Search - Various Artists :: Gulf Coast Beach Blast

Here?s a collection to get your summer party started. Gulf Coast Beach Blast compiles highlights from the Antone?s Records vaults into a vibrant package of great American music. This attractively priced 16-song set boasts some of the finest names in blues and R&B who get the good times rolling as it plays. Among the artists sampled are some of the most eminent figures of the Texas blues-rock revival from which Stevie Ray Vaughan and The Fabulous Thunderbirds rose to stardom: Marcia Ball, Lou Ann Barton, Angela Strehli and Doyle Bramhall. Also featured are roots music legends Lazy Lester, Boozoo Chavis and Lavelle White, as well as top stars of the next Austin blues generation like Toni Price, Sue Foley, Omar & The Howlers, Gary Primich and Teddy Morgan & The Sevilles. Gulf Coast Blues Bash also includes three songs from the late, great Doug Sahm. Among the tracks are cool versions of such hits as "Soul Deep," "Let It Bleed" and "I Can See Clearly Now" as well as tunes by legends like Ike Turner, Willie Dixon and Lee Dorsey. Gulf Coast Beach Bash is also a slice of credible musical history that dances and parties through its hour-plus of great music, all re-mastered for enhanced sonic quality. Its 16 tracks play with a deliciously rocking charm sure to spice up any occasion when this disc is played. With its first class music compiled in a fashion to get the party started, Gulf Coast Beach Blast promises to be a summer music classic here in 2004 and for many years to come. Hey, with this album you can get yer ya yas out, rock like a ding dong clock and wang dang doodle all night long. Check it out!