3 x CD treasure trove
of under-the-radar 60's pop, soul, country, doo-wop, R&B, ballads
and all points between.
Just when you think you
have the sixties sussed, and feel that there's no musical stone left
unturned, that every release has been pored over a million times, a
compilation appears that shows just how rich the pickings of that
decade are.
Spar Records was set up
in Nashville in 1961 and became most famous for being a “sound-alike”
label, releasing cut-price cover version records of the hits of the
day on their Giant Records imprint, and distributing them through
outlets that didn't normally stock records. The irony was that many
of those recordings were as strong as the original versions, in some
cases better. In fact if the original version was recorded in
Nashville, it was highly likely that the same session musicians would
end up playing on the sound-alike version. Musicians playing on this
compilation also played on big hit records by the likes of Elvis
Presley, Bob Dylan, The Monkees, George Jones, Linda Ronstadt, Neil
Young and Johnny Cash among others.
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