5 comments about Blues Blast.

1. Debbie Davies has released many CDs over the years, but this one clearly stands out. Often these types of CDs, which involve a 'Who's Who' of contemporary blues artists, do not live up to expectations -- this one is definitely an exception. Put Davies together with Musselwhite, Benoit, and Montoya and sparks fly. Debbie wrote 4 of the 9 songs, while the rest are covers. The 'A.C. Strut' with Coco Montoya is a tribute to Debbie's mentor, Albert Colins, and it really rocks. Listen to Musselwhite on 'Movin' and Groovin' and you will soon understand why he is often referred to as "the Dean of Blues Harmonica" -- outstanding. Tab does a great rendition of Hooker's 'Crawling King Snake' with his Louisiana swamp style, as he is joined by Debbie. On 'Sonoma Sunset,' the 10 minute finale, all 4 come together to create a masterful ending to a great blues CD. Debbie and Tab take on Howlin' Wolf's, 'Howlin' For My Darlin' and the results are stellar. You also have to love Debbie, Charlie, Tab, and Coco on 'Like You Was Gone' -- whew (!) great stuff.
   
   As with all Telarc recordings the sound is outstanding on this CD. This CD is a winner from beginning to end -- all 9 songs are done with tremendous blues styling by some of the very best in the world. Fifty-three minutes of pure blues. Highly recommended.
   
   Quick note: you also get to hear the great Bruce Katz on the B3 organ, Rod Carey on bass, and Per Hanson on drums -- what an additional supporting cast!



2. I have followed Debbie Davies career since she broke away from Albert Collins to establish her own solo career. She is an unparelled guitar virtuoso. Many up an coming guitar players asked Albert for the opportuniy to unseat Debbie as Alberts lead guitar player. He said that "if you can play better than Debbie, you can have the job". No one ever did. Debbie not only can play but she is excellent in her original interpretations of many of the old blues standards. I have every CD that she has recorded. This CD "Blues Blast" is one of her best. It includes collaberation with mega blues stars Charlie Musselwhite, Coco Montoya and Tab Benoit. It is a must have for any serious blues fan.



3. It's hard to find a bad Debbie Davies recording. But with the list of characters on this CD they are all great.



4. Debbie Davies can be guaranteed to turn out a consistant product every time. She is the Cream-of-the-Crop
   of the female blues guitarist out there today. All her albums are excellent, and this is no exception.
   If you like listening to quality guitar work, you will love this CD.



5. This is a must for blues lovers! Having Debbie, Charlie, Coco and Tab together on a cd is a rare experience. Every person I have played this cd for has left with their tail wagging! We all have seen these artist live either at the "Buffalo Tralf", "Buffalo Taproom" or Artpark , Lewiston, NY....get it!

5 comments about Captured Live!.

1. Johnny Winter has turned his back on rock-n-roll. All he plays live and all he has recorded for the past 20-something years has been traditional blues based. Like many other guitar greats of his period,( Clapton,Page etc) Johnny Winter may feel it is the ultimate homage and tribute to the black blues masters of the Delta to keep to strict blues form nowadays instead of the mutated white boy hybrid that 60's and 70's rockers Cream, Led Zeppelin made their bones on. Don't misunderstand. There are blues on this excellent live album, "Sweet Papa John" being the most distinctive. But as for balls out, boogie rock with a Southern but never lazy bent, "Captured Live" is a fine if not the BEST example of this basically extinct genre.I love the blues, but I can't believe any artist would turn his back on something as great as this..
   
   "Roll With Me" is a thumping rocker, with great interplay between Winter and guitarist Floyd Radford."All Over Now" is an adrenaline pumped update of a good but not exceptional Stones cover, with great leads and a tempo that is a huge improvement to the original. The standout piece for me is Mr.Winters absolutely blistering rendition of Bob Dylans "Highway 61 Revisited". Gone is Dylan's mumbling vocal and the toy sounds that accented the original. Johnny Winter's "Highway" is one of the most dexterous excercises in guitar mastery ever complimented by a rhythym section so tight, it's almost unhuman. Johnny's slide work is incredible on this number. Winter pushes his guitar licks to lengthy (but melodic) excess, but is quick to add creative changes that make a very long song not so long. If you ever have a 15 minute car ride on the highway you'd like to do in around 10- this is the song for that ride. Brilliant fretplay and nice cohesion with Floyd Radord's equally deft guitar work- it don't get no better than this!



2. Listening to this album now is still an amazing treat! Johnny and Company smoke every song on this blistering set! "Johnny Winter Captured Live" was one of my staples I would bring to parties as a teenager and it hasn't lost it's edge one bit! Johnny Winter is one of the greatest Guitarist to ever play the instrument, but what make this album so fantastic is that his counter part Guitarist Floyd Radford is just as good as Johnny. To the casual listener it might be hard to tell who's playing what! The Drums and Bass are solid and keep up with these two face-melters every step of the way.
   
   If you like great guitar work and thumpin' 'Rock N Roll' live sets. Please do yourself a favor and buy this set! It's that good and it has been reissued at a very affordable price. Even if you aren't a Johnny Winter Fan per say.....give it a listen, you just might become one! Stand out cuts like Bonie Moronie, Roll with Me, It's All Over Now and Highway 61 Revisited will blow you away!



3. I'll keep it brief. The 1970's had a lot of great live albums. This was probably the best one of them all. It's timeless. Down and dirty blues rocking with guitar work that you will have to hear to believe.



4. When Johnny Winter used to play rock roll, he really knew how to do it right. There is some blistering guitar work here, as well as some of the meanest slide guitar this side of Elmore James. A nice combination of rock and blues, the more you listen to this album, the more you will come to appreciate how great it really is. They just don't make records like this anymore. ALL Of these latter day rock bands could learn a thing or two from Sweet Papa John.



5. I am not a big Johnny Winter fan but this a killer live album. For guitar fans, tone freaks, blues hounds and rock and roll animals, this is the real deal!
   
   The best song is the kick off song "Bony Moronie". Wow, does this album get off to a rousing start!

2 comments about Blood Brothers.

1. It never ceases to amaze me how well Kubek and King work together - the chemistry and cohesiveness are definitely there. The record consists of mostly original material, with some REALLY fun tunes!
   
   Most songs sound upbeat (although lyrics are pure blues) and provides SUPER driving music. The songs are crafted to be pretty easy to understand and get into, with catchy rhythm patterns and smooth, no-drama vocals by Bnois King. The blues are 100% Texas.
   
   The rock aspect of this record is also strong, and Kubek delivers some smoking solos, living up to his name. Bnois King contributes a totally different tone, and it's fun to listen to the two approaches combined.
   
   The CD is polished, produced by Kubek and Iglauer. There are really not many things wrong with it. The only improvement I could cite would be for Bnois King to diversify his vocal delivery. His ever-present vibratos don't fit to every melody, and a gruffer, less polished method of singing is sometimes more appropriate. That's a fairly minor gripe for an otherwise very strong record.
   
   The CD definitely has enough energy, mastery, and feeling in it to exceed 4 stars, so it gets 5.



2. Another consistent and strong effort of straight up Texas blues from this dynamic duo. "Smokin'" Joe provides his usual sturdy riffs. Bnois King tasteful rhythm work and distinctive vocals on tracks like "My dog's still walkin'" sound especially energetic on their Alligator records debut. No frills, no nonsense HOT Texas blues.

5 comments about In the Beginning.

1. I've actually owned this CD for a number of years, and it's a favorite I come back to again and again. This is the true sleeper hit for the SRV fan that might be familiar with his studio albums and some videos. This is what you give them when they are ready for the "next step" of delving into the mastery that is Stevie Ray Vaughan. I saw a review that said it was "too raw." Ha ha, doesn't that immediately sell you?! This recording is from Austin in 1980, a full three years before Texas Flood, but you wouldn't know it from how blistering a young Vaughan is. It's all there In the Beginning. What an awesome pun. Anyway, I enjoy this album also for the airy sort of summery live quality it has. It really comes off as a fantastic recording from right in the room, without the polish of the studio. I'm a huge SRV fan, and I have a great deal of fondness for this album. It might just be my favorite.



2. A strong live effort from a still young and less-than-famous Stevie Ray Vaughan, In the Beginning hints at greatness to come. Much of the album focuses on SRV's harder rockin' blues side, but it's on the soulful, slow blues of "Tin Pan Alley," underneath Vaughan's incredible guitar work, that his abilities really shine. For me, these slower blues numbers that really allow a player to pour out emotion into the music, and to take it slowly or play faster over the slow beat, are the ones where talent really shines. It's really an incredible rendition, and alone makes this album one worth owning.
   
   Of course, it's not all about "Tin Pan Alley," and a rockin' performance of "Love Struck Baby" is also memorable.
   
   Great SRV!



3. I first heard of SRV in the winter of 1982. There was a terrible movie on cable called "Cat People"; the only noteworthy thing about it was a David Bowie song called "Putting Out Fire With Gasoline" with some incredibly incendiery guitar playing. Came to find out a young Texas blues guitarist named Stevie Ray Vaughan played guitar on Bowie's entire "Let's Dance" album. Soon Vaughan and his band Double Trouble had some product out, the "Texas Flood" album, and a new hit single, "Pride and Joy." My friends and me caught him live at Bill Graham's nightclub, The Stone in San Francisco around May of '83. I stood on a chair against the wall behind my table and watched his hands all night. He did "Love Struck Baby," "Pride and Joy," "Mary Had A Little Lamb," "Texas Flood," "Testify," "Wham!" and on and on. But when he played "Manic Depression" and segued into "Third Stone From the Sun," my jaw must have hit the floor and stayed there. We knew he had that Johnny Winter southern gunslinger thing down but we had no idea he played Hendrix or that he played Hendrix so well. I saw Stevie play many times after that but nothing ever matched the energy and connection of that first time. His material got better and more varied and his band grew more professional over the years but nothing compares with that first time around on a national tour with a new record blasting out of everybody's radio (and for me "discovering" somebody new that was that good). So anyway, onto the cd review:
   Years before I had ever heard of Stevie RAY Vaughan, there were people living in and around Austin, Texas who could experience Little Stevie Vaughan nearly every night, burning down local blues clubs with his rhythmm section, Double Trouble. This cd is taken from a recording made on one of those nights, a midnight show recorded on two-track, and simulcast on Austin radio station KLBJ-FM. Vaughan and DT rip through nine frezied tracks in about 45 minutes here, three SRV originals and six covers of old blues and r&b numbers. They open with a rousing rendition of Freddie King's "In the Open," Stevie growls his way through Eddie Jones' "Guitar Hurricane," and plays incredible harmonics during Otis Rush's "All Your Love I Miss Loving." Stevie burns the house down during an eight minute "Tin Pan Alley" that puts the version on "Coudn't Stand the Weather" to shame. Then they roar through "Love Struck Baby," Howlin' Wolf's "Tell Me," a very funky version of Willie Dixon's "Shake For Me," and "Live Another Day," which was called "I'm Crying" on the "Texas Flood" release. All these songs are so much better than the cleaned up versions recorded in the studio a couple years later for national release. Both the guitar and vocal are so much rawer and more spontaneous, maybe because of the excitement of playing live in front of the awestruck audience, or maybe because by the time they got to the studio they had been playing the songs so long they were going through the motions. And Stevie's playing is great too, because in this power trio format that Double Trouble had until 1985, Stevie has to fill up the sound with his guitar. In the studio he can use overdubs (hello Jimmy Page), but live he has to play rhythm and lead, and he and Hendrix were the two best at embellishing hot lead licks while still keeping his chord pattern. As far as whether you should buy this cd, well, it depends. If you don't have any other SRV discs and you're mostly pop-rock oriented, forget about it. Buy the Essential set and you'll have most of his radio hits and a few good live blues tracks. But if you just want to hear a hot guitar player killing his audience with the best r&b a white man has ever played, this is the one to get. I just wish there was more.



4. If you like rockin blues this is for you! Stevie pulls out all the stops and just plain wails for the entire album. Tin Pan Alley is the standout track, which although is slower than the rest, rocks with seering vocals and a blistering extended guitar solo where Stevie truly shines. The stripped down sound jumps out at you and makes you realize what a raw talent Stevie truly was. The passion and energy on this live disc is unbelievable and lacking on a lot of blues albums. Buy it and prepare to be dazzled.



5. I'm a huge SRV fan and enjoy Stevie's early more pure blues work more then his later more rock influenced music (which is still great). I was excited that a live album from his early period was put out, but became disappointed after repeated listings. My disappointment stems more from the band then from Stevie. This is the Layton\Shannon Double strouble we have come to love as Double Trouble. This album features Jackie on base it is just no comparison. Steve could be Stevie because DT was so GOOD. To understand how great and tight Doubel Trouble is just listen to Texas Flood. This is for hard core SRV fans only. Better live albums can be found in Live at Carniage Hall and Live at Montreux are much much better.

5 comments about Black Magic.

1. Black Magic seemed to be another stepping stone to an extremely promising blues career. The young man, having had the stereotypical hard upbringing that seems to be a blues artist's rite of passage, was on his way to stardom based on very successful appearances at several blues festivals.
   
   But Black Magic, instead of being part of his beginning, ended up being his epitaph. Sam Maghett died of a heart attack in December, 1969 at the age of 32, leaving much promise unfulfilled and lots of thoughts of what could have been.
   
   This record was a very good followup to his phenomenal first record, West Side Soul. His playing and vocals were very good on this record, and while overall it is not up to the extraordinarily high accomplishment of West Side Soul, it has its merits, including What Have I Done, Easy,Baby, and a nice cover of Freddie King's classic instrumental San-Ho-Zay.
   
   His third record probably would have been better than both West Side Soul or Black Magic, but we'll never know. At least we have his two studio records and a number of other live and previous unreleased records to listen to and enjoy.



2. Magic Sam Maghett was a bluesman from the Mississippi Delta first and foremost, but he was also instrumental (so to speak) in introducing an element of soul in his music, which was called "soul blues" or "west side soul".
   The soul element is especially prominent when listening to Magic Sam's vocals, which are those of a soul singer rather than a blues singer, but most of the songs are structured and played mostly like blues numbers (except for the funky drumming by Odie Payne).

   This album doesn't contain the obvious number 1 (or five star) hit - unlike his previous album, "West Side Soul" - but the quality of the songs is uniformly high, with "I Just Want A Little Bit" and "Keep Loving Me Baby" among the best songs.

   "Black Magic" is a fine album, made with a contingent of very skilled musicians (Maghett himself being one), well produced (that is, not over-produced), and certainly recommendable to everyone with an interest in both blues and soul.




3. Sam is first rate. If you like Buddy Guy you might like Sam. If you like Otis Rush, you will almost certainly like Sam. If you like good music with soul, rythm and feeling- this is it. Not too much production, not stripped down either. It is a happy medium for most blues fans. There isn't an overboard horn section or interfering keys, or crazy looped guitar tracks. This is pure taste. A piano that plays perfectly to the music [ Sam learned by West side soul to only play with the best. ] and one Tenor Saxaphone for a few tracks to add some layers. Sam plays lead and some extra rythm. He is the only vocalist. There are two tunes that are kinda soul/ r and b. And the rest are solid blues, sometimes funky, sometimes slow. Sam is one of the great blues singers and innovators. This record does have a happy medium in a lot of respects. You got an instrumental. You got guitar playing that is technically respectable and creative but totally tasteful and with a feel for the music. Sam doesn't drill over the music with confused lines that go no where in particular like alot of bluesmen tend to do. He plays with his band. He solos and he shines, but he doesn't ever mess up the sound of the songs. Its got the slow soul, the feel good, the funk, everything. This album and West side soul are Sam at his peek, and the cream of the electric blues players. The man was an all around innovator of blues music, live he played bass, drums, Harmonica, Piano or whatever the band needed, it didn't matter. He Pushed the cool blues ahead. He and Otis Rush changed the game. And Sam has a respect for Otis because he did his songs, like Keep loving me on here and My Love Will Never Die on West side. I tell everybody I know who likes good music- If you don't know this guy, then you are missing a big piece of the puzzle. This is where it's at. His two major studio records and only real studio Lps are two of my favorites out of hundreds of albums. I can't even see how anyone could not like this.



4. Magic Sam's Black Magic and West Side Soul are 2 of the greatest blues albums of all time--absolutely essential for any one who loves urban electric blues. The singing is absolutely incredible --one of the most powerful and expressive voices in the history of the blues. His guitar playing, rhythmic drive, and arrangements are also excellent and unique-he died soon after these 2 albums were recorded just as he seemed about to break out into stardom. His slow songs exhibit a soulfulness that is incomparable and the faster songs have a drive and excitement that is also beyond compare. You can't go wrong with these two albums--highest recommendation possible.



5. I first heard this album (as vinyl) in 1969. As a guitarist and bass player who lived in Chicago on the South Side at the time, blues was in my BLOOD then - as it still is. I had several opportunities to play with Otis Rush on the West Side, and was going to play with Magic Sam . . . when he died.

   This album is sheer beauty. Unlike his other blues counterparts in the city at the time, Magic Sam had a very R&B flavor to his blues - clean, always in tune, using that Fender reverb in ways that Otis, Buddy and others didn't. Yet he had an intensity that truly . . . well, touched me. Magic was a wonderful guitar player - and one hell of a singer. he was a gifted musician.

5 comments about Still Alive and Well.

1. Johnny has had many ups and downs throughout his recording career, but this album is, from start to finish, just fantastic. If you like JW and don't own this CD, just buy it now!



2. One of the most important things about Johnny Winter's rugged brand of the blues is that Johnny isn't afraid to go to places where the blues actually live in real ways. Places where people's lives aren't what they should be. Places where booze and drugs offer temporary relief from hopelessness, where bad relationships wreck dreams, and working too hard for too little pay wears people down and out. Without acknowledging the pain and suffering that gave birth to the blues, the music becomes an "art form" and a sanitized imitation of the real thing. Johnny Winter is definitely not about sanitized imitations.
   
   On Still Alive And Well (1973), not only does Johnny play the blues in an authentically rugged way, but he plays high energy rock n' roll and hippie barstool country the same way. Among the rock songs here are great rousing and rocking versions of Rock Me Baby, Rock & Roll, and Can't You Feel It. Blistering guitar licks and screaming vocals abound. Cheap Tequila is a very strong ballad (and a rare treat, as Johnny doesn't do many ballads), and one of my favorites here. Winter does two Rolling Stones covers, Let It Bleed and Silver Train, and they're both just as good (even better in some places) as the originals. Too Much Seconal is down and dirty acoustic blues, with acoustic slide, mandolin, flute, and lyrics from life on the wrong side.
   
   Oh baby, I don't believe you're no good at all
   No, you keep drinkin' too much whiskey
   You're takin' too much seconal
   
   Of course, Winter's guitar work on Still Alive And Well is also outstanding, to say the least. Johnny is one of the very best guitarists in a generation of rock's greatest guitarists. Rock n' roller Rick Derringer (Rock & Roll, Hoochie Koo) produced this album, and really brought out the rock n' roll side of Johnny Winter. The album has all of the energy of a rock n' roll production. The bad boy of blues/rock is rugged, raunchy, and screaming loud on this one, and if you don't mind a little harsh reality with your blues/rock, then you really can't go wrong with Still Alive And Well. AND TURN IT UP LOUD!!



3. Man does Johnny Winter fire on all cylinders on this one, or what! This album is non-stop energy, front to back, and just an all around rockin' good time.
   
   Covers of B.B. King's "Rock Me Baby" and The Rolling Stones' "Let it Bleed" play well as bookends on an album that's chock full of great tunes, as Winter's playing breathes new life into these songs.
   
   This is a can't miss album for blues fans and rock fans. Top notch!



4. without a doubt, in my humble opinion, johnny's best work. not a runt in the litter. if you like texas based guitar riff blues oriented up tempo rock, this is for you.



5. johnny live is always good , very strong blues and hard rock , makes me want to time trip back to the 70s. johnny used to play at washington monument , he is a legend and one of the best in acoustic and hard rock blues

5 comments about It Serves You Right to Suffer.

1. This is a great John Lee Hooker and probably one of the best blues albums period. The sound quality on this album is top notch (this is not true with all John Lee Hooker material or blues in general). This also includes some of Hooker's best songs, including "It Serves You Right to Suffer" and "Sugar Mama".
   
   The real deal of this album is that Hooker is trying to mainstream himself here. This is not from the classic Hooker period (but it is a classic album). This album came out in the 60's after the start of the British Invasion and this is Hooker's attempt to make a mainstream album for those who were into British Invasion groups. This becomes evident during Hooker's version of "Money". Typically the blues artists that tried to make a mainstream/ pop album lost a lot of what makes them great but what is so amazing about this album is that Hooker makes a mainstream album and sounds like Hooker. One of Hooker's top five albums ever. You need to buy this.



2. This is the real deal. John Lee Hooker with some of his strongest blues and at a rock bottom price. YOu can't beat it with a stick!



3. Don't let the price fool you, this is not some bargain bin compilation, this was an official release from John Lee Hooker, and a great one. This disc is one of his strongest efforts from the 1965-1974 period. There isn't a weak song on here. "Shake It Baby" is one of my favorite John Lee songs and has an awesome high scream from him towards the middle. "Decoration Day" is another classic as is the title track. This CD captures all the moods of John Lee Hooker, the slow and brooding, the uptempo boogie, and everything in between. I would have spent three times as much on this great disc, but for $7 this is a STEAL.



4. I dared to buy this and yes, I did it for the free shipping. Definitely worth it for the definitive Hooker sound. Tunes mostly written by Hooker himself. Originally released in 1966, before the commercialized later versions. A rough raspy "Money" more gritty than the Beatles. And a sweet rendition of Decoration Day that gives a glimpse of John Lee's deep sorrow and hunger wrought thru the blues. Whether it is the myth or the man, you can feel it. Go get lost in the blues. it's Short, sweet, somber and sassy. What have you got to lose?



5. The review below is interesting, how is $5.99 a mere 5 bones?
   Sounds more like 6 bones to me.

5 comments about You Better Run: The Essential Junior Kimbrough.

1. Damn if the cover doesn't just sound like the album. Every tune is dirty, follows old school blues stylings- few chord changes, non-song structure, good beat to move to. Let it play from track 1 while drinking, you'll know what I mean.



2. "You Better Run - The Essential Junior Kimbrough" serves as a fascinating collection of tunes from one of the most hypnotically, bare-bones musicians on the twentieth century.
   
   Junior Kimbrough was a Mississippi Delta bluesman to the core, and these tunes, all recorded live, reveal a classic musician who perfomed at his own juke joint in the Mississippi woods, and seemed to be playing for himself as much, if not more, than for others.
   
   "All Night Long," "Meet Me In The City," "Done Got Old," "You Better Run," and the outstanding "Most Things Haven't Worked Out" display Kimbrough rough-hewd vocals and mezmerizing guitar playing.
   
   This collection shows that there will always be musicians who live and play on their own terms. Junior Kimbrough was definitely one of the best.



3. You thought Robert Johnson's Hellhound On My Trail was spooky? You haven't heard anything until you've heard Junior Kimbrough's You Better Run. How this brand of blues was overlooked for so many years is inexplicable, yet understandable as the Mississippi delta and Chicago styles of blues dominates what record labels choose to release. But up in the hill country of north Mississippi a different style of blues developed. You can hear echoes of it in Mississippi Fred McDowell and John Lee Hooker. Thank God that Fat Possum Records brought bluesmen like Kimbrough, RL Burnside, and T-Model Ford into the studio and preserved this music for future generations. Start here, then search Amazon for "Fat Possum." You will never listen to blues the same way again.



4. I am not one to write a review when so many people have already said so much (and they are all spot on) but there was something I needed to add here. This was the first Junior Kimbrough album I bought and it blew me away. I love Junior Kimbrough's brand of punk blues. Enjoying this collection prompted me to pick up all his other works (6 CDs in all) and they were all worth it. What I'm getting to, in a roundabout way, is that not all Junior's albums are represented on this collection. His two earliest Do the Rump and All Night Long seem to be left off of this collection, or at least the versions of songs from those albums. It is worth your money to buy this as a starter but I deplore you not to stop there pick up Junior's other works- he really deserves the spotlight which he has never gotten.



5. Everything that the above reviewers stated I thank them for. What you hear is respect for the music of a stand up man that worked and had his own, very unique way of expressing himself. A gem, a jewel; Like all the Masters, his music has the uniqueness that is David Junior Kimbrough.

5 comments about USA Union.

1. muy buen trabajo del viejo john mayall que rodeado de fogueados musicos consigue crear una obra coherente y delicada, que te permite disfutarla hoy , aunque ya han pasado mas de 35 años....con parte de canned heat (bajo y guitarra) y el gran don harris en violin, esta vez la instrumentacion excelsa permite que la ausencia de la bateria no sea percibida...nature's disappearing, night flyer, deep blue sea, sobresalen de un conjunto de canciones muy dignas..el cd trae informacion sobre los musicos, apreciaciones sobre los temas y...diez maneras de enfrentar la contaminacion..hasta en eso mayall es un pionero!!!!



2. I bought the LP in 1970 and just got the CD. This is a classic in the sense that it held its own no matter what happened to music and in music in the past 38 years. Lots of soft drumless (!) swing with a strong blues (Mayall) background. The track "Nature is Disappearing" is prophetic and gives me the chills today as it did back then. A MUST HAVE!



3. I bought the CD of John Mayall's album USA Union to replace my LP - it wears awfully well. This is a soft, rhythmic album with a blues feeling. I particularly love the contributions of Don Harris, an "improvising violinist." (Heck, I thought that was a fiddle). Listen to him in the sample of the song "Crying!" You've also got Larry Taylor, bass guitar; Harvey Mandel, lead guitar; and John Mayall's laid-back vocals, some harmonica, and some piano. All songs written by John Mayall. Good listening.



4. This is one of my favorite John Mayall records and an all time Blues-Rock classic. The sound and compositions are soft,creamy and of very good taste. John Mayall made excellent music without drums. The guitar playing of Harvey Mandell
   (Canned Heat) is outstanding and works out very well here.



5. John was able to recruit, yet not retain very talented musicians from the US to back him. I saw him twice in the early seventies and his egocentrism in on stage comments that "I'm the star." leave a negative impression . He eventually ran out of material,or else it became to tedious to continue.

5 comments about Live: The Real Deal.

1. I can't say enough about the quality of this DVD... Buddy's performances are STELLAR & he interjects mini-stories between songs that are very interesting and informative! BUY IT, you'll never regret it!



2. See where Jimi got a lot of his style. Buddy Guy is a true original. We tend to forget the good ones when they've been around for a long time. But, here we can see the real thing.



3. Okay, I hope you read my review before you make up your mind, due to other "so called, REVIEWERS!" The very first thing "they" should have considered, was that Buddy Guy was the producer! If ya'll don't understand that title, it means that Buddy APPROVED the material, cameras, interviews and sound mix.
   
   Now, there are indeed better concert DVDs than this offering, however, I think Buddy wanted to let the public know his story, the influences of growing up in poverty and the artists that he drew off of to create "The Buddy Guy Sound".
   
   With the intent of the producers considered, I enjoyed the unique camera work (with edited interviews) and the 5.1 surround sound mix is second to none!
   
   If you feel a need for slick productions and could care less about the artists biography, pick a different show from this GIANT'S DVD list. If you'd like to know more about, one of the last true legends of the Louisiana/Chicago blues, buy this one. It contains fine licks from members of the Saturday Night Live Band and a few interviews entwined within the show.



4. This great sounding and well photographed DVD proves that Buddy Guy is the best blues player and singer living today. His smokin' performance envelopes you into the DVD. The command and strength of Buddy Guy is absolutely phenomenal. His backing band G.E. Smith and The Saturday Night Live Band is tight and they enrich your appreciation of this top blues artist. This is the most incredible blues performance I've ever seen. So if you'd like a real treat and want to show off your entertainment system and impress your friends then this is the DVD to own.



5. BUDDY GUY IS ONE OF THE BEST BLUES ENTERTAINERS ....RECOMMEND THIS
   DVD HIGHLY.