Amazing guitar based blues-simple and memorable,Personally this is my favourite Rory Gallagher album/era and a great introduction to Rory's playing.As far as i know this is his first solo album.
The track listing is
One. Laundromat
Two. Just The Smile
Three. Hands Up
Four. For The Last Time
Five. It's You
Six. I'm Not Surprised
Seven. Can't Believe It's True
Eight. Gypsy Woman
Nine. It Takes Time
The recording quality is amazing,For then or now.It was released in 1971.
Every song has a unique feel to it and he gets an amazing array of tones and textures out of his strat.If you play the guitar and like the bleus im sure you'll like this album
The album makes Rory come across as a very traditional traveling bluesman ...
Advantages: Mos Def's character Eddy Disadvantages: Mod Def's character's voice
So I was bored the other day, I don't know if anyone on Ciao is from Belfast but does anyone actually like Victoria Square? I was getting a lift home from uni for Easter and my mum felt compelled to go and have a look. I wondered around bored for awhile then decided to gothinking about going to get something to eatand then walked past noticing HMV had a sale on. With only £5 to my name I didn't think I should go in, but I couldn't help it. 16 Blocks caught my eye and thus I starved in its name.
The Story
The film starts at a crime scene, some latin gangsters have been murdered and the police officer in charge wants to get an "unimportant" officer to cover the crime scene, an aged out of shape Bruce Willis walks in with a newspaper and plants himself on a seat and takes out a hip flask of whiskey. He plays a charcter called Jack ...
Phelthew 01.04.2008
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of 16 Blocks (DVD)
Advantages: Great blues! Disadvantages: None. Whatsoever.
I have to admit I found Johnny Winter totally by chance. I was in a record shop and saw a CD in a round, metal case. "Johnny Winter? The Texas Tornado? I'll buy that!" So I did.
What I found was a musician, Johnny Winter, who is a hard rocking bluesman of consummate skill. Johnny Winter is such a accomplished bluesman that I have to admit that it came as something of a shock to discover that Johnny Winter is a white Texan. Though he reveals that he hung out in the black part of his hometown in Texas, such was his fever for the blues. And, Winter maintains that it was his sincerity about his passion for the blues that meant that he was safe there. Even though Beaumont had not long before suffered form some terrible racially-inspired riots.
Winter's blue's sound as if they were recorded in the 1940s or 1950s. Actually, I was ...
Personnel: Rory Block (vocals, acoustic guitar); Jeff Miranov, David Lindley, Michael Muggrage (electric guitar); Stuart Duncan (fiddle, mandolin); Danny Wilensky (saxophone); Warren Bernhardt (piano); Vinnie Martucci (synthesizer, programming); Paul Shaffer, Ron Bach (synthesizer); Will Lee, Don Wallace (bass); Mark Egan (fretless bass); Jerry Marotta, Neal Wilkinson (drums); Tyger MacNeal (snare drum, high hat); Mary Chapin Carpenter (background vocals). Engineers: Jeff Kawalek, Eric Kilburn (track 1); Dave Wonsey, Chris Anderson, Terry Dwyer (track 2); Jeff Kawalek (tracks 3, 6, 9, 11); Jeff Kawalek, David Ferguson (tracks 5); Ron Bach (track 8); Dave Wonsey, Chris Anderson (track 10). Principally recorded at Daiichi Kosho Studios, New York, New York.
Album Reviews
Entertainment Weekly (3/29/96, p.64) - "...Block expands from contemporary folk/acoustic blues to a fuller, more sensual sound, reminiscent of Joni Mitchell in her early jazz-bo days..." - Rating: A- Sing Out (Vol.41 #1, p.135) - "...richly varied, occassionally brilliant....Without exception, these songs are interesting and substantial: At their best, they are haunting, troubling yet impressive..."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Mississippi Bottom Blues
2.
Pictures Of You
3.
That's All Right
4.
Like A Shotgun
5.
You Didn't Mind
6.
Tornado
7.
Gone Woman Blues
8.
Last Leviathan
9.
Indian Ernie
10.
Rosaline
11.
Bright Spirit
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