Delaney & Bonnie - Delaney & Bonnie On Tour With Eric Clapton
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Free Music Review: One of the Best Live Recording Ever. Period.
Hit: 5 Stars
What a tour this must have been! Imagine a pick-up band with Eric Clapton, Dave Mason and Jessie Ed Davis on guitars, the rest of Derek and the Dominoes behind them, Jim Price and Bobby Keys on horns and Rita Coolidge to sing back up vocals. That's the team that Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett fielded for this 1970 gem. Thank God it was recorded! You won't be able to sit still during the opening Things Get Better, which manages to showcase every musician in one killer tune. Delaney and Bonnie's voices are wonderfully soulful in their Tribute Medley to Robert Johnson, and Dave Mason's Only You Know and I know rises to a new level. Bonnie really belts it out during That's What My Man is For, and a fun Little Richard Medley is icing on the cake. E.C. always loved being part of a band, and it really shows here. Everyone playing on this CD was young, healthy, energetic and still learning how good their music could be. I bought the vinyl 30 years ago, and now with the CD, I'm still loving it.Buy it and BOOGIE!Free Music Review: Ditto..one of the best, maybe the best, live rock album ever
Hit: 5 Stars
What, you say, by some group named Delaney and Bonnie (Bramlett)? Whose biggest fault may have been to risk their own roles by making buddies out of the biggest names in rock and roll such as Eric Clapton, Dave Mason, and so on. The participants here went on to form the core of Derek and the Dominoes (Clapton, Carl Radle from the band Colours, solo artist Bobby Whitlock, drummer Jim Gordon).
Imagine a musical locomotive driven along by the constant chug of some solid soul and rock'n roll. Everything you would want, including the super-session-men horn section of Bobby Keys and Jim Price.
Wait, we forgot about the Bramletts. They never got the recognition they deserved, on their own. Bonnie's vocals were as soulful as anything you could ask for. And Delaney, while perhaps not quite so standout as his beautiful companion, could emote pretty well himself.
You will play this, and play it again, and play it again.
Free Music Review: THE Best Live Album Ever!
Hit: 5 Stars
This is the BEST live album ever recorded - not just one of the 50 in your Top Ten, not one of the 300 in your Top 100, but the absolute #1 live album ever! Delaney & Bonnie had a wonderful ability to gather talent around them. No wonder Joe Cocker stole this band and Lowell George took the heart of their next band.
However, when this album came out in 1970, Eric Clapton was the only name in the band most folks recognized. Eric is at his best here as "just one of the boys." Don't expect flashy solos, just 3 guitars (or is it 4 - George Harrison was on this tour too?) picking you up and whisking you away.
When "Things Get Better" starts, you'll say, "This is the hottest song I ever heard." Then it gets even better! By the time "Coming Home" has run over your brain, you'll just give in and hang on to the train barreling to rock 'n' roll nirvana. No rhythm section ever drove harder. I dare you to restrain yourself.
Free Music Review: Bonnie! Bonnie! Bonnie!
Hit: 5 Stars
This album is just a great album of "live" Delaney and Bonnie!And while all the music on it is fantastic, there is one track on the album which makes the entire album "special"! In fact if this one single track were the only good song on the album, it would have been worth purchasing. Bonnie Bramlett's "That's What My Man Is For"! Her 'lectric blues/soul delivery on this song outdoes even the great Janis Joplin for delivering "the ol' Kosmic Blues"! It has to be heard to be believed. . . and heard and heard again.
I love the entire album and it jumps alive from the moment you put it on. It's a shame they went their separate ways, but we have "this" to relive again and again.
p.s. Bonnie and Delaney recently played a live date together and were joined on stage by their daughter Bekka Bramlett. Let's hope that was recorded for the ages as well.
Free Music Review: Finding gold where you'd least expect it
Hit: 5 Stars
I originally bought this album when it first came out. I knew nothing about the record. I'd been a Cream and Blind Faith fan and seeing Eric Clapton's name on the cover caught my eye. I also loved the back and front of the album cover. I got it home and put the needle on the thing and went WOW! It had everything that Rock N'Roll is about. No one knew at that time that we were listing to the birth of Derek and The Dominoes. Bonnie Bramlett's voice is blistering and sweet at the same time. For the next 30 years I could still hear her in my brain saying "Hey would you give us some red lights, 'cause this is a red light song". The album's still in the stack on the top shelf of my closet. I saw it on Amazon and it was time again for "Goin' Home" and "That's What My Man Is For". Order it for yourself. It's rock n' roll 101 taught by finest professor's in rock academia.