A superb Audio Visual release in high quality sound.
CD contains 39 newly restored and remastered classic recordings including: Blue Suede Shoes, Hound Dog, My Baby Left Me, Session recordings, Interview, Previously Unreleased Material and 3 Bonus tracks.
Bonus Disc: DVD-AUDIO 5.1/Dolby Digital. The DVD-A version is remastered in high quality 24 bit 96 kHz sound. Experience these recordings in high quality sound for the first time ever. All tracks are accompanied by rare photographs.
And there's a bonus book containing a stunning collection of rare and unpublished photographs by Alfred Wertheimer.
As a nice touch there are 3 originals included on the cd as well, My Baby Left Me and So Glad You're Mine performed by Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup and also Hound Dog performed by Freddie Bell and the Bell Boys (what, not Big Mama Thornton?)
More about this box set thing over at Memphis Recording Service
Norman Collins, better known as Sailor Jerry, is regarded by many as the father of the old school tattoo art. Even though he passed away in 1973 his art lives on, and not just on the skin of those that went under his needle.