Lou Rawls - Black & Blue / Tobacco Road
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Artist: Lou RawlsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Published: 2006
CD Release Date: 2006-05-16
Music Label: Blue Note Records
Soundtracks:
- Roll 'Em Pete
- I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water
- How Long, How Long Blues
- Everyday I Have The Blues
- St. James Infirmary
- (What Did I Do To Be So) Black And Blue
- Gloomy Sunday
- Kansas City
- Going' To Chicago Blues
- Trouble In Mind
- World Of Trouble
- Six Cold Feet Of Ground
- Strange Fruit
- Tobacco Road
- Cotton Fields
- Rockin' Chair
- Stormy Weather
- Ol' Man River
- Blues For A Four-String Guitar
- St. Louis Blues
- Georgia On My Mind
- Sentimental Journey
- Summertime
- When It's Sleepy Time Down South
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Music Review: The voice shines through
Rating: 4 Stars
This CD comprises of two albums recorded in 1962 & 1963, with two tracks, numbers 7 & 24 as bonus tracks. Arrangements on both albums were by Onzy Matthews, with a whole slew of hand picked session players to perform them.On both sets Lou Rawls displays imperious styling and phrasing, and his voice is distinctive and given lots of space in the arrangements. There is, however a distinct contrast between the choice of material on the two albums. The "Black and Blue" set contains a much better chosen range of songs, and the arrangements more in empathy with Rawls style. Stand out tracks are a version of "Every day I have the Blues", Count Basie's "Going to Chicago Blues" and an outstanding reading of Oscar Brown Junior's "World of Trouble". The bonus track would not have been out of place in the original programming. The "Tobacco Road" set starts with an excellent version of the title track, but the rest of the set is good without ever being outstanding, except for "Blues for a four string guitar" which is really quite weak. Throughout, Rawls does his best to impart something new to all of them, though he's not helped in places by the arrangements, where on the second album the guitar sound is weak. It's also difficult not to compare the version of "Georgia on my mind" with what Ray Charles was doing with it at about the same time in another place! The remastering is excellent throughout, mixed as it was from 3 track tapes. I welcome the re-release of these long deleted albums, but on reflection despite Rawls' valiant efforts elsewhere the "Black and Blue" set is the highlight of this CD.
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