This has to be one of the best value CD's I have bought in years, 2 discs, 60 songs over 2 hours of some of the best rockin tracks your likely to hear for less than 10GBP!!

This CD is excellently put together, containing some very well known tracks from the Chess, Checker lables and some lesser known stuff from the city of Chicago.

I cannot possibly mention every song on here, the bigger names will speak for themselves Dale Hawkins, Bobby Sisco, Hank Mizell.

I love I Cant Wait by Ray Stanley, the tick tocking sound throughout is so typical of the '50's improvisation, older hillbilly shuffles, Choctaw Boogie, sit beside rockabilly belters like Let Your Hair Down Baby, listen to Rockin Rosalie, the bass is brilliant, great bopping stuff, Rock on the Moon is typical of the eras obsession with all things space like with saxaphone backing.

Do it Bop gets CD 2 off to a great start but just listen to the unique hicupping sound of Billy Barrix on Almost, the Hot Lips Baby, one of my favourite boppers, Just a Little bit More has great bass and another artist reaching for some very high note hicups then Little Angel has great guitars and a frantic almost strangled vocal style.

Incidentally over the 2 discs there are three seperate songs about a girl called Mabel / Maybelle she must have been very popular in Chicago, but all the tracks are belters.

You can see from the track listing that the quallity of stuff on this speaks for its self, yes I owned some of these already, mainly on vinyl, or I have long since lost my C90 cassette copy of friends versions, Woodpecker Rock, an example of this

If you have been into the scene for a long time like me it presents a chance to get the tracks in great remastered quallity or if you discovered the rockin scene via post '80's neo bands then this is a great way to discover the excitment, exuberence and sometimes downright wierdness of 50's rockabilly in all its glory.

You MUST buy this compilation! Essential Listening.

Rockin Nev