CD: B.B. King - The Vintage Years (4 CD Box Set with book) Ace

4 CD box set with extensive booklet, all discs and packaging are in excellent condition.

This set is paying tribute to the founding father of blues and rock guitar styles. Beautiful king size hardcover-box, containing four CDs (details below), and a lavishly illustrated 74-page book. This publication contains many unseen and rare photos and illustrations, mostly in full-color. B.B. himself wrote the introduction. It also brings new essays by Colin Escott and John Broven, based on new interviews with B.B. King, Sam Phillips, and Joe Bihari; a detailed track analysis; a comprehensive B.B. King discography, and a note on tape research behind this project. All in all: a cornerstone of every serious blues collection!! CD1 'The Great B.B. King' (features his most popular songs); CD2 'Memphis Blues 'n' Boogie' (incl. the early Memphis recordings made by Sam Phillips); CD3 'Take a Swing With Me' (shows the full range of B.B.'s stylistic talents in the mid-late 1950s from blues and r&b to doo wop, gospel and jazz); CD4 'King Of The Blues' (sees B.B. establishing his unique, trendsetting blues style by the 1960s).