Sun Records: Ult Blues Collection [Box set, Original recording remastered]

Various Artists - Blues - Traditional | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 19, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 3
• Format: Box set, Original recording remastered
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Varese Fontana
• ASIN: B0000AVHD8
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #53,050 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #55 in Music > Blues > Harmonica Blues

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. We All Gotta Go Sometime - Joe Hill Louis

2. Baker Shop Boogie - Willie Nix, The Memphis Blues Boy

3. Easy [Instrumental] - Walter Horton

4. Bear Cat (The Answer to Hound Dog) - Rufus 'Hound Dog' Thomas

5. Feelin' Good - Little Junior's Blue Flames

6. Tiger Man (King of the Jungle) - Rufus Thomas Jr.

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Disc: 2

1. She May Be Yours (But She Comes to See Me Sometime) - Joe Hill Louis

2. Seems Like a Million Years - Willie Nix (The Memphis Blues Boy)

3. Walked All Night - Charlie Booker

4. Baby's Gone and Left Me - Houston Stokes

5. Walking in the Rain - Rufus Thomas, Jr.

6. (Talkin') Off the Wall - Walter Horton

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Disc: 3

1. Keep Your Arms Around Me

2. Married Woman

3. I'm a Good Man

4. Policy Man Blues

5. The Last Time

6. Prison Bound Blues

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Customer Reviews

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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Git It Now Before It's Gone, July 1, 2004

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Curtiss Clarke (Calgary, Alberta Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sun Records: Ult Blues Collection (Audio CD)

Well, this is it. Unless you own the very pricey Sun box set on Bear Family, you'll want to purchase this 3-disc compilation if you are a blues lover and the "Sun Sound" rings your bell. This set is an absolute bargain and it contains most of the best blues titles that Sam Phillips ever recorded. Yup, it's all here; Big Walter Horton's "In the Mood", and "Easy" are in the desert island top 10 for blues harp instrumentals. Little Milton Campbell can be heard doing a respectable imitation of early B.B. King, and Little Jr. Parker's perfect voice is not to be missed. Other highlights are the great Earl Zebedee Hooker - King of the slide guitarists - performing some very rare tracks in the Robert Nighthawk mould plus Rufus Thomas (later of Stax records fame) doing his best to knock Big Mama Thornton's Hound Dog off the charts with his version of Bear Cat. James Cotton fans will be intrigued to hear Jimmy's sandpaper voice (but no harp) on his earliest sides. And not to be missed are one-man bands Joe Hill Louis and Dr. Ross blasting their harmonicas and wanging away on drum kits and guitars sounding like a full blues band in a jook. No doubt that a certain Mr. P. was listening to some of these same titles on his radio set while growing up in Memphis. Informative notes by journalist-aficionado Bill Dahl and some nice photos are supplied in the enclosed 8 page booklet. Get this set now. Like so many of the great vintage blues reissues, this won't be around long and you'll kick yourself if you miss it.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An essential piece of blues history, April 19, 2011

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This review is from: Sun Records: Ult Blues Collection (Audio CD)

Along with the Chess Blues box, and separate collections by individual stars like Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters and others, this is really an essential part of a collection for any blues fan or music collector. This is the grittier, slightly leaner southern style blues of the 1950s and an important contrast to the bigger sound practiced in the northern cities.

Sun Records didn't just produce Elvis Presley and rockabilly. They were a major blues label too. If you don't have this best of Sun collection, you're probably not getting the full picture of how the blues evolved.

16 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A message from the compilation producer, September 16, 2003

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Cary E. Mansfield (Studio City, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This comprehensive three CD, 75-track collection covers some of the best blues recordings Sun Records has to offer. Featured in this box are tracks by genuine blues legends like: Rufus Thomas, whose "Bear Cat" was Sun's first national hit in `53; Little Junior Parker (including the original "Mystery Train"), Walter Horton, Earl Hooker, Pinetop Perkins, James Cotton, Little Milton (including his rocking 1953 debut single, "Somebody Told Me"), Billy "The Kid" Emerson's original 1955 waxing of "Red Hot," Rosco Gordon, and plenty more.