Charles Brown - These Blues

Album: These Blues
Size: 136,8 MB
Time: 59:17
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1994
Styles: Blues, jazzy blues
Art: Full

1. These Blues (6:33)
2. Honey (3:47)
3. May I Never Love Again (5:07)
4. I Got It (Bad And That Ain't Good) (5:26)
5. Is You Is, Or Is You Ain't (Ma' Baby) (5:53)
6. A Hundred Years From Today (5:24)
7. Save Your Love For Me (5:26)
8. I Did My Best For You (7:23)
9. A Sunday Kind Of Love (4:45)
10. Tomorrow (5:13)
11. Amazing Grace (4:15)

Brown was enjoying the peak of an astounding career resurgence when he recorded These Blues in 1994. Amazingly, his powers were in no way diminished. It has been said before that Brown sounds here almost exactly like he did on his breakthough hits of the late '40s, when his urbane brand of post-Nat King Cole blues provided a blueprint for such artists as Ray Charles and Chuck Berry.

Backed by an excellent small combo, Brown tears into a set of blues and bluesy pop songs. He even goes solo on Duke Ellington's "I Got it Bad (And that ain't Good"). While his vocals are as insinuating as ever, it's Brown's piano playing that astonishes-an amazing mix of traditional blues licks, Erroll Garner-ish block chords, and quicksilver octave passages that seem to appear out of nowhere. /Review by AllMusic

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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