Back Home Blues (25 Original Classics) - Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee

Advantages: Previously unreleased material!
Disadvantages: Now you all know about it!

...I am a little loathed to review this album, because it is the best album I have ever owned, and I am a bit selfish and it is so good that I really don't want to share it! I know that old Tezza is making a come back as he has recently recorded a track with Massive Attack, has just completed a tour of the UK and will be back for another one in July (oh and will be playing at the O2 festival as well), but this album is a true gem and not many English Callier fans know about it. So first a quick guide to the legend Terry Callier: Originally from Chicago and a childhood friend of Curtis Mayfield, Terry has achieved cult status here in the UK. Terry's first release was in 1963 and some say that he was one of the main founders of the acid jazz movement, although his original style was definitely more Northern Soul. In 1983 Terry... Read review

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Disadvantages: none

...My taste in music is Catholic. In hat my taste in music is wide and varied. Which is why you will find me writing reviews on a wide range of musical styles and genres. One of my passions is the Blues. This review is a review of Comin' Home to the Blues, volume II. This really is a classic CD if its type. It sounds like a Whose Who in Blues Hall of Fame. There are tracks my Howlin' Wolf, Bo Didley, sonny Boy Williamson, Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Elmore James. Little Walter, Otis Rush, Etta James (who has one of the sexiest female voices ever. In any musical genre!) Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Rogers, Koko Taylor (who has the other sexiest female voices ever. In any musical genre!) Washboard Sam and Lowell Fulson. The CD begins with Howlin' Wolf's Red Rooster. This is laid back blues, filled with everything that... Read review

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Advantages: This is a live peformance
Disadvantages: It's not a triple album

...One More Car, One More Rider by Eric Clapton When this album came out I hadn't made my annual pilgrimage to see Mr Clapton for a few years as he seemed to be taking a break. So I was having withdrawal symptoms of live music at its best and that's what you get from this artist his best at every performance. So it was with great relief that I received this CD for a present for Christmas 2003. . Although in 2004 I saw him at the M.E.N. in Manchester. When putting the CDs on I would make sure you're not interrupted as this is a live CD. Tracks on the first CD Open with a sit down set. 1. Key To The Highway - written by William Broonzy and Charles Seegar - This song kicks the album off and it is one of the best and most covered blues. Most famously by Brownie McGhee & Sonnie Terry. But put this album... Read review

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