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| 7420302
| Bluesmaster
| Z.Z. Hill
| Malaco
| 7420
| 1984
| 33 1/3
| 12
| Blues
| NM
| VG+
| Texas-born singer Z.Z. Hill managed to resuscitate both his own semi-flagging career and the entire genre at large when he signed on at Jackson, Mississippi's Malaco Records in 1980 and began growling his way through some of the most uncompromising blues to be unleashed on black radio stations in many a moon. His impressive 1982 Malaco album Down Home Blues remained on Billboard's soul album charts for nearly two years, an extraordinary run for such a blatantly bluesy LP. His songs "Down Home Blues" and "Somebody Else Is Steppin' In" have graduated into the ranks of legitimate blues standards (and there haven't been many of those come along over the last couple of decades). From 1980 until 1984, when he died suddenly of a heart attack, Z.Z. bravely led a personal back-to-the-blues campaign that doubtless helped to fuel the current contemporary blues boom.
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| Christmas With Zamfir
| Zamfir
| Mercury
| 822 571-1
| 1984
| 33 1/3
| 12
| Easy listening, Holiday, Unusual
| NM
| NM
| Opened but still mostly covered in shrink wrap.
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| Conscious Party
| Ziggy Marley and The Melody Makers
| Virgin
| 90878-1
| 1988
| 33 1/3
| 12
| Rock, Pop, Soul, Other
| NM
| NM
| Reggae. Critical and commercial smash hit, includes "Tomorrow People." Still covered with shrink wrap but opened. Oldest son of Bob and Rita Marley.
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