April 29, 2019

Eric Clapton - One More Car, One More Rider (2002)

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One More Car, One More Rider is the eighth live album by Eric Clapton, released on 5 November 2002 on Duck / Reprise Records. It is also the third double live album.
The album contains songs performed during Clapton's 2001 world tour.
The recordings on this album are from two nights at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, 18 & 19 August 2001. Accompanying Clapton on this album are Andy Fairweather-Low, Steve Gadd, Nathan East, Billy Preston, Greg Phillinganes, and David Sancious.
Eric Clapton himself said that this would be his last world tour, making this album initially more valuable.
However, he since has toured the world several times, both on his own and with Steve Winwood.
The cover of Eric Clapton's 2002 live album One More Car, One More Rider -- no less than the sixth live album in his solo career -- suggests the problems in the record.
It's designed to look a classic blues album sleeve or poster, but it's self-conscious and affected, the work of somebody that knows the form but not the substance of the blues.
Certainly that accusation can't be reasonably leveled at Clapton who, after all, has proved throughout his career that he knows the substance of the blues, but ever since his canonization to the MOR mainstream with 1992's Unplugged, there's a sinking feeling that EC dabbles in the blues instead of lives there.
Sure, he had a fierce testimonial to his favorite music with From the Cradle, but One More Car, One More Rider arrives nearly a decade later, and the difference is stunning. Though he goes through the motions of playing the blues -- a cutting version of the perennial "Key to the Highway," "Hoochie Coochie Man," "Goin' Down Slow," among others here -- the heart of this album is closer to the NPR instrumental jam of "Reptile" than blues.
This is mannered, "classy" playing which sounds perfectly fine but is never interesting, particularly since the song selection favors either warhorses or recent hits. In short, it's a record for those that like the idea of Clapton more than his music.

Disc One

Acoustic:
  1. "Key to the Highway" (Broonzy, Charles Segar) – 3:41
  2. "Reptile" (Eric Clapton) – 5:59
  3. "Got You on My Mind" (Howard Biggs, Joe Thomas) – 3:51
  4. "Tears in Heaven" (Clapton, Will Jennings) – 4:34
  5. "Bell Bottom Blues" (Clapton) – 5:02
  6. "Change the World" (Gordon Kennedy, Wayne Kirkpatrick, Tommy Sims) – 6:16
Electric:
  1. "My Father's Eyes" (Clapton) – 8:34
  2. "River of Tears" (Clapton, Simon Climie) – 8:59
  3. "Going Down Slow" (Saint Louis Jimmy) – 5:34
  4. "She's Gone" (Clapton, Climie) – 6:58

Disc Two

Electric:

  1. "I Want a Little Girl" (Murray Mencher, Billy Moll) – 4:38
  2. "Badge" (Clapton, George Harrison) – 6:02
  3. "Hoochie Coochie Man" (Willie Dixon) – 4:30
  4. "Have You Ever Loved a Woman" (Billy Myles) – 7:53
  5. "Cocaine" (J. J. Cale) – 4:20
  6. "Wonderful Tonight" (Clapton) – 6:42
  7. "Layla" (Clapton, Jim Gordon) – 9:16
  8. "Sunshine of Your Love" (Peter Brown, Jack Bruce, Clapton) – 7:11
Acoustic:
  1. "Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen, E. Y. Harburg) – 6:33
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Notes
Released: 5 November 2002 
Recorded: 18 & 19 August 2001, Staples Center, Los Angeles, California 
Genre: Rock, blues 
Length: 116:33 

Label - Duck / Reprise Records

April 15, 2019

George Martin - In My Life (1998)

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In My Life is a 1998 album compiled and produced by Sir George Martin.

The CD is composed almost entirely of cover versions of The Beatles songs which George Martin produced originally.

Beatles producer George Martin was hanging up his earphones after several decades of making legendary recordings, and decided to make one more where he called all the shots.

Settling on a selection of Beatles tunes he had originally produced, he set about pairing up unlikely accomplices with specific tunes and arrangements in mind. The results are in the true George Martin orchestrated tradition, with several interesting twists and turns along the way.

Kicking off with a surreal duet between Robin Williams and Bobby McFerrin on "Come Together," other highlights include Goldie Hawn's giggly nightclub chanteuse reading of "A Hard Day's Night," Jeff Beck's majestic playing on "A Day in the Life," Jim Carrey's energetic take on "I Am the Walrus," and Sean Connery's reflective album closer, "In My Life."

Tracks from Phil Collins, Celine Dion, Billy Connolly, Vanessa-Mae, and John Williams (and Martin himself conducting) complete this well-done "tribute within a tribute" swan song.


  1. "Come Together" – 4:37
  2. "A Hard Day's Night" – 3:24
  3. "A Day in the Life" – 4:44
    • An instrumental version, featuring Jeff Beck on guitar
  4. "Here, There and Everywhere" – 3:18
  5. "Because" – 3:18
  6. "I Am the Walrus" – 4:31
  7. "Here Comes the Sun" (George Harrison) – 3:30
  8. "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" – 2:58
  9. "The Pepperland Suite" (George Martin) – 6:19
  10. "Golden Slumbers"/"Carry That Weight"/"The End" – 5:38
  11. "Friends and Lovers" (George Martin) – 2:24
  12. "In My Life" – 2:29
  13. "Ticket to Ride" – 3:56
    • Featuring the Meninas Cantoras de Petropolis on vocals, only included in the South American release
  14. "Blackbird" – 2:59
    • Featuring Bonnie Pink on keyboards and vocals, only included in the Japanese release

All songs by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, except where noted.


Label - MCA Records 


April 10, 2019

Cuby + Blizzards - Travelling With The Blues (1997)

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In 1997 verschijnt "Travelling with the blues" van een opnieuw opgericht Cuby & the Blizzards.
Grote afwezige is Eelco Gelling. Zijn plaats wordt ingenomen door Erwin Java. Nieuw is ook harmonica-speler John Lagrand. De rest van de bezetting kent echter geen verrassingen: Helmig van der Vegt treffen we aan de piano en het ritmeduo bestaat uit Herman Deinum en Hans Lafaille.
"Travelling With The Blues" is door de Stichting Cuby + Blizzards gefinancierd en begin maart '97 uitgekomen. De cd is live opgenomen in bluesclub "De Lantaarn" Lantaarn in Hellendoorn-
 De songs op "Travelling with the blues" vormen een overzicht van Harry's bluescarrière. Van "Distant smile" tot "For real" en van "Just for fun" tot "No news is good news".
Met een gitaar-solo van Erwin Java in Eddie Boyd’s "Five long years" en de grommende mondharmonica van John Lagrand in "Brother booze" en "Hobo blues".


1.  Another Day, Another Road  (2:57)
2.  Just for Fun  (3:25)
3.  Too Blind to See  (6:06)
4.  Distant Smile  (3:47)
5.  Appleknockers Flophouse  (2:13)
6.  For Real  (2:59)
7.  Somebody Will Know Someday  (5:54)
8.  No News Is Good News  (4:16)
9.  Brother Booze  (5:53)
10.  Five Long Years  (6:59)
11.  Travelling with the Blues  (3:03)
12.  The Zoo  (3:52)
13.  Hobo Blues  (9:43)

Label - Munich Records