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| 533.1 | | AKOV68::BOYAJIAN | A disgrace to the forces of evil | Wed Jan 28 1987 04:16 | 5 |
| Just this past weekend, I picked up a goodie from BCD: the
Mike Bloomfield/Al Kooper/Stephen Stills SUPER SESSION
album. Great stuff!
--- jerry
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| 533.2 | | CUPOLA::HAKKARAINEN | Omit needless words | Wed Jan 28 1987 09:24 | 3 |
| Speaking of MB, have any of the Paul Butterfield recordings been
seen? In particular, it would be wonderful to hear ``East-West''
without the Rice Krispies chorus that accompanies my record.
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| 533.3 | Re: .-1 | PARSEC::PESENTI | JP | Wed Jan 28 1987 21:27 | 6 |
|
The Green Catalog lists "The Legendary Paul Butterfield
Rides Again"
- JP
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| 533.4 | | AKOV68::BOYAJIAN | A disgrace to the forces of evil | Thu Jan 29 1987 05:10 | 5 |
| Another blues disc I saw today, though I haven't picked it up
yet, is HOT TUNA LIVE! It's on the Relix label. There's also
a Jorma Kaunkonen disc on the same label.
--- jerry
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| 533.5 | | VLNVAX::MDLYONS | Michael D. Lyons DTN 297-5911 | Fri Jan 30 1987 12:09 | 3 |
| I bought a Best of Albert King CD last weekend. It's a very
good collection of some of his best Stax recordings.... I found
it at Strawberrys in Framingham, MA, but it was the only copy there.
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| 533.6 | Blues is Blues | BARNUM::PELLETIER | Wish I was a headlight! | Mon Feb 02 1987 10:41 | 3 |
| Oh yeah, that sounds pretty good. What was on this albert king cd?
Any other Blues recommendations?
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| 533.7 | The bluer the better | VAXWRK::SCHNEIDER | I forgot my mantra. | Wed Feb 04 1987 15:28 | 24 |
| I bought one of the BB King double album/1 disk. BEST OF ELECTRIC
& JAZZ was one album and the other has slipped through my cracks.
Its very nice to hear some blues on CD, and although the sound quality
doesn't get a rave (AAD), I'm quite happy that it sounds better
than any of BB's albums that I own and I got two for approx. the
same price as it would cost to buy vinal. 71+ minutes makes it
quite a good buy as well.
As for the performance, I always prefer a more bluesy style and
BB is not consistent in complying. As his material has changed
as popularity and age settles in, he has responded with less
gut-wrenching, but probably more even works. This material fits
in the middle with some bluer, some more soulful and some Idon't
pay much attention to.
Thanks for the info Jerry. My copy of SUPERSESSION has needed
replacing for years. Its interesting that as many blues titles
that seem to be popping up on CD these days, its more than you can
find in vinal in the average record store.
Dan
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| 533.8 | | VLNVAX::MDLYONS | Michael D. Lyons DTN 297-5911 | Thu Feb 05 1987 11:43 | 65 |
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Re: .6, sorry for the delay in replying, but I'd loaned the
CD out and couldn't get the list of songs...
Here's the info...
The Best Of Albert King Stax FCD-60-005
Playing time: 62:36
Recorded from 1968 through 1973
1) I'll Play the Blues for You (Parts 1 and 2)
2) Killing Floor
3) Honky Tonk Woman
4) Sky Is Crying
5) Breaking Up Somebody's Home
6) Hound Dog
7) That's What The Blues Is All About
8) Angel of Mercy
9) Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven
10) Can't You See What You're Doing to Me
11) Answer to the Laundromat Blues
12) I Wanna Get Funky
13) Blues Power
...Digitally remastered directly from the original analog master tapes
by Danny Kopelson, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA
Cuts Albums they're from:
------------ -------------------------
1, 8, and 11 I'll Play the Blues for You
2 and 4 Years Gone By
3 and 9 Lovejoy / and Albert King/Little Milton; Chronicle
6 King, Does the King's Things aka Blues for Elvis
7 and 12 I Wanna Get Funky
7 also on Chronicle
5 single
and longer version on I'll Play the Blues for You
10 single only
13 Live Wire Blues Power
The only other blues CDs I've bought so far are Albert Collins
Ice Pickin, and the Rounder collection Out of the Blue. I like
both of them, and recommend them both. I liked the collection
particularly because it has a lot of people I wouldn't have bought
without hearing them first...
...If you count Derek & the Dominos - Layla and other Assorted
Love Songs as blues, I have that too... performance - great, sound
on CD - poor. (I have the import, so I don't know if the American
version is any better).
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| 533.9 | | AKOV68::BOYAJIAN | A disgrace to the forces of evil | Mon Feb 09 1987 00:43 | 13 |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan's LIVE ALIVE is finally on CD. The good news
is that it's a double album on one CD, just a tad over 70 minutes.
The bad news, kinda sorta, is that it really isn't that thrilling
an album. SRV can do some fantastic work in concert, but I found
most of the cuts on LIVE ALIVE to be rather lifeless. And he seems
to have opted for sticking on the tunes that people are most
familiar with, like "Pride and Joy", "Cold Shot", and "Voodoo
Chile". I think he'd been better off using some of his killer
live material like "Testify", "Rude Mood", and "Tin Pan Alley",
not to mention (OK, I'll mention it) his *terrific* cover of
Hendrix's "Third Stone from the Sun".
--- jerry
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| 533.10 | More info | ESKIMO::TBROWNELL | | Thu Apr 30 1987 09:54 | 21 |
|
Two I have purchased recently,
Robert Cray "Strong Persuader"
Stevie Ray Vaughan "Can't Stand the Weather"
I like both quite a bit.
Good source for Blues material: WICN-FM in Worcester,MA has
a blues show on Fridays starting (I believe) at 5pm. Located
at 91.3 on the dial, I have heard many selections I like though
they do not specify whether they're on CD or not. Also WGBH
in Boston (89.7, FM) has a show at midnight Saturdays. They
are definately CD capable and usually tell you whats what.
TB
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| 533.11 | | AKOV68::BOYAJIAN | Have a merely acceptable day | Fri May 01 1987 01:07 | 10 |
| re:.10
Actually, that's COULDN'T STAND THE WEATHER.
^^^^^^^^
Anyways, it's a real joy listening to that one on CD. The really
quiet measures of Stevie Ray's intro to "Tin Pan Alley" are
crystal clear.
--- jerry
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| 533.12 | Found at BCD today | AKOV68::BOYAJIAN | In the d|i|g|i|t|a|l mood | Tue Jun 02 1987 00:56 | 9 |
| A German import of Canned Heat. Haven't had a chance to listen
yet, and there's no documentation that says whether this is
recent or a classic compilation or what, but it's got some good
tunes such as "Bull Frog Blues", "Dust My Broom", and "I Wish
You Would". Actually, if that last is what I think it is (the
old Yardbird's tune), then this might be something recent, since
I don't recall that Canned Heat ever recorded this song.
--- jerry
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| 533.13 | Howlin' Wolf | MASTER::RDONAHUE | | Tue Jun 02 1987 09:46 | 5 |
| Just found a Howlin' Wolf "Two On One" CD containing his first
two Chess LPs ("Moanin In The Moonlight" and "Howlin' Wolf" aka
the rocking chair album). Liner notes claim they omitted one song
to make them fit but the LPs don't have any extra cuts so I think
it's a misprint. If you like the Wolf you need this disc!
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| 533.14 | Also, Muddy Waters .... | DECSIM::KADKADE | Cum dignitate otium | Tue Jun 02 1987 10:34 | 10 |
|
MCA has also released Muddy Waters and B. B. King on this format.
I've got the Muddy Waters and Howling Wolf CD's. They're on sale
this week at Lechmere's for 11.98, so grab 'em. The Muddy Waters
albums are Muddy Waters sings Big Bill Broonzy and Folk Singer,
real good acoustic stuff. Would anybody care to recommend a John
Lee Hooker compilation CD (preferably 60+ minutes)?
Thanx,
Sudhir
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| 533.15 | Getting closer | CUPOLA::HAKKARAINEN | Dave Barry for President | Thu Aug 20 1987 08:52 | 3 |
| The current (Sept. 1987) issue of Digital Audio lists the The Paul
Butterfield Blues Band and East-West disks among new releases. Has
anyone seen these in any stores?
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| 533.16 | Reviews of Muddy Waters CDs?????? | AQUA::ROST | Are we having fun yet? | Thu Aug 20 1987 09:37 | 14 |
|
Has anybody picked up the Japanese Muddy Waters "Chess Years"
compilations?
One is from 1949-1951, the other 1951-1959 (if I remember correctly).
I am most curious in how good the sound is as they are pretty
expensive.
Also, how about the CBS stuff? I have seen "Hard Again" as a budget
CD....are "I'm Ready", "King Bee" and "Muddy Mississippi Waters
Live" out as well?
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| 533.17 | | AKOV76::BOYAJIAN | Science Is Golden | Fri Aug 21 1987 00:55 | 10 |
| re:.16
MUDDY WATERS: THE "CHESS YEARS" are good disks. The sound quality
isn't perfect, but you have to consider the recordings. I think
they are worth getting.
I don't think they are Japanese imports, though, but French. I'd
have to check, but I believe they are put out by Vogue.
--- jerry
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| 533.18 | Bessie Smith on CD | PALMER::PALMER | half a bubble off plumb | Tue Jan 12 1988 06:40 | 32 |
| I just picked up a Bessie Smith CD and I'm quite pleased with
it. The singing is great and the recording is pretty good. The
CD was remastered from her original 78's for a show on the BBC as
part of a radio series 'Jazz Classics in Stereo'.
Bessie Smith was 'The Empress of the Blues' during her singing
career of 1925-1934. She has a powerful blues voice that is really
packed with emotion. I grew up listining to my dad scratchy 78
of the blues and find this CD recordings less noisy and easier to
listen to. If you like old time Blues give this disk a listen.
The disk is:
Jazz Classics in Digital Stereo * Bessie Smith * BBC CD 602
1 Empty Bed Blues
2 Alexander's Ragtime Band
3 Preaching the Blues
4 Keep it to yourself
5 Trombone Cholley
6 At the Christmas Ball
7 Kitchen Man **this track is great**
8 You've got to give me some
9 He's got me going
10 Thinking Blues
11 Devil's Gonna get you
12 Send me to the 'Letric Chair
13 Baby Doll
14 Take me for a Buggy Ride
15 Young Woman's Blues
=Ralph=
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| 533.19 | Freddie King | TLE::ROGERS | Tom Rogers | Sun Feb 21 1988 14:48 | 6 |
| I Picked up Freddie King -- Greatest hits at Rockit Records in Nashua
N.H....
Excellent all around!!
Zing
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| 533.20 | Treat Her Right | CUPOLA::HAKKARAINEN | I hear some noting downstairs | Mon Mar 14 1988 07:32 | 3 |
| Treat Her Right, a Boston band, has released their self-titled cd
on RCA. Nice disc. ``I Think She Likes Me'' is one of the neatest
tunes I've heard. The disc contains all original material.
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| 533.21 | Duke Robillard's ROCKIN' BLUES | AKOV11::BOYAJIAN | Monsters from the Id | Fri Jun 03 1988 23:56 | 12 |
| Rounder has finally released a twofer CD of Duke Robillard's
first two albums. The good news is that it sounds wonderful.
The bad news is that this twofer follows in the same tradition
of previous Rounder combo-CD's in that in order to keep (1)
within the 74-minute limit, and (2) down to a single CD, they
left off 3 out of the 20 tracks from the two LP's. Not a big
deal, but as I'm a completist, this irks me. Now I can't sell
off my LP's. Actually, the big gripe is that they would've
stayed within the 74-minute boundry by leaving off only *one*
track rather than all three. *sigh*
--- jerry
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| 533.22 | | NOVA::ARNOLD | | Mon Jun 06 1988 10:41 | 10 |
| re .21
I picked up ROCKIN' BLUES during lunch today at Rockit Records in
Nashua, NH. Got the last one!
Don't know why they left off three songs. The CD is only 67 minutes
long. They could of squeezed in a couple more songs with the remaining
7 minutes.
-Jeff
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| 533.23 | Blues coming home | CUPOLA::HAKKARAINEN | Confuse-A-VAX Ltd. | Wed Jul 06 1988 18:21 | 6 |
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This evening I found both East-West and the self-titled first album
from the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. The disks were at Good Vibrations
in Worcester. The sound is clear and good and the music is ever so
fine. Twenty years ago I bought my copies of the lps and drove 'em into
the ground.
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| 533.24 | Black Top is Issuing CDs Now Too | AQUA::ROST | Canned ham, that's for me | Wed Sep 28 1988 10:51 | 15 |
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Black Top, a New Orleans based label distributed by Rounder, has
started to issue some CDs. Among the more notable:
Ronnie Earl "Deep Blues" This is a compilation from his LPs "Smoking"
and "They Call Me Mr. Earl". The BT catalog says "over 60 minutes
of music", but doesn't specify any dropped tracks.
Buckwheat Zydeco "100% Fortified Zydeco" His last album before
going on to Island records
Black Top Sampler This is billed as "the world's first all-blues
CD single"
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