4 comments about Greatest Hits.

1. Value for money CD.
   
   Has a good selection of songs but the CD could hv contained more - at least 5 more! Worth it if you are getting introduced to Blackfoot.



2. This cd does have some of Blackfoots greatest hits.All in all,This is a good cd.



3. I have hearnd verious songs by these guys through the years and finally got this CD. I was amazed to find that they were the ones who wrote some of the songs that have been made famous by others like the Allman Bro.'s Good music and the second half Rocks!!



4. This is a great album if you like BlackFoot. All the popular songs and a few good bonus tracks.

5 comments about Chronicle, Vol. 1.

1. Credence Clearwater Revival and John Fogerty are classic rock at its best, a mixture of blues, rock and catchy songwriting created memorable songs that still have people singing these today.
   
   This is a good collection of many of their hits and well known songs and I put it on the CD player for my children and they now are singing along.



2. Anyone out there know if CCR have a live dvd out.....love to see them live in concert...........Eps



3. Although I would still recomend this cd,the volume level is low,and the bass weak;disappionting for any cd. Roy



4. For the few of you that complained about "tinny" sound, Fogerty's place in the overall mix and found it not worth downloading or buying, here's a novel idea: Why don't you pick up the excellent vinyl pressing? You do have a turntable, don't you?



5. If there is a single Classic Rock disc to own, this would be it. When you consider this music provided the soundtrack to the Vietnam War, you might consider buying it to be owning a bit of history. Go back up above and read down those song titles. Do you have any fond memories associated with any of them? My problem, at age 56, is that I have a fond memory associated with EVERY ONE OF THEM.
   
   Now CCR plays music that's pretty accessible to everyone that hears it, but when you go below that layer, the things that make the songs stand up for all these years is dynamic songwriting and kickass musicianship across the board.
   
   If you don't believe me, pick up the concert DVD by John Fogerty: The Long Road Home and SEE these hits performed. I believe it's impossible to be unaffected by what you see and hear there. He still performs his music with that 'fire in the belly' you like to see in older musicians.
   
   So back to this disc... he originally recorded these in his 20's. Imagine the 'fire in the belly' factor then...
   
   This one is good stuff. You need to own it.

5 comments about The Allman Brothers Band-Live at Great Woods.

1. As a long time fan of The Allman Brothers Band, including seeing them live, "Live at Great Woods" is a worthy part of any fan's concert footage collection. Some of the negative reviews are ignorantly based on a few edits that cut to historically important and brief interviews during the show. In fact, the brief interviews are placed at edit points that were chosen because of the repetition of a long jam, for example. It was just the edit style of the time period.
   
   The overall performance shows the ABB, especially Greg Allman with some fire still in his playing, singing, etc. He is into this gig so to speak. Betts and Haynes are paired up nicely in this mid-career band format and the drums and percussion are stellar as always. There were to few shots of Butch Trucks in this film but he set's the pulse either way. Allen Woody is the unsung player in this performance and never misses a note.
   
   If you like this style of music and understand that The Allman Brothers Band has many "evolutionary points" in their infamous career, Live at Great Woods will be a welcome addition to your collection. It captures this period of their music very well.
   
   For first timers, it's a good place to start but I would encourage looking back in time to see where they come from, then move to the present. Concert footage of The Allman Brothers Band is still in short supply considering the increadible time span of their long running career.
   
   In other words, what is available is actually good and should be appreciated.



2. This Is for the VHS version on the Allman Bros. Great Woods Show. The Sound and Picture quality are top shelf for a vhs. Can't believe that they would chop up the DVD version. Summer Time, Upstate NY and the Allman Bros. It doesn't get any better. If you saw the Saratoga performing Arts center show that year this will bring back Great Memories. Pay attention to the other reviewers and stay away from the dvd, I'm glad I did.



3. This is the Allman Brothers at thier best. Only problem is the interviews. What was played of Blue Sky was completely done with interviews. Interviews should be in thier own section not taking up time of the music. And Blue Sky should have been played in it's entirety not just the instumental.



4. This 1991 concert is excellent with the best lineup since the original band (69-71) were all around and making great music. Warren Haynes makes for an excellent 2nd lead guitar with Dickey Betts and the band plays many of their classic tunes including extended versions of Elizabeth Reed and Jessica. don't buy the dvd as the editing is awful - but do get the vhs for all the uncut tunes.



5. I've had this concert on VHS for more than a coupla years now. I've almost worn it out. when I saw that it was out on DVD, I snatched it right up. Only to encounter on of the biggest disappointments in music I've ever known!!!Songs cut short(or completely deleted) interview over-top of my favorite solos!! I hope Gregg , Warren & Dickey realize How badly This show was butchered,and will re-issue the show in its entirety (un-cut or un-edited)because I would buy it in a heartbeat! ALL-IN-ALL..A MAJOR DISAPPOINTMENT !!!!!

5 comments about Green River (20 Bit Mastering).

1. The first really great CCR album, even though Cosmo's Factory still has it beat. But man, this is a hell of an album. It also seems like the group drank a can of "instant maturity!" after the half-psychedelic debut and the weeeeeeird ramblin's of Bayou Country. The title track is the authority in "swamp-pop", with the deep in the Bayou guitars, church basement revival rhythm, and especially Fogerty's vocals, which just about define swampy. And did you know that he was born in California, which is about as "country" as Chevy Chase, Maryland, the city with the most obnoxious people in America? Oh, right, you did. Anyway, "Commotion" is a bitter criticism of the state of the world circa 1969, and it's a solid percolating blues-rocker; "Bad Moon Rising" is a bouncy boogie-rocker with apocalyptic lyrics and a fun barroom piano part (You have not lived until you've heard Fogerty intoning "Hope you're quite prepared to die!" while the group goes all happy blues dance track; "Lodi" is all-out catharsis with arguably Fogerty's best vocal ever. And that's just what you'll find on Chronicle - there are five other tracks here. Two of them are amongst my CCR favorites - "Wrote a Song for Everyone" is an amazingly resonant, beautifully poetic, slightly lengthy ballad that may be Fogerty's masterpiece; and "Tombstone Shadow" is tough, frightening blues-rock. The other three songs range from decent to forgettable, though, which is kind of sad since this really had a lot of potential. I have nothing against "Cross-Tie Walker" per se, but it's pretty far from prime Creedence; "Sinister Purpose" is a weak "evil" boogie song; and "Night Time is the Right Time" is probably the weakest Creedence song not found on Mardi Gras. Ray Charles' hit version rules, and it's annoying to see it remade as a standard-issue CCR blues-rocker - even more irritating is the harmony track, which is out-of-character and humiliating all at once. So it's two songs at the end marring this from being a classic like Cosmo's.



2. I'm still buzzing after having seen Mr. Fogerty's performance at the Beacon Theater in NYC just a day or so ago. He still has the chops, still has the fire. He performed a number or three from this album and all was well with the world.
   
   If you want a genuine rock 'n' roll album then look not further. Guitars, bass, drums. That's it. That's all you need. The roots. Think you can handle it?
   
   I've owned Green River in one form or another since it came out back in '69 and I'll carry it around till that tombstone casts its shadow on me.
   
   Ya'll ought to check it out.



3. Creeedence Clearwater Revival produced 4 outstanding albums. Their best, from my personal perspective, was 'Bayou Country', released early in 1969. 'Green River' is their third best, released in the midst of the Woodstock Festival in August of 1969. Amazingly, before the curtain set on 1969, the band produced 'Willy and the Poor Boys', their fourth best effort. In 1970 'Cosmo's Factory', the album many would claim to be their greatest, but which I would place number two, hit the shelves.

   There are two classics offered on 'Green River', the nostalgic title track which hit number two on the national charts, and the ominous yet vibrant 'Bad Moon Rising', which also ascended to number two several months before the 'Green River' disc was released. Two other songs from 'Green River' were promoted as singles, the frentic 'Commotion' (with lyrics even more applicable to today than the late 1960's) which hit number 30, and 'Lodi', a curious laid-back favorite among many of CCR's loyalists, which rose to number 52. 'Green River' and 'Commotion' open the disc in what might be one of the best "one-two punches" ever to open a side of an album, and on the original vinyl, side two opened with 'Bad Moon Rising' and 'Lodi', a sterling complement to side one's intro.

   The remaining 5 songs, while not Top-40 material, round out what had become a typical mix for Creedence albums. Creedence is a great cover band, and their rendition of Ray Charles' 'The Night Time Is the Right Time', while not their best cover, is intense and inspired as the album's closer. 'Tombstone Shadow' and 'Sinister Purpose' are the purest blues-rock numbers offered, while 'Wrote a Song For Everyone', lamenting the failure of the wordsmith to communicate with the woman he loves, sounds more like a traditonal country ballad. 'Cross-Tie Walker' effectively plays up the swamp-rock sound parlayed on Creedence hits such as 'Green River' and 'Bad Moon Rising', but with a less catchy melody, yet interesting lyrics.

   John Fogerty and his bandmates had the capacity to sing songs that dealt with difficult and desperate themes, yet still maintain a postive, inviting, "down-home" atmosphere. As with 'Bayou Country', 'Green River' is brief in length, but lacking Fogarty's extended guitar solo's that appeal to many CCR fans, and alienate others. While 'Bayou Country' felt underground and radical, 'Greeen River' feels commercial.

   My version of this disc is "mastered in analog utilizing the 20-bit K2 Super Coding System" developed by JVC. I don't know what all that means, but I can tell you this: the sound is exceptional, and I personally will make every effort to obtain recordings using this technology in the future. The jewel case is enveloped in a decorative cardboard sleeve, and the superfluous liner notes make the consumer's desire for a lyrics sheet even more compelling.




4. It remains on my mind that rainy evening when I listenes for first time that album. Those days on the vinyl sound and the experience was worthy. I had that feeling that I was in presence of one of the honest and expressive album in that momet and believe me. 1969 was a huge year. Cream, The doors, Steppenwolf, Traffic, Jimmy Hendrix, The who were bands beyond the standard. Something inside me told me that Green river, Conmotion, Bad moon , Lodi Write a song for everyone were songs made with the inspired touch of the genius. It's not a mere casuality that Win Weneders used this album in one of his trilogy road movie "Wrong movement". Because the whole work sounds so fresh like a summer breeze and a meeting among great friends. May be you find Born on the payou the most genial song of CCR ,or the amazing version of Suzie Q or even his eternal Proud Mary . All of them even establish one step ahead in the long trip of this quartet. I have them all (in LP and CD) , but there is something you'll never find in the other two. And I think it's the deep unity, the cohesion expresiveness that seems exist in all the songs as a set. In fact , you listen the music and constitutes a delightful trip. This album contains like no one else the essential nervous that always surrounded that band in the last sixties.
   Forever Credence.



5. GREEN RIVER is the start of the 'classic albums' run for Creedence Clearwater Revival. For me, BAYOU COUNTRY and CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL hold too much filler to be truly classic. Not only do you have hits represented here, you've got enough swamp rock to fill up the Lousiana Bayou! John Fogerty and co reign supreme in late sixties/early seventies rock . . . sit back,relax, and let GREEN RIVER back up my claim!

   GREEN RIVER - An instantly recognisable guitar riff starts us on our musical journey. Written from memories of early childhood vacations and a soda pop bottle label, John Fogerty invites us to a place where things are much simpler and relaxed. The guitar work by John and Tom Fogerty is both basic and spellbinding at the same time; a great example of country rock. It's great we have places like Green River to go to, because just around the corner . . .

   COMMOTION - Fast paced rocker describing how we run ourselves into the ground trying to compete in the rat race; not getting anything out of it at all. John's harpwork matches the frantic pace of the song.

   TOMBSTONE SHADOW - Amusing tale of an visit to a pessimistic fortune teller. Fogerty's lead work rings like a bell and darts in and out of the backup provided by Tom Fogerty, Doug 'Cosmo' Clifford and Stu Cook.

   WROTE A SONG FOR EVEYONE - Song about the inabilty to comunicate
   and working things out for ourselves. Contains some poignant digs at the Vietnam war and shady politicians.

   BAD MOON RISING - Another attack on the Vietnam Crisis, with John
   playing prophet of doom over a bouncy beat. Did you know for years some people thought Fogerty sang, "There's a bathroom on the right"! He even jokingly sings it when he performs this classic live nowadays!

   LODI - Here's a classic country rock song dedicated to all those bands forced to play in dives for lousy audiences and even lousier pay. Creedence paid their dues big time before hitting it big in 1969; playing many gigs like Lodi's over and over again
   .

   CROSS TIE WALKER - A murky swamp swinger that fits to choogle your brains out to.

   SINISTER PURPOSE - This guitar rock track has something evil crawling up on you. Fogerty's axework is howling and spooky and his voice is double tracked for maximum effect. best played on a
   cloudy night with a hazy moon.

   NIGHT TIME IS THE RIGHT TIME - Vintage blues rocker is a spectacular way to end off a short, but great release by the swamp rock kings from California. Love the call and response vocals throughout the song.

1 comments about Memphis Soul Classics.

1. Otis Redding, William Bell, Sam and Dave, Wilson Pickett, Booker T. and The MG's, Judy Clay, Carla Thomas and others featured here were all key figures in the Memphis Soul explosion of the 1960s and the music they (and their producers and songwriters) created still sounds fresh, invigorating and timeless after all these years. This is some of the greatest R&B ever recorded and most of these tracks still get considerable airplay on oldies stations. Sweet Classic Soul.

5 comments about Love Songs.

1. Does anybody know if the sample track used by Mos Def for the track, Ms. Fat Booty is available for purchase???

   I have been trying to buy Aretha's original since November without luck.

   The track is outstanding and deeply desired. I am prepared to pay whatever is required provided the track is top quality in temrs of condition, etc, etc.

   If you know or have the track to which I am referring and/or have details that may help me to obtain a copy - please contact me at the following mail address:

   pamstan@hotmail.com

   Many Thanks




2. 5 stars for the re-release of one of the world's best artists. This CD features 15 of her best, from Skylark, Try A Little Tenderness, I Wish I Didn't Love You So, and What A Diff'rence A Day Makes. Her renditions are timeless. You can't help but remember years past, and what you were doing when these songs first made the rounds. Very enjoyable listening and remembering.



3. I am very disappointed with this cd. I hate when record companies want to make more money by putting out compilation cd's everytime an artist hasn't put out new material. What a waste this is!



4. when I Hear Older Albums by Aretha Franklin it brings back so many Great thoughts.Her Soulful Pipes always warmed my heart,mind&soul.SHe can't be touched by anything out now.She is in a class all unto Herself Here as you can feel after listening to this set.Classic Aretha is a must.



5. This is the collection I've been waiting for! It is time for everyone to experience that pure, beautiful sultry voice of Aretha at her best, interpreting those glorius love songs from back in the day. There are too many younger folk who have not had the luxury of hearing the real purity of her voice. With these wonderful arrangements and her unique interpretations, you will listen again and again and rediscover what really made her great!

No comments about Southern Fried Rock: Second Helping.

5 comments about Prodigal Son: The Collection.

1. Only a handful of people around could have done better at that age, and those people are all great, so I give Sonny a break and give him more credit. But this is still inferior to his later work.



2. This is one of those cases where I can't understand why people are putting down this CD. It's not the type of CD that everyone will love, but it seems to me that Sonny Landreth fans would love to hear his great guitar playing, so I don't see what they are objecting to in this case. This is great playing from the start of the disc to the end. It has country influences at times, but in a Chet Atkins, Mark Knopfler, Dickey Betts, J.J. Cale, kind of way. Most serious guitar players see right through style in nothing flat anyway, so it doesn't really matter if it's rock, country, blues, jazz, or bluegrass. Some of these songs would sound right in place on an Allman Brothers album. Many of the actual licks could fit onto the Layla album. I'm not going to claim that this is a five star classic, but Sonny was 22 when he cut most of these songs and he laid them down in a day. Only a handful of people around could have done better at that age, and those people are all great, so give Sonny a break and give him more credit.



3. Sonny Landreth is wonderful. He's done some fine solo stuff and great work with John Hiatt. But this CD contains nferior cuts from earlier in his career. Buy it after you become a big fan of his and have everything else. But get his other stuff first.



4. This is recent roots music...not straight blues or country, but somewhere in between. Something akin to the Allman Brothers or Lynyrd Skynyrd, with a little more blues and slide thrown in. The key is that you can see Sonny's evolution as a player. This album is for Sonny what 'In The Beginning' was for Stevie Ray Vaughan, an excellent record of where he started and what led him to where he is today. The music is all great, there is some beautiful slide, some solid jammin'. Heartily recommended for anyone who likes to see the wider view of an artist, and appreciates a look into his roots.



5. I have heard a number of Sonny Landreth songs that were definitely more blues oriented and very decent songs, so I bought this cd expecting a lot. I was really disappointed with this collection of his earlier works. It is about as close to blues as N'Sync is to rock. It is almost pure country and as someone who really despises country music, I very much disliked it, even after giving it three or four spins in the player. However, I gave it two stars because I think that someone who does like country music and a bit of the blues might also like this disk.

No comments about Amorica.

1 comments about Returned to the Scene of the Crime.

1. If you are looking for Southern Rock on this album forget about it. Dosen't sound like Rosington-Collins band stuff either. However I did enjoy this record. Nice singing from Dale and playing from Gary and the band. Very 80's sounding, reminds me of Ellen Foley from the same time period. The more I listen the more I like. So give it a shot since you can get it here pretty cheap.