Showing posts with label Pretty Things/Yardbird Blues Band. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pretty Things/Yardbird Blues Band. Show all posts

Thursday, August 8, 2024

Pretty Things/Yardbird Blues Band - Wine, Women & Whiskey

Album: Wine, Women & Whiskey
Size: 113,7 MB
Time: 49:00
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1993
Styles: Blues
Art: Full

1. Wine, Women & Whiskey (2:55)
2. Sure Look Good To Me (4:10)
3. No Questions (4:23)
4. The Amble (3:39)
5. It's All Over Now (3:09)
6. Bad Boy (3:56)
7. Spoonful (Bare Bones Remix) (5:44)
8. French Champagne (2:30)
9. My Back Scratcher (4:49)
10. Can't Hold Out (Big City Remix) (3:11)
11. Diddley Daddy (Street Corner Remix) (4:13)
12. I'm Cryin' (2:55)
13. Gettin' All Wet (3:20)

This is some more great music by Paul May and Dick Taylor of the Pretty Things, Jim McCarty of the Yardbirds, Richard Hite of Canned Heat and Studebaker John. This is essentially a follow up to the excellent "Chicago Blues Tapes 1991". The CD covers the period between 1991 and 1993, and was recorded at various locations when times allowed these individuals to break from their busy schedules.

The songs are all upbeat and fun and start out with a bang with the Lighthouse classic, "Wine, Women & Whiskey" right through a couple of doo-wop numbers to the ending number, L. Carr's "Getting' All Wet". There was a rumor of a third release, but seven years later, no sight of it. In the meantime, get this and the 1991 Chicago Tapes, light the BBQ and break out the beer.

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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Saturday, August 3, 2024

Pretty Things/Yardbird Blues Band - The Chicago Blues Tapes 1991

Album: The Chicago Blues Tapes 1991
Size: 132,6 MB
Time: 56:59
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1991/1992/2011
Styles: Blues
Art: Full

1. You Can't Judge The Book (3:05)
2. Down In The Bottom (3:11)
3. Hush Hush (4:24)
4. Can't Hold Out (3:24)
5. Spoonful (4:51)
6. She Fooled Me (2:56)
7. Time Is On My Side (3:54)
8. Scratch My Back (4:52)
9. Long Tall Shorty (4:14)
10. Diddley Daddy (4:27)
11. Ain't Got You (2:36)
12. Caress Me Baby (4:31)
13. Here's My Picture (3:15)
14. Chain Of Fools (4:59)
15. Don't Start Cryin' Now (2:15)

This set, attributed to the Pretty Things-Yardbird Blues Band, is really more Pretty Things (thanks to strong vocal work by Phil May and some striking lead guitar from Dick Taylor, the two cornerstones of the Pretty Things) than the Yardbirds (although former Yardbirds drummer Jim McCarty is on hand), and it doesn’t add much to the legacy of either band, really, although it is a strikingly good outing. The tracks collected here originated when May and Taylor teamed up with McCarty and guitarist and blues harpist Studebaker John and bassist Richard Hite for two George Paulus-produced albums recorded in Chicago in 1991.

The sound is very good, and these weren’t throwaway sessions, with the blended band tackling classic songs like “Spoonful,” “You Can’t Judge a Book by the Cover,” “Time Is on My Side” (Taylor was briefly a guitarist for the Rolling Stones early in that group’s career), “Ain’t Got You,” and “Chain of Fools,” among others. Again, nothing here adds much to the legacy of either the Pretty Things or the Yardbirds, but fans of either or both bands will undoubtedly love this interesting curio. /Steve Leggett, AllMusic

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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The Chicago Blues Tapes 1991 gofile