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The Blues Brothers - The Definitive Collection Audio CD

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The Blues Brothers Band: The Blues Brothers
Title: The Definitive Collection
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Release Date: 2007-08-21
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Opening: I Can't Turn You Loose 2: Hey Bartender 3: Messin' With the Kid 4: (I Got Everything I Need) Almost 5: Rubber Biscuit 6: I Don't Know 7: Soul Man 8: Who's Making Love? 9: Do You Love Me/Mother Popcorn (You Got to Have a Mother for Me) [Medle] 10: Guilty 11: Riot in Cell Block #9 12: From the Bottom 13: Going Back to Miami 14: Everybody Needs Somebody to Love 15: Expressway to Your Heart 16: Sweet Home Chicago 17: Closing: I Can't Turn You Loose 18: Shake YourTailfeather 19: Think - Aretha Franklin 20: Gimme Some Lovin'

Blues Brothers "The Definitive Collection"
This is the one cd to have of The Blues Brothers as it covers pretty much everything you'd want from them. Very interesting and thorough collection of the band's hits as well as a few other artists that helped make them famous.


Blues Brothers -- Not just a couple of comedians clowning
But if you know only a little bit of the Blues Brothers, it is probably either from the movie or from the first generation of Saturday Night Live, and you may think of them merely as Dan Akroyd and John Belushi (RIP) making fun of, and having fun with, blues music. If you know a lot about the Blues Brothers, you'll learn nothing from this review. Not so; they're more than that. They were both big jazz/blues fans, and worked hard to make their musical work legitimate and enjoyable.

They succeeded. You probably knew that they were good from the little bit they actually did on the show and the movie. This whole album is just as good. Much if it is taken from the movie, but some cuts are original. It's not GREAT blues, but it is good, and fun. Their "Soul Man" cover is IMO better than the original (aided by Akroyd's low bass addition to the refrain).

All in all, an album worth getting if you're a jazz/blues fan (if you're a Blues Brothers fan, you already have it of course). If you're a jazz/blues fan but don't know the Blues Brothers (is that possible?), check out the movie to see their style, to convince yourself. BTW, don't be distracted by the album's transitions between cuts, which almost sound like digital faults; that was just the production decision to cut excessive applause and the like from the live takes.


Sweet Home Chicago.
This is a good collection of what they played and a good companion to the movie. The Blues Brothers, Akroyd and Belushi, fueled a resurgence of the blues back in the 70's.


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