The Mercury Masters: 10CD Box Set Smith & Burrows Stanley Road

Stanley Road

This collection of number ones is taken from the most widely circulated charts in the UK (Record Retailer) and the USA (Billboard)

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Three kids from the rust belt were crafting a distinctive and truly far-out strain of music on their own terms in the Midwest

a seething combination of perfect pitch and skeptical emotion

The Mercury Masters: 10CD Box Set Smith & Burrows Stanley RoadLos Romeros was the first guitar quartet to achieve eminence across continents and on stages of the world. Their first recordings were made in January 1960 and released on Contemporary Records. These came about as a result of Andr Previn seeing the fifteen year old Pepe Romero in performance, on a bill with stand up comedian Lord Buckley, in Los Angeles in 1959. The two recordings, Flamenco Fenmeno and Spanish Guitar Music are included in this set