Matchbox Bluesmaster Series/ Various - Matchbox Bluesmaster SeriesThe present release is Volume 7 of the modern release of the iconic Matchbox Bluesmaster LP series from the 1980s with extensive notes from world authority on the blues, Paul Oliver. Blues as a distinct form of black folk song was already a quarter of a century old when the first country singers from the American South were placed before unfamiliar horns and microphones to record their music. For these singers the blues was one of several song types

this is where it all began A mixture of the live songs that had won us a following and our first experiments in the studio Listening back now it still has that sense of wildness

What will their greatest challenge be

Nearly 20 years in

where Haydn's art had come to his final flowering and where Beethoven and Schubert were soon to tower above all others

solo-banjo lullabies

This time the exceptional pianist Luis Perdomo reaches back to the earliest influences he grew up listening to: South American and Afro Caribbean Rhythms

The present release features Edita Keglerova and the Hipocondria Ensemble performing Steffan's Concertos for Harpsichord

boogie woogie

I think your playing is beautiful

The album reached No

From the grassy highlands of western Cameroon

Audioweb were signed to U2's Mother Records label