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Product: HOT "LIPS" PAGE
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PHEWWW- what a top album. Hot "Lips" Page was one of THEE trumpet players in the 30's, 40's and 50's alongside with Louis Armstrong. Like Mr. Armstrong, Hot"Lips"Page owned a strong voice with "character" and a unique stile of blowing his horn. In th...
Product: V/A - GOT THEM HILLBILLY BLUES
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What a blaster- El Toro done it again and released this MONSTER 32 track compilation, packed with some of the hottest R&B meets Hillbillymusic. The result is a action packed album of original black & white artists and the cream of Blues feat. "Billy"...
Product: BRIOLES
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his Spanish band started as a Psychobillyband throughout the 80's / 90's. Long Time, No see !!! I don't heard of them since ages and now El Toro is coming along with that GREAT 15 track album. Meantime the band changed the line up a few times and on ...
Product: ACES, THE
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This is the debut album of THE ACES, from Santa Rosa /Ca., and for sure a real unusual album for El Toro Records.the band don't play "Billy" music in any way. The Aces are a pure Rootsband with heavily modern blues influence, so the harp and the raw ...
Product: LUCKY MARCELL & THE RAMBLIN' THREE
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From Belgrad /Serbia are these four guys with their 13 track album "Speed King". At first I must say that Lucky Marcell have a real goog voice even if he try to sing too American.
The backin band is solid and do an ace job. Musiclike we get a right ...
Product: V/A - TEXAS FEVER VOL. 1
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El Toro Records started a new set of 50's Rockabilly & Hillbilly Compilatlons with 20 Songs each. Attention , this isn't a double CD, I just packed them both in one review so it's easier for a lazy bastard like me to write a few words. 'right, the bo...
Product: JERRY LEE LEWIS
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THE KILLER - or Jerry Lee Lewis. The white madman with the Rocket 88. I think I don't have to say much about this man and his music (similar to the previous named acts/records). For sure there is nearly nothing of Jerry Lee which isn't released alrea...
Product: BUDDY HOLLY & THE CRICKETS, RITCHIE VALENS AND THE BIG BOPPER
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Another El Toro reléase and what else can do at the beginning of 2009, as an anniversary reléase for that tragic moment of Rock'n'Roll History.
If the "music" died on that stormy day ¡n february ¡s a question which I don't want to answer, so there ...
Product: JEFF POTTER
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Jeff Potter (who plays piano, guitar, drums, organ) with the help of a cast of fine musicians (including Betsy-Dawn Williams and guitarist extraordinaire Graham Tichy) offers here a very good self penned album full of piano led rock'n'roll ("High Oct...
Product: SLAMMERS MAXIMUM JIVE BAND, THE
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If you dig contemporary bands like The Stargazers, the Big Six and Ray Gelato's Giants Of Jive and of course Louis Prima and Louis Jordan this one is for you. Recorded live it proposes a good set of danceable music. I really enjoyed the excellent "Sw...