Publisher: Telarc Blues
Release date: 2003-10-13
RRP: £14.99
Price: £4.60
Review Exile on Blues Street / Various Artists:
Publisher: EMI
Release date: 2001-06-18
RRP: £13.99
Price: £42.54
Review Anthology / George Thorogood:
Publisher: Telarc
Release date: 2001-04-04
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.56
Review Meet Me Where They Play the Blues / Maria Muldaur:
Publisher: Reveal
Release date: 2007-12-10
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.49
Review Acoustic / Jon Redfern:
Publisher: Shanachie
Release date: 1999-10-01
RRP: £13.99
Price: £8.09
Review Love Devils and the Blues / Stefan Grossman:
Publisher: Boulevard Vintage
Release date: 2004-11-08
RRP: £16.99
Price: £20.00
Review The R&B Years 1948 / Various Artists:
Publisher: Warner Music
Release date: 2001-06-22
RRP: £15.99
Price: £9.00
Review Definitive Ray Charles / Ray Charles:All Ray Charles fans will want to check out The Definitive Ray Charles, because it's the first time a compiler has been able to combine the chart-topping hits from his Atlantic and ABC-Paramount years into one package. This means that we get the Genius's hits from 1953's "Mess Around" right through his golden R&B Atlantic era ("I've Got a Woman", "Drown in My Own Tears", "Hallelujah I Love Her So", "I Believe To My Soul", "What'd I Say" and so on) alongside tracks that were not only massive worldwide hits but helped redefine popular music. "Georgia on My Mind", "Hit The Road Jack", "Unchain My Heart", "I Can't Stop Loving You" and "You Don't Know Me" not only combined superior standards and country songs with Charles's patented soul-gospel vocal style, but they were couched in an orchestral or big band setting that had simply never been utilised in this way prior to Charles's arrival. Those who know of his thorough musical background will not be surprised by this development, one that kept him high in the charts until the mid-60s. This compilation thins out after the classic "In The Heat of the Night", as well it should, his latter-day duets with the Blues Brothers and Willie Nelson tidying thing up nicely. Genius plus compilation good taste: an unbeatable combination. -Keith Shadwick.
Publisher: Blind Pig
Release date: 2004-12-02
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.25
Review Player! / Nick Curran and the Nitelifes:Nick Curran makes both getting it right and getting the spirit seem easy on Player; his retro blues doesn't give off so much as a whiff of the mouldy fig, but neither does he descend into camp, parody or self-parody. A recovering rockabilly, his heart is with the jump 'n' jive of Wynonie Harris ("Down Boy Down", the instrumental "The Groovy Jam"), but he can also raise a ruckus like Little Richard ("Heeby Jeebies"), head for Chicago (Little Walter's "Crazy Mixed Up World", "Leavin'"), or ease into a classy Duke-Peacock groove (Bobby Bland's "Honey Bee"). As a guitarist, he is solidly in the T-Bone Walker/BB King style, but with enough quirks that it never sounds like slavish imitation. His originals hold their own with the chestnuts, and he's such an assured vocalist that ballads such as "Come Back" come off as well as the rockers. You'd be hard-pressed to find another album that's as much flat-out fun. -John Morthland, Amazon. com.
Publisher: Northern Blues
Release date: 2006-04-17
RRP: £13.99
Price: £7.07
Review Do I Move You / Janiva Magness:
Publisher: Telarc
Release date: 2001-04-04
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.56
Review Meet Me Where They Play the Blues / Maria Muldaur:
Publisher: Shanachie
Release date: 1999-10-01
RRP: £13.99
Price: £8.09
Review Love Devils and the Blues / Stefan Grossman:
Publisher: Pulse
Release date: 1996-08-12
RRP: £5.99
Price: £10.94
Review Buddy Guy and Friends / Buddy Guy:
Publisher: Bgo
Release date: 2003-12-19
RRP: £13.99
Price: £8.55
Review Midnight Believer/Take It Home / B.B. King:
Publisher: Boulevard Vintage
Release date: 2004-11-08
RRP: £16.99
Price: £20.00
Review The R&B Years 1948 / Various Artists:
Publisher: Northern Blues
Release date: 2006-04-17
RRP: £13.99
Price: £7.07
Review Do I Move You / Janiva Magness:
Publisher: Bgo
Release date: 2003-12-19
RRP: £13.99
Price: £8.55
Review Midnight Believer/Take It Home / B.B. King:
Publisher: Warner Music
Release date: 2001-06-22
RRP: £15.99
Price: £9.00
Review Definitive Ray Charles / Ray Charles:All Ray Charles fans will want to check out The Definitive Ray Charles, because it's the first time a compiler has been able to combine the chart-topping hits from his Atlantic and ABC-Paramount years into one package. This means that we get the Genius's hits from 1953's "Mess Around" right through his golden R&B Atlantic era ("I've Got a Woman", "Drown in My Own Tears", "Hallelujah I Love Her So", "I Believe To My Soul", "What'd I Say" and so on) alongside tracks that were not only massive worldwide hits but helped redefine popular music. "Georgia on My Mind", "Hit The Road Jack", "Unchain My Heart", "I Can't Stop Loving You" and "You Don't Know Me" not only combined superior standards and country songs with Charles's patented soul-gospel vocal style, but they were couched in an orchestral or big band setting that had simply never been utilised in this way prior to Charles's arrival. Those who know of his thorough musical background will not be surprised by this development, one that kept him high in the charts until the mid-60s. This compilation thins out after the classic "In The Heat of the Night", as well it should, his latter-day duets with the Blues Brothers and Willie Nelson tidying thing up nicely. Genius plus compilation good taste: an unbeatable combination. -Keith Shadwick.
Publisher: Telarc Blues
Release date: 2003-10-13
RRP: £14.99
Price: £4.60
Review Exile on Blues Street / Various Artists:
Publisher: Pulse
Release date: 1996-08-12
RRP: £5.99
Price: £10.94
Review Buddy Guy and Friends / Buddy Guy:
Publisher: Provogue
Release date: 2001-05-14
RRP: £13.99
Price: £7.41
Review Outside Looking in / Dave Hole:
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