A To Z Blues (Biograph Recordings) [Remastered] - Blind Willie McTell

Love Is Blind and Blue

Advantages: The bewitching storytelling...
Disadvantages: The book is a little long...521 pages, be patient

a novel. Are you getting a little confused? Please don't, because once you start reading the book, the bafflement will vanish like fog in sunshine and the mesmerizing storytelling of Atwood will make the book a page-turner. Her subtle characters will form a compelling world and you will be taken to new heights of astonishment. Ms Iris Chase Griffin, the main character of the novel, starts her narrative and tells us of the fateful afternoon of the suicide of her sister, Laura in 1945 at the end of World War II; thus the story begins. As we get engrossed in the narrative, Atwood presents us with a newspaper report of Laura's inquest and then with the prologue to a novel called "The Blind Assassin" written by Laura Chase and published posthumously. The first person narration of Iris is like a memoir written in the present time. She ...

skmm 02.04.2001 (27.04.2001) · Read full review
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Review of The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood

A to Z and some bits inbetween.

Advantages: It might entertain.
Disadvantages: It might not.

The A to Z of me, that means that I am going to have to come up with twenty six things about me and my life that you maybe don?t know from reading other things I have written about myself over the last four years. You have read them haven?t you? No you?re right, probably not so I expect I will be safe going over a bit of old ground. So on with my Saturday night ramble. Yes it?s a choice between writing this or watching a procession of wannabe?s try to make their fame and fortune by singing in an unfashionable coat, guess what won? Anyway enough rambling, on to the meat of the A to Z of me. A is for: - Anti-Establishment. In my youth I was disenchanted soul, a teenager of the eighties, I was brought up with miner?s strikes, high interest rates and high unemployment. Yes I was one of those unemployed yobs that sat in the town ...

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Review of Me from A to Z

Comin' Home to the Blues

Advantages: Every one you can think of
Disadvantages: none

Williamson is a good example of what I mean. Chuck Berry? Does he belong on this Blues CD? Most definitely, he does. As well as helping to create the new Rock and Roll sound, Chuck Berry was a very accomplished Blues man. As his song Wee Wee Hours is a firm testament to. And the First Time I Met the Blues by Buddy Guy? If this doesn't send shivers up and down tour spine, baby, you ain't GOT no spine! I made mention of Etta James. Her song Tell Mama is a good, romping song, which, with its horn section reflects the style of Blues epitomised in the film the Blues Brothers, which was, in all probability dipping very tentative toe into the waters of Rhythm and Blues. Willie Dixon's Walking the Blues, however, gives more than a nod towards Dixieland Jazz. I think it was something my father would have approved of, him being a fan ...

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Review of Comin' Home To The Blues Vol.2 - Various Artists