Randy & The Radiants - Memphis Beat: The Sun Recordings 1964-1966 (2007)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 247 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 138 MB | Covers - 140 MB
Genre: Beat, Pop Rock, Garage Rock, Rock & Roll | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Big Beat/Ace Records (CDWIKD 267)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 247 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 138 MB | Covers - 140 MB
Genre: Beat, Pop Rock, Garage Rock, Rock & Roll | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Big Beat/Ace Records (CDWIKD 267)
Randy Haspel was a 16-year-old kid whose band the Radiants played dances and frat parties in Memphis, TN when one day, a fan at a show offered to introduce the band to his father. The fan was Knox Phillips, and his father, Sam Phillips, happened to run Sun Records, the legendary independent label that gave the world Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and many other trailblazing acts. Randy & the Radiants recorded for Sun during the label's waning days in the mid-'60s, with Sam Phillips producing most of their sessions, and Memphis Beat, which collects two dozen of the band's Sun sides, documents a curious time and place where the influences of the British Invasion and the garage rock explosion were being felt at the house that rockabilly built…