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Riding with the King
Eric Clapton & B.B. King List Price: $18.98 Our Price: $14.98
Audio CD - 13 June, 2000
Reprise / Wea
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CD Tracks:
Riding With The King
Ten Long Years
Key To The Highway
Marry You
Three O'Clock Blues
Help The Poor
I Wanna Be
Worried Life Blues
Days Of Old
When My Heart Beats Like A Hammer
Hold On I'm Coming
Come Rain Or Come Shine
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| Audio CD Description It sounds like the beginning of a story: "So, Slowhand and the King of the Blues were riding in a car ..." If this is a musical journey, it's the kind that rolls down long, empty stretches of country highway at 80 miles an hour, with the top down and the stereo blasting. Clapton and King may be more city than country, but this collection has the relaxed, laid-back feel that only comes from a pair of veterans doing what they do best. What they do here is cover 12 classic blues songs, many of them staples of King's repertoire, so the title of this album makes sense. Whether it's the rollicking rock & roll of the title track, or the acoustic shuffle of "Key to the Highway," or the sweet notes of "When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer," a real sense of pleasure comes through on this album, the kind of pleasure one gets from jamming late at night with a good friend. |
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Blues at its Best For years Clapton and BB King wanted to make a CD together. It took them 30 years but they finally did it, and it was worth the wait.
Electric Blues Heaven 'Riding with the King', the much anticipated collaborative album by B.B. King and Eric Clapton, was bashed badly by critics upon its release in 2000. The thing is, that with a pairing like Clapton and King, it's easy to set your expectations too high, and thus it's easy to be disappointed. I'm not sure exactly what these reviewers expected - some epiphany, maybe, some kind of masterpiece that will change music forever. That's not what it is. What 'Riding with the King' is, in truth, is a perfect, repeat, perfect blues album, and one of the best electric blues albums ever recorded. And even if it's not quite as soulful as some of King's early recordings - I said IF, mind you - it's certainly the best he's recorded in decades, and it's clearly the best recording the Slowhand had pulled in many, many years as well. 'Riding with the King' is one of the most exquisite displays of blues guitar I've heard, showing not only virtuoso abilities but also soul and sensitivity from both generations of master axemen, and it's an album that never for a moment ceases to amaze and astound.
Too polished I think that there is a strong tendency amongst reviewers on Amazon to give everything that is sort of good five stars! I mean, does all good music deserve an "A" or the equilivant of a five star review??? No, and this effort by BB and EC is a good example of well executed; well produced studio blues. They don't wade into any new material or offer any new sounds that blues lovers haven't heard before; and frequently we've heard more passion and abandon than this CD offers. What's good about this CD? BB King does most of the singing and seems more alive and energetic than he has in several years. EC, lets face it folks, he just cannot sing. And as a blues singer his range is narrow and he sounds as emotionally flat as the characters from "One Flew Over the Cockcoo's Nest." Sure, EC can play the guitar and we are reminded of that every waking hour of our lives; but when you place EC next to a Freddie King; T-Bone Walker or Elmore James there just isn't the emotional impact that these masters were able to command.
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