CD Details
All Artists: Various Artists Title: Mojo Workin: Blues for Next Generation Members Wishing: 1 Total Copies: 0 Label: Sony Original Release Date: 10/7/1997 Release Date: 10/7/1997 Genres: Country, Blues, Pop, Rock, Classic Rock Styles: Chicago Blues, Contemporary Blues, Delta Blues, Vocal Blues, Traditional Blues, Regional Blues, East Coast Blues, Electric Blues, Acoustic Blues, Modern Blues, Slide Guitar Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPCs: 074646521427, 5099748784629 |
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A Blues Smorgasbord Steve Vrana | Aurora, NE | 02/03/2001 (3 out of 5 stars) "In just under an hour this disc takes you on a brief history tour of the blues. Some of these songs are classics, like Blind Willie Johnson's plaintive "Motherless Children" and Robert Johnson's haunting "Cross Road Blues." Kansas Joe and Memphis Minnie's original 1929 "When the Levee Breaks" gives you a chance to hear what the song sounded like before Led Zeppelin rewrote it forty years later. Muddy Water's powerful reworking of his "The Blues Had a Baby and They Named It Rock and Roll" is from his Johnny Winter-produced album Hard Again. Winter's supercharged live version of "Johnny B. Goode" is a smoking take on the Chuck Berry classic--but when was this considered blues? This is immediately followed by Blind Willie McTell's 1931 acoustic blues "Southern Can Is Mine." And it's sequencing like this that emphasizes the scattershot approach of this album. One minute you're listening to the powerful singing of Bessie Smith, next it's Brownie McGhee's country blues "Key to the Highway," followed by the horn-driven Electric Flag's take on Howlin' Wolf's "Killing Floor" with some excellent guitar playing by Michael Bloomfield. Even Tony Russell's brief liner notes fail to make any real direct connection between all of these songs other than some vague concept that everyone at some point has the blues. The album comes full circle with Keb Mo's wonderful Robert Johnson-influenced "Am I Wrong." Most serious blues fans will already have much of this music in their collection. If you're a novice fan, it's hard to argue with the quality of the songs contained on this disc. (Just don't base your entire blues library on this one disc!)"
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