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Beginnings

CD-Charts > Music > Blues
by: Allman Brothers

Release Date July 06, 1998
"Beginnings" brings the Allman Brothers' two first LPs together on one CD, and it was originally put together by Atco as a double-LP to encourage new fans who'd missed them to buy the group's first two albums.
It proved so successful that it was kept in print on CD by Polydor when they acquired the group's catalog, but Polydor's single-CD version was substandard in audio quality, digitized from an LP production master, and their individual CDs of "The Allman Brothers Band" and "Idlewild South" were far superior. But when Capricorn got the library back in 1997, they remastered "Beginnings" along with the rest of the library, and the Capricorn version of this CD is one of the better bargains going, featuring several of the group's best songs. ... Read More:

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The Complete Recordings

CD-Charts > Music > Blues
by: Robert Johnson

Release Date April 14, 2008
I regret buying this. Yes, it's very interesting to compare the duplicate versions, especially wondering about the old arguments about the speeding-up (or not) of the original recordings...but now when I come to play this out of simple love for this wonderful music, I'm annoyed at having to skip over the unwanted duplicates, and wish I'd stuck to buying CDs of the original two separate 1961 LP versions. In pretty well every case, I think they got it right, which version to choose etc.

CD-Charts Position 133
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White Blood Cells

CD-Charts > Music > Blues
by: The White Stripes

Release Date September 24, 2001
there is many a man who doesn like the white stripes.
perhaps they are under produced and raw
but they re also
fun
loud
exciting
edgy

jack white surely, is one of this centuries finest songwrites and guitarists

he can write and play any style
and they shine through with a gleaming swagger here


this is the white stripes at their primal best, raw, uncomplicated............BRILLIANT

CD-Charts Position 134
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Colourblind

CD-Charts > Music > Blues
by: Robert Randolph

Release Date April 23, 2007
there is many a man who doesn like the white stripes.
perhaps they are under produced and raw
but they re also
fun
loud
exciting
edgy

jack white surely, is one of this centuries finest songwrites and guitarists

he can write and play any style
and they shine through with a gleaming swagger here


this is the white stripes at their primal best, raw, uncomplicated............BRILLIANT

CD-Charts Position 135
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Trout Mask Replica

CD-Charts > Music > Blues
by: Captain Beefheart

Release Date August 29, 1994
I'm amazed that there is so much written here about TMR and that much of it is wildly conflicting. Yeah, the album's reputation is forbidding and it is difficult to approach because that weighs so heavily and also because the album was of its time and sounds so alien to digitalised ears. I can listen to it quite easily (I listen to lots of noisy things: Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, Can, Magma, Ubu but nothing quite compares) and it sounds very melodic and very rhythmic. At the same time it is crammed full of opposite things: dissonance, conflicting rhythms and as the Captain liked to say: juxtapositions. The amazing thing is that you grow to learn that it is all COMPOSED! These are not wild jams even though they may have grown out of wild jams. There are ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 136
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Magnificent Fiend

CD-Charts > Music > Blues
by: Howlin Rain

Release Date March 04, 2008
A glorious and gritty free-wheeling rock maelstrom, Howlin' Rain's self-titled debut was one of the most slept-on albums of 2006, wonderfully combining the sonic damage of Comets On Fire's Ethan Miller's guitar and the insane rhythmic pounding of Sunburned Hand Of The Man's John Moloney.

Sadly, the original three-man line-up of Miller, Moloney and bassist Ian Gradek is no longer in place. Moloney and Gradek are gone and Miller is now joined by Joel Robinow and Eli Eckert (both from Drunk Horse), Garrett Goddard (Cuts and Colossal Yes) and Humboldt guitarist Mike Jackson.

By adding a second guitar, bass, keys and horns, Howlin' Rain have created a far more nuanced, far richer, record than their debut, but a record that's much less gritty, much ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 137
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Blues From Laurel Canyon

CD-Charts > Music > Blues
by: John Mayall's Bluesbreakers

Release Date September 03, 2007
I bought this on vinyl (twice! I wore one out) and on CD (albeit in original format without the 2 extra tracks). This album ranks with the Beano one as a 60s classic: Mick Taylor is brilliant (and still only 20 years old - downhill from now on....) and the whole thing is a masterpiece of ensemble playing. I find myself coming back to it regularly, nearly 40 years on.

One friend described it as a perfect record for making love - rumbustious start, mood switches through the middle, and a drawn-out langourous ending. Never tried it, but I can see where he was coming from.

CD-Charts Position 138
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Singles Collection: The London Years

CD-Charts > Music > Blues
by: The Rolling Stones

Release Date August 10, 2006
This fabulous and very reasonably priced collection contains all The Rolling Stones' Decca (UK) and London (USA) single A- and B-sides. If they originally appeared on 45 in mono (the vast majority) they're in mono here - apart from Honky Tonk Women for some reason. The 2002 remasters finally do justice to this material on CD - they sound fabulous.

The 60s A-sides (with the arguable exception of their debut, Come On) are uniformly brilliant, surprisingly varied and superbly produced, especially after they began recording in the USA; the B-sides, with only 1 or 2 exceptions, are good to excellent. There is surprisingly little overlap with albums (especially UK ones) and where there is, several tracks are in otherwise unobtainable mono. Really, until about ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 139
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Moonflower: 2cd Set

CD-Charts > Music > Blues
by: Santana

Release Date October 06, 2003
Catching the band on the cusp of their two finest phases, one as the tour de force extended jam of Latin infused blues rock, the other as a smooth, well produced soul/funk, tight song oriented band, this album is a classic.
The Latin infused blues rock era is caught live on tour in Europe in 1976, while the soul/funk tight song oriented direction is heard for the 1st time with all new studio cuts. Both styles are scattered across all 4 sides and melded together seamlessly.

"Dawn/Go within" starts the album, a studio cut which fades in beautifully and then funks along nicely until the huge roar from the crowd makes it obvious that we're been transported to the start of the live show. "Carnaval/Let the children play/Jugando" are delivered en suite, with the ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 140
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John Wesley Harding

CD-Charts > Music > Blues
by: Bob Dylan

Release Date March 29, 2004
1967 and Dylan had disappered.A motorcycle accident which was real enough but nowhere near as serious as the music press were making out.So nothing that year except Greatest Hits 2.In the peak year of psychedelia Dylan admitted he knew little about it.
1968 and a new album called John Wesley Hardin.At the same time Manfred Mann,Jonathan King and the Brian Augur Trinity were hitting with Dylan songs he seemingly had never recorded.You were reading about something called The Basement Tapes where 3 dozen songs had been recorded by him with The Band-the musicians he'd used on stage who were rightfully pissed off with being booed every night.In 1979 the Band cut their own first album
However this collection of songs was shelved in favor of a stripped down acoustic album ... Read More: