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Good To Be Bad Limited Edition Box includes Bonus CD Posters Stickers & Postcards

CD-Charts > Music > Blues
by: Whitesnake

Release Date April 21, 2008
Before anyone gets nasty, I am an old rocker too - been a fan of all the big bands since the early sixties. This includes Whitesnake. I never liked Coverdale when he was part of Purple but when he formed Whitesnake i was a converted fan and saw the band many times. DC also brought out some old solo stuff which has one of the best rock ballads ever, Viz:Time and Again.
However as with all good things, enough is enough! While I admit there are a few good sounds on the new album, it will never recapture the feel and excitement of the albums when they were at their best. Still - if it means that more people listen to rock,then I will concede there is a value to pension rock!

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O Brother, Where Art Thou?

CD-Charts > Music > Blues
by: Various Artists

Release Date August 28, 2000
I'm not from the US, my family hail from Kashmir and I was born in the UK, grew up listening to punk rock but WOW! The soundtrack literally drips with the era and place it hails from; every time I hear a snippet I swear I can feel the heat and smell the wheat - so amazing!

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Shine A Light

CD-Charts > Music > Blues
by: Rolling Stones

Release Date April 07, 2008
I cant belive Mr Scorsese just couldnt resist to add a stupid "ok first song!" when the exitement to listen to THE ROLLING STONES AND NOT YOU MR SCORSESE is right on top level.
shame shame shame.
The album is great and the Stones are playing fast again, I love it. it would be a 5-stars cd if it wasnt for Scorsese's ego to have his voice in a Rolling Stones' cd.

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This Was

CD-Charts > Music > Blues
by: Jethro Tull

Release Date April 28, 2008
They may only have been a blues band for a short while but this version of Tull made an album that sounds every bit as fresh now as the day it was released. Featuring strong original songs like "My Sunday Feeling" and "Beggar's Farm" and a disctinctive British take on the blues, these guys were every bit a match for their better known blues-boom contemporaries. In truth I'm not much of a Tull fan but this package rocks. I can't think of anywhere else you could find manic flute playing like that on Roland Kirk's "Serenade to a Cuckoo" alongside Mick Abrahams wonderful guitar heavy take on "Cat's Squirrel" There's some inventive bass and drum playing too and even the drum solo isn't completely out of place. The sound has been superbly remastered/remixed and there's a shed ... Read More:

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Attack and Release

CD-Charts > Music > Blues
by: Black Keys

Release Date March 31, 2008
I love the Black Keys, seen them live a couple of times and own first 3 albums. But for me the magic was starting to wear a little thin! A little one tracked for my liking so much so Ive not even heard the last album. This is great and a real breath of fresh air from 'em. The groove on Remember When (Side B) is totally kicking and Psychotic Girl is being spun and spun. Not so sure about the "over produced" comments, yes its more than we are used but its a welcome change from the straight drums and geeeeetar! No longer a one trick pony and a great record. What next a collaboration with Jay-Z at Glasto? 5 Stars.

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Theme Time Radio Hour With Your Host Bob Dylan

CD-Charts > Music > Blues
by: Various Artists

Release Date February 25, 2008
The guy who in the 60s used to wind up the Press and tell anyone who asked that some song was about light bulbs or something seems to have suddenly acquired vast knowledge over the last 10 years at least.
Maybe he goes on Wikipedia a lot as some of the info he imparts is not exactly rooted in most peoples' brains.
Dylan though showed signs of what was to come in an album which was eternally slagged off-SELF PORTRAIT.
Remember that one-where he showed he was not averse to covering other peoples stuff.It suited me fine as I love cover versions.
Anyway Bob next time you do one of these can you include plenty of high school pop-you know Bobby Vee who once sacked you-and a few of the other Bobbies like the great Bobby Rydell.And not forgetting Fabian-time he had some credibilty. ... Read More:

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Mess of Blues

CD-Charts > Music > Blues
by: Jeff Healey

Release Date March 24, 2008
A pleasure to listen to! Ok, quite a few cover versions, but this is the only guy I know(knew) who sounds better than the original artist!
Hopefully his sad demise will receive new listeners to his music.

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Sloe Gin

CD-Charts > Music > Blues
by: Joe Bonamassa

Release Date August 27, 2007
I heard a track played on the radio from 'You and Me' C.D. and I was hooked, bought a few C.D's of this fabulous guitarist and then 'Sloe Gin' came about, not a bad track on this album or any of the others... Sit somewhere comfortable, relax and listen to Joe and other fellow artists you will not be disappointed. Fabulous!

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Dog House Music

CD-Charts > Music > Blues
by: Seasick Steve

Release Date November 27, 2006
I first heard a bit of him on the Jools Holland show and decided to give the album a go. Well, what can I say? Absolutely fantastic! Never a big fan of old time blues but this is something different.

CD-Charts Position 10
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Recapturing the Banjo

CD-Charts > Music > Blues
by: Otis Taylor

Release Date March 31, 2008
My girlfriend bought this for me, knowing that I like blues. And that's essentially what this is, a blues album. Tracks such as 'Prophet's mission' have the syncopated rolling beats of trace blues that are the north missisipi roots of becomes R&B in the modern puff daddy etc sense.

Suprises such as 'Bow Legged Charlie' reminds me of Ray Charles in his western mode - indeed, the same Ray Charles of the piano blues and blues brothers released several country and western albums in the 70s and some tracks here are similar in flavour, a funkified country music that reclaims the influence that black musicians had on the earliest white country folk.

Indeed, 'recapturing the banjo' is all about that - the sleeve notes describe how the Banjo originated as an African instrument and was ... Read More: