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Ritchie Valens - Greatest Hits [Audio Fidelity]

Primary Artist
Ritchie Valens
Album Title
Greatest Hits [Audio Fidelity]
Release Date
2003 
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Review by Steve Leggett
Ritchie Valens was only 17 when he died in 1959. His musical legacy rests on about an album-and-a-half of completed studio material, a poorly recorded high school concert, and a handful of demos and rehearsal tapes, all of which present a problem for collections of this sort. If you include a full disc's worth of music, you need to dip into unfinished or badly recorded material, which is a quality issue. On the other hand, if you only include finished studio projects, then you've got an extremely brief sequence on your hands. Read More
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