Best Of The Blues (Bonus Tracks) (2002)

Product Summary Label: Msi Music UPC: 00724381102527 Release Date: 4/9/2002 Buy.com Sku: 60534308 Item#: M4PRLJ Buy.com Sales Rank: 25050 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 2 Song Title Sample 1. Caldonia - (featuring Albert Collins/Albert King) ~ Gary Moore 2. You Don't Love Me ~ Gary Moore 3. Key To Love ~ Gary Moore 4. Thrill Is Gone, The - (featuring B.B. King) ~ Gary Moore 5. Stormy Monday - (featuring Albert King) ~ Gary Moore 6. Cold, Cold Feeling - (featuring Albert Collins) ~ Gary Moore 7. Further Up The Road - (featuring Albert Collins) ~ Gary Moore 8. Stumble, The ~ Gary Moore 9. Oh Pretty Woman ~ Gary Moore 10. Walking By Myself ~ Gary Moore 11. Too Tired ~ Gary Moore 12. Still Got The Blues ~ Gary Moore 13. All Your Love ~ Gary Moore 14. Midnight Blues ~ Gary Moore   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Personnel includes: Gary Moore, Albert King, Albert Collins, B.B. King. Includes liner notes by Jorgen Holmstedt. A handy and generous double-disc (one live, one studio) compilation of Gary Moore's four Virgin label blues albums is predominantly an excellent introduction to this showy hard rocker turned midlife third-generation bluesman. The 31 tracks liberally sample from his relatively short five-year association with Virgin (roughly 1990-1995) but ignore his excellent 2001 Back to the Blues release on Sanctuary. Still, there are more than enough hot licks here to prove that Moore could be a convincing blues musician if he decided to give up his more ostentatious shred rock profession and focus on blues full time. While purists may gripe as Moore tears off searing, high-voltage riffs on covers of tracks made popular by Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Otis Rush, and John Mayall as well as Freddie, B.B., and Albert King (the latter two along with Albert Collins turn up as guests on both discs), there's no denying the emotional ties the guitarist has to this material or his obvious vocal and instrumental talents. Unfortunately, Blues for Greeny, Moore's successful tribute to philosophical mentor Peter Green, is under-represented with only a handful of cuts, one of which ("Need Your Love So Bad") is presented in an edited single version. Otherwise, this is a well-selected but poorly annotated (bandmembers aren't even mentioned, nor are sources of the songs or when and where the live tracks were recorded) compilation that shows how a rugged rock star can transform into a respectable bluesman, albeit one who plays very loud. Gary Moore may not be a rootsy, down-home guitarist, but he's just as passionate about this music as anyone who recorded for Chess. If Moore can expose other generations to the blues, as Cream and the Rolling Stones did before him, he has done his job well. ~ Hal Horowitz Producer: Jorgen Holmstedt (Compilation) Musical Guests Albert King B.B. King Albert Collins   Compilation Appearances King Of The Blues Broke Black & Blue Best Blues Album In The World. ROCK GOLD From Clarksdale To Heaven Remembering Kings Of Komedy (box) 34 Hours TWELVE INCHES While My Guitar Gently Weeps Vol 2 Complete Nineties Rock Ballads Blues Masters Classic Rock Masters: Current Music Dear Mr Fantasy 1987 Where Were You Volume 3 Dream Of The Electric Guitars Volume How To Be   Associated Artists and Works Various Artists   Technical Info Release Date : 04/09/2002 Original Release Date : 2002 Catalog ID : 11025 Label : Virgin Records (USA) Number of Discs : 2 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00724381102527    Related Videos This Time: Robert Cray Ballad Of John Henry Joe ...