Various Artists - Electric Blues 1939-54 (English) 1 / VariousVolume One of Four. Booklet in English. EU only three CD collection compiled and annotated by renowned Blues expert, Bill Dahl. Bear Family Records is telling the story from the beginning of electric Blues into the new millennium. In the 1930s, the invention of Gibson's ES 150 the first electric guitar changed popular music forever. The first generation of Blues pioneers played acoustic instruments, but with the invention of amplification, guitar and

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