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Stevie Ray Vaughan - Greatest Hits

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Blues
by: Stevie Ray Vaughan

October 31, 1995
The name of this album should be "I Am the Greatest!" because that is what this album is for Stevie Ray. Any blues/rock lover will absolutely wear this CD out because it is the vary essence of SRV music. The only CD left to buy is his Live at Austin City Limits, his best performance ever in my opinion!

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Broken Lands

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Blues
by: Indigenous

August 19, 2008
I love this C.D. The band has a lot of variety in their music. The are authentic Native Americans and they sound just great.
This is a great band and a great CD.
CCL

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Grapefruit Moon: The Songs Of Tom Waits

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Blues
by: Southside Johnny, La Bamba's Big Band

September 02, 2008
I have a soft spot for Southside & co., and think the first three Jukes albums are great pieces, in the same way the first three Boz Scaggs albums on Columbia are great.

BUT...I never took him or the band entirely seriously; they were more in the line of 'real good local guys who got a big hand up from Springsteen and Van Zandt.' In other words, I was not entirely sure what Southside brought to the game.

I get it now; this is the work of considerable musicians who are technically solid, and loaded with soul - and with the kind of self control you only get on *great* big band records. Southside's a helluva singer, and gets to the heart of Waits' songs - if you can't hear the music in Waits' own records because the instruments ... Read More:

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Nights in Rodanthe

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Blues
by: Original Soundtrack

September 23, 2008
Hi - I am an Aussie bloke who saw the film with my girl last night and I loved it and thought it was an ok movie.
There is a piece of music in the film where they are enjoying a BBQ on the pier. An old man starts to sing with a fiddle (violin) playing as his musical backup. Is this piece of music on the original soundtrack and if not, does anybody know what it is and where I can buy it?
It was just fabulous. There was so much feeling and meaning by the old man singing the song, it made the price of the movie ticket well worth it.

Good movie - it beats the hell out of seeing 453 "4 wheel drive Hummers" exploding in a thousand pieces on 5th Avenue.

What really enoys me (and I have fallen for it many times), many original ... Read More:

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Unplugged

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Blues
by: Eric Clapton

August 25, 1992
This cd is worthy of its reputation, and is the last great recording by Eric Clapton. "Malted Milk", "Walkin' Blues", "Layla", which he was able to successfully alter to fit an acoustic setting, "Nobody Know You When You're Down & Out", the classic made famous by Bessie Smith and later covered by an aged Scrapper Blackwell, and "Tears In Heaven", are all exceptionally great tracks. "Hey Hey" is not one of Broonzy's better songs, so I'm not sure why Clapton chose to record it. "Old Love" is mediocre, but "Running On Faith" is wonderfully done. This disc would have been even better if Clapton would have performed the material solo, much like the legendary Bluesmen he so greatly admired used to do, day in and day out. However, he has admitted in interviews ... Read More:

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Vantage Point

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Blues
by: Chris Duarte

September 09, 2008
If great guitar-playing is what you enjoy ... what are you waiting for ?
Duarte sets a new standard for guitar solos on this one. Stop reading this and go get it.

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Pay Me No Mind

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Blues
by: The Homemade Jamz Blues Band

June 10, 2008
The service from this supplier was very prompt!

This is a very talented group, would love to see more from them.

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The Blues Brothers: Original Soundtrack Recording

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Blues
by: The Blues Brothers

August 29, 1995
great service, great cd, love to order from amazon!My five year old grand-son loves to listen to this cd. I sat on the old one and broke it, so had to get one here quick!

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The Best of Bonnie Raitt

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Blues
by: Bonnie Raitt

September 30, 2003
I never, met Bonnie, but I knew her former boyfriend, Dick Waterman, who managed the old timers, like Son House, Fred McDowell, Skip James, as well, as back then Buddy Guy, Jr. Wells, and Luther Allison.
Bonnie cut her eye teeth playing with the old guys, learning that bottleneck thing, and she does justice to it. Just as John Mooney, who learned from Son House, does.
BTW, I recorded Eddie'Son'House in the fall of 1969 in my dorm room, before that fateful day when some kids, wanting to learn bottleneck, gave him a jug of wine. One bitter cold night in Rochester, a snowdrift, and frost-bitten fingers...and Son House's career was history.

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The Road to Escondido

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Blues
by: J.J. Cale, Eric Clapton

November 07, 2006
This cd is in the laid-back style of JJ Cale. At first, it seemed almost too uneventfull, but with repeated listenings, I've come to appreciate its subtlety more and more.

If you happen to be preparing for an MMA fight, this isn't likely to be your choice for training music. If, on the other hand, you want to get into a mellow mood and smell the flowers for a while, Road to Escondido will take you there in a flash.

I hope there will be a follow-up from these two terrific musicians.