Rod Stewart's career has been subject to so many twists that a single-disc overview is somehow both appealingly broad and inadequate to the task of tracing all those zigzags. From beloved rocker of the first order to disco dilettante to pop crooner, Stewart's career has presented challenges to fans who may have been charmed by the rollickingly randy "Maggie May" and bemused by the alarmingly narcissistic "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" This 16-song retrospective touches all the bases without delving deeply into any era. The selections aren't arranged sequentially and the booklet is much more generous with vintage photos than album credits.

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Well AVID Entertainment have an even better deal with their latest release on their Avid Jazz imprint. Including original LP liner notes Avid Jazz presents 4 original classic albums by the band Down Beat described as 'the hardest swinging big band in jazz'. Count Basie & His Orchestra and all for an incredible budget price! 'King Of Swing'; 'The Greatest - Count Basie Plays, Joe Williams Sings Standards'; 'April In Paris' and the legendary 'Atomic Mr Basie' are presented here on a superbly re-mastered double CD offering the listener what is probably the finest sound quality they will ever hear!

Following his Grammy Award-winning instrumental album, 2006's Fingerprints, Peter Frampton returns with Thank You Mr. Churchill (A&M/New Door/UMe), his most personal collection to date. The 11-song set, co-produced and co-engineered by Frampton, features the legendary guitarist at his most incisive lyrically as he tackles the battles that wage within us and the outside forces that rage around us. His searing guitar work flows over every song, setting the mood. "This album is very autobiographical," Frampton says. "It starts with my birth, which I thank Mr. Churchill for bringing my father back from the Second World War."

2009 eight CD box set from the Finnish Goth/Symphonic Metal band. The Lokikirja box contains the albums Angels Fall First (1997), Oceanborn (1998), Wishmaster (2000), Over The Hills And Far Away, Century Child (2002), Bless The Child, Once (2004) and Dark Passion Play (2007), With a total of 84 tracks, this is simply the best way to start your Nightwish collection.

After a stunning debut that saw The Wilson Pickers snag themselves an ARIA nomination and a bunch of critical acclaim, they are back with follow-up Shake It Down, a surprising but effective combination of crackling neo-trad country and quiet folksy-pop.

Sonny Boy Williamson's original 1959 album made it to digital reissue but has now been supplanted by MCA's exhaustive The Essential Sonny Boy Williamson. Still, for a budget price, there are a dozen unforgettable tracks: "Don't Start Me to Talkin'," and his Checker debut; "All My Love in Vain," "Wake Up Baby," "99," "Cross My Heart," "Let Me Explain," and "The Key (To Your Door)."

Label-owner Art Rupe was a savvy businessman who knew the black jukebox industry and what made it tick when he started his Specialty label in the late-'40s. This sumptuous five-disc box set contains a bevy of highlights from this seminal R&B/rock … Full Description& roll label. Over the years, Rupe recorded a little bit of everything; early big band jump (the Liggins brothers), down-home blues and zydeco (Guitar Slim, Frankie Lee Sims, Clifton Chenier), gospel (early Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers), and doo wop (the Pentagons, Jesse Belvin). But with the discovery of the label's biggest star, Little Richard, in 1955, here is where the real story of rock & roll begins. A box set that no lover of the real thing can be without