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Cheap

CD-Charts > Music > Blues
by: Seasick Steve

Release Date May 14, 2007
As I listen to this I'm driving to the Brecon Jazz festival. Here the jazz can range from heavy to funky but one pub there plays rock and blues all weekend in the face of all that jazz. This album make me feel like I'm there already - foot tapping, hip sswinging, real funky rocking blues. Brilliant!

CD-Charts Position 12
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Rolled Gold

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

Release Date November 12, 2007
I'm not particularly a Stones fan, but this is a suberb collection...... just about the whole album is quality, a must for any music lover.

CD-Charts Position 13
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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.

CD-Charts Position 14
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Aman Iman

CD-Charts > Music > Blues
by: Tinariwen

Release Date February 05, 2007
I'm no world music expert, but from time to time something comes along from outside the English speaking world that demands my attention. 'Aman Iman' is such an album. These Touareg musicians from the Western Sahara create a music whose 'otherness' is obvious, yet which is immediately accessible to western sensibilities. Their music evokes the solitude of the desert and the loneliness of exile, and yet is life affiriming and joyous. It's a thrumming, hypnotic, even foot-stomping sound, not obviously African, with arabic influences and hints of the blues, and deserves a wider audience.

CD-Charts Position 15
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A Hard Road

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

Release Date October 30, 2006
There's something about late 60s London that will always capture my imagination. Austin Powers aside, its an incredibly rich period in our cultural history that produced some remarkable pieces of music and film. This recording is right up there with other more famous examples. I've long wanted to pursue the early phase of Peter Green's recording career, after hearing a brief snatch of his guitar work many years back. I finally did some searching on Amazon and was pleased to find this re-release, which looked like an excellent sampler of his work with Mayall. I was not disappointed. Hard Road is a stone classic IMO and has that awesome British Blues sound that aficianados of this sound will recognise immediately. Do not hesitate to grab this if you are ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 16
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Complete Clapton

CD-Charts > Music > Blues
by: Eric Clapton

Release Date October 08, 2007
My son knowing I am and always will be a huge Clapton fan, bought this for my last birthday (I don't mean my LAST bithday, I am hoping to have many more!) I would not have gone and purchased this myself, as within my CD collection I have all of these tracks and could have made up this compilation myself. Having said that it is a good collection (how many Clapton collections have there been over the years?). The two discs represent a reasonable selection of the mans work, although I would have liked some of his early stuff with John Mayall and even The Yardbirds, perhaps Blind Faith, just to round the collection out. I played it in the car and it is a great driving companion, even though I know all the tracks well, thay are great songs and just remind you ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 17
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Greatest Hits

CD-Charts > Music > Blues
by: ZZ Top

Release Date April 13, 1992
I think that ZZ Top are a very good band and they remain one of my favorite bands of all-time. this is one great collection and they made great blues music in the 1970s and the 1980s. here are my comments about most of the songs. GIMME ALL YOUR LOVING this is a really great song and is my 2nd favorite song on the entire cd. SHARP DRESSED MAN this is pretty great too, but probably my 5th favorite. ROUGH BOY is a ballad that is too slow and too sad for me. TUSH is an excellent blues rocker remains one of my 5 favorites on this album. MY HEAD'S IN MISSISSPII is a blues rocker one of my favorites, PEARL NECKLACE not my fave, IM BAD IM NATHIONWIDE this is pretty good although remains as a 10th favorite or something. I AINT CRAZY ABOUT VIVA LAS VEGAS, DOUBLEBACK ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 18
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Mess of Blues

CD-Charts > Music > Blues
by: Jeff Healey

Release Date March 24, 2008
'Mess Of Blues' is an absolutely sensational collection of live, predominantly blues recordings from the sadly departed guitar virtuoso and his brilliant band. If you like blues guitar played with passion and feeling, coupled with a tight, jumping rhythm section then this album is for you. Jeff Healey, in the liner notes, describes his band as "the very best bar band that anyone could ask for" and he wasn't wrong - they're tremendous.

The choices of songs are interesting and varied and make for a rich, eclectic, engaging listen, including tracks such as The Band's 'The Weight', Neil Young's 'Like A Hurricane' and Hank Williams' 'Jambalaya', all performed brilliantly. Standards such as 'I'm Torn Down', 'Mess O' Blues' and 'Shake, Rattle And Roll' are ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 19
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This Was

CD-Charts > Music > Blues
by: Jethro Tull

Release Date April 28, 2008
I did recollect 'This Was' as a decent if patchy album by one of my favourite bands of yesteryear - until I heard it again in this new reissue, and what a revelation it is. The band is superb with Ian's contribution nicely balanced with all the others; the superb rhythm section of Clive Bunker and Glenn Cornick, and Mick Abrahams in great form. There are some lovely jazz tinges in amongst the overall blues feel of the album that would sadly be lost on their later albums. There is a freshness and lightness of execution about this and their other early albums, that became leaden by the time they turned the guitar amps up, went a bit heavy metal and got lost in the woods of old England. Despite the always fantastic musicianship, I never really got all the elves, squirrels ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 20
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Damn Right I've Got The Blues

CD-Charts > Music > Blues
by: Buddy Guy

Release Date September 18, 2004
Buddy Guy celebrates his new recording contract with Silvertone by setting out his stall from the very first track - the title which features some exceptionally fiery guitar playing and there's some lovely fluid guitar playing all over this album. As well as this facet Buddy Guy shows his softer - more "bluesier" side on "Five Long Years" and "Black Night" - the two longest tracks on the album. The album features a stellar cast of guitar greats - Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Mark Knopfler but Buddy Guy's guitar burns the brightest of them all. There's an odd cover here of "Mustang Sally" which is taken a tad slower than normal but works well. The last track - "Remembering Stevie" is in homage to the late great Stevie Ray Vaughan and is a beautiful poignant instrumental.