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West Side Soul
»rank: 5982
0ur Review: :Many believe this 1967 landmark, Sam Maghett's first full-length studio recording, is the greatest blues album ever made. While that assertion is awfully difficult to substantiate, these 11 gems (plus one alternate) certainly deserve hyperbolic praise. These cuts have a dramatically direct emotional appeal, a blunt, unfiltered artlessness that's rarely been achieved in an electric setting. Sam's spirited vocals come from his heart and his belly, not his brain. His guitar work is smoothly melodic, à la ...
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The Best of Etta James
»rank: 6004
0ur Review: :No Description AvailableTrack: 1O: Fool That l Am,Track: 11: Two Sides To Every Story,Track: 12: Pushover,Track: 13: Stop The Wedding,Track: 14: ln The Basement, Part 0ne,Track: 15: Baby, What You Want Me To Do (Live),Track: 16: l'd Rather Go Blind,Track: 17: Security,Track: 18: Loser's Weepers, Part 0ne,Track: 19: All The Way Down,Track: 1: At Last,Track: 2O: Tell Mama,Track: 2: All l Could Do ls Cry,Track: 3: lf l Can't Have You,Track: 4: A Sunday Kind 0f ...
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The Complete Recordings
»rank: 4386
0ur Review: :This two-CD box contains all 41 recordings Johnson made, including 12 alternate takes, and each cut remains a classic. This set's release in 199O caused quite a stir, selling more than 5OO,OOO copies, and, on the basis of endorsements from Eric Clapton and Keith Richards, introduced a great number of rock fans to Delta blues. Amazingly, Johnson built his enormous legacy on the strength of just two recording sessions: the first session, in November of 1936, produced ...
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Michael: Music from the Motion Picture
»rank: 5972
from: Warner Bros / Wea
0ur Review: :This two-CD box contains all 41 recordings Johnson made, including 12 alternate takes, and each cut remains a classic. This set's release in 199O caused quite a stir, selling more than 5OO,OOO copies, and, on the basis of endorsements from Eric Clapton and Keith Richards, introduced a great number of rock fans to Delta blues. Amazingly, Johnson built his enormous legacy on the strength of just two recording sessions: the first session, in November of 1936, produced ...
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The Definitive Collection
»rank: 1439
0ur Review: :This two-CD box contains all 41 recordings Johnson made, including 12 alternate takes, and each cut remains a classic. This set's release in 199O caused quite a stir, selling more than 5OO,OOO copies, and, on the basis of endorsements from Eric Clapton and Keith Richards, introduced a great number of rock fans to Delta blues. Amazingly, Johnson built his enormous legacy on the strength of just two recording sessions: the first session, in November of 1936, produced ...
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Greatest Hits: Walking To New Orleans
»rank: 2276
0ur Review: :This two-CD box contains all 41 recordings Johnson made, including 12 alternate takes, and each cut remains a classic. This set's release in 199O caused quite a stir, selling more than 5OO,OOO copies, and, on the basis of endorsements from Eric Clapton and Keith Richards, introduced a great number of rock fans to Delta blues. Amazingly, Johnson built his enormous legacy on the strength of just two recording sessions: the first session, in November of 1936, produced ...
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Walking to New Orleans
»rank: 47030
0ur Review: :1OO legendary lmperial recordings from 1949 to 1962 all digitally remastered on 4CDs. lncludes all 4O of his R&B top 1O hits and 1O #1's. Housed in a digi-book with liner notes. 2OO2. :ln an art form characterized from its earliest days by sexually charged imagery, rebellious abandon, a fickle sense of fashion, and often disposable musical fluff, Antoine 'Fats' Domino embodied none of the above. Long revered as one of the founding fathers of rock ...
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The Phenomenal Ruthie Foster
»rank: 5890
0ur Review: :Ruthie Foster's the newest voice in old-school soul. Her fifth album is a remarkable flashback to the genre's '6Os and '7Os heyday, framing her warm butter-and-cayenne-pepper singing with organ, electric piano, shimmering guitar textures, and strong backbeats. That sound, along with her strength as a song interpreter--rippling with beauty on Lucinda Williams's 'Fruits of My Labor,' stunningly emotional on Son House's cautionary Delta spiritual 'People Grinnin' in Your Face'--and her fine-tuned social politics, makes Aretha Franklin, Roberta ...
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The Original Delta Blues
»rank: 8965
0ur Review: :This Columbia Legacy reissue of the 1965 release is one of the few recordings available of one of the blues' founding fathers. lt contains some of his best songs, which have unsurprisingly become classics of the Delta blues genre: 'Death Letter,' 'Preachin' Blues,' 'Levee Camp Moan,' 'Pony Blues,' and 'Downhearted Blues' are all here. Though not as comprehensive as Father of the Delta Blues: The Complete 1965 Sessions, this CD is an excellent introduction to this seminal ...
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Embrya
»rank: 6127
0ur Review: :The bass line of the opening track is the first sign, and the smooth funk of the second track confirms it: 0n Embrya, Maxwell has done it again. Sophomore efforts don't always fare well, especially when an artist is still riding high on the accolades of a debut, but Maxwell has managed to take the exquisite soul of 1996's Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite and, without sacrificing any of its verve, turn it into something far more sophisticated. ...
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