Tracks The History of Rhythm & Blues
- Jivin' The Blues - Sonny Boy Williamson)
- What's The Use Of Getting Sober - Louis Jordan)
- Milk Cow - Kokomo Arnold
- Lafayette - Bennie Moten)
- Preachin' Blues - Robert Johnson)
- I Feel So Good - Big Bill Broonzy)
- Worried Life Blues - Big Maceo)
- T'Aint What You Do - Jimmie Lunceford)
- No No Blues - Curley Weaver
- It's Nobody's Fault Blind Willie Johnson
- Blues Ain't Nothing - Georgia White)
- Good Mornin Schoolgirl - Sonny Boy Williamson)
- Guitar Boogie - Blind Roosevelt Graves)
- Teasin Brown Blues - Louie Lasky)
- Backwater Blues - Bessie Smith)
- Standing By Bedside - Golden Gate Quartet)
- Shake That Thing - Charlie Jackson
- Natchez Blues - Lewis Bronzeville 5)
- Take It And Git - Andy Kirk
- Mr Johnson's Blues - Lonnie Johnson)
- Junker Blues - Champion Jack Dupree)
- Number Runner Blue - Jimmie Gordon)
- That's The Rhythm - Three Sharps And A Flat)
- My Soul Is A Witness - Austin Coleman
- Tell Me Baby - Sonny Boy Williamson)
- Kokomo Blues - Scrapper Blackwell
- Diddie Wah Diddie - Blind Blake
- Sloppy Drunk Again - Walter Davis)
- Don t You Lie To Me - Tampa Red)
- Flying Home - Lionel Hampton
- Floyd s Guitar Blues - Andy Kirk)
- Somebody Stole Gabriel Horn - 3Keys)
- Good Thing - Frank Stokes
- Night Time is the Right Time - R Sykes)
- Keep A-Knockin' - Louis Jordan)
- How Long Blues - Leroy Carr)
- Match Box Blues Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Jumpin' Jive - Cab Calloway)
- Minnie The Moocher - Cab Calloway)
- Policy Dream Blues - Bumble Bee Slim)
- Central Ave Breakdown - Lionel Hampton)
- Cow Cow Blues - Cow Cow Davenport)
- Gangster's Blues - Peetie Wheatstraw)
- St. Louis Blues - Mills Brothers)
- I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water - The Cats & The Fiddle)
- One O Clock Jump - Count Basie)
- Bullfrog Blues - Muggsy Spanier)
- Ease It To Me Blues - Barbecue Bob
- Didn't It Rain - Bryant's Jubilee
- Milk Cow Blues - Sleepy John Estes
- Pinetop s Boogie - Pinetop Smith)
- Jockey Blues - Jazz Gillum)
- After Hours - Erskine Hawkins)
- Vicksburg Blues - Brothr Montgomery)
- Midnight Hour Blues - Leroy Carr)
- Minglewood Blues - Gus Cannon
- Apaloosa Blues - Leecan & Cooksey
- Barrelhouse - Big Bill Broonzy)
- Beale St Breakdown - Jed Davenport
- Boogie Woogie - Jones-Smith)
- Press My Button - Lil Johnson)
- Boogie Woogie Stomp - Albert Ammons)
- Goin Back To Texas - Memphis Minnie
- Roll n Tumble Blues - Willie Newbern
- Flaming Reeds - Jimmie Lunceford)
- Naptown Stomp - Bill Gaither)
- This Train - Sister Rosetta Tharpe)
- Little Rock Blues - Pearl Dickson
- Confessin' The Blues - Jay McShann)
- Kansas City Blues - Jim Jackson
- Low-Down Blues - Bennie Moten)
- Down The Road A Piece - Will Bradley)
- Barrelhouse Woman - Leroy Carr)
- Tight Like That - Georgia Tom
- If You Haven't Any Hay - Skip James
- Roll'em Pete - Joe Turner)
- Ain't No Business Can Do - Dr Clayton)
- The Dirty Dozen - Speckled Red)
- Lead Pencil Blues - Johnnie Temple)
- Holy Mountain - Elder Otis Jones)
- Mean Ol' Frisco - Arthur Crudup
- Sing Sing Sing - Benny Goodman)
- Crucifixion Of Christ - Jessie May Hill
- Mean Old World - T-Bone Walker
- Sweet Miss Stella Blues - Quillian Brs)
- Cow Cow Boogie - Ella Mae Morse
- Rockin' Chair Blues - Big Bill Broonzy)
- I Like To Riff - King Cole Trio)
- Louise Louise Blues - Johnnie Temple)
- Death Ray Boogie - Pete Johnson)
- Outside Woman Blue - Blind Reynolds
- Dirty Mother For Ya - Roosevelt Sykes)
- Diggin My Potatoes - Washboard Sam)
- Weed SmokerDream - HarlemHamfats)
- Knockin' A Jug - Louis Armstrong)
- Strut That Thing - Cripple Clar Lofton)
- Train Whistle Blues - Jimmie Rodgers
Release date: 2008-03-31
RRP: £25.99
Price: £14.93
Review The History of Rhythm & Blues / Various Artists:
Tracks His California Album
- I Don't Want To Be Right (If Loving You Is Wrong)
- Where My Baby Went
- Right Place At The Right Time
- Up And Down World
- Friday The 13th Child
- Help Me Through The Day
- This Time I'm Gone For Good
- I've Got To Use My Imagination
- Goin' Down Slow
- It's Not The Spotlight
Release date: 2004-11-20
RRP: £7.99
Price: £1.97
Review His California Album / Bobby 'Blue' Bland:
Tracks Stormy Monday Blues: The Essential Collection
- Why My Baby
- Flower Blues
- I'm In An Awful Mood
- Cold Hearted Woman
- Party Girl
- Goin' To Funky Town
- Little Girl Don't You Know
- Stormy Monday Blues
- Confusion Blues
- Treat Me So Low Down
- Jealous Woman
- I Gotta Break Away
- Every Night I Have To Cry
- Struggling Blues
- I'm Still In Love With You
- I'm Gonna Stop This Nite Life
- Going To Build Me A Playhouse
- Long Skirt Baby Blues
- I Wish My Baby Would (Come Home At Night)
Release date: 1999-03-20
Run time: 61 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.16
Review Stormy Monday Blues: The Essential Collection / T Bone Walker:
Tracks Live from Carnegie Hall/Live from Austin Texas: +DVD
- Letter To My Girlfriend
- Intro
- Testifyin'
- Iced Over
- House Is Rockin'
- Little Wing
- Leave My Girl Alone
- Voodoo Chile
- Cold Shot
- Crossfire
- Rude Mood
- Love Struck Baby
- Tick Tock
- Things That I Used To Do
- Pride And Joy
- Rivera Paradise
- Cold Shot
- Honey Bee
- Dirty Poet
- Tightrope
- Lenny
- Pride And Joy
- Scuttle Buttin'
- COD
- Texas Flood
Release date: 2004-06-28
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.80
Review Live from Carnegie Hall/Live from Austin Texas: +DVD / Stevie Ray Vaughan:The series of Stevie Ray Vaughan concert albums that began with Live Alive (1986) and continued after the guitarist's 1990 death is far from the catalogue-bloating cash-in you'd expect from the record company of a platinum seller cut down at a career peak. Instead, each disc gives a distinctly different view of the Texas blues-rocker's stage strengths. Where Live Alive captured Vaughan and his band Double Trouble in full arena roar and In the Beginning recorded a looser early club gig, Live at Carnegie Hall finds the outfit broadening its range with guest shots from Dr. John and the Roomful of Blues horn section. Rather than overpowering Vaughan's signature tautness, the bigger band makes for an entertaining switch-in effect allowing a fresh look at his R&B roots. -Rickey Wright The series of Stevie Ray Vaughan concert albums that began with Live Alive (1986) and continued after the guitarist's 1990 death is far from the catalog-bloating cash-in you'd expect from the record company of a platinum seller cut down at a career peak. Instead, each disc gives a distinctly different view of the Texas blues-rocker's stage strengths. Where Live Alive captured Vaughan and his band Double Trouble in full arena roar and In the Beginning recorded a looser early club gig, Live at Carnegie Hall finds the outfit broadening its range with guest shots from Dr. John and the Roomful of Blues horn section. Rather than overpowering Vaughan's signature tautness, the bigger band makes for an entertaining switch-in effect allowing a fresh look at his R&B roots. [+]-Rickey Wright.
Tracks Greatest Hits Vol.1
- Call On Me
- That Did It
- Who Will The Next Fool Be
- Farther Up The Road
- I Pity The Fool
- Stormy Monday Blues
- Good Time Charlie
- I'll Take Care Of You
- Yield Not To Temptation
- Ain't That Loving You
- These Hands (Small But Mighty)
- Cry Cry Cry
- Turn On Your Lovelight
- Chains Of Love
- Don't Cry No More
- That's The Way Love Is
Release date: 2000-09-04
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.42
Review Greatest Hits Vol.1 / Bobby 'Blue' Bland:Bobby Bland's purr-to-a-scream vocals quickly made him an R&B star in an era when rougher-hewn blues masters such as Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf had fallen from the charts. Bland, a former valet for B. B. King, established himself with both up-tempo workouts ("Farther Up the Road," "I Pity the Fool") and devastatingly subtle ballad readings ("I'll Take Care of You," "Stormy Monday Blues"). Greatest Hits, Vol. One is a generous sampling of the discs that made him a steady seller throughout the '60s. A second CD chronicles his work in the '70s after Duke Records, his longtime label, was sold to ABC. -Rickey Wright.
Tracks Texas Flood
- Lovestruck Baby
- Tell Me
- Texas Flood
- Dirty Pool
- Rude Mood
- Testify
- I'm Cryin'
- Mary Had A Little Lamb
- Pride And Joy
- Lenny
Release date: 1999-03-22
RRP: £6.99
Price: £3.89
Review Texas Flood / Stevie Ray Vaughan:This legendary 1983 debut by the fallen torchbearer of the 1980s-90s blues revival sounds even more dramatic in its remixed and expanded edition. Stevie Ray Vaughan's guitar and vocals are a bit brighter and more present on this 14-track album. Texas Flood captures Vaughan as rockin' blues purist, paying tribute in his inspired six-string diction to his influences Larry Davis (who wrote the title track), Buddy Guy, Albert King, and Jimi Hendrix. His own contemplative "Lenny", a tribute to his wife at the time, also suggests a jazz-fuelled complexity that would infuse his later work. -Ted Drozdowski.
Tracks Greatest Hits Vol.2
- Soul Of A Man
- Goin' Down Slow
- Recess In Heaven
- I Ain't Gonna Be The First To Cry
- You'd Be A Millionaire
- Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City
- Sittin' On A Poor Man's Throne
- I Hate You
- Today I Started Loving You Again
- Soon As The Weather Breaks
- I Wouldn't Treat A Dog (The Way You Treated Me)
- It Ain't The Real Thing
- Yolanda
- Let The Good Times Roll
- Love To See You Smile
- This Time I'm Gone For Good
Release date: 2000-09-04
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.27
Review Greatest Hits Vol.2 / Bobby 'Blue' Bland:Bobby Bland's uptown, brass-and-strings-drenched blues kept him on the charts long after gut-bucket kings such as Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters had dropped from black-radio airwaves. The artistic successes chronicled on this second volume of his greatest hits shouldn't come as a surprise, then, despite the frequent input of ultracommercial producer Steve Barri, who'd crafted AM hits for acts as diverse as the Grass Roots and the post-Motown Four Tops. Even with some accommodations to trends (the disco beat of "The Soul of a Man," chicken-scratching guitars here, there, and everywhere), Bland kept on being Bland, cutting country songs ("Today I Started Loving You Again") and blues standards ("Goin' Down Slow") and investing Dan Penn's "I Hate You" with a unique pungency. This disc performs a valuable service in lifting the veil from an often-overlooked period in the career of one of American music's most important interpretive singers. -Rickey Wright.
Tracks The Sky Is Crying
- Boot Hill
- Little Wing
- Chitlins Con Carne
- Wham
- So Excited
- Sky Is Crying
- Close To You
- Life By The Drop
- May I Have A Talk With You
- Empty Arms
Release date: 2000-04-17
RRP: £6.99
Price: £4.02
Review The Sky Is Crying / Stevie Ray Vaughan:
Tracks Beginner's Guide to the Blues
- Katie Mae - Hopkins, Lightnin'
- Rollin' And Tumblin' - Burnside, R.L.
- Stormy Monday - Walker, T-Bone
- Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues - Phelps, Kelly Joe
- Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning - Harris, Corey
- Baby You Don't Wanna Come Home - Guy, Buddy
- Help Me - Williamson, Sonny Boy (1)
- Rollin' Stone - Waters, Muddy
- Reconsider Baby - Fulson, Lowell
- Rocks In My Bed - Johnson, Lonnie
- Cross Road Blues - Johnson, Robert (1)
- Walkin' By Myself - Rogers, Jimmy (1)
- Smokestack Lightnin' - Howlin' Wolf
- Whoopin' The Blues - Terry, Sonny & Brownie McGhee
- I'd Rather Go Blind - James, Etta
- Frankie And Albert - Hurt, 'Mississippi' John
- Queen Bee - Taj Mahal & Toumani Diabate
- Thrill Is Gone - King, B.B.
- Blues Before Sunrise - Carr, Leroy & Scrapper Blackwell
- Bad Luck Blues - King, Albert
- Driftin' Blues - Brown, Charles (1)
- Bright Lights Big City - Reed, Jimmy (1)
- Walkin' The Blues - House, Son
- Key To The Highway - Broonzy, 'Big' Bill
- Born In Louisiana - Brown, Clarence 'Gatemouth'
- Mr Blues - Shannon, Mem
- I Be's Trouble/I Can't Be Satisfied - Waters, Muddy
- Ice Pick - Collins, Albert
- High Water Everywhere - Patton, Charley
- Fixin' To Die Blues - White, Bukka
- Dust My Broom - James, Elmore
- Good Morning Blues - Leadbelly
- Blues Got Me Again - Musselwhite, Charlie
- Sittin' On The Top Of The World - Mississippi Sheiks
- Out Of The Dark - Washington, Walter 'Wolfman'
- Set You Free - Black Keys
- My Babe - Little Walter
- That's All Right - Crudup, Arthur 'Big Boy'
- Good Morning Judge - Lewis, Furry
- See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Jefferson, Blind Lemon
- Push I Need - Copeland, Shemekia
- If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day - Block, Rory
- This Is Hip - Hooker, John Lee
- Smoking Gun - Cray, Robert
- Statesboro Blues - McTell, 'Blind' Willie
Release date: 2005-09-26
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.25
Review Beginner's Guide to the Blues / Various Artists:
Tracks Hound Dog - The Essential Collection
- I Just Can't Help Myself
- I Smell A Rat
- My Man Called Me
- You Don't Move Me Anymore
- I Ain't No Fool Either
- Stop A-Hoppin' On Me
- Willie Mae's Trouble
- Cotton Picking Blues
- Walking Blues
- Hard Times
- Rock-A-Bye Baby
- Let Your Tears Fall Baby
- Just Like A Dog, Barking Up The Wrong Tree
- Hound Dog - Big Mama Thornton, Johnny Otis & His Orchestra
- Yes, Baby - Big Mama Thornton, Johnny Ace
- The Big Change
- Nightmare
- Laugh, Laugh, Laugh
- The Fish
- How Come
- They Call Me Big Mama
- I've Searched The Whole World Over (with false start)
Release date: 1999-07-05
Run time: 49 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.94
Review Hound Dog - The Essential Collection / Big Mama Thornton:The classic "Hound Dog" is usually associated with Elvis Presley, but blues fans know: Presley's recording wasn't the first. That honor belongs to singer Big Mama Thornton, whose own recording of "Hound Dog" was eclipsed by Presley's. Her version is on this collection in all its glory, opening a CD of 18 killer tracks. Thornton's voice, by turns growling and richly melodic, was indeed unusual, and the spare accompaniment on Hound Dog makes it stand out all the more on songs such as "They Call Me Big Mama," "How Come," "The Big Change," "Hard Times," and "The Fish. " Thornton had talent and attitude to spare, and both come through loud and clear on this essential collection. -Genevieve Williams.
Tracks Soul to Soul
- Change It
- Gone Home
- You'll Be Mine
- Say What
- Empty Arms
- Come On
- Ain't Gonna Give Up On Love
- Life Without You
- Look At Little Sister
- Looking Out The Window
Release date: 1999-03-22
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.86
Review Soul to Soul / Stevie Ray Vaughan:Arguably the finest blues guitarist of his generation, Wisconsin-born Stevie Ray Vaughan initially learnt his chops on his brother-and Fabulous Thunderbirds' mainstay-Jimmie's hand-me-down guitars whilst glued to the works of Albert King and Lonnie Mack. After honing his skills in the late 70s with a variety of lacklustre combos, he was headhunted by David Bowie for 1983's Let's Dance tour, but left early to concentrate on his solo work. On this, his third album, Vaughan's virtuosity is both augmented and accentuated by Double Trouble, a backing band of rare competence, finally allowed to shine after having played a singularly supportive role to Stevie on earlier efforts. From the throbbing mid-tempo blues grooves of "Say What", through the barroom shuffle of "Look At Little Sister" to the head-spinning, flying-finger dexterity of "Empty Arms", Soul To Soul stands as a fitting epitaph to a true master of the blues. -Ian Fortnam.
Tracks Anthology
- I Pity The Fool
- I'm Too Far Gone (To Turn Around)
- Who Will The Next Fool Be
- I'll Take Care Of You
- You've Got Bad Intentions
- That Did It
- I've Been Wrong So Long
- It's My Life Baby
- Don't Cry No More
- Save Your Love For Me
- Let The Good Times Roll
- I Take It On Home
- These Hands (Small But Mighty)
- Ain't No Love In The Heart Of the City
- I Wouldn't Treat A Dog (The Way You Treated Me)
- Poverty
- Call On Me
- Chains Of Love
- Yolanda
- Soon As The Weather Breaks
- Do What You Set Out To Do
- Little Boy Blue
- Lead Me On
- Rockin' In The Same Old Boat
- Ain't Doin' Too Bad
- Ain't That Lovin' You
- Blind Man
- Stormy Monday Blues
- I Woke Up Screaming
- I'm Not Ashamed
- Ask Me 'Bout Nothin' (But The Blues)
- Farther Up The Road
- This Time I'm Gone For Good
- Ain't Nothing You Can Do
- Good Tome Charlie
- That's The Way Love Is
- Driftin' Blues
- Soul Of A Man
- I Smell Trouble
- Recess In Heaven
- It Ain't The Real Thing
- Cry Cry Cry
- You're All I Need
- Lovin' Blues
- Share Your Love With Me
- Yield Not To Temptation
- 36-22-36
- Turn On Your Love Light
- Goin' Down Slow
- If You Got A Heart
Release date: 2001-01-08
RRP: £17.49
Price: £7.51
Review Anthology / Bobby 'Blue' Bland:
Tracks Solos, Sessions & Encores
- Na Na Ne Na Nay - Carter, Bill
- Sky Is Crying - Vaughan, Stevie Ray & Albert King/B.B. King/Paul Butterfield
- Pipeline - Vaughan, Stevie Ray & Dick Dale
- Don't Stop By The Creek Son - Copeland, Johnny
- Change It - Vaughan, Stevie Ray & Jimmie
- Texas Flood - Vaughan, Stevie Ray & Bonnie Raitt
- Miami Strut - Reed, A.C.
- On The Run - Vaughan, Stevie Ray & Katie Webster
- Let's Dance - Bowie, David
- You Can Have My Husband - Barton, Lou Ann
- Albert's Shuffle - Vaughan, Stevie Ray & Albert Collins
- Soulful Dress - Ball, Marcia
- Goin' Down - Vaughan, Stevie Ray & Jeff Beck
- Oreo Cookie Blues - Vaughan, Stevie Ray & Lonnie Mack
Release date: 2008-01-14
RRP: £14.49
Price: £4.22
Review Solos, Sessions & Encores / Stevie Ray Vaughan and Friends:
Tracks Ice Pickin'
- Honey Hush (Talking Woman Blues)
- Conversation With Collins
- Cold Cold Feeling
- Master Charge
- When The Welfare Turns Its Back On You
- Too Tired
- Ice Pick
- Avalanche
Release date: 1999-10-01
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.69
Review Ice Pickin' / Albert Collins:
Tracks Couldn't Stand the Weather: Remastered
- Hide Away
- Scuttle Buttin'
- Tin Pan Alley
- Give Me Back My Wig
- Couldn't Stand The Weather
- Come On
- Stang's Swang
- Honey Bee
- Cold Shot
- Things That I Used To Do
- Look At Little Sister
- Voodoo Chile
Release date: 1999-03-22
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.94
Review Couldn't Stand the Weather: Remastered / Stevie Ray Vaughan:In a brief interview that precedes this CD's four bonus tracks-all unreleased gems from the original 1984 sessions-Stevie Ray Vaughan makes the point that "music used to be more based on common everyday occurrences like a train's sound going down the track. a horse walking. " Then he comes on with a version of Freddie King's "Hideaway" that chugs like a locomotive. There's also a heretofore unheard slide-guitar-powered "Give Me Back My Wig" and a blueprint of what became Soul to Soul's US radio hit "Look at Little Sister". All those follow the improved mixes of the original CD, which include Vaughan's heartbreak chronicles "Couldn't Stand the Weather" and "Cold Shot"; his first jazzer, "Stang's Swang"; and his initial Hendrix outing, "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)". It's the sound of the guitar hero growing as an artist on his own terms-sidestepping the irony that poisoned 1990s rock to stay true to the real-life aesthetic of the blues. -Ted Drozdowski.
Tracks Stayin' Home With The Blues
- Gambling Woman Blues
- T'Aint Nobody's Biz'ness If I Do
- Texas Flyer - Freddie King, Steve Ferrone, Bobby Tench, Mike Vernon
- You Can Run But You Can't Hide
- Further On Up The Road
- Woke Up This Morning
- She's A Burglar - Freddie King, Steve Ferrone, Brian Auger, Bobby Tench, Pete Wingfield
- Meet Me In The Morning
- Things I Used To Do
- Sugar Sweet - Freddie King, George Terry, Jamie Oldaker, Dick Sims, Carl Radle, Eric Clapton
- Have You Ever Loved A Woman
- Sweet Home Chicago
- Pulp Wood - Freddie King, Steve Ferrone, Bobby Tench, Mike Vernon
- Tv Mama
- Woman Across The River
Release date: 1997-07-21
Run time: 75 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £2.97
Review Stayin' Home With The Blues / Freddie King:
Tracks Johnny Winter
- When You Got A Good Friend
- I'll Drown My Tears
- Be Careful With A Fool
- Mean Mistreater
- I'm Yours And I'm Hers
- Leland Mississippi
- Back Door Friend
- Dallas
Release date: 1997-02-03
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.31
Review Johnny Winter / Johnny Winter:
Tracks The Very Best of Lightnin' Hopkins: Blues Masters
- Last Night Blues
- Mighty Crazy
- Penitentiary Blues
- Shotgun Blues
- Give Me Central 209 (Hello Central)
- Moanin' Blues
- Automobile
- Baby Don't You Tear My Clothes
- Contrary Mary
- Fan It
- Katie Mae Blues
- I'm Beggin' You
- Baby Please Don't Go
- Mojo Hand
- Coffee Blues
- Conversation Blues
Release date: 2001-01-29
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.59
Review The Very Best of Lightnin' Hopkins: Blues Masters / Lightnin' Hopkins:Hopkins may have enjoyed unprecedented world-wide popularity as a blues and folk artist during the 1960s, but his best work was mostly recorded in the previous two decades. This Rhino selection, put together by James Austin, culls tracks recorded for labels such as Aladdin, Sittin' In With, Gold Star, Jax, Folkways and Bluesville, from 1946 to 1961. Specialists will want the complete Gold Star and Aladdin material in particular, but this is a fine sampling of Hopkins in a variety of settings most typical of his career. The 1946 "Katie May Blues" documents his early partnership with pianist Thunder Smith (hence the nickname "Lightnin'" for plain Sam Hopkins) and also shows why he felt the need to strike out on his own soon after. For most of his life Lightnin' preferred playing as a solo, and his uncanny, tersely moving guitar accompaniment for his stark, often cryptic vocals shows that this was a wise as well as economically ideal choice. The brooding "Automobile", from 1949, drives this point nicely home. In a well-balanced selection, two of the four 1961 tracks feature Sonny Terry. -Keith Shadwick.
Tracks Two Steps From the Blues
- Lead Me On
- I'm Not Ashamed
- Don't Cry No More
- I've Been Wrong So Long
- Cry Cry Cry
- I've Just Got to Forget You
- I Pity the Fool
- Close to You [*]
- How Does a Cheatin' Woman Feel [*]
- I'll Take Care of You
- Little Boy Blue
- I Don't Want No Woman
- Two Steps From the Blues
- St. James Infirmary
RRP: £10.49
Price: £3.65
Review Two Steps From the Blues / Bobby Bland:
Tracks In Step
- Love Me Darling
- Scratch 'n' Sniff
- Riviera Paradise
- Let Me Love You Baby
- Tightrope
- Wall Of Denial
- Leave My Girl Alone
- House Is Rockin'
- Travis Walk
- Crossfire
Release date: 1999-03-22
RRP: £9.49
Price: £4.08
Review In Step / Stevie Ray Vaughan:In Step embraces blues and rock without compromising the primal joys of either. This is Stevie Ray Vaughan's best studio album and the first he recorded sober. "Travis Walk" offers a heady rush of flat-picking, "The House is Rockin'" is full-tilt roots- boogie, "Let Me Love You Baby" and "Leave My Girl Alone" are sweet blues epiphanies and the nine-minute instrumental "Riviera Paradise" is a truly soulful mix of blues and jazz. By this stage, just a year before his untimely death, Vaughan had also tamed his bawling voice into a rich instrument. In short, this 1989 session is Vaughan at his artistic peak. It's raw blues-rock perfection. -Ted Drozdowski.
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How to say goodbye for good: Despite her cloche hat, feed-sack dresses and obsession with a relic known as a typewriter, modern girls might see a lot of themselves in Kit Kittredge, the Depression-era living-doll in the new American Girl feature film. ›15:19, 30.06 Can the Youth Vote Save Obama?: With the Hillary juggernaut growing in strength every day, Barack Obama is hoping Iowas youth can help keep him in the game. ›14:47, 8.10 Help! Im drowning in student loans: Just because he plays guitar in his underwear doesnt give the maker of M&Ms the right to parody him, says street performer Robert Burck. Type II diabetes and childhood obesity is epidemic, he pointed out. I don't endorse that product. Do dead people watch us? Yes, author says: Concetta Bertoldi, known for being a medium who communicates with the dead, answers some of the most common questions about what happens on the "other side" in her new book. An excerpt. ›21:36, 17.07 Boy checks drivers' speed with toy radar gun: Landon Wilburn, 11, has a future as a cop a traffic cop. The youngster, who used to shout at speeders to slow down as they drove through the Stone Lakes subdivision in Louisville, now has taken matters into his own hands. ›15:44, 17.07 Terror Watch: Gonzales Lawyers Up: Still under investigation by Congress and Justice Department lawyers who once worked for him, the former attorney general has turned to a leading Washington attorney to help him beat the rap. ›18:12, 10.10 'Top Chef:' Coming to a city near you: The season one winner of "Top Chef," shares his signature dish, spicy duck meatballs and his flavorful edamame falafel recipe. ›14:17, 8.07 Bale: Ledger had wonderful time as Joker: Larry King is ready to tell his story. His autobiography "What Am I Doing Here?" due out on Father's Day 2009 will cover everything from the CNN host's childhood in Brooklyn to his multiple marriages. ›18:48, 14.07 Ancient Pompeii site faces modern threats: Nearly 2,000 years after it was buried and preserved under a volcanic eruption, the ancient Roman town of Pompeii is being steadily worn away by modern woes. ›15:19, 18.07 No such thing as a broken heart?: Talk about long distance. An Indian Muslim couple exchanged wedding vows by telephone after the groom, who lives in Kuwait, said he did not have money to return home to get married. The entire village in Murshidabad, West Bengal watched as Irin Biswas and Safikul Islam spoke their wedding vows on a mobile phone. ›14:02, 11.07 'Man showers' are the latest trend for wedding parties: When planning your next weekend getaway, why not bring your child's favorite book to life? Visiting the home of Tom Sawyer in Hannibal, Mo., or Eloise's royal room in New York City can help make their adventures your own. Trisha Thompson of Wondertime magazine offers some trips you can take to inspire young readers in your family. ›17:51, 27.06 Probe sends aliens-eye view of Earth: A NASA spacecraft sent on a mission to inspect comets has filmed Earth and its moon from 31 million miles away, creating an aliens-eye view of our world. ›01:57, 18.07 Review: The Dark Knight ups the ante: Latest entry in the Batman series gives superhero movies a stylish and adrenaline-charged kick in the utility belt. ›13:30, 18.07 Saad Hariri on Lebanons Future: Saad Hariri takes up the mantle of his assassinated father, and argues for the world to isolate Syria. ›15:46, 12.10 |
