-- Ten Years After - Pure Blues | (Audio CD) MSRP $ 16.98 Amazon Price $ 14.99 Savings $ 1.99 | |  Release Date: 26 September, 1995, Capitol
TRACK LISTING - Don`t Want You Woman
- The Bluest Blues
- I Woke Up This Morning
- Real Life Blues
- The Stomp
- Slow Blues In `C`
- Wake Up Moma
- Talk Don`t Bother Me
- Every Blues You`ve Ever Heard
- I Get All Shook Up
- Lost In Love
- Help Me
- Outside My Window
Usually ships in 24 hours | | | Best blues/rock composite ever | This is an AMAZING album with absolutely no soft spots. These are songs all written by the amazing and underated Alvin Lee. Most of the songs are played with Alvin as a solo artist with his band.
This CD totally smashes the totally inaccurate view that Alvin Lee is is just someone who plays very fast and the star of Woodstock 69, although that is true. The man has soul.
Alvin`s assortment of Blues is amazing and you can hear his creativity explode with the songs he plays FREE of the limitations of his old, original backup band from Ten Years After.
Best song on this, in my opinion and about my favorite song of all time is "The Bluest Blues", where Alvin is trading lead with George Harrison`s piecing slide guitar and Jon Lord on the keyboard.
I really hope that this opens the door for people to look at Alvin`s solo efforts with the Alvin Lee Band which are wonderful in they`re musicianship, style and variety. | | | | The Overshadowed Talent of Alvin Lee | | Not taking anything away from the talents of Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Buddy Guy, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, even B.B. King, and many other great blues guitarist of both tbe present and the past, but somewhere along the way the critics overlooked the exceptional talent and power of Alvin Lee. His soulful blues guitar playing on "Bluest Blues" is without a doubt one of the all-time greatest tracks that I have ever had the pleasure to listen to in my lifetime, and all by itself is worthy of the price of this album. Alvin, if you should happen to read this, be assured that by my standards they gave the title "God" to the wrong guitarslinger; and, Eric you might even agree when listening to Bluest Blues! It just doesn`t get any better for a blues afecionado that this!!!! | | | | A BLUES/ROCK GEM | | IF YOU ARE READING THIS YOU MUST HAVE BEEN GUIDED HERE BY A BLUES DEITY AND YOU SHOULD THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS--5 OF THEM. THIS CD IS A COMPILATION OF ALVIN LEE`S BEST BLUES/ROCK NUMBERS OVER THE PAST 28 YEARS AND DEMONSTARTES ALVIN LEE`S MUSICAL TALENTS AND VERSATILITY. ON VARIOUS TRACKS MR. LEE SINGS AND PLAYS BASS, PIANO, DRUMS, GUITAR AND VOX NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT ALL BUT ONE SONG, "HELP ME" ARE ALVIN LEE ORIGINALS. AS AN ADDED BONUS, THREE TRACKS ALSO FEATURE GEORGE HARRISON ON THE SLIDE GUITAR. SINCE THIS BAND ORDINARILY PLAYS ROCK MUSIC, BLUES FANS WOULD HAVE TO LOCATE AND BUY 8 OF THEIR CD`S/ALBUMS TO OTHERWISE HEAR THESE GEMS AND YOU WOULD STILL BE MISSING :OUTSIDE MY WINDOW" WHICH WAS PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED. A HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BUY! | | |
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