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Riding With the King

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by: Eric Clapton, B.B. King

Release Date June 12, 2000
I really wanted to like this album. Two icons of R&B getting together again to cover some classic tracks. Unfortunately, this album is anaesthetic, tame and bland. Maybe 4 out of the 12 tracks are worth listening to. Clapton mumbles away in the background and spoils perfectly good music with muffled vocals and most of the track choice is at best uninspired.

Probably the notable exception is "Key to the Highway", which, along with "Riding with the King" is among the few highlights of this album. The musicianship is brilliant but it's so TAME!

What this pair need to to is get up on stage with George Thorogood and hammer it out instead of sitting in their rocking chairs telling everyone what fine guitarists they are while ... Read More:

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Chavez Ravine

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by: Ry Cooder

Release Date June 13, 2005
....it's going to be. That is ....it isn't Buena Vista Social Club, it isn't Ibrahim Ferrer, it isn't Ali Farka Toure, it isn't Flaco Jimenez. But then again it's all of these and more. In particular it's more of Ry and in a bigger sense its more altogether. A commanding view with all Ry Cooder's talents of bringing together disparate elements into a musical whole. Every play pays off and the record gets better and better with each hearing. In some ways it reminds me of early spring backs to folk melodies on "Into the Purple Valley" but with everything that he has done since coming together over a long and fruitful career and adding to the disc. Quite possibly the best thing that he has out together for a long time and worth persisting with

CD-Charts Position 63
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Hot Rocks 1964-1971

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by: The Rolling Stones

Release Date August 14, 2006
I own this album on vinyl and I loved it back then I love it even more now .This just grows better with age love it love it love it *****

CD-Charts Position 64
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Frampton Comes Alive

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by: Peter Frampton

Release Date October 05, 1998
For years this album has been highly placed in the "best live rock albums ever" stakes. I 've read glowing reviews of how fantastic it is. I'd heard two songs from it "Baby, I Love Your Way" and "Show Me The Way." I'd thought that they weren't exactly rock and indeed theuy were usually played on easy listening stations.

So I took the plunge and bought it. What a let down. I can't even begin to fathom how such lightweight, overdubbed, easy listening rubbish has wormed it's way into the "great live albums". Doobie Wah, Wind Of Change, Penny For Your Thoughts etc wouldn't be out of place on Terry Wogan's morning radio show on Radio 2.

I'm not denying Frampton is a good guitar player, but don't assault your ears with this pap, you'd be ... Read More:

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Freedom

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by: Neil Young

Release Date October 09, 1989
Neil always had a very inconstant talent, alternating pearls like Zuma or On the Beach (his masterpiece) to average stuff like Long May you Run and Re Ac Tor to ugly recordings like Old Ways or Everybody's Rocking. This represents his return to form after his delirious ventures into electronics, rockabilly and soul music. The record features an anthem like "rocking in the free world", still sung by Pearl Jam and many others, and gems like Eldorado or Crime in the City. Not all the album is so good though, as is typical of Neil, there are some forgettable songs like Too far Gone or The ways of love, but overall it's a good recording and one of his best since the milestones of the seventies. The sound is, in the good songs, very basic, as it's often the case with ... Read More:

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From the Cradle

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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 67
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Frampton Comes Alive (25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (2CD)

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by: Peter Frampton

Release Date March 05, 2001
Having only ever listened to the original album from in the form it first came out in 1976,the 25TH anniversary edition was on first listening disappointing, partially because the added tracks did not come up to scratch with the 14 tracks on the '76' album but also because some of the tracks had been moved around from the original recordings lineup.However suprisingly after dismissing the second disappointment I persevered and it has grown on me to the extent where when I fancy putting on 'Frampton comes alive' I cannot decide which version to play.........it is a brilliant,classic 70s album that I have never tired of.

CD-Charts Position 68
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Blues Alive

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by: Gary Moore

Release Date May 10, 1993
People who are indifferent about Blues music need not apply. For everyone else this album (along with others Moore has done) really rewrites the rules for blues guitarists and fans of such everywhere. I reckon Gary Moore ranks in the top five guitar players in the world EVER, and I would rather listen to this virtuoso irishman than Eric Clapton any day.

If you met somebody who had no idea what Blues music sounds like and they ask you to give them a taster, you could do no better than to play them 'The Sky Is Crying' or 'Jumping At Shadows' from this CD.

A word of warning though. Only invest in this CD (which comprises entirely of live material recorded at various concert venues), if you like your guitar players loud fast and full on. If you cut your teeth listening to John ... Read More:

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Van Halen: Remastered

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by: Van Halen

Release Date January 22, 2001
Don't hesitate, buy it.
Classic tracks, remastered.
Probably the best guitar playing you will ever hear.
Steve

CD-Charts Position 70
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Wheels Of Fire

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by: Cream

Release Date June 01, 1998
To set the cat amongst the pigeons here a little, I will have to disagree with those who view Cream and this album as a kind of holy grail of rock. This album suffers from that 60s disease known as selective memory, a disease which with one hand inflates the value and worth of anything that was produced during the years 1966 - 69 and with the other wipes the board of everything that was done since, in the end we talk of Cream as if it all happened a number of centurys sgo and in a far away land in which everything was bigger and better, the truth however is that Cream were then and everything that has come after struggles to get past the nostalgia block that selective memory creates.

This album like so much of the 60s stuff is another white attempt at black American spiritual music and like ... Read More: