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Just for a Thrill [Digipak]
~Bill Rhythm Kings Wyman
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R & M (Audio CD) - May 10, 2004
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Mr CC
Wheeler, Ellesmere, North Shropshire United Kingdom, May 21, 2004
Proper R&B and then some
What an excellent album. I bought this on the strength of having heard
"Tax Man" on the radio, which is the best version I have ever heard.
This album can truely be described as R&B unlike what is generally
considered as R&B in modern music, but it touches on swing and soul
also. I had expected the... |
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South Saturn Delta
~Jimi Hendrix
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Mca (Audio CD) - October 27, 1997
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A
music fan, London, England, April 8, 2000
Excellent collection showing all wonderful sides of Hendrix
This album deserves a place on any Hendrix fan's shelf as a testament to
one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century. Yer blues are all
here with 'Midnight Lightning' and 'Pali Gap' and the psychedelic
ecstasy of 'The Stars That Play With Laughing Sam's Dice' and 'Power Of
Soul' are too good... |
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Talking Timbuktu
~Ali Farka Toure & Ry
Cooder |
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World Circuit (Audio CD) - March 1994 |
Amazon.co.uk Review
Talking Timbuktu is a groundbreaking record that vividly
illustrates the Africa-Blues connection in real time. Ali Farka Toure,
one of Mali's leading singer-guitarists, has a trance-like, bluesy style
that, although deeply rooted in Malian tradition, bears astonishing
similarity to that of John Lee... |
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Greatest Hits
~Janis Joplin
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Columbia (Audio CD) - August 31, 1999
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A
music fan, Bognor Regis, West Sussex United Kingdom, February 8, 2004
A voice that makes you shiver
Janis Joplin was a force of nature and this collection is a useful, if
limited, introduction to her awesome power. Janis had a voice that will
literally send shivers through your spine as she rips out of the very
depths of her being: I am not exaggerating, the pain, the power and the
passion of her... |
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Blues from Laurel Canyon
~John Mayall |
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Decca (Audio CD) - May 15, 2000 |
Album
Review
Mayall's first post-Bluesbreakers album saw the man returning to his
roots after the jazz/blues fusion that was Bare Wires. Blues from Laurel
Canyon is a blues album, through and through. Testimony to this is the
fact that there's a guitar solo only 50 seconds into the opening track.
Indeed, Mayall... |
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Still Got the Blues [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]
~Gary Moore |
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Virgin (Audio CD) - May 12, 2003
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David
Cranson, Hereford, UK, May 22, 2004
Bues with a feeling
A good many stylescovered here, but all played with that distinctive
'Moore' feeling.
He would go on to to a better version of "Walking By Myself", live,
but this isn't toomuch of distraction unles you hear the live version
first then her the album. The rhythmn is missing on this version.
Highlights... |
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Axis: Bold As Love
~Jimi Hendrix
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Mca (Audio CD) - April 28, 1997
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Axis: Bold As Love, Hendrix's second album, doesn't resonate
through rock history the way its gatecrashing predecessor, Are You
Experienced? did. In places, it almost seems as if Hendrix is
cruising, albeit sublimely. Yet it's nonetheless a vital album,
containing some of rock's most molten... |
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70th Birthday Concert
~John Mayall & The
Bluesbreakers, Friends |
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Eagle (Audio CD) - November 10, 2003 |
Album
Review
Though almost always well-intentioned, events like this usually don't
pan out on record, let alone on DVD. Thankfully, this is not one of
those occasions. John Mayall in his 70th Birthday Concert is as spry,
ferocious, and on top of his game as ever. There is nothing tired about
the presentation or... |
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The Will to Live
~Ben Harper |
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Virgin America (Audio CD) - May 26, 1997 |
A
music fan, Cambridge, England, October 8, 2000
IncredibleMusic
This was the first of Ben Harpers four albums that I heard, I think they
are all Brilliant but The Will to live is my favourite. Faded is a
brilliant opening track and the way it stops halfway through and then
starts up again a minute later is fantastic. Roses from my friends, my
favourite track on... |
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Blues
~Jimi Hendrix
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Mca (Audio CD) - November 30, 1998 |
Amazon.co.uk Review
After the disorganised and often unlistenable Alan Douglas-produced
reissues in the 1970s and '80s, MCA has been releasing the vast Hendrix
archives in an intelligent and methodical manner. Blues is a
perfect example, making the case that--on top of everything else--Jimi
Hendrix was one fine blues... |
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Paris Texas [SOUNDTRACK]
~Ry Cooder |
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Warner (Audio CD) - February 18, 2002 |
Amazon.co.uk Review
A stark drama staring Harry Dean Stanton, Paris, Texas (1985)
remains German director Wim Wenders best-known English language film. To
capture the emotion of story set against the relentless heat and arid
landscape of Texas, Wenders chose not a Hollywood film composer, but the
celebrated folk and... |
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A Hundred Thousand Angels
~Bliss |
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Bliss (Audio CD) - April 5, 2004 |
A
music fan, Almondsbury, South Gloucestershire United Kingdom, June 5,
2004
Heavenly music
Bliss has a voice that feels like a caress and words that flow like
honey. For people who find peace in music and who like to be rocked
gently by sound, Bliss is your definite choice. Her voice is superb. She
can join the ranks of Susan Vega, Noa and Norah Jones, but with a deeper
spiritual touch.... |
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Crossroads [SOUNDTRACK]
~Ry Cooder |
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Warner (Audio CD) - January 1999 |
A
music fan, Leicestershire, England, December 1, 2000
Howling Hot Blues !!!!!!!! A must for all true blues men.
Saw the film on Sky TV and just had to have the soundtrack. Ry Cooder
and Steve Vai play some of the most progressive blues I've heard in 15
years as a blues fan. An excellent introduction to blues for all music
lovers. Buy the disc, get your air guitar tuned up and enjoy.
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461 Ocean Boulevard [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]
~Eric Clapton
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Polydor (Audio CD) - September 2, 1996 |
Amazon.co.uk Review
Predictably, given the drug problems which preceded its release,
Clapton's second solo album proper seems to come and go in an opium haze
of its own making. Oddly though, it suits him. As the history of rock
attests, if you're going to get into one hard drug then you may as well
make it heroin.... |
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Burn to Shine
~Ben Harper |
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Virgin America (Audio CD) - August 19, 2002 |
Amazon.co.uk Review
Ben Harper's musical eclecticism has been well established, but what
often goes unnoticed is that few musicians possess such an expansive
emotional range. And those complex, unsettled emotions never seem to
come one at a time; instead, they are layers to be peeled and
reassembled. When the mood is... |
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Sisters and Brothers
~Eric Bibb & Rory Block,
Maria Muldaur |
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Telarc (Audio CD) - March 29, 2004 |
Amazon.co.uk Review
That the trio recorded this stunning, spiritual-minded collaboration in
the town of Unity, Maine is one of life's fortuitous coincidences.
Although their voices are dissimilar, Maria Muldaur, Eric Bibb and Rory
Block share roots in folk, gospel and blues. Brought together, along
with a three-piece... |
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The Best of Etta James
~Etta James |
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Spectrum (Audio CD) - August 28, 2000 |
Alison
White, High Wycombe, Bucks United Kingdom, August 9, 2002
the Best of Etta James is the best!!
I bought this record for one track only - 'At last' having heard it in a
number of films, but now I am completely hooked on all of the songs.
I didn't realise I would know so many of the other tracks like 'I
Just Want To Make Love To You' and 'Leave Your Hat On' but I find myself
singing along to... |
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The Complete Recordings
~Robert Johnson
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Columbia (Audio CD) - February 5, 1999 |
Amazon.co.uk Review
This two-CD box contains all 41 recordings Johnson made, including 12
alternate takes, and each cut remains a classic. This set's release in
1990 caused quite a stir, selling more than 500,000 copies and, on the
basis of endorsements from Eric Clapton and Keith Richards, introduced a
great number of... |
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25 Years of Dr. Feelgood 1972-1997 [BOX SET]
~Dr. Feelgood
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Grand (Audio CD) - March 24, 1997 |
A
music fan, Korsør, Denmark, April 26, 2003
A superb collection
Dr Feelgood was (is) a bar band. A pub rock band. They played short,
unpretentious rock songs, muscular and melodious R&B loaded with
crunching guitar riffs...you must've heard their renditions of "See You
Later, Alligator" and "Violent Love".
These forty tracks are really everything that the casual... |
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Unclassified [ENHANCED]
~Robert Randolph and the
Family Band |
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London (Audio CD) - August 4, 2003 |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Is this a big-tent revival? A funky throwdown? A jam-band juggernaut?
Unclassified is all that, and so much more. The story of Robert
Randolph is Hollywood-issue: kid from the gritty Jersey streets is saved
from the bad life by playing steel guitar in a House of God Church. Of
course, it wouldn't... |
