Best Blues
The album also topped many critics' "albums of the year" lists and gathered major music awards in the process, including eight Grammy Awards.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I like to play her music at home, while having a glass of wine and cooking and it's a good end to the day or to start a weekend."
"Her voice sounds even better than ever in this format. The combination of her voice and this music, along with the spaciousness of the sound, make for a great SACD."
"I highly recommend this CD if you love female vocalists - jazz, pop, country western - and to be introduced to a singer who will certainly make her mark on the music scene for years to come."
"This album was a gift to that young women who has enough of an ear to know that vinyl has a better sound than the compressed electronic formats that kids download today."
"Very talented, great voice and great songwriting as well."
"This record is perfect for laying on the floor on a warm afternoon with the sun shing through the window."
"I love the mix of tunes on this album -- and Nora sings every song from her heart."
"One of my favorite vinyl records."
Blues of Desperation is Bonamassa's most powerfully diverse and boldly realized album yet, with the material ranging from the gutsy, gritty blues call to arms of This Train (Joe's guitar is set to rude throughout) to the elegant yet emotionally shattering ballad What I've Known for a Very Long Time to the soul-nourishing, acoustic-based Americana of The Valley Runs Low, on which Bonamassa's voice rises up majestically to meet Barnes, McRae and Tippins in gospel-like rapture.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"And a lot of people like the more restrained, polished Joe better than the early "Rocking Joe". However, what I have really been waiting for is a fusion of both styles into one album, why can't we have all the great things about Joe's old albums and combine it with all the great things about Joe's modern albums?"
"With a rough edge and plenty of rocking, “BofD” shares the same earthy quality of blues/rock centered around a theme of the working man found on "John Henry" and "Dust Bowl". With a brief pause at the 2:30 mark Joe unleashes a primal guitar solo for the next two minutes only to drop you off right back where he left you to finish off the song. Then there's "No Good Place For The Lonely" an 8:33 killer where at 5:00 he unleashes for the remainder of the song; leaving you to just shake your head in wonder."
"I listened to this at my office and people are looking at my like I'm nuts because I'm dancing in my chair. Joe Bonamassa's voice is perfect for this kind of rockin' bluesy sound. ❖ Mountain Climbing - The opening riff on this song gets your blood moving. ❖ Drive - This brings the tempo down a notch, but keeps the intensity high...if that makes any sense. ❖ No Good Place For the Lonely - Has a more typical blue sound, though it's distinctive. ❖ Distant Lonesome Train - The beat certainly smacks you in the face to start this song. ❖ How Deep This Rivers Runs - Starts off slow and mild but really picks up. Joe's bluesy voice with the slow jazz music is a GREAT combo. It's the song you want to hear at the end of the show when you still want to feel the music but you're too tired to dance anymore. ❖ What I've Known For a Very Long Time - GREAT blues guitar riff to open this song. The vocals kick in and it's a softer song that's the perfect end to the album."
It doesn't take a genius to know that the only Christmas album Ray ever made is a must-have for soul lovers-especially now that it's got a bonus track and is available for the first time in 12 years!
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Every year when I watch National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation I say to myself that I've got to get that Ray Charles song! Not on iTunes, can't stream it on Apple Music, couldn't find it in the stores."
"I mean who doesn't but this had a song I have been looking for forever on it."
"This is one of my favorite holiday albums."
"It took many weeks to finally receive this CD, many calls, many promises by the seller that took forever and a lot of complaining to get."
"I heard one track of this CD on Pandora & ordered it."
"Worth every cent just for the one song."
"10 Plus Years Ago I Found This CD On Every Music Stores Shelves."
"His version of the little drummer boy is the best version I've ever heard, and his version of Rudolph is great too."
Best Acoustic Blues
The album also topped many critics' "albums of the year" lists and gathered major music awards in the process, including eight Grammy Awards.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Her voice sounds even better than ever in this format. The combination of her voice and this music, along with the spaciousness of the sound, make for a great SACD."
"I highly recommend this CD if you love female vocalists - jazz, pop, country western - and to be introduced to a singer who will certainly make her mark on the music scene for years to come."
"Very talented, great voice and great songwriting as well."
"If I feel crappy, I put her on, and she can make me smile just about every time."
"This record is perfect for laying on the floor on a warm afternoon with the sun shing through the window."
"A must have SACD for every Jazz collection!"
"Listened to this CD 50 times minimum."
"I love the mix of tunes on this album -- and Nora sings every song from her heart."
Best Contemporary Blues
The album also topped many critics' "albums of the year" lists and gathered major music awards in the process, including eight Grammy Awards.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I like to play her music at home, while having a glass of wine and cooking and it's a good end to the day or to start a weekend."
"Her voice sounds even better than ever in this format. The combination of her voice and this music, along with the spaciousness of the sound, make for a great SACD."
"I highly recommend this CD if you love female vocalists - jazz, pop, country western - and to be introduced to a singer who will certainly make her mark on the music scene for years to come."
"Very talented, great voice and great songwriting as well."
"If I feel crappy, I put her on, and she can make me smile just about every time."
"This record is perfect for laying on the floor on a warm afternoon with the sun shing through the window."
"A must have SACD for every Jazz collection!"
"Listened to this CD 50 times minimum."
Best Electric Blues
The album also topped many critics' "albums of the year" lists and gathered major music awards in the process, including eight Grammy Awards.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Her voice sounds even better than ever in this format. The combination of her voice and this music, along with the spaciousness of the sound, make for a great SACD."
"I highly recommend this CD if you love female vocalists - jazz, pop, country western - and to be introduced to a singer who will certainly make her mark on the music scene for years to come."
"Very talented, great voice and great songwriting as well."
"This record is perfect for laying on the floor on a warm afternoon with the sun shing through the window."
"A must have SACD for every Jazz collection!"
"Listened to this CD 50 times minimum."
"I love the mix of tunes on this album -- and Nora sings every song from her heart."
"One of my favorite vinyl records."
Best Harmonica Blues
Hoodoo Man Blues is considered by most blues aficionados and fans to be one of the best blues albums of all time. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and was chosen by the readers of Living Blues magazine as a top ten Desert Island Blues disc. If you have no experience of the blues and are looking for an entry point or, if you're a blues fan and have yet to come across this stone-cold classic, then grab this release as soon as you can but do it using this vinyl version.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I heard about this album from a thread I started about R&B music I should check out: http://www.amazon.com/forum/music/ref=cm_cd_rvt_np?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1YA4ZE83NG9MC&cdPage=3&cdThread=Tx2G16Z4SBCWZD2#CustomerDiscussionsNew. I don't know anything about Buddy Guy so I googled him. The first thing that came up was: 2015 Lineup | Summerfest, The World's Largest Music Festival. summerfest.com/2015-lineup/Summerfest. Summerfest Artist."
"This is right up there with Otis Rush's late '50s Cobra singles (which weren't created as an album), his Cold Day in Hell (live in Japan in '75), and Howlin' Wolf's '50s music."
"Should be in every Blues Collector's collection, it's a great CD."
"Junior Wells is one of the most soulful blues musicians that ever lived."
"Junior Wells on his harp along with Buddy Guy great album."
"He is accompanied by other first class musicians Budy Guy (Guitar), Jack Meyers (Bass) and Billy Warren. I'm sure this and other music had an influence on Bob Dylan's evolution from traditional (but always original)folk music to his reincarnation as a folk rock & something more musician--and who plays a mean harmonica too. At Newport. Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Muddy Waters. The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions. Live in Cook County Jail. Let's Roll. The Skeleton Key (Widescreen Edition)."
Best Jump Blues
When sold by Amazon.com, this product will be manufactured on demand using CD-R recordable media. Band leader and lounge kingpin Louis Prima will be best be known for the classic, "Just a Gigolo," immortalized by David Lee Roth for a whole new generation of swingers.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"One thing that I would like to add is this: you can just tell how crazy about each other they were! I mean, Good Lord, who would think of something like blowing music into here (the mouthpiece), and then it goes round and round and down, and comes out here (the bell)."
"Along with wife/singer Keely Smith and tenor saxman Sam Butera "and the Witnesses" (sidemen), this infectious blend of post-big band music and R&B virtually defined Las Vegas music of the Fifties and is still going strong."
"Louis Prima in his time was quite famous as a jazz trumpet player (he had also studied violin), singer, dancer (he was called the King of Swingers), actor etc."
"In listening to Prima sing some jazz standards, including "Basin Street Blues," "I've Got You Under My Skin," and "St. Louis Blues," you can hear how another New Orleans-born jazz master, Louis Armstrong, influenced him."
"Where was "he" when I grew up & went to Las Vegas."
"When I don't want to be bothered with the stress in my life I play one of Louis Prima's cd's and I'm good for the rest of the day."
"Everyone should take a listen you’ll be hooked no matter your age amazing music."
"The funny singer we use to hear at my work The one and only Louis Prima."
Best Modern Blues
Burn", "Trouble", and "All the Wild Horses" were featured in the second season of the American television show Rescue Me.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Music 10."
"Very good album!"
"Love Ray's raspy voice."
Best Piano Blues
This 2CD set offers 50 classic Fats Domino songs including the timeless 'Blueberry Hill'.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"love you Fats."
"When I found his Greatest Hits CD on Amazon I ordered it immediately."
"ur Best buy !!"
"Just loved this."
Best Regional Blues
; Life by the Drop ; his versions of the Hendrix tunes Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) and Little Wing; Crossfire; Pride and Joy , and much more.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"His early works with David Bowie are not featured; however, it is quite logical to see (hear) how quickly he developed such an unmistakable "vibe"."
"I'm not sure exactly how to describe Mr Vaughn."
"through the years i've collected every one of these SRV greats , the problem being to get them i had to grab a lot of abums to collect them all. in saying essential i mean you get basicly all the comercial greats as well as some not so well known ( to some) gems , and some scorching live performances that in my oppinion is where Stevie really shines."
"I can see why this is called "The Essential..." and is one of his top rated and most popular recordings."
"It's Stevie Ray--how could it be anything but great?"
"Mr. Oak Cliff never ceases to amaze me, must be in the mood however or it runs too fast for chillin to the music."
"OH yea, great music."
"love this music and having two CD's provides long time of great listening."
Best Slide Guitar Blues
Few live albums are as revered as The Allman Brothers Band's "Live at the Fillmore East."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I was fortunate to see the Allman Brothers at their first large concert opening for Ten Year After in Miami where Duane and Eric Clapton met for the first time."
"Starting from Statesboro all the way until Drunken Hearted Boy - its the only way to feel like you are listening to an entire night Allman Brothers concert on vinyl."
"Simply the best live stuff you'll ever hear- especially Duane Allman and Berry Oakley performing together before they were summoned to Heaven -the recordings are so good-it's like being in the front row at the Fillmore again.Gregg Allman was amazing also- His voice and Hammond are the best combo you'll ever hear."
"At times, it is soft and saucy relying on Duane Allman's guitar, at other times, it is hard rolling highway music driven by the drums and bass. While I am not totally happy with the mix-down engineer's choice of where to place the instruments (the lead guitar shouldn't be in the left rear channel), and I would like a two channel mix, all music, particularly of this quality, deserves better than the CD format."
"Great booklet !"
"One of the greatest rock concerts ever!"
"The Allman Brothers at the Fillmore East is, without a doubt, the greatest live album. ever recorded."
"Never owned this album back in the day."
Best Traditional Blues
Double vinyl edition of their classic album which was released in October 2007.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"She has a beautiful voice but the style of her music just doesn't resonate with me."
"The harmonies on this album are beautifully sung, the songs often mysterious and intriguing, and addictive."
"Plant reins in his blues metal shout and meshes with alison’s ethereal bluegrass country voice to produce a stunning vocal blend that perfectly matches the eclectic material."
"Burnett provides an aural atmosphere in which Krauss can apply her considerable talents in new and different ways and Plant can draw upon his obvious love of Americana (his cover of Fats Domino's "Valley of Tears" from earlier that same year being just one example, and his cover of "Little Sister" with Rockpile in the 1979 Concert for Kampuchea being another -- make no mistake, Plant didn't veer from "Immigrant Song" into "Stick With Me Baby" out of the blue; such music as appears on this CD was important to him all along)."
"Lead Zeppelin and Union Station, hard rock and bluegrass, here the "twain shall meet.""
"Robert Plant and Alison Krauss may hit the high point of this unanticipated collaboration on track 2, 'Killing the Blues'. They do and undo the blues, bending their unlikely alliance to the service of wistfulness, regret, memory, and--occasionally--hope."
"The first important clue as to why this unlikely combination would blend to perfection is the innate rare tonalities of both Alison and Robert's voices. It is an almost given with at-home quality, that Robert Plant should sing slow bluesy melodies to acoustic guitars and even a fiddle or harmonica in the soup. But, the Burnett experiment strikes gold when Alison Krauss's voice is mixed razor edge close behind Robert's and the melancholy is so heavy thick in the room all carried with an electric guitar in tremolo."
"Let me begin by stating that I am NOT a fan of country or bluegrass music...that said, I found this album to be terrific."
Best Vocal Blues
Hear the reigning queen of cool jazz croon her way through 11 of her best tunes on this greatest hits collection.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Yes, many great blues ladies have been tryin' to replace you, Etta, but none have even came close to equalin' you."
"Love this CD,I hadn't previously had any Etta James in my music collection and I think this disc is a good place to start."
"I was concerned about the "remastering" but the qualitly is great."
"Etta...one of, and arguably the best female Blues/Jazz/Soul singer of all time...(certainly of her era and among her contemporaries), leaves us this album as evidence of that fact."
"I remembered her songs from my younger years and then when we watched the documentary on Muscle Shoals Studio I was reminded of her again."
"Great to remember the original artist and voice."
Best Philly Soul
Contains all of their classic Atlantic hits and more, including eight Top 20 pop smashes!
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Classic group."
"This CD is one of my favorites."
"still singing and dancing."
"Good arrangement too, and great songs!"
"The spinners is one of the best groups I have ever heard."
Best Blues Rock
No Track Information Available Media Type: CD Artist: PAGE,JIMMY & BLACK CROWES Title: LIVE AT THE GREEK Street Release Date: 07/04/2000. Domestic Genre: ROCK/POP. The Zep covers, which account for 14 of the 20 tracks, stay close to the original arrangements--you can sing along most of the way based on your knowledge of the Zep studio albums.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This is a monumental live show, Chris Robinson handles the vocals with a so much power and flair. If you love Zep,the Crowes, or just plain old live rock and roll, this is one CD you want to add to your musical arsenal."
"Simply wonderful."
"The Black Crowes blend so perfectly with Jimmy Page's guitar genius."
"Easily one of my favorite concerts of all time."
"First and foremost, this is the best recording of a live performance I've ever heard (I'm 65 and have heard a lot)."
"Awesome release!!!"
Best Southern Soul
The Very Best splits ballads and up-tempo stuff half-and-half, letting you hear the great one's humanity in every mood--the pile-driving rock of "Respect," the preaching fervor of "Try a Little Tenderness," the nascent reflection of "Dock of the Bay."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Love Otis Redding."
"it is hard to mess up a CD so what can ya say - deliver was on time and it plays perfectly - great addition to my music collection."
"Timeless love songs, beautifully delivered."
"Can't beat Otis."
"Love everything Otis Redding!!!!"