I've Got The Blues And Then Some (The Complete Jewel Recordings 1969-1971) - Lowell Fulson

Advantages: Every one you can think of
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 the blues... Read review

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Advantages: Classic Songs
Disadvantages: Only what had to be left out

...These tracks are culled fom five different sessions. For some reason, the first three are intermingled – why couldn't they just include them in order? Maybe it was to help space out the duplications, as there are three versions of "Communication Breakdown" for instance. Highlights from the first disc for me are "Communication Breakdown" (from the 16th of June 1969 of course, much better than the version recorded eight days later), "Whole Lotta Love" (the first ever broadcast of this) and the ten minute version of "You Shook Me" (twice as long as the version from March '69). Disc two is entirely composed of the session recorded for the John Peel Rock Hour (we get to hear his dulcet tones introducing the set) in April 1971. As this disc lasts for 78 minutes, not all the songs could be included in the transmission, but it was a strange... Read review

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Advantages: Sweet rockin’ rhythms from the back alley’s underbelly
Disadvantages: If you never knew the bottom of a bottle of Jack, you might not feel it; post-George band doesn't quite cut it.

...you misuse on your way up. You might meet up with on your way down." (3) In the outstanding breakneck drum-guitar-synth-piano driven "Fat Man in the Bathtub" ("With the Blues, I Hear You Moan"), a hard-up loser gets relief the only place he can: "Spot Check Willie got down on his hands and knees, He said oh mama, hey mama, let me check you out alright She said no, no, not tonight. Come back Monday, come back Tuesday and then I might." (4) In the acoustic ballad "Roll "Um Easy", Lowell George's gruff voice sings of pain and hope: "Well, I am just a vagabond A drifter on the run, Eloquent profanities they roll right off my tongue. And I have dined in palaces, Drunk wine with kings and queens But darlin', oh darlin', you're the best thing I've ever seen." (5) And in the rollicking "Walkin' All Night", we follow the rough night... Read review

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