Sun in stereo!

It's a few years since I looked at a series that rounded up around a theme a group of mainly American hits typical twenty-five or more and presented them in something called "Digitally Extracted Stereo" or D.e.s. for short.

This is very different than often crude and hard to listen to attempts to create stereo from mono recordings either by smothering in echo or pushing low and hi notes to the left or right channel and does create a realistic sounding stereo spread with instruments and even whole vocals seperated out and placed. 

This latest volume looks at Sun Records, the Memphis, Tn, label that was one of the very first to launch rock and roll from the mid 1950's and covers many hugely influential artists and songs often covered by others not least the "British Invasion" groups of the mid 1960's. 

We get prime slices of Elvis in his pre RCA output, Jackie Brenston's Rock 88 arguably the first ever rock and roll record ever, rockabilly by Carl Perkin's including Honey Don't as featured by the Beatles on the album Beatles '65, Jerry Lee Lewis  and the Big O himself Roy Orbision.

Country is also represented with Charlie Rich and Johnny Cash too.

These are the original hit recordings sounding as full and clear as they can from very good sources and if you are lacking a sampler of the Sun Records output can be strongly recommended.