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❝ This is not a record for everyone.
❝ John Hammond had unearthed the Rosetta Stone of rock
❝ If you place one of the two optical discs in the player, you hear a man playing a guitar.
❝ Some things don’t happen by chance. It is no coincidence that B.B. King has the word King as part of his name.
❝ Spending 70 euros for a concert of not even an hour and a half might seem like madness, but seeing a music legend perform live with such passion has a value that goes far beyond those 70 euros
❝ BB King’s sound is not the sound of Blues, it is "a" sound of Blues.
❝ So Burnin’ was and remains, in the end, Hooker’s show—a thoroughbred, not tamed but energized by his own band.
❝ A deep and cavernous voice, raw and visceral, bold and insolent, evocative and sensual, in a word incomparable.
❝ Yes! This is truly the great John Lee Hooker!
❝ "My hero? Definitely Muddy Waters... I know his music well, it's sublime. I also know him personally, a true gentleman, quite the opposite of me..."
❝ From Mississippi to Chicago. A fateful move for the king of blues.
❝ In short, the electrifying energy that runs through it from start to finish, without any drop in tension.
❝ Listen, the blues are the roots and all other forms of music are the fruits. The roots need to be preserved to yield good fruit. The blues are the roots of all music and as long as there's music, there will be blues.
❝ Chicago Blues owes a lot to him, and he owes much to Chicago Blues.
❝ Waters and Dixon, one a great interpreter, the other a composer, producer, bassist, and talent scout, provided a greater contribution to the affirmation of Chicago Blues than anyone else.
❝ "This is dog shit!"
❝ Did you see that drive, that groove?
❝ If you don't know him (is that possible?), listen to these recordings and the primal howl of Mr. Wolf; I assure you, it will never leave you.
❝ If only one name from the entire history of rock remains in a hundred years, it will inevitably be Jimi Hendrix, said Pete Townshend.
❝ Here. In about two minutes, Jimi Hendrix one day decided to show us his soul and we all realized that his soul was so, so beautiful.
❝ Hendrix and the completely still and mesmerized audience in front of this being who came from who knows where to express everything he had inside with the howls he managed to produce from his guitar..
❝ Sweet Tea is nothing but an extremely gritty, raw blues record, with nothing sweet about it.
❝ Buddy Guy this time leaves the electric guitar at home and doesn’t leave it because he forgot... quite the opposite... he leaves it because this time he doesn’t need it, this time a good acoustic guitar and a good microphone are enough and more to create yet another great blues masterpiece.
❝ How many guitar styles this artist has influenced is impossible to say, but it is worth remembering how a great like Eric Clapton said that his career as a musician was strongly influenced by him.
❝ «That man was the king»
❝ A man, a guitar, a music tormented and spirited. Tons of craft and gallons of sweat...take it or leave it!
❝ They call it stormy monday, but tuesday's just as bad
❝ “Never judge a book by its cover”
❝ I’m the one who opened a lot of doors, but I was left holding the knob in my hand.
❝ One Sunday around 1920, Sam Hopkins approached a blind and very fat man who was playing for a few hundred people; it was Blind Lemon Jefferson who, that very same day, taught him a few harmonic progressions.
❝ The historic meeting between two legends of electric blues, an unmissable album, an unforgettable jam session, an extraordinary and unfortunately unrepeatable event... all this and much more in this wonderful CD/DVD that is absolutely unmissable for anyone who loves blues and good music.
❝ Albert King: one of the most important and influential bluesmen of all time, perhaps always a bit overshadowed by the rivalry with his coeval friend B.B. King, but certainly not less important than the great "Blues Boy";
❝ The godfather of electric Blues, ladies and gentlemen, Albert King.
❝ A difficult city to live in, Chicago of the last century, if you are black and penniless.
❝ Unmissable, for aficionados and not.
❝ How much I adored that refined touch, that artistic elegance, and the style always precise and impeccable.
❝ The true gem of this album remains "Tears In Heaven" – inspired by the tragic passing of his little son – and a timeless hit.
❝ It must be said that this is one of the seminal albums of electric blues.
❝ Unplugged songs (as we would say now!) recorded in the span of a single night (!!) in Copenhagen in 1963
❝ "I don’t play rock'n'roll, just raw and naked blues." (Mississippi Fred McDowell)
❝ «Fred was surprised when he noticed I admired his music so much that I visited him for several nights to record everything he played. He kept telling me he didn’t play like the other musicians he knew. In my opinion, he’s simply a modest man because the great blues tradition runs pure and deep within him, and no note in any performance lacks a sweet touch of melancholy.»
❝ Throughout its history, blues has had three kings: almost everyone knows who B.B. King is, many know who Albert King is, and probably far fewer know who Freddie King is.
❝ Over these 60 years, countless artists have tied their image to the Telecaster, just think of Muddy Waters, Bruce Springsteen, Keith Richards, true music legends, but only one has earned the title of "Master of the Telecaster": Albert Collins.
❝ They thought we were too loud, but damn it, I had four military blankets folded over my amp, and the volume was at 2. I’m used to playing on 10!
❝ The helicopter that was supposed to take him to Chicago crashed on a hill just a few minutes after takeoff on the night of August 27, 1990.
❝ this collection of 10 tracks can be more than satisfactory for those who wish to approach one of the most significant rock blues artists of all time
❝ The album can be considered an unplugged ante-litteram, in which there is a perfect blend between the most sophisticated and the rawest blues; the 7 tracks are very long (7 minutes on average) and structured, with significant contributions from the horns both in embroidery and solo sections.
❝ I share the opinion of some critics: the importance that Miles Davis had in the realm of jazz, John Mayall had in blues, particularly for the English scene.
❝ John Mayall is perhaps the greatest figure in white rock-blues of all time, and one of the major protagonists of the "British Blues" movement that brought, thanks to enthusiasts of this music that so greatly influenced rock, blues to become music for white audiences as well.
❝ Always away from the spotlight yet appreciated by his peers, our Jay Jay (actually John Weldon) Cale offers us with this sixth album, dated 1981, another lineup of tasty tracks with a cohesive, concise, and recognizable overall sound.
❝ Reclusive and reserved character, John Weldon Cale is one of the most important musicians who came to prominence in the 1960s-1970s.
❝ Jean Jacques Cale, a perfect unknown to most, is one of those artists who carries with him a timeless charm due, in addition to the quality of his music, to his anti-star attitude, always far from the limelight.
❝ Sometimes a journalist would come to me and say that he didn't think there was a white man who could really play the blues well, white people couldn't have lived the same life experiences as black people. I'd look him in the face and reply that maybe he'd never heard people like Mike Bloomfield play...
❝ A guitarist of purest talent, always in search of the magic note, instead of being a mere interpreter, he gave a new guise to music, conveying emotions, the same emotions he experienced himself.
❝ It seems, however, that on the morning of the second recording day, the spontaneous Bloomfield, debilitated by severe insomnia (and heroin) issues, left a nice note saying something like "Dear Alan, I didn't sleep well, I went home. Sorry. Mike."
❝ "Led Zeppelin? What's that?"
❝ "Best Band, Ever"
❝ 1967 was the year when singer Bob Hite, nicknamed "The Bear," along with guitarist Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson, formed one of the greatest and most important blues bands in history: the Canned Heat.
❝ Canned Heat is the best white blues band that ever existed, they are all soul and little technique.
❝ the legendary "Going Up The Country," showcasing the joy of country life among carefree flutes, psychedelic sounds and vocals, and lively boogie rhythms.
❝ “At the moment, Rory Gallagher!”
❝ “Overwhelming.”
❝ “Irish Rory Gallagher has been one of the best rock-blues guitarists of all time.”
❝ “Georgia On My Mind”: simply celestial, a song that needs no comments, Ray's masterpiece
❝ There’s all the blues in this album, and that’s that.
❝ The soundtrack of this film is, just to repeat myself, fantastic.
❝ Impossible not to affirm that what comes out is an absolute masterpiece.
❝ Year 1968, “Wheels Of Fire” by the British Cream. The pinnacle of their short but very dense career.
❝ Cream’s performances are intense and captivating, with extremely long solos and improvisations at the end, at high volume and energy.
❝ The Animals revived the old black tradition and gave it a sound slap to free it from austerity and academic formalities (namely, the ills that have plagued the genre, sometimes relegating it to cocktail music, although fortunately a good part of it continued to carry forward its visceral nature).
❝ A band of true rock blues purists, on par with the contemporary Rolling Stones, with a singer like Eric Burdon whose intense singing style would also inspire other subsequent rockers like Jim Morrison and Joe Cocker.
❝ If we go back to the sixty years of the "British Invasion", when many were singing the blues, no white singer had a soul as black as Eric Burdon;
❝ Here is music that transmits something essential and precious to the soul, something so powerful and profound that one almost fears to use words.
❝ In my view, Johnson remains the best interpreter of gospel blues, who managed to maintain the light of black church songs with the dark magma of the rawest blues.
❝ More than a century after his passage on this vile earth, his voice still gives us chills.
❝ In the summer of 1992, a new Neapolitan artist, previously unknown, emerged on the Italian music scene: Joe Sarnataro.
❝ Among the various songs performed by Sandro, the Sanremo hits “Signora mia”, “Gli occhi verdi di tua madre”, ''Sarà la nostalgia'', couldn’t be missing, sung by everyone, men and women alike, in a nostalgic choir (pardon the pun).
❝ For nostalgia enthusiasts and lovers of the melodic/romantic genre, there couldn't be anyone missing but him, the legendary Sandro Giacobbe.
❝ 'Stop that damn Welshman', I shout at the improbable defenders as that devil in the red jersey forcefully approaches the penalty area after about 50 minutes of idleness.
❝ Blood, sweat, and tears was SRV's motto regarding his way of playing, as well as a perfect description of the kind of timbre he sought.
❝ "Sometimes what appear as failures, are really successes in disguise"
❝ Thus, our cowboy starts from Austin, Texas, and travels across the entire star-spangled nation, shooting guitar solos and blues songs.
❝ ...The three great B's of classical music were Beethoven, Brahms, and Bach, today the three great B's of blues are Bloomfield, Bishop, and Butterfield...
❝ The blues in its true form is a reflection of a man's life and comes from personal experiences, both good and bad. I acknowledge that I have unintentionally hurt many people, left friends, and now the only thing worth living for is the blues
❝ “Bluesbreakers With Eric Clapton” marked an indelible turning point for blues and rock blues, laying the foundation for the subsequent hard and heavy evolution: it influenced many musicians, and bands like Cream, Led Zeppelin, and Free, just to name a few, certainly owe something to this record.
❝ I believe that John Mayall is the most important white Blues musician, and he has been since the sixties when, with his Bluesbreakers, he took on the role of a true pioneer of the British blues revival.
❝ He was not only a prominent and central figure of Chicago blues but was also fundamental for being the musician who bridged rural blues and urban blues, uniquely blending folk, spiritual, work songs, and ragtime.
❝ Do you want to tell me where you're headed, Travis?
❝ It took a sensitive, attentive, and curious artist like Ry Cooder to bring this story of ordinary injustice back to light and decipher it in fifteen splendid songs, which reveal the uncertain boundary between melancholy and the warm vitality of the human spirit.
❝ Immense album.
❝ "I know what a guitarist should be like. He should be like Johnny Winter, his slide technique is like a Picasso painting. He's Johnny, the Picasso of the Blues!" Leslie West, guitarist of the Mountain...
❝ He was the whitest bluesman there was, but also one of the closest to the soul of the blacks, the one indispensable for making true blues, music that becomes simple only when you "enter" with your own soul before your musical abilities. Thank you so much for your music and rest in peace Johnny, we here continue to listen to you.
❝ With Stevie Ray Vaughan, Johnny Winter is the prototype of the modern Blues Rock guitarist.
❝ A legend of the blues harmonica!
❝ "the greatest blues singer of all time"
❝ If Mahalia Jackson is "Lady Gospel," if Aretha Franklin is "Lady Soul," and Billie Holiday is "Lady Jazz," Etta James was surely "Lady Blues."
If Mahalia Jackson is "Lady Gospel," if Aretha Franklin is "Lady Soul," and Billie Holiday is "Lady Jazz," Etta James was surely "Lady Blues."
❝ Tell Mama is one of those magical and enchanted records that after listening to it for the first time, you know you can't do without it.
Tell Mama is one of those magical and enchanted records that after listening to it for the first time, you know you can't do without it.
❝ But there's one thing many don't know: Den Harrow didn't sing. I mean, he put his, forgive me, silly face, and someone else sang for him, while the good Den just moved his lips.
❝ Huddie William Ledbetter, better known by the nickname Lead Belly, is a pillar of folk blues (if we really want to give him a label), but his repertoire is much broader, ranging from songs inspired by labor camps, to spirituals, to popular ballads.
❝ Huddie William Leadbetter aka Lead Belly is GOD to me, no artist will ever come close to his class.
❝ "Sgt Pepper? A piece of crap"
❝ "I've told you a thousand times, it's only rock & roll, but apparently you like it."
❝ Here is an immensely important album, a product of the famous 1967.
❝ If the importance of the seminal West Side Soul was underrated by some critics and found little reception in today's scene, this second work Black Magic faces even more skepticism and less popularity.
❝ This is not meant to be a review, but just an emotion.
❝ Yes, because the Blues is not colored.
❝ The simplicityis great and ephemeral, that's what blues is, take it or leave it.
❝ A blues at the end of the world. From the heart of the earth.
❝ A music as simple in inspiration and intention as it is complex and dense in results, which is capable of bringing you closer to the Big Bang, to the moment when the first melodies were released.
❝ Janis doesn't sing like others, she screams her need to be loved!
❝ Janis Joplin: one of the greatest "white" voices to sing "black" music (forget about Eminem...). This album was released posthumously in early 1971, a few months after Janis had already left us (she died in October '70). The album is the true masterpiece of this sad, melancholic woman, who searched for love she never found.
❝ Listening to "Pearl" is like making love with 25,000 people, savoring in the air the scent of those years, then falling asleep with Janis by your side.
❝ Page’s guitar here you hear as much as Muddy’s in “Waters At Newport 1960”—practically nothing!
❝ Works lacking inventiveness and light-years away from that three-dimensional sound that the Led had managed to invent.
❝ …unleashing Page in “Heartbreaker”: everything stops for the master’s solo.
❝ Gary Davis began to lose his sight in the first weeks of life, very early he became interested in music and by the age of 7 he built his first guitar from a household pan and in addition learned banjo and harmonica.
❝ For many critics, the artistic end of the Rolling Stones coincides with the departure of the skilled guitar of Mick Taylor, who from '69 to '74 formed a formidable duo with Keith Richards, with perfect harmony.
❝ A fascinating character, John Campbell, a man always on the road, with a powerful, deep, and "dark" voice - like a Cohen of the Delta - that speaks of deserted roads, of horizons never reached, of love never resolved, of jealousy and vengeance, of eternal damnation.
❝ Howlin' Mercy is one of the darkest albums ever, without violating the limits of listenability: and it is a miracle, no matter how diabolic it may appear.
❝ A blues record cannot be explained ortold, it has to be listened to and lived with all the soul you possess.
❝ Someone said that Roy Buchanan was “the best unknown guitarist in the world.”
❝ In conclusion, an instrumental album of rare beauty, by a guitarist unjustly forgotten but clearly superior (in many respects) to many others who are much more acclaimed.
❝ He was great, very great, the best guitarist I have ever seen. (Robbie Robertson)
❝ It is difficult to attempt to classify or even describe in broad terms the sonic chaos that comprises "Trout Mask Replica"
❝ Because I didn't understand a damn thing.
❝ Critics have slaughtered it, purists hate it, it seems even Captain Beefheart disowned it... yet "Unconditionally Guaranteed" is perfect.
❝ Expressing quality, musical intellect, and even virtuosity within the realm of the Italian pop song is a complex and delightful exercise.
❝ Finally, Alex Britti manages to produce the best he could propose: Mojo, an all-instrumental album of "blues and beyond."
❝ Let me say this guys: Alex Britti is a great guitarist, and you can’t disagree.
❝ A debut with a bang.
❝ In conclusion, "The Natch'l Blues" is an excellent (soft) blues album that offers 37 minutes of pure relaxation, ideal for starting a day or giving a smile, simply the artist's highest point alongside the subsequent "Giant Step/De Ole Folks At Home" which in the future will show particular interest in African music, funk, and world music.
❝ Paying homage to Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye, passing through T-Bone Walker and jazz pianist Horace Silver, Taj Mahal creates a homogeneous album (winner of a Grammy for Best Contemporary Blues Album) despite the diversity of genres interpreted, fun and fresh from the first to the last note.
❝ What is certain is that Holiday herself considered this her most successful album.
❝ In this album, the essence of a soul: pure poetry and true suffering blended in a voice that will testify to the human condition even a thousand years from now.
❝ An entire world encapsulated in just three songs.
❝ What is the epic sound?
❝ If your name is Nick Cave, you can also delve into cinema and bring to the big screen sinister sounds of dark beauty.
❝ “Smash my guitar against the wall so I can die peacefully”
❝ Yet, death is his true obsession.
❝ This is the gift of John Fahey’s music.
❝ Understand, the record is often cataloged as a Rolling Stones release but in fact, it isto be credited to Nicky Hopkins (the Edward in the title) and Ry Cooder accompanied by the Stones’ rhythm section, and this is evident through listening to the six tracks where the keyboardist and guitarist take the lead.
❝ A record of notable inspiration, minimal means, and great expressiveness, recommended not only to those looking for hidden gems in the undergrowth of the 80s but also to fans of the most visceral blues.
❝ The voice of the damned, the cries of the desperate, the bites of sudden withdrawal, just one shot, one injection to go, along the grooves of this Ep.
❝ Thus, in 1990 the album that solidifies the Blues Punk talent of the Laughing Hyenas is born.
❝ If one had to use a single word to define the musical style of Robert Pete Williams, that word could be: primitive.
❝ “The album that made a generation of record sellers happy” (Paolo Madeddu)
❝ an atypical, crazy, delirious, sarcastic, mocking, insane, startling, adrenaline-fueled, nervous, angry, in some ways genius album
❝ Sometimes, a song's verse is enough to express what a thousand words of any speech wouldn't be able to.
❝ Wo Fat believe in the Riff.
❝ A "sonic brawl"; Heavy/Southern/Stoner/Blues to listen to from the bottom of a glass, smoking exhaust pipes to better grasp its hallucinatory vein.
❝ Four substantial tracks and a seventeen-minute suite, for a total of forty-five minutes of music.
❝ perhaps the most beautiful song ever to come out of Maiden's mind
❝ The "Iron Maiden" were thus a group of hard-rock and blues, who along with the "Black Sabbath" laid the foundations for rock and metal for years to come.
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❝ A virtuoso guitarist with the purest and most crystalline class as well as a refined and cultured touch, also a result of his classical guitar studies, he recorded this album in 1965, including pieces written by himself alongside classics of British tradition, as was the custom among many folk musicians of the era ("Winter Is Gone", "Beth’s Blues" or "Candy Man" being examples).
❝ "Stand quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself" (ancient ZEN saying).
❝ "Satori" is not a masterpiece, it is a very good album.
❝ Pino Scotto, like it or not, is a cult figure in the Italian hard'n'heavy scene:
❝ About forty minutes of pure and genuine hard rock, direct, powerful, with a perfect production.
❝ In conclusion, this is undoubtedly Pino Scotto's best solo album.
❝ "Well, many of the songs, they aren't sad, they're hopeless"
❝ Sorrow and solitude these are the precious things and the only words that are worth rememberin'
❝ “Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the world; I would say it in front of Dylan with my boots on his table”
❝ David 'Junior' Kimbrough was born in Mississippi.
❝ An album unfairly dismissed.
❝ A varied album, therefore, a classic American HIGHWAY record that you can listen to without too many pretensions.
❝ And on the seventh day God created Long Cold Winter, and the word spread in the air.
❝ It's a bit sad to see Otis Rush's page so empty, no one bothering to define him or review his album, as if he were the last of the losers, poor guy...
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