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Martin Scorsese Presents
The Best of the Blues
Columbia/Legacy
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Robert Johnson – Cross Road Blues
Bessie Smith – Muddy Waters
Skip James – Devil Got My Woman
Howlin’ Wolf – Evil (Is Going On)
Muddy Waters (I’m Your) Hoochie Coochie
Man
John Lee Hooker – Boom Boom
Son House – Death Letter Blues
Ray Charles – Hard times
Etta James – I’d Rather Go Blind
B B King – The Thrill is Gone
John Mayall’s Blues Breakers with
Eric Clapton – All your Love
Janis Joplin – One Good Man
Jimi Hendrix Experience – Red House
The Allman Brothers Band – One Way
Out
Steve Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
– Pride And Joy
Keb’ Mo’ – Am I Wrong
Susan Tedeschi – Just Won’t Burn
Los Lobos – Voodoo Music
Cassandra Wilson – Vietnam Blues
Bonnie Raitt – Round and Round
Robert Cray & Shemekia Copeland
– I Pity the Fool
The music for this
album was originally selected for the
film The Blues made by Martin
Scorsese and premiered on PBS TV in
September of this year. He described
the film as a multi-media project to
raise awareness of the blues and it’s
contribution to American culture and
music worldwide. It was shown on TV
in seven parts and traces the blues
from it’s roots in the folk music of
the South to the multi-million pound
industry it is today, pointing out on
the way the many other genre it has
spawned. I have not seen the film, but
I would like to. This album really demonstrates
the diversity of the blues with performances
from great artists, the earliest in
1936 and the latest from this year.
Every track is most enjoyable and it
is easy to understand when you listen
to them, how jazz, rock and roll and
many other genres have been affected
by the blues. Every self-respecting
jazz musician for a start is expected
to be able to deliver a good blues chorus,
just listen to Cassandra Wilson’s performance
on track 19. My complaint with most
single artist blues albums is that too
much of the content sounds the same,
but there is no problem of that kind
each track is different and all are
worthy of multiple listening. This album
will I’m sure be a must for blues fans,
but I recommend it to jazz buffs as
well, there is plenty of good music
here.
Don Mather
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