12, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 3
• Label: Blind Pig
• ASIN: B000H9I150
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #61,865 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #92 in Music > Blues > Harmonica Blues

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Tommy Castro -- Just Like Me

2. Smokin' Joe Kubek & Bnois King -- I Saw It Coming

3. Arthur Adams & B.B. King -- The Long Haul

4. Big Bill Morganfield -- Evil

5. Reneé Austin & Delbert McClinton -- Pretend We Never Met

6. Popa Chubby -- Back In My Baby's Arms

See all 16 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Magic Slim & the Teardrops -- I'm A Bluesman

2. John Mooney -- She Ain't No Good

3. Harper -- Last Cup Of Coffee

4. Mighty Joe Young -- As the Years Go Passing By

5. Willie "Big Eyes" Smith & Kim Wilson -- Believe Me

6. Nick Curran and the Nitelifes -- Beautiful Girl

See all 17 tracks on this disc

Disc: 3

1. Tommy Castro -- Can't Keep a Good Man Down

2. Popa Chubby -- If the Diesel Don't Get You Then the Jet Fuel Will

3. Magic Slim & the Teardrops -- Goin' To Mississippi

4. Rod Piazza & the Mighty Flyers -- Tough & Tender

5. Reverend Billy C. Wirtz -- Female Problems

6. Smokin' Joe Kubek & Bnois King -- My Heart's in Texas

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

This stalwart independent label, headquartered in San Francisco, began in a small Ann Arbor club and grew into one of the most important imprints in blues. Thirty-three tunes ricochet between the potent old-school Chicago stylings of Buddy Guy and Junior Wells's classic "Hoodoo Man Blues" and Big Walter Horton'ss swinging shuffle "Put the Kettle On" to the intriguing pop-folk hybrid of Roy Rogers and Norton Buffalo and the dashing retro-nuevo guitarisms of Nick Curran & the Niteflies to the brawny Texas-schooled sounds of Omar & the Howlers and Smokin' Joe Kubek & Bnois King. The label's Delta blues side is underrepresented, although James Cotton and Elvin Bishop offer two great flavors of cottonland grind. But what's truly perplexing is that Blind Pig's historic recordings by Luther Allison, Johnny Shines, Jimmy Rogers, Charlie Musselwhite, Boogie Woogie Red (the label's first artist), and other significant musicians are omitted, while ham-fisted blues-rockers Tommy Castro and Albert Cummings and the mediocre Deanna Bogart and Duke Tumatoe get entries. Which makes this retrospective decidedly hit-and-miss. --Ted Drozdowski

Product Description

To kick off the celebration of our upcoming "Pearl" anniversary in 2007 – 30 years as purveyors of the finest in blues and roots music - we cast before you 33 audio and 6 video treasures from Blind Pig's illustrious history – musical moments that are polished, timeless, and rare as pearls. "Pearls From Swine" - two CDs plus a bonus DVD at a single CD price! Pig out!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars blind pig, May 12, 2007

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Calvin L. Wisdom "rdgrnnr1" (north central arkansas) - See all my reviews
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there is not much wrong with the CD ,but its a little more rock and roll than blues for me.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not like 25th anniversary-sorry, April 28, 2011

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brk79 - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Blind Pig Records 30th Anniversary Collection (Audio CD)

I expected much more, but for the few nice things on cd my rate is ****. Maybe 5 years period since last edition is pretty much short time to release another great collection.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Blind Pig rocks!!!, February 15, 2009

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J. Krebs (Texas City, TX. United States) - See all my reviews
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What can I say? I have never bought a Blind Pig compilation collection that I did not thoroughly enjoy. If you like contemporary blues from the Texas/Delta area, then check this one out.