Luther Allison - Live in Chicago
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Artist: Luther AllisonEdition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 1999-08-24
Music Label: Alligator Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Intro
- Soul Fixin' Man
- Cherry Red Wine
- Move From The Hood
- Bad Love
- Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
- Big City
- Give Me Back My Wig
- It Hurts Me Too
- Medley: Gambler's Blues/Sweet Little Angel
- Party Time
- All The King's Horses
- What Have I Done Wrong?
- Walking Papers
- Think With Your Heart
- What's Going On In My Home?
- Will It Ever Change?
- You're Gonna Make Me Cry
- Everything's Gonna Be All Right
Free Music Notes for Live in Chicago
Free Music Review: Watching YOU, babe...watching you, ALL the time...
Hit: 5 Stars
I've got to say this right up front...if "Live In Chicago" doesn't send you a powerful message about your commitment to your own life and the degree to which you're doing what you were put here to do, stop reading the review right here. This is not the CD for you.
Luther was...and is...a bluesman. He wasn't born BB or Freddie or Albert of John Lee or Buddy, so he went to Paris and elsewhere to seek his fortunes. In 1984, blues visionary Bruce Iglauer of Alligator Records gave Luther a chance at his New Renaissance. The resulting albums...Soul Fixin' Man, Blue Streak, and Reckless...will peel the paint right off of your walls if you have the courage to listen to them.
Luther wasn't BB. He wasn't Freddie. He wasn't Albert. He wasn't John Lee. He wasn't Buddy. But he deserves to stand next to them when the list of blues legends is read aloud.
Luther Allison journeyed to the next world on August 12, 1997.
"Live In Chicago" comes from performances at Buddy Guy's Legends (November 4th, 1995) and The Zoo Bar (Lincoln, NE, May 7, 1997).
"Live In Chicago" doesn't sound like the work of a dying man. It sounds like the work of a man on FIRE...an eternal flame that still burns on the day I'm writing this review, November 2nd, 2007...8 years after the CD's release.
There are no highlights on this CD. Disc 1 and Disc 2, from beginning to end, are the highlights. My all-time personal favorite song from Luther, "Cherry Red Wine" (from 1995's Blue Streak), becomes a terrifying eight-minute roller coaster ride. Luther's joined by Otis Rush on the medley of "Gambler's Blues/Sweet Little Angel." They're worth mentioning but they're only sparks in a much bigger fire.
You were put on this earth to accomplish something. Listen to "Live In Chicago" and get busy accomplishing it. Luther did. There are no unwritten chapters in the book of his life. He came, he saw, he CONQUERED. "Live In Chicago" is the proof. R.I.P., Bluesman...R.I.P.
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The blues world lost a treasure when Luther Allison died in 1997, just as he was finally garnering the recognition he so richly deserved. If there's any question of that, this live album, recorded at the 1995 Chicago Blues Festival and at Buddy Guy's Legends, will dispel any such notion. A performer and songwriter of the first order, Allison had the sort of mastery of his instrument that comes from long experience; whether rolling off licks on the "Gambler's Blues/Sweet Little Angel" medley, or playing extended solos on "All the King's Horses," Allison's on the ball and in control at all times. This album contains mostly newer material previously recorded for Alligator Records, like "Soul Fixin' Man," "Bad Love," "All the King's Horses," and "What Have I Done Wrong?" Overall, this is an excellent memorial to a musician who should be remembered. --Genevieve WilliamsBlues Music CDs
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