Title: Blues Gold
Artist: Various
Source: 2-CD
Record Label: Hip-O Records
Release Date: January 2006
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Track Listings
Disc: 1
1. (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man - Muddy Waters
2. Hound Dog - Big Mama Thornton
3. Call It Stormy Monday - T-Bone Walker
4. Reconsider Baby - Lowell Fulson
5. Things That I Used to Do - Guitar Slim
6. My Babe - Little Walter
7. I'm a Man - Bo Diddley
8. Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I)
9. I'm a King Bee - Slim Harpo
10. So Many Roads, So Many Trains - Slim Harpo
11. Big Boss Man
12. Spoonful
13. Have You Ever Loved a Woman - Freddie King
14. Drivin' Wheel
15. Turn on Your Love Light - Bobby "Blue" Bland
16. Frosty - Albert Collins
17. Bring It on Home
18. My Time After Awhile - Buddy Guy
19. Hoodoo Man Blues - Junior Wells Chicago Blues Band
20. Wang Dang Doodle - Koko Taylor
21. One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer - John Lee Hooker
Disc: 2
1. Mean Old World - Duane Allman, Eric Clapton
2. All Your Love - John Mayall's Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton,
3. Shake Your Moneymaker - The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
4. Born Under a Bad Sign - Albert King
5. I'd Rather Go Blind - Etta James
6. She Caught the Katy (And Left Me a Mule to Ride) - Taj Mahal
7. Thrill Is Gone - B.B. King
8. If Walls Could Talk - Little Milton
9. Trouble No More [Live] - The Allman Brothers Band
10. Luther's Blues - Luther Allison
11. Down Home Blues - Z.Z. Hill
12. Flood Down in Texas - Stevie Ray Vaughan
13. Bad to the Bone - George Thorogood
14. Smoking Gun - Robert Cray Band
15. Am I Wrong? - Keb' Mo'
16. Good Morning Little School Girl - Jonny Lang,
17. Just Won't Burn - Susan Tedeschi
Review by Doug Levine / VOICE OF AMERICA
The gold connoisseur has seen it all: white gold, green gold, black gold, even fool's gold. But, there's another kind of gold out there, "Blues Gold."That's right, blues music gold. I'm referring to some of the greatest blues masterpieces of all time, like "Call It Stormy Monday" by T-Bone Walker; "Have You Ever Loved A Woman" by Freddie King; and "Hound Dog" by Big Mama Thornton.
These and 35 other classics dating back to 1947 appear on the new compilation album "Blues Gold." There's Delta blues, Chicago blues, rhythm-and-blues, and acoustic blues performed by Eric Clapton and Duane Allman.
Eric Clapton and Duane Allman showed their appreciation for the blues on this 1970 recording, "Mean Old World."
For country blues fans there's singer and guitarist Kevin Moore, better known as Keb' Mo'.
Keb' Mo' is a modern blues giant, literally. Keb' stands almost two meters tall, with or without his guitar.
Where there's "Blues Gold" there's electric blues gold.
Who could forget the opening scene to "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," as a completely naked Arnold Schwarzenegger walks into a bar to this 1982 blues-rocker:
It's not unusual in blues to be linked mainly to one big blues hit: Koko Taylor to "Wang Dang Doodle," Guitar Slim to "The Things That I Used To Do," and George Thorogood and The Destroyers to "Bad To The Bone."
Long live the new generation of blues men and women, represented on "Blues Gold" by rising stars Susan Tedeschi and Jonny Lang.
Review by Steve Vrana / Amazon.com
This thirty-eight track, two-hour-plus anthology does an excellent job of presenting fifty years of blues from the post-World War II era through the present day. Disc one includes such Chicago blues giants as Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf and Buddy Guy who all recorded for Chess. While many of these artists did not enjoy huge crossover success, they influenced everyone from Elvis ("Hound Dog") to the Yarbirds ("I'm a Man"), The Rolling Stones ("I'm a King Bee"), Cream ("Spoonful") and George Thorogood ("One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer"). Every song on disc-one is a classic, from T-Bone Walker's million-selling "Call It Stormy Monday" to Bobby "Blue" Bland's No. 2 R&B hit "Turn on Your Love Light" (which peaked at No. 28 on the pop charts). Disc-one is required listening for anyone with even a remote interest in the blues.
Disc-two, while it includes such blues stalwarts as Albert King, Etta James and B.B. King, focuses more on contemporary standard-bearers. Eric Clapton and Duane Allman perform Little Walter's "Mean Old World" from the LAYLA sessions. The Allman Brothers perform a live version of Muddy Water's "Trouble No More." And a then sixteen-year-old wunderkind Johnny Lang takes on the Sonny Boy Williamson classic "Good Morning Little School Girl." In addition, there are other performances by such modern blues artists as Robert Cray, Keb' Mo' and Susan Tedeschi.
This is by no means an exhaustive look at the blues, but it is a solid collection of the some of the best songs of the genre. And while many of these songs may already be in your music library, it's nice to have them all gathered together in one collection. VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
