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Blue Guitars

Chris Rea - Blue Guitars Audio CD

A fair review of the Chris Rea "Blue Guitars" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Chris Rea reviews here, or go back to the Chris Rea tabs.

Band: Chris Rea
Title: Blue Guitars
Rating:

Release Date: 2005-11-14
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: West Africa [Instrumental] 2: Cry for Home 3: King Who Sold His Own 4: White Man Coming 5: Where the Blues Come From 6: Lord Tell Me It Won't Be Long 7: Work Gang 8: Praise the Lord 9: Sweet Sunday 10: Sing out the Devil 11: Boss Man Cut My Chains 12: Walkin' Country Blues 13: Man Gone Missing 14: Can't Stay Blues 15: KKK Blues 16: Too Much Drinkin 17: Catwalk Woman 18: If You've Got a Friend in Jesus 19: Head out on the Highway 20: Wild Pony 21: Steam Train Blues 22: Going Up to Memphis 23: Somewhere Between Highway 61 & 49 24: Ticket for Chicago 25: Dance All Night Long 26: Two Days Missing Down the Viper 27: Who Cares If I Do 28: What Made Me Love You 29: You Got Dixie 30: One Night with You 31: Talking 'Bout New Orleans 32: Fleur de La Vie 33: Catfish Girl 34: Only a Fool Plays by the Rules 35: Baby Come Home 36: Dance Avec Moi 37: Ete Eternal 38: Electric Guitar 39: Electric Memphis Blue 40: All Night Long 41: Born Bad 42: Let's Start Again 43: What I'm Looking For 44: Rules of Love 45: What You Done to Me 46: Hobo Love Blues 47: Pass Me By 48: Soul of My Father's Shadow 49: My Blue World Says Hello 50: Lone Rider 51: Texas Blue 52: No Wheels Blues 53: Lone Star Boogie 54: Blind Willie 55: American Way 56: Angellina 57: Truck Stop 58: Weekend Down Mexico 59: Texas Line Boogie 60: Too Big City 61: Houston Angel 62: I'm Moving Up 63: Maxwell Street 64: Bob Taylor 65: She's a Whole Heap of Trouble 66: Jazzy Blue 67: Hip-Sway 68: That's the Way It Goes 69: To Get Your Love 70: Chicago Morning 71: Catwalk Woman 72: Since You've Been Gone 73: All Night Long 74: Here She Come Now 75: Last Call 76: Maybe That's All I Need to Know 77: Deep Water Blues 78: If I Ever Get Over You 79: I Love the Rain 80: My Soul Crying out for You 81: If That's What You Want 82: There's No One Looking 83: What Became of You 84: My Deep Blue Ways 85: Sweet Love 86: Break Another Piece of My Heart 87: Ball & Chain 88: Gospel Trail 89: Shy Boy 90: Come Change My World 91: Call on Me 92: Just in Case You Never Knew 93: Let Me In 94: I'll Be There for You 95: Pain of Loving You 96: Are You Ready 97: Celtic Blue 98: 'Til the Morning Sun Shines on My Love and Me 99: Lucky Day 100: What She Really Is 101: Wishing Well 102: Irish Blues 103: No More Sorrow 104: While I Eemain 105: Last Drink 106: Till I Find My True Love's Name 107: Big White Door 108: Hey Gringo 109: Immigration Blues 110: Still Trying to Clear My Name 111: Sun Is Hot 112: Screw You and Your Deep Blue Sea 113: Nothing Seems to Matter No More 114: Sometimes 115: Lampiou 116: Keep on Dancing 117: Lucifer's Anger 118: How I Know It's You 119: Forever 120: You Got Soul 121: Bajan Blue 122: My Baby Told Me 123: Got to Be Moving 124: My Baby Told Me [Gospel] 125: Heartbreaker 126: Yes I Do [Instrumental] 127: Wasted Love 128: Cool, Cool Blue 129: Clarkson Blues 130: Who Killed Love 131: Never Tie Me Down 132: Mindless 133: Ain't That Just the Prettiest Thing 134: Nobody But You 135: Waiting for Love 136: Blue Morning in the Rain 137: Dancing Down the Stony Road [DVD]

excellent overview of the blues & equally good performances
my only complaint here is with amazon, not the boxed set. howdy y'all,

a really good - REALLY, REALLY good - overview and set of songs. where is the list of disks & the tracks on them? here's one listing . . .

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take care,
lee

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Just excellent

I was already a Chris Rea fan but this work pushes into areas that commercial single CD's tend to avoid. The music contained in this huge set of Cd's is truly amazing - in quality and breadth of styles included. He does this without the work being too heavy - it therefore would be appropriate as a first buy of Chris Rea and also for someone who was not that much into the blues.

Truly enjoyable - and the book and paintings is an added huge bonus!.

Simply Unbelievable!
I can't find the words that could possibly pay justice to this man. Why Chris Rea has never toured the States is a mystery. He has an amazing voice, plays a mean guitar, composes great songs and yet is unknown in this country. I just don't get it. But for those who want to see what England has somehow managed to hide all this time (an undiscovered gem), check any one of his albums out. You'll soon be asking the same question.

Incredible
Having listened to some of his other output, my feeling was that he was an artist who had some feeling for the blues. As a blues lover, I accidentally discovered Chris Rea on a compilation blues album that included '90's Blues' that gained my attention. On an internet crawl last year I discovered the `Blue Guitars' album and after reading the reviews had to buy a copy. This is an incredible undertaking: 128 songs on 11 Cds based on the history of the blues. Each CD features one historical and geographical environment. The album comes in a hard cover book (unfortunately the CDs tend to fall out), that includes an interview with Chris Rea, paintings by Chris, a description of each album's basis, lyrics and includes a history of blues instruments used. Also included is a DVD detailing the production of an earlier CD, `Dancing down the road'.

The first album, `Beginnings' blew me away. The album gives you a feel for the misery and despair suffered by people captured and transported. In addition it highlights the hope that the slaves envisioned via religion and the misunderstanding of their situation. The album is especially inspired as a result of the use of African instruments. This CD alone made the album worthwhile providing brilliant blues playing and incredible blues lyrics.

The second album, `Country Blues' does not general reach quite the same heights. However, it is still superb, particularly `KK Blues'.

Unfortunately the other 9 Cds do not reach the same level. Each CD has some high points and some sparkling moments, but never reach the same high point that the `Beginnings' album reaches. Many of the CDs provide a musical style, while probably accurate, does not appeal to my music tastes.

In general, each subsequent album gets slowly poorer. The biggest disappointment is the last album `60s & 70s'. I grew up in this era and discovered the blues. Unfortunately, this CD offers blues that I do not identify with.
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Chris at his best

I love Chris voice and his daring lyrics. It is a fantastic collection of Chris Rea interpretation of the different Blues. With this collection Rea moved way up in the world of meaningful songs and music. BRAVO CHRIS.

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