Album Notes: Personnel includes: Coleman Hawkins (tenor saxophone); Thad Jones, Clark Terry (trumpet, flugelhorn); Harry Edison, Roy Eldridge (trumpet); J. J. Johnson, Vic Dickenson (trombone); Sir Charles Thompson, Lou Levy (piano); Jimmy Woode, Arvell Shaw (bass); J.C. Heard, Jo Jones, Oliver Jackson (drums)
Advantages: Original . earthy , leaves you wanting more . Disadvantages: May not be to everyones taste .
...Bailey/ clarinet
ColemanHawkins/ tenor sax
Charlie Dixon/ banjo
Ralph Escudero / tuba
The very first track `Haunted House Blues` gets you swinging to
Bessie's voice with Don Redman's clarinet and Fletcher Henderson's piano. Following on from this :-
Track 2- Eavesdropper's blues
3 -Frankie blues.
4 -Rainy weather blues.
5 -Salt water blues.
6 -Weeping willow blues.
7 -Sinful blues.
8 -The St Louis blues.
9 -Reckless blues.
10 -Sobbin` hearted blues.
11 -Cold in hand blues.
12 -You`ve been a good old wagon.
13 -Cake walkin` babies(from home).
14 -Yellow dog blues.
15 -Soft pedal blues.
16 -Careless love blues.
17 -Dixie flying blues.
18 -I ain`t goin` to play no second fiddle.
Now if anyone fancied listening to the blues and some fine lyrics, they would find it hard to beat `Bessie Smith`. She was known...
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Advantages: Rock with a message, great lyrics, great tracks Disadvantages: They have split up.
...in the 1900's. Our Prime Minister, John Howard, has steadfastly refused to use the word "Sorry" for 70 years of this practice and the band were making a statement about this.
After 25 years together at the end of 2002 Midnight Oil ended as a band. Peter Garrett wanted to focus on his political career and sat as a member of the Australian Labour party. The rest of the band are still together but under a different name.
The band (at the time of Blue Sky Mining's release) were:
Rob Hirst - Drums, vocals
Jim Moginie - Guitars, Keyboards
Peter Garrett - Vocals, Harmonica
Martin Rotsey - Guitars
Bones Hillman (1987 onwards) - Bass, Vocals
As a follow up to the successful Diesel and Dust, and their 9th album, Blue Sky Mining was released in 1987. The name of the album Blue Sky Mining refers to the procedure of totally stripping...
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Advantages: Some decent rhythm and blues Disadvantages: Film dialogue in the wrong places
...for such a classic track.
The big names of 1960s soul music keep coming, with Eddie Floyd and Wilson Pickett performing "634-5789", which was originally a hit for Wilson Pickett, but was written by Eddie Floyd. I think they missed a trick by not including the dialogue over the intro that is in the film, but this minor concern apart, this is a great upbeat and mid-tempo soul number. It doesn't quite have the edge of some of Pickett's other song, seeming a bit smoother than "In the Midnight Hour" for example, but it's got a couple of great soul voices on it and it's a great tune and would probably be my favourite on the album, if it wasn't for the next track.
From the first time I heard it, Blues Traveler's "Maybe I'm Wrong" has become one of my favourite songs ever, not just in the film and I've bought several of their albums since. Indeed, had...
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