Sings The Blues - Howlin' Wolf

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... Read review

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Advantages: The wonderful tracks My Man, Don't Explain etc
Disadvantages: The dialogue interupts musical flow

...Lady Sings The Blues premiered to an eager, anticipating audience in October 1972. The public flocked in droves to the cinemas to see this much-hyped film, whilst critics watched intensley and eagerly sharpened their pencils. Soul singer and Motown legend, Diana Ross controversially took the role of the tortured Jazz legend, Billie Holiday and deservedly won wide critical acclaim for her harrowing and riviting performance in the film which subsequently gained her an oscar nomination (though Diana sadly lost out to Liza Minnelli for Cabaret - people claimed this was down to Berry Gordy's over-kill campaign to get her to win where Berry sent various extravagent gifts to members of the comittee which was merely perceived as a ploy to get her to win). Critics were instantly silenced on hearing the movies quintessential and divine... Read review

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Advantages: Graet album from agreat artist
Disadvantages: Not to everyones taste

...Following on from the success of his Unplugged album, Clapton serves up another album full of Blues. Recorded live in the studio, with the usual rhythm section plus horns, it is spoilt only by Claptons insistence on using a growling voice in parts as if trying to emulate some of his hero’s gruff vocals (Howlin’ wolf to name one) This is evident on the first track, Blues before sunrise, although it has some great electric slide from old Slowhand on this up tempo track. Track two, Third degree, is a rather slow, almost dreary, blues with some intriguing lyrics, with Clapton’s voice back on form. The third track, Reconsider baby, is without doubt the finest on the album, a medium pace tempo number with Clapton tearing out some intricate finger picking on electric guitar and a superb solo and great vocal, this is Clapton at his... Read review

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