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Created:Mon Feb 17 1986
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Number of topics:1517
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797.0. "Duke Robillard" by AKOV68::BOYAJIAN (In the d|i|g|i|t|a|l mood) Thu Jun 18 1987 04:02

    ... is the name of a new album by Duke Robillard on the Rounder
    label. Robillard has been known for some great blues guitar,
    with both Roomfull of Blues and his own group, the Pleasure
    Kings. For this album, however, he's gathered a new back-up
    band, and they play some classic swing, and a few original tunes
    in the classic swing style. And it (the CD anyway --- I haven't
    seen an LP) is just a shade under 60 minutes.
    
    I think anyone that likes either (a) Duke Robillard's previous
    work, or (b) swing music will like this one.
    
    And in a related note (you should excuse the expression), I
    noticed in a Roundup Records catalog a listing for two import
    CD's (from Vogue) of the Quintet of the Hot Club of France
    (Django Rheinhardt and Stephane Grappelli, among others). I
    haven't seen the CD's themselves, but I'll be sure to have my
    eye out for them.
    
    --- jerry
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797.1NOVA::ARNOLDThu Jun 18 1987 11:257
        I had never heard of Duke Robillard before last week, when I
    was invited to go see him down in Boston. Unfortunately, he canceled
    the show. Since I didn't get to hear him play, I went out and bought
    both "Pleasure King" albums and the "Swing" CD last weekend. I really
    like the album "Too Hot To Handle" and can't wait for it to become
    available on CD (if ever).
    
797.2Whose "Too Hot To Handle"HARRY::RUBINSTEINMon Jun 22 1987 12:253
    re: 1  Who recorded the "Too Hot To Handle" album?  I have a
           Jorma Kaukonen solo acoustic album by the same title.
           Love to find it on CD.  The label is Relix.
797.3NOVA::ARNOLDWed Jun 24 1987 13:234
    re .2
    
    "Too Hot To Handle" - Duke Robillard and the Pleasure Kings
    
797.4YOU GOT ME -- new Duke discAKOV68::BOYAJIANI love a good coincidenceSat Nov 19 1988 20:2521
    This topic used to be named "SWING", which is the title of the
    Duke Robillard album described in .0. But, given that there are
    other CD's out by the Duke, I thought I'd turn it into a more
    general Duke Robillard topic.
    
    I just found the third Duke CD today -- YOU GOT ME, on Rounder.
    Terrific disc. Duke has his two Pleasure Kings, Thomas Enright
    and Tommy DeQuattro playing with him on this, along with Dr.
    John on piano (!) and Jimmie Vaughan on lead & rhythm guitars (!!).
    
    A must for hard electric blues fans.
    
    There's only one slight disappointment. Since the disc only totals
    a little over 40 minutes, I was really hoping that Rounder would
    toss on the three songs that they left off of the ROCKIN' BLUES
    twofer CD. No such luck. And when I saw that Jimmie Vaughan was
    on the disc, I was hoping that one of the tracks would be the
    number that Jimmie and Duke did for a GUITAR PLAYER soundsheet.
    Again, no such luck. Sigh.
    
    --- jerry
797.5Reposted from 533.21AKOV68::BOYAJIANI love a good coincidenceSat Nov 19 1988 20:2618
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Note 533.21                 Good news for Blues fans                    21 of 24
AKOV11::BOYAJIAN "Monsters from the Id"              12 lines   3-JUN-1988 23:56
                      -< Duke Robillard's ROCKIN' BLUES >-
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    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