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Free

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by: Free

Release Date October 05, 2001
This album had immense impact on me having grown up with this band as a soundtrack to my early teens and later as a pro musician. The songs speak volumes and seem written by individuals far beyond their years - Apart from that, the album is a rock milestone and it's influence entirely underrated. Free were coming into their absolute peak with this record, along with Fire and Water, Highway, and Free Live. Everything about it is flawless, the cover, the production, the songs, and the delivery. Just buy it and hear for yourself, it's impossible to be disappointed.

CD-Charts Position 182
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How The West Was Won: Live (3CD)

CD-Charts > Music > Blues
by: Led Zeppelin

Release Date December 01, 2003
3 CDs Led Zeppelin live in pristine sound quality is a dream come true. This is vintage and true Page-Plant-Jones-Bonham. CD 1 proves it all.
CDs 2 and 3 show indeed why punk treated them as dinosaurs: over-indulgent, boring, too long versions alternate with a few gems (Dancing days, Rock 'n' roll).
These and all the CD 1 tracks could have made a world class single live album.

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Live at the Isle of Wight

CD-Charts > Music > Blues
by: Taste

Release Date August 21, 2000
You all know the score by now - fewer and fewer people are challenging the opinion that Rory Gallagher was perhaps the finest, most fiery and most consistent guitarist of the last 50 years and, thank God, he left lots and lots of proof.

Just before going on stage for the Isle of Wight set, Taste had their gear stolen and so had to play on borrowed kit - and just look what they achieved. Rory manages to produce bursts of speed and fire on the old Strat without ever entering the dreaded realms of widdly woo inhabited by such as Van Halen, Satriani and the Watch-Me brigade.

What's Going on?, the opener for On the Boards (buy NOW), just steams and roars with the whole band's interlocked ability. If you didn't see Taste in ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 184
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Really

CD-Charts > Music > Blues
by: J.J. Cale

Release Date February 20, 2003
Compared to his famous first album 'Naturally", this album is much more coherent in style; which is more sparse, more soulful. The intimacy of the first is allopver the place; the songs are less minitures of guitarplaying, and more structured.

For those who haven't heard of the great man; his guitar playing influenced Mark Knopfler (heavily) and Eric Calption (although he denies it now). JJ Cale humsings & his songs are Americana avant-la-lettre; a mixture of Country & Blues,with a dash of Folk, Jazz and Soul, without becoming too 'arty'or intellectual, firmly bedded in the great pool of American musisc

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Heartbreaker

CD-Charts > Music > Blues
by: Free

Release Date February 04, 2002
Wow. I first heard this when I was 17 in the spring of 1977 when punk rock was exploding all around me & it has remained my favourite album bar none for the last 31 years.

Until hearing this masterpiece, I had encountered Free via airplay of All Right Now, My Brother Jake, Wishing Well etc but this takes you to an altogether different plane. There are so many gaps in the music that you are just dragged through them; Rodgers is at his glorious best & although Kossoff is credited as being a session player, his replacement so gifted that, even now, I still have to check the album sleeve to see which tracks he's on. Kirke's drumming is as sparse & effective as ever. What also makes this album different is the involvment of session ... Read More:

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From the Cradle

CD-Charts > Music > Blues
by: Eric Clapton

Release Date September 12, 1994
All blues and every track has character and fire. Some of Clapton's very best work on the guitar I think. If you like EC in blues mode you'll love it.

CD-Charts Position 187
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Ultimate Collection 1968 - 2003

CD-Charts > Music > Blues
by: Joe Cocker

Release Date December 01, 2003
I am not and never was a big Cocker follower but you can't deny that the guy knows how to sing a good song well. This is an enjoyable album full of variety. As a bonus, if you're an old fogey like me, you'll also recognise some of the memorable Cocker numbers from the 70s. This is a good value CD if you're looking for mature music.

CD-Charts Position 188
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Full Circle

CD-Charts > Music > Blues
by: Walter Trout

Release Date June 26, 2006
Many years had passed , more than 10 , I found myself in November 2006 in a crowded pub venue in Sheffield wondering how Walter Trout was faring ; remembering even longer back and John Mayall with yet another guitar man .

Some things pass all understanding ; let's just say that I enjoyed that gig, and not from nostalgia . It was as fresh as first hearing . Guitarists know what Trout is ; the wider public probably has heard of Clapton. Let's just say that sometimes he wishes he could play with the verve and optimism that Trout and Mayall still do , in little gigs , like young men , just because you have to , and it's who you are.

This CD is that good. Just a group of people playing the music as it comes , in one take . But what playing , and ... Read More:

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Stormcock

CD-Charts > Music > Blues
by: Roy Harper

Release Date October 29, 2007
anyone wondering why zep honoured mr harper on zep 3 should listen to this.this a collaberation between one of finest folk singers in the uk and one said mr page.a sumbline recording with both guitarists effortsly intertwinning crafted melodies and powerful strumming and chord work.a brilliant introduction to a underrated and overlooked original enigma.

CD-Charts Position 190
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All Right Now

CD-Charts > Music > Blues
by: Free

Release Date October 22, 1999
An essential album for any lovers of classic rock music who don't own any of Free's actual studio albums. This is a good selection of songs from the band's history - extremely enjoyable!