Complete Recorded Works Vol.1 (1941-1945: Flying Boogie) - Big Maceo

Advantages: Slick blues sound, sounds absolutely top notch. BEWARE! Geniuses at work!
Disadvantages: None. No - none at all.

...Some artists have to break themselves into the charts. Others have to try and replicate their past glories. Some even have to try and entertain whole new generations of fans. But there are some artists that need do nothing more than sit back and reel out yet another quality record. These are what we can easily refer to as out classic artists – the best of the best. 'Riding With The King' is exactly what a lot of us music fans have been waiting for – a collaboration between blues guitar genius B.B. King, and rock/blues guitar genius Eric Clapton. Is it brilliant? Well a) read the review, and b) you shouldn't need to ask anyway! It's quite impressive to think that while Clapton himself is almost 60, B.B. is over 70! Yet they're still going strong… - A Potted History Part 1 – B.B. King B.B. King (née Riley B... Read review

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Advantages: amazing new side of thrice not to be ignored
Disadvantages: well i honestly cant think of any

...This is the brand new and brilliant album from thrice. It is the second part from their four disk alchemy Index concept album and is the more acoustic layed back side of the album. As you may already know Thrice have gone all out with these albums and have recorded all of them from their own home with Teppei doing most of the recording work while Dustin as unusual taking responsibility for most of the writing . This disk consists of two sides as follows Air and Earth. Air consisting of a massive range right across the musical spectrum providing songs like Broken Lungs and Daedalus providing brilliant lyrics and vocal performances from Dustin and the rest of the band really big sounding epic tracks. The earth disk is by far a more stripped back side thrice consisting of almost American folk styles providing brilliant songs like come all... Read review

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Advantages: Some less often heard pieces by Robert Stolz
Disadvantages: Insensitive conducting which swamps singers

...Having lived and worked in Vienna for several years, I\'ve always had a big soft spot for operetta, waltzes and Viennese music in general. Done well it can be as satisfyingly enjoyable to listen to as drinking a mug of my favourite Austrian Kaffeehaus speciality - \"heisse Schokolade\" (hot chocolate) topped with a big dollop of perfectly whipped cream... Unfortunately, listening to this CD - which is with the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Iain Sutherland and the two vocal soloists Julia Migenes and Sebastian Reinthaller - is like forcing yourself to drink thin watery cheap cocoa with nasty sludgey powdery lumpy bits lurking in the bottom. It isn\'t good at all, I\'m afraid. Robert Stolz lived from 1880 to 1975 and really continued the Viennese style of operetta and light orchestral music that had been so successfully developed... Read review

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