Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: BCD17352
- Format: CD
- UPC: 5397102173523
- Street Date: 08/12/16
- PreBook Date: 07/08/16
- Label: Bear Family Records »
- Genre: Blues
- Run Time: 359:41 mins
- Number of Discs: 5
- Year of Production: 2016
- Box Lot: 30
- Territory: NORTH AMERICA
- Language: English
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Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup - A Music Man Like Nobody Ever Saw (5-CD Box)
The first box set devoted to this blues giant!
- List Price: $174.99
- Your Price: $131.24
- In Stock: 5
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His complete recordings 1941-1962!
Songs include the original versions of Rock Me Mamma, That's All Right, My Baby Left Me, Mean Ol' Frisco, So Glad You're Mine, and many more!
Newly researched biography by award-winning blues journalist Bill Dahl.
Rare and exclusive photos!
In the world of music, there was never anyone quite like ARTHUR 'BIG BOY' CRUDUP. Rooted in the Mississippi Delta, his style was propulsive, melodic, original, and profoundly soulful. If he wasn't 'The Father of Rock 'n' Roll', as one LP proclaimed, there's no doubt that rock 'n' roll owes a debt to his songs, including That's All Right Mama, My Baby Left Me, Rock Me Mamma, So Glad You're Mine, and Mean Ol' Frisco Blues, as much as to his tight, swinging brand of rural blues.
Arthur Crudup was in his thirties when he made his first recordings in 1941 and recorded prolifically until his death in 1974. This set includes his complete recordings from 1941 until 1962, including every extant song from RCA and its associated labels, as well as his sides for Trumpet, Checker, Ace, and Fire. Over one hundred recordings in all.
An expressive singer and a true poet of the blues, Arthur Crudup certainly deserves to be known as the guy who wrote three songs that Elvis Presley recorded during the Fifties, but he was a towering musician in his own right. His influence didn't end at Elvis Presley. In addition to all those that Elvis influenced, countless other blues and rock musicians adapted his songs and his sweet, lyrical style.
These 124 songs on 5 CDs are complemented by a 68-page book by Bill Dahl, rare photos, and a newly researched discography.
Track Listing
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Press Quotes
(...)''Down in Tupelo, Mississippi, I used to hear old Arthur Crudup bang his box the way I do now, and I said if I ever got to the place I could feel all old Arthur felt, I'd be a music man like nobody ever saw'' - Elvis Presley told the 'Charlotte Observer' newspaper in 1956 (...) The Grammy-winning reissue company Bear Family is releasing a five-CD box set of his complete recordings from 1941 to 1962, complete with a hardback biography. A big tribute for a big man, in every sense of the word. (...)
—John Clarke, https://inews.co.uk/essentials/culture/music/arthu
