Boogie Woogie Flu

Larry Williams only recorded for a couple of years at Specialty. From those handful of sessions some of the most influential early rock ...

Listening to these old records requires a certain leap of faith. They are, after all, mostly beat up, juked, worn and somewhat distorted. Ho...

Blind Boy Fuller says "...can't stand pat, swear you gotta step it up and go." And this record does just that-it moves. The f...

Sam Cooke would've been 76 years old today. It's hard to imagine. This is a sweet recording, one of his last releases on Specialty,...

Forgive me, please. I'm gonna go out on a limb here. Both of these records are scratchy. One was pressed on shellac 80 years ago, and t...

5000 Cartier Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 2005. Photograph© Robert Polidori In case you haven't seen it, check out Spike L...

In Late 1945 Lester Young recorded this masterpiece in Los Angeles, California. Fresh from a dishonorable discharge from the the army that ...

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"Over 10,000 sold in 8 days in New Orleans- 7,000 in Phila. -6,000 in Memphis- and spreading everywhere" That's what the trade...

Get on the good foot! Get up offa that thing! Give the drummer some! Wait, that is James Brown on the drums! I love this picture. It looks l...

Photo © Alfred Wertheimer It's well documented that Elvis was a degenerate, and more than likely that he was a record collector too. So,...