Good Mornin' Blues - Leadbelly

Advantages: Some amazing, original tracks
Disadvantages: Not to everyone's taste

...the background music, it's beautiful and goes fantastically with the lyrics. Seuwese is another vital ingredient in this track, her singing adds an absolute magic to the track. Obviously the song is about love, looking at the title, but it is a modern love, one that can fit in with the 21st century when men and women are equal, so quite a deep subject, but this does sound fantastic, Sway and BB take light of the subject, but not distastefully. 10/10 Track 6 - I'm a hustla This is the first freestyle, there are not actually many freestyles on this mixtape, but I don't think that is necessarily a disadvantage. Not to say that Baby Blue doesn't sound good, to the beat of Cassidy's I'm a hustla. It is powerful, and the words mean something. I am not much of a fan of freestyles, but this does sound good. 6/10 Track 7 - I don't care ft Insane... Read review

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Advantages: Some decent rhythm and blues
Disadvantages: Film dialogue in the wrong places

...on the move, which is where I prefer to have music playing and so I wanted a copy of the soundtrack album. Considering where the Blues Brothers were supposedly from, the opening number is quite appropriate. "Born in Chicago" is a 1960s style blues number with a rock 'n' roll undertone and reminds me of a slowed down version of a Chuck Berry song, although with the emphasis more on the blues end of the spectrum than the more rock 'n' roll sound that Berry had. But as I'm a Chuck Berry fan, even a slight comparison is good for me. The performer of the next track, "The Blues Don't Bother Me" is perhaps the most interesting thing about it. Although he's been a part of the Blues Brothers Band since the start, this is the first time I've heard Matt "Guitar" Murphy sing. It turns out he's got a gruff voice which is perfect for singing the blues... Read review

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Advantages: May be the best contemporary white female blues singer and acoustic guitarist you'll ever hear.
Disadvantages: None

...But in 1981 she went back to her roots via the traditional music record label Rounder Records, and from then until now Block has recorded more than a dozen blues albums. In 1995 her album When a Woman Gets the Blues won the W. C. Handy Award for Best Acoustic Blues Album of the Year, and she was selected by the Martin Guitar Co. to endorse their strings in a national ad campaign. In 1998 she won the W. C. Handy Award again, this time as Traditional Blues Female Artist of the Year. “HIGH HEELED BLUES,” THE ALBUM: To me, though, Block was at her best in her very first anthology of blues standards, long before the whole world would learn just how good she was, and maybe even before she would even realize herself just how far she would go. The album High Heeled Blues was released in 1981 on Rounder Records as an LP and re... Read review

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