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10 Days Out (Blues from the Backroads)/ (CD/DVD)(more) »rank: 1288by: Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Our review:Album Description:Kenny Wayne Shepherd's reverence for his musical roots are center-stage on Ten Days Out...Blues From The Backroads, a CD+DVD package that features the guitarslinger and Double Trouble rhythm section of bassist Tommy Shannon and drummer Chris Layton performing with some of the greatest blues players of our time as well as lesser-known but historically significant bluesmen. Traveling to their hometowns to record everywhere from juke joints to front porches, from New Orleans to Kansas, Shepherd celebrates and becomes part of blues history with Ten Days Out...Blues From The Backroads. :This 'back-to-the-roots' road-trip documentary CD/DVD from blues-rocking guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd can be ... Detail |
Hoodoo Man Blues(more) »rank: 1945by: Junior Wells
Our review: essential recording:This 1965 album is where vocalist and harmonica player Junior Wells comes into his own. An early collaboration with Buddy Guy, the two of them sum up the 1960s funk-rock-blues that lay ahead. Hoodoo Man Blues inspired Paul Butterfield, Eric Clapton, and a host of other musician-fans. Wells and Guy don't shy from creating James Brown-funkified blues, or from putting a rock edge to their blues; but neither do they shy from traditional blues. Their version of 'Good Morning Little School Girl' is a proper update--still menacing, with less of a country blues feel. Also not to be missed is the ... Detail |
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His Best :(Little Walter)The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection(more) »rank: 2287by: Little Walter
Our review: :No Description AvailableNo Track Information AvailableMedia Type: CDArtist: LITTLE WALTERTitle: HIS BESTStreet Release Date: 06/17/1997DomesticGenre: BLUES :Marion 'Little Walter' Jacobs is perhaps the most influential harmonica player on contemporary blues, and his collection is a great place to start. He was trained by Muddy Waters, but brought a more swinging feel to blues. Muddy and his band accompany Little Walter on many hits, as do Robert 'Jr.' Lockwood, the Aces, and other Chicago greats. In the 1950s, Little Walter's popularity eclipsed even Waters', his style a little more relaxed and pop-oriented. Walter's versions of many songs are the standards: 'Blues with a ... Detail |
His Best(more) »rank: 3347by: Sonny Boy Williamson
Our review:Album Description:Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. Universal. 2008. :This is Sonny Boy Williamson II, whose 1940s Mississippi Delta radio broadcasts for King Biscuit Time made him one of the most influential of all blues musicians. A master harmonica player, he created relaxed songs, often humorous, that reminded urban listeners of their country roots. These tracks are from his years at Chess, beginning in the mid-1950s until his death in 1965. His recording bands feature Muddy Waters, Otis Spann, and Robert Lockwood Jr., among others. Perhaps his best-known track here is 'Don't Start Me to ... Detail |
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The Paul Butterfield Blues Band(more) »rank: 5773by: The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Our review: :A slew of albums by young white men out of their minds in love with music made by older black men came from both sides of the Atlantic during the mid-1960s, but two records really laid the groundwork for the decade's blues revival--the self-titled releases by John Mayall's Bluesbreakers out of London and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band out of Chicago. Both bands were led by harmonica-blowing vocalists; both featured ascending guitar gods--Eric Clapton with Mayall and Mike Bloomfield with Butterfield. Butterfield's ensemble, however, came of age closer to the roots of the music. The rhythm section heard on the group's 1965 debut ... Detail |
The Alligator Records Christmas Collection(more) »rank: 3231by: Various Artists
Our review: :A slew of albums by young white men out of their minds in love with music made by older black men came from both sides of the Atlantic during the mid-1960s, but two records really laid the groundwork for the decade's blues revival--the self-titled releases by John Mayall's Bluesbreakers out of London and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band out of Chicago. Both bands were led by harmonica-blowing vocalists; both featured ascending guitar gods--Eric Clapton with Mayall and Mike Bloomfield with Butterfield. Butterfield's ensemble, however, came of age closer to the roots of the music. The rhythm section heard on the group's 1965 debut ... Detail |
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Good For What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows 1926-1937 (Digipak with 72-page booklet)(more) »rank: 9707by: Pink Anderson, Gid Tanner, Gus Cannon, Emmett Miller, Charlie Poole, Dallas String Band, Grant Brothers, Uncle Dave Macon, Beans Hambone, Clarence Ashley
Our review:Album Description:Earning Their White Stripes. 'But what I'm listening to most of the time at present is an album called Good For What Ails You, which is an album of songs that people used to listen to at medicine shows all over the States. It's quite an interesting album and I think that people would be well advised to pick it up.' Jack White - Sunday Mail (Australia) Dec 18, 2005 Five Stars. Groundbreaking. 'Fans of Nick Tosches' Where Dead Voices Gather will lap up this extraordinary snapshot of an America that is still shrouded in shadow. Good For What Ails You supplants ... Detail |
The Turning Point(more) »rank: 19956by: John Mayall
Our review:Album Description:Earning Their White Stripes. 'But what I'm listening to most of the time at present is an album called Good For What Ails You, which is an album of songs that people used to listen to at medicine shows all over the States. It's quite an interesting album and I think that people would be well advised to pick it up.' Jack White - Sunday Mail (Australia) Dec 18, 2005 Five Stars. Groundbreaking. 'Fans of Nick Tosches' Where Dead Voices Gather will lap up this extraordinary snapshot of an America that is still shrouded in shadow. Good For What Ails You supplants ... Detail |
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East-West(more) »rank: 12539by: The Butterfield Blues Band
Our review:Album Description:1966's East-West, the second album from the Butterfield Blues Band -- and their last with lead guitarist Mike Bloomfield -- found the group branching out from the electric blues and adding elements of modern jazz and the music of India, most notably on the landmark title track, which paved the way for much of the musical experimentation of the late '60s. :If the Butterfield Blues Band's groundbreaking debut earned the respect of the group's elder influences, this one won over (and guided) the blues boys' psychedelic peers. Highlighted by the 13-minute-plus title track (an Eastern-influenced jam cowritten by guitarist Mike Bloomfield), East-West ... Detail |
Down In The Basement: Joe Bussard's Treasure Trove of Vintage 78s 1926-1937 (Jewel Case with 28-page booklet)(more) »rank: 23223by: Uncle Dave Macon, Rev Gary Davis, Big Bill Broonzy, Stripling Brothers, Kokomo Arnold, Bill Johnson's Louisiana Jug Band, Long Cleve Reed, Charley Jordan, Blind Blake, Ernest Stoneman
Our review:Album Description:Declan McManus Pumps It Up. Joe Bussard. 'He's an eccentric record collector who's preserved all sorts of magical corners of music - although he says things like, 'There are no good jazz records made after 1927.'' Elvis Costello - Esquire UK October 2005 'This is the music of poor whites and blacks: wild-ass jazz and string-band hillbilly, surreal yodels and king snake moans, lightning-bolt blues and whorehouse romps and orgasmic gospel. It's all anti-pop, anti-sentimental: the raw sounds of the city gutter and the roadside ditch.' Desperate Man Blues by Eddie Dean - Da Capo Best Music Writing 2000 'Joe has spent ... Detail |