Living The Blues: Blues Greats
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Author: Amos Milburn&His Aladdin ChickenshackersPerformer: Howlin' Wolf
Performer: John Lee Hooker
Performer: Otis Rush
Performer: Elmore James
Performer: Jimmy Reed
Performer: Junior Wells
Performer: Willie Dixon
Performer: T-Bone Walker
Performer: B.B King
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Compilation
Published: 1999
Music Label: Sony Music
Product features:
- Time Life Music Sony Music Special Products
- 20 tracks
Music reviews of Living The Blues: Blues Greats
Music Review: Another Blues Potpourri
Rating: 4 Stars
February Is Black History Month
As those familiar with this space know I have spent a good amount of ink touting various old time blues legends that I `discovered' in my youth. My intention, in part, is to introduce a new generation to this roots music but also to demonstrate a connection between this black-centered music and the struggle for black liberation that both blacks and whites can appreciate. Like virtually all forms of music that lasts more than five minutes the blues has had its ups and downs. After becoming electric and urbanized in the immediate post-World War II period it was eclipsed by the advent of rock&roll then made a comeback in the mid- 1960's with the surge of English bands that grew up on this music, and so on. Most recently there was mini-resurgence with the justifiably well-received Martin Scorsese PBS six-part blues series in 2003. A little earlier, in the mid-1990's, there had also been a short-lived reemergence spearheaded by the `discovery' of urban blues pioneer Robert Johnson's music.
The long and short of this phenomenon is that commercial record production of this music waxed and waned reflecting that checkered history. I have, in the interest of variety for the novice, selected these CDs as a decent cross-section of blues (and its antecedents in earlier forms of roots music) as to gender, time and type. The following reviewed CDs represent first of all an attempt by record companies to meet the 1990's surge. They also represent a hard fact of musical life. Like rock&roll the blues will never die. Praise be. Feast on these compilations.
Every Day He May Have The Blues But You Won't
Living The Blues: Blues Greats, MCA Records, 1995
If you have read my review of "Living The Blues: Blues Masters" then this compilation is an extension of that CD as to the level of talent. Very good work ,as is to be expected, by Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Elmore James, the under-appreciated Otis Rush on "Double Trouble" place this CD just fraction below the previously reviewed "Blues Masters". Additional standout work includes impresario Willie Dixon (who deserves and will receive individual review later) on his own "29 Ways". T-Bone Walker on his "T-Bone Shuffle" (was there a better electric blues guitar player?), Little Walter (and his incredible harmonica) on "Juke" and "Driving Wheel" by Little Junior Parker.
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