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In tandem with our Owen Gray collection this month Jasmine dips more toes into the waters of early Jamaican popular music with this collection featuring the island's premier 'uptown' band for almost... more

Fourteen Year-Old Helen Shapiro Was A Natural Live Performer, Blessed With A Phenomenal Voice. She Took The UK By Storm In 1961, Topping The Charts With Two Of Her First Three Releases, 'You Don't... more

One Of The More Memorable U. S. Instro Hits Of 1961 Was The Irrepressible 'You Can't Sit Down (Part 2)', By The PHILIP UPCHURCH COMBO. Although Only A Moderate-Sized Chart Rider, It Became A... more

Jasmine's occasional series of CDs devoted to multi-artist versions of the same song reaches the Rock 'n' Roll era for the first time with this collection of more than two dozen variations on a theme... more

Although JOHNNY KIDD & THE PIRATES Are Remembered Chiefly For Self-Penned Killers Like 'Shakin' All Over', 'Please Don't Touch', 'Restless', 'Growl' And 'Feelin', They Also Cut A Wedge Of Powerful... more

DON GIBSON was already an established Country star, with a dozen or so crossover Pop successes under his belt, when Ray Charles suddenly made him a household name in the Summer of 1962. Brother Ray's... more

Guitar virtuoso HANK "SUGARFOOT" GARLAND was one of the founding fathers and anchormen of the celebrated Nashville "A" Team. In September 1961, at the age of only thirty, he was involved in a... more

One of Rock & Roll/Rockabilly's "Holy Grail" releases, the 10" LP "JOHNNY BURNETTE'S ROCK 'N ROLL TRIO" was originally issued in the U. S. on the Coral label, in December 1956. It was a near-perfect... more

The tragic loss of Eddie Cochran in April 1960, at the age of only twenty-one (even younger than Buddy Holly), robbed Rock & Roll of one of it's most precocious talents. Despite his youth he'd... more

In the stampede to set up new independent record companies after the Second World War to exploit the emerging black music market, soon to be rechristened Rhythm & Blues, it's interesting that female... more

Canada's most successful contemporary Folk artist, Gordon Lightfoot, is frequently referred to as that nation's greatest songwriter. However, once he'd finally "made it" in the late 1960s, he... more

The Mello-Kings were one of the first Italian-American doo wop groups to climb the pop charts. They actually predated the most famous of all the New York Italian teen groups, Dion & The Belmonts by a... more

Formed In The Spring Of 1956 And In Terms Of Commercial Success, Were The Second Skifflers Out Of The Blocks After The Mighty Lonnie Donegan. Indeed, It's Probably Fair To Say That Apart From Lonnie,... more

Bob Gibson was a key figure in the late 50's early 60's folk revival. Whilst less well known than his peers, like Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, he is cited as an influence by no less than John... more

Although generally known as GEORGE "HARMONICA" SMITH, our man also recorded under other guises, e.g. Little Walter Jr, Harmonica King and George Allen. He likewise played on sessions for other... more

TERRY DENE was only eighteen years of age when he burst onto the UK's nascent Rock & Roll scene in the Spring of 1957. |During 1957 he was second only to Tommy Steele in popularity in the UK, his... more

The doyen of jazz critics, Leonard Feather praised Ella as "one of the great individualists of modern blues singing" yet the unique Ella Johnson is now largely forgotten among the bigger names of the... more

The doyen of jazz critics, Leonard Feather praised Ella as "one of the great individualists of modern blues singing" yet the unique Ella Johnson is now largely forgotten among the bigger names of the... more

Widely perceived as "The First Female Guitar Hero" (although the concept "Guitar Hero" wouldn't exist for forty years) LIZZIE "Memphis Minnie" DOUGLAS was one of the most popular Blues artistes of... more

One of the cornerstone figures of R&B and R&R, ANTOINE "FATS" DOMINO recorded 'The Fat Man' - the first million-selling Rock & Roll record - in December 1949, at the tender age of twenty-one. His... more

Twenty-seven tracks of classic bluegrass released by The McCormick Brothers between 1954 and 1962. Apart from their self-penned numbers, other songs are from the pens of Ira and Charlie Louvin, Rusty... more

One of the great masters of old-style country music who performed from the early 1930s until he retired in 2006 - a career of over 70 years!! Much loved flagship star of the famous WWVA Wheeling... more

A superstar of traditional country music and bluegrass for over half a century, and a regular on Nashville's 'Grand Ole Opry' from the 1940s until (quite literally) the day he died, Louis Marshall... more