![]() They also deserve our support, and I would wholeheartedly recommend that you go out and buy one or more sets from this groundbreaking Bluesmaster Series.” Ian Lomax, Jazz Journal “Following previous reviews of this groundbreaking series I am running out of superlatives to use… There are some wonderful and memorable tracks… I have said it many times, but Matchbox/Nimbus do deserve our praise for their work in keeping this music alive. ![]() Saydisc has in its vaults many more pre-Bluesmaster blues albums which may be issued on CD in due course. ![]() Johnny Parth had already created his extensive Roots Records label which Saydisc distributed in the UK and the Matchbox Bluesmaster Series was a carefully sculpted edition of black blues roots music giving a broad spectrum of the genre. The originating 78 rpm records (many of them extremely rare) were provided by several collectors under the editorship of well known Austrian collector, Johnny Parth and were re-mastered by Hans Klement of Austrophon Studios in Vienna. Most of the albums were subtitled “Complete Recordings in Chronological Order” with a few under the subtitle “The Remaining Titles” or “New to LP”. ![]() The 42 LP albums that make up the iconic Matchbox Bluesmaster Series were released by Saydisc Records between Nov 1982 and June 1988. ![]() Volume 7 of the CD release of the iconic Matchbox Bluesmaster LP series from the 1980s with extensive notes from world authority on the blues, Paul Oliver. ![]()
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