Luther Allison - Live in Chicago
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Free Music Review: Big Dans says
Hit: 5 Stars
Plays the Blues like its life or death a very intense style that seems to be from this age player that came along after the big names psssed the tourch
Free Music Review: awesome!
Hit: 5 Stars
i bought this cd on amazon a week or so ago and could not be happier.i originally heard his song "cherry red wine"on a compilation blues cd and was blown away.every song is excellent.you can hear allison having a lot of fun during this concert.searing guitar blues at it's best.buy this cd...you will not be disappointed.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.
Free Music Review: RICK "SHAQ" GOLDSTEIN SAYS: "Chicago native, comes home "LIVE" to play the blues!"
Hit: 5 Stars
It's unfortunate that Luther had to leave America and go to Europe to make a living, due to lack of interest in America. When he was invited to come home to Chicago for the 1995 Chicago Blues Festival, he came back with a vengeance! This DOUBLE CD, YES DOUBLE! Is a gem and a bargain. There is not one weak song on these CD's. Part of the performances take place at Buddy Guy's, Legend's nightclub. In addition, to the above, he teams up with his idol OTIS RUSH, ON A 10 MINUTE AND 25 SECOND tour de force of "GAMBLER'S BLUES/SWEET LITTLE ANGEL"! This CD (S) is on my 20 greatest electric blues guitar CD list.Free Music Review: Great Blues Album From Late Guitar Slinger Luther Allison
Hit: 4 Stars
Luther Allison died just as he was on the verge of gaining the recognition in America that he so greatly wanted and richly deserved.
Live in Chicago features a broad range of guitar playing, from the straight-ahead blues playing on Soul Fixing Man and Cherry Red Wine, to great slide playing on Give Me Back My Wig, to plaintive singing and playing on Big City and You're Going To Make Me Cry.
Luther Allison is more than another tragic story of great talent lost too soon. On Live In Chicago, he proves that he has achieved music immortality with the skill, heart, and talent of someone whose music will be celebrated forever.