Curb
's celebrates the 60th Anniversary of the legendary
Sun
studios with this double-disc set that just happens to contain 60 highlights. That's one for every year since
's 1952 inception and it gives the compilers lots of room to serve up the standards from
Elvis
,
Jerry Lee
Cash
Carl Perkins
Roy Orbison
Jackie Brenston
Howlin' Wolf
, and
Rufus Thomas
, finding space for sides by
Billy Lee Riley
Warren Smith
Sonny Burgess
Jack Clement
Carl Mann
Charlie Rich
. There's perhaps too much
Johnny Cash
here -- over a sixth of the set is devoted to him -- and while these cuts are here instead of better sides by lesser-known names, nothing here is bad and, for the price, this offers a lot of bang for the buck and illustrates why
remains legendary 60 years after its first release. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine