Early Start at the Rousden Boot

A really early start for us this morning, up at 6am and this week, selling aswell as buying, and I'm pleased to say, we had a great morning. We don't sell very often, only when we've bought and watched so many DVD's that we can't move around the house safely for the stacks, so Mary was really pleased to sell out a whole big box!
But it's still the bargains we're after, and amidst the usual CD buying, a few other items fell happily into my possession, including a brand new sealed and boxed Blues Harmonica, key of C, it's the key I use most and is always the first to need replacing, so very pleased to pocket the harp for a quid.
Not much around today in the way of CD's, but here goes........
The Shangri-La's: Best Of. I don't usually buy 'best ofs', or 'greatest hits' albums, but this is such a great collection, I couldn't resist. Best track of course, 'Leader of the Pack', ('vroom vroom vroom').
T-Bone Walker: Stormy Monday. This great blues star is among the first to play the then newly invented, electric guitar, and stunned me out when I first heard it aged around 15, and buying records from the 'bargain bins' because I couldn't afford all the new releases, but thats how you get the blues.......
Electric Light Orchestra: Greatest Hits. Ditto above, but I've been searching for so long for the original albums on CD, and failed to find one as yet, that I gave in, mostly because it has 'Mr. Blue Sky', 'Telephone Line', and 'I Can't Get It Out of My Head'. Smooth stuff from ELO, lots of big time studio production, quite the opposite to my last one, coming up........
Lonnie Donegan: Rock Island Line. The Singles Anthology 1955-67. Lonnie is now, to paraphrase the words of one of his songs, long gone, and his influence on British music culture can't be over estimated. Was hearing Lonnie in 1955, that caused me to pick up the guitar in the first place. Being a bit of a 'purist' even then, at 11 years old, I was mor a fan of the Vipers and Chas McDevitt Skiffle Bands, but at the end of the day, Lonnie did it first, and that first single, the Rock Island Line, started a train rolling which changed the direction of British Popular muisc. But this is exceptional, a three disc set, comtaining pretty near every record Lonnie made, and designed to match the original releases with record labels, pictures and information. Of course, everyone knew that Lonnie was a bit 'music hall', rather than Rock 'n' Roll, and he went completely out of favour when later he started recording soft ballads like 'The Party's Over', but for a few short years between 1956 and 1961, Lonnie was the king.
So that's it for this week, we're selling next week again, so find our stall and have a chat and cup of tea with us!