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Skin Deep

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Chicago Blues
by: Buddy Guy

July 22, 2008
This new CD from Buddy Guy is outstanding. Not only his talent but the people he uses to complete the selection of songs is worth every penney!

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Hoodoo Man Blues

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Chicago Blues
by: Junior Wells

June 10, 1993
There are fine reviews of this CD, some with historical background,. others, with an appreciative ear, most know better, esp. more than me.

I would only suggust that Jr. Wells, Buddy Guy, Jack Myers, oughta try to get reparations from Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Siegal-Schwall Band, Electric Flag, and all other Chicago imitative blues bands.

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Riding with the King

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Chicago Blues
by: Eric Clapton B. B. King

June 13, 2000
This is not a serious BLUES ALBUM. It is fun to listen to......but I exspected a much more serious SONG SELECTION for these 2 great singers. The "TITLE SONG", is some-what of a joke song. The song "DAY's OF OLD", just doesn't sound like blues. And "I WANNA BE", sounds almost like a rock ANTHEM. The rest is really good, but at 12 songs it's rather short. I would suggest, since BB KING is 82 yrs. old, that these guys get back together and make a serious sounding......DEEP.....blues album ( OLD GRITTY, RAW BLUES SONGS ). BB ain't going to be around forever ( THOUGH HE SINGS LIKE IT ), so hurry up...CLAPTON.

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Super Session

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Chicago Blues
by: Bloomfield, Kooper, Stills

April 08, 2003
"Stop" never fails to get me, no matter how many listens. Same thing with "Albert's Shuffle", w/ or w/o horns. All in all, a brilliant album.

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His Best :(Little Walter)The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Chicago Blues
by: Little Walter

June 17, 1997
Picture yourself in a crowded juke joint or blues bar on the southside of Chicago in the late '40's. Muddy Waters is about to play. He's already gone electric; I mean, he had to, to be heard over all the talking and yelling and what not. His harp player has about blown out a lung trying to be heard over all that din. Walter Jacobs has been doing a bit of experimenting himself, in an attempt to amplify the sound of that little instrument. Tonight he actually grabs the microphone off the stand, bumping it up close enough in his clasped hands to touch the harp. He cranks up the volume and starts to blow. The sound coming out of the amp is unlike anything anyone's ever heard. It's got a deep, heavy, honking, sexy wail, nothing at all like the unamplified harmonica ... Read More:

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Midnight Blues

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Chicago Blues
by: Magic Slim & the Teardrops

September 09, 2008
Didn't get excited about Magic Slim & the Teardrops the first time I heard them. Big, greasy Willie Johnson guitar work, Jimmy Reed slurred vocals, same fatback backbeat drums, nothing special about the setlist. Didn't get excited about Magic Slim & the Teardrops the second time I heard them, either, and so on and so forth through a lot of years to the present.
The thing is, during all those years, Willie Johnson and Jimmy Reed were passing away, and other road acts billing themselves as Chicago blues acts either lost track of the attitude or burned out. Magic Slim & the Teardrops are still enthusiastically at it, doing those songs that way because that's what they do and that's the way they like to do them, no matter who or what else they may see or ... Read More:

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Trouble Is...

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Chicago Blues
by: The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band

October 07, 1997
AGAIN, KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD'S "TROUBLE IS...",WILL BE AN OUTSTANDING CD IN YOUR COLLECTION!!!! YOU WILL NEVER GET TIRED OF HEARING THIS MUSIC. KWS IS THE LIVING KING OF GUITARIST AND NOAH HUNT ON VOCALS WILL ALWAYS BE IN YOUR HEART. THEIR MUSIC IS SMOOTH, WILD, SOULFUL, YOU NEVER GET TIRED OF IT!!! SEE THEM LIVE!!!!

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His Best

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Chicago Blues
by: Sonny Boy Williamson

May 20, 1997
I am amazed that this cost so little, but was SOOOOO good. Sonnny Boy II is (IMHO) the better of the Sonny Boys. A lot of people will justifiably rave about his skill on the harp, but do not let that distract you from his vocals. This performer has a tremendous voice.
Sonny Boy Williamson II is a complete blues package, musician and vocalist.

Although he is a polished performer, there is still a huge amount of emotion that comes through his work.

This recording is very clear and enjoyable, which is very good, considering the time and recording technology available when the originals were made. (No, it's not Alan Lomax recording in hotel rooms, but still . . . . .)

If you liked this, you might want to consider looking at "King ... Read More:

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The Definitive Collection

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Chicago Blues
by: Muddy Waters

May 23, 2006
There is a huge amount of Muddy Waters-compilations out there, and while MCA/Chess's two-disc, 50-track "Anthology 1947-1972" is certainly more definitive than this Geffen compilation, it does offer a very good overview of Muddy Waters' career.

Opening with the classic 1948 single "I Can't Be Satisfied", this CD takes you through (most of) the highlights from the 1950s and 60s. "Hoochie Coochie Man", "I'm Ready", "I Just Wanna Make Love To You", "Mannish Boy", and "Got My Mojo Working" are here, of course, and in the original versions, too, but it's a shame that some slightly lesser known (but equally fine) singles like "I Love The Life I Live, I Live The Life I Love", "She's Nineteen Years Old" and "I Want To Be Loved" are missing.

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Buddy's Baddest: The Best of Buddy Guy

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Chicago Blues
by: Buddy Guy

June 15, 1999
I like "Damn Right, I've Got the Blues" better, but this is still great. I loved Stevie Ray Vaughn, and since Buddy played at the last concert Stevie ever gave, I looked forward to hearing the instrumental tribute to him. I wasn't disappointed. Anybody who thinks Chicago blues is always loud and driving should listen hard to that one. Like any great music, there's more than one way to be blue. Yeah, Buddy.