Animals, Eric Burdon - Athens Traffic Live
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Artist: Animals, Eric BurdonEdition: Music CD
Format: Import, Live
CD Release Date: 2005-09-05
Music Label: Spv Germany
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Intro - Eric Burdon
- Boom Boom
- When I Was Young
- Factory Girl
- Once Upon a Time
- Devil's Slide
- Heaven
- Night
- In My Secret Life
- Over the Border
- Little Queenie
- Tobacco Road
- Mercy's Hand [Studio Bonsu Track]
- Once Upon a Time [DVD][*]
- Highway [DVD][*]
- 62The Secret [DVD][*]
- Short Introduction - Eric Burdon
Free Music Notes for Athens Traffic Live
Free Music Review: Great complement to 2004's "My Secret Life"
Hit: 4 Stars
"My Secret Life" was my favorite album of 2004 (and one of my favorites of the past 10 years). It came as a big surprise, given some of the turkeys Burden recorded in the 1980s. His reworkings of 1960s Animals greats, like "House of the Rising Sun" and "Don't let me be misunderstood" should be first-ballot inductees into the Hall of Shame, and his version of "Nights in White Satin" was rejected by Dick Cheney for use in interrogation because of the potential for inducing permanent psychosis. So I was skeptical when "My Secret Life" came out. But it turned out to be every bit as good, and maybe even a squeak better, than The Animals' early greats--and that's high, high praise. "My Secret Life" hit the bullseye on almost every song, from the hard-rocking "Over the Border" and "Devil's Slide," to the playful "Once upon a time," to the ethereal "Factory Girl" and "Heaven." And his take on the title song, by Leonard Cohen, squeezes out feeling that I never got from Cohen's version.
Six songs off of "My Secret Life" are on the "Athens Traffic Live" album, and while they only marginally reinterpret the songs, the energy of a live performance adds a touch that brings them alive in a new way. (Although "Over the border" was such a full-on rocker on "My Secret Life" that even live it can't get much hotter.) Plus, "Athens Traffic Live" is augmented with rolling covers of John Lee Hooker's "Boom boom," and Chuck Berry's "Little Queenie, a manic 11-minute "Tobacco Road," and a new studio cut.
If you like Eric Burden and don't yet own "My Secret Life," get it, then after you've digested it, go back for seconds wit "Athens Traffic Live." (For dessert, try Burden's 2006 solo album, "Soul of a man.") He may be 66 years old, be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and released some real stinkers in the past, but he's still got a lot of great music in him and he's riding a fecund wave of creativity that most of his contemporaries, with the exceptions of Bob Dylan and Neil Young, would envy.
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In 2004 Eric Burdon released his fantastic album "My Secret Life" and toured in Europe and US. His sense of humour hasn't left Burdon, and he still likes to play upon his age. "I'm a wreck," he says, surprising his listeners, adding - with a wink, of course: "I've got bronchitis, asthma, I'm overweight and I'm a slow-motion wreck of a human being. I turn into a different person every time I get on stage. I haven't changed and continue to do what I've always done." And everyone who saw Eric Burdon live knows that his authentic blues voice is still in top form and so are his energetic live performances. You can hear the passion that Eric feels for his music! On "Athens Traffic Live" you find the most exciting old and new hits, more than 1 hour of great music ! The bonus DVD contains besides Eric's commentaries, a drum solo and the super bonus feature also 3 never before released videos, which he produced on his own. Watch it and enjoy!Hard Rock & Metal Music CDs
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