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Peace, Love & BBQ
(more) »rank: 8645by: Marcia Ball
:Album Description:Produced by Stephen Bruton, PEACE, LOVE & BBQ finds Marcia Ball at a creative peak, writing or co-writing eight of the thirteen songs on the CD. From deep soul ballads to can't-sit-still party songs to straight-from-the-heart storytelling, the album will delight and inspire Ball's longtime fans and will certainly turn many newcomers into believers. Singing the praises of simple virtues in the funky title track, working the Crescent City strut of 'Party Town' or coming to grips with the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in the deeply moving ballad 'Where Do You Go?' Marcia galvanizes this record with soul-touching vocals and her always ...
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Black Snake Moan
(more) »rank: 7625from: New West Records
:Album Description:Black Snake Moan, the latest film from Hustle And Flow director Craig Brewer, tells a tale of love, betrayal, sex and salvation. It stars Samuel L Jackson, Christina Ricci and Justin Timberlake. The film take place in Memphis, Tennessee and the local blues music from the area is a central part of the movie. The soundtrack includes some classic and current blues artists including Son House, R.L. Burnside, North Mississippi Allstars and the singing debut of Samuel L Jackson. While the Black Snake Moan soundtrack presents the best musical moments of the movie, as a stand-alone document, its seventeen tracks weave together ...
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Iron Man
(more) »rank: 10974by: Michael Burks
:Album Description:Produced by Burks and Alligator president Bruce Iglauer and fueled by Burks' hard-driving road band, IRON MAN (featuring seven of twelve songs written or co-written by Burks) is an electrifying slice of emotional, rocked-out blues. His fiery fretwork, gruff, fervent vocals and overwhelming intensity are captured here live in the studio. The album features some of the hottest guitar playing and most soulful singing Burks has ever recorded. Burks wields his axe like a man possessed, breathing fire into every track, whether it's the charging rocker 'Quiet Little Town,' the chilling blues of 'Icepick Through My Heart' or his sizzling take on ...
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Just Won't Burn
(more) »rank: 6353by: Susan Tedeschi
: :A Boston native now living in Atlanta, Sue Tedeschi gets wildly overpraised by some purported blues pundits and gratuitously slammed by others. The truth lies somewhere in between. She's an earnest but undistinguished singer and a functional songwriter-guitarist whose music provides mild entertainment. On an album that veers between blues-slanted material (try 'Friar's Point') and bluesy pop-rock (take your pick), she carries on with élan but none of the finesse or emotional clarity of a big-league singer like Joan Osborne or Bonnie Raitt. Tedeschi's cover of John Prine's 'Angel from Montgomery,' alas, is her blatant imitation of the famous redhead but it is ...
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Can't Quit the Blues
(more) »rank: 4610by: Buddy Guy
: :Robert Cray says that Buddy Guy's guitar solos sound like laughter from space, but they can also peal like the cries of lost souls attempting to cross the River Styx. If these 47 songs on three CDs plus a DVD boasting a new 75-minute documentary and six performances from the Montreux Jazz Festival prove anything, it's that Guy is one of the most dynamic, diverse, expressionistic, and emotional guitarists--in any genre. The set neatly examines the 70-year-old Chicago blues legend's half-century career, starting with a ragged but soulful 'The Way You Been Treating Me' cut in 1957 at a radio station in Guy's ...
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Live Bootleg Series, Volume Two
(more) »rank: 6209by: Johnny Winter
: :I always knew I d make it, Johnny Winter, cigarette dangling from his lips, told me after a gig one night in 2007 as his tour bus rolled on through the darkness of rural Virginia. I never doubted it. I always knew that playing music was what I was meant to do, and I never even thought about doing anything else. Live Bootleg Series Volume II the second installment in Friday Music s artist-approved releases displays the same unshakable confidence that made Johnny Winter one of the 20th century s most important and influential guitarists. It also illuminates the native Texan s ...
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Grant Street
(more) »rank: 12821by: Sonny Landreth
: :Just as Muhammad Ali once boasted that he could 'float like a butterfly, sting like a bee,' Louisiana's Sonny Landreth can make his slide guitar roar like a rocket ship and dance like a ballerina. As this live set recorded on his home turf attests, few guitarists combine such power with such precision. Landreth’s veteran rhythm section of bassist David Ranson and drummer Kenneth Blevins provides whipcrack support on a set of supercharged instrumentals ('Native Stepson,' 'Z. Rider,' 'Pedal to Metal') and original blues ('Broken-Hearted Road,' 'Wind in Denver'), building to a climax with the guitarist’s signature tune, 'Congo Square.' Though Landreth established ...
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Ledbetter Heights
(more) »rank: 4439by: Kenny Wayne Shepherd
: :Just as Muhammad Ali once boasted that he could 'float like a butterfly, sting like a bee,' Louisiana's Sonny Landreth can make his slide guitar roar like a rocket ship and dance like a ballerina. As this live set recorded on his home turf attests, few guitarists combine such power with such precision. Landreth’s veteran rhythm section of bassist David Ranson and drummer Kenneth Blevins provides whipcrack support on a set of supercharged instrumentals ('Native Stepson,' 'Z. Rider,' 'Pedal to Metal') and original blues ('Broken-Hearted Road,' 'Wind in Denver'), building to a climax with the guitarist’s signature tune, 'Congo Square.' Though Landreth established ...
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Me and Mr. Johnson
(more) »rank: 5309by: Eric Clapton
:Album Description:On Me And Mr.Johnson, Eric Clapton covers 14 of the 29 songs Robert Johnson, the most mythic figure of the blues, wrote and recorded in his lifetime. For fans of deep blues,it doesn ’t get any better than this. After the success of Clapton ’s first two traditional blues albums —1994 ’s Gram- my-winning triple-platinum, #1 pop From The Cradle, and 2000 ’s Grammy-winning, double-platinum,#3-charting Riding With The King collaboration with B.B.King —Me And Mr.Johnson finds Clapton once more at the crossroads of blues and rock. The cover illustration by Peter Blake includes both published photographs of Robert Johnson: a rendering of ...
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Bronx in Blue
(more) »rank: 7717by: Dion
:Album Description:Bronx In Blue is an all-acoustic blues outing highlighting the music that first inspired Dion as a child growing up in the Bronx. With songs by Robert Johnson, Willie Dixon, Jimmy Rogers, Hank Williams, Lightnin’ Hopkins and Jimmy Reed, the collection is a soulful tour de force for Dion, not only in his familiar role as a magnificently interpretive vocalist but, also, as a brilliantly innovative guitarist. Dion notes, 'When I was a kid, there was no Rock & Roll. In the early 50’s – late at night, I’d tune into Wheeling, West Virginia (WWVA), listening to the Blues – Howlin’ Wolf’s ...
