Eddy Clearwater - Flimdoozie / A Real Good Time: Live!

Album: Flimdoozie
Size: 100,0 MB
Time: 42:43
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1986/2001
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Full

01. All About The Blues (5:50)
02. Sugar Baby (3:52)
03. Do This Town Tonight (4:03)
04. Black Night - Falling Down Heavy (7:34)
05. Flimdoozie (4:37)
06. Irs Man (4:15)
07. Sail The Ship (5:31)
08. Don't Take My Blues (6:58)

Along with Magic Slim, Eddy Clearwater is a preeminent torchbearer of Chicago bar-band blues. He's not quite a virtuoso guitarist, but on this reissue from 1986, he has the guts and chops to go head-to-head with Otis Rush for five songs. Clearwater even quotes Rush's famed "All Your Love" lick back at Rush on "Sail the Ship." On all eight cuts, Clearwater's crisp, shouted vocal delivery adds an electric charge to the works, pumping uptempo entries like his "All About the Blues" (Clearwater's own statement of purpose) and lending a defiant edge to Charles Brown's anthem of the downtrodden, "Black Night." The guitar interplay's stunning on the latter, too. The title track lays down a hearty R&B groove, and Clearwater pays homage to one of his mentors, Chuck Berry, in the flat-four rocker "Do This Town Tonight." Song to song, the unflagging dependability of Clearwater's all-around journeyman musicianship makes Flimdoozie thoroughly entertaining. --Ted Drozdowski

Flimdoozie

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Album: A Real Good Time: Live!
Size: 155,2 MB
Time: 63:07
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1990
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Full

01. How! (2:24)
02. A Real Good Time/Cool Water (5:46)
03. Three Ways To Skin A Cat (4:15)
04. Lowdown Lonesome Feeling (7:04)
05. Hustlin' And Schemin' (5:33)
06. Hi-Yo Silver (5:51)
07. I'll Change My Style (3:16)
08. My Little Honey Bee (4:11)
09. Party At My House (5:15)
10. Tera Down The Wall Of Hate (5:12)
11. All Your Love (5:11)
12. Get Off On The Blues (5:59)
13. Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight (3:03)

Eddy Clearwater delivers on the promise of this set's title on his best concert recording to date, recorded at a couple of Indiana nightspots. Those enduring (and endearing) Berry roots surface anew on a storming medley of "A Real Good Time" and "Cool Water," and there are more '50s-style rockers in "Hi-Yo Silver" and "Party at My House." But he exhibits a social conscience on the decided departure "Tear Down the Wall of Hate." ~by Bill Dahl

A Real Good Time: Live!

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