Best Blues Ever

I discovered this powerful album four years ago, and as a blues lover I was instantly impressed! Anyone who thinks Stevie Ray Vaughan is as good as it gets in the world of blues-rock needs to get their hands on this sizzling album by veteran rocker Gary Moore. Gary was a hard rock/heavy metal musician in the 70's and 80's who recorded a string of albums in that style for more than a decade. He is still overlooked and underappreciated here in America, but is a much more popular musician overseas.
In 1990, Moore decided to express his love for the blues with this album which was a departure from his usual heavy metal style. With high-voltage guitar playing, good singing, and a great set of songs, Still got the Blues is surely one of the best blues-rock albums of the 1990's. Gary is equally adept at searing uptempo rockers and passionate ballads, and great examples of both can be found here. This CD is top-notch from start to finish.
"Moving On" is a great rocker with sizzling slide guitar that kicks off the album nicely. The Albert King classic "Oh pretty woman" is next and it is another dynamic tune that features Albert playing along with Gary. "King of the Blues" is Moore's tribute song to King, and Gary also tips his hat to Stevie Ray and Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top in the song "Texas Strut". "Midnight Blues" and "As the years go passing by" are both sultry and atmospheric ballads, but the highlight of this album is the spell-binding "Still got the Blues for you". This track contains some of the most captivating guitar playing to ever be found in a modern blues song, not to mention Gary's most soulful vocal performance. It is one of those songs that reaches out and grabs your appreciation when you hear it, and it rightfully stands as his biggest hit.
Blues purists are not usually fond of Gary Moore or this album because of the fact that Gary basically takes blues songs and injects them with searing heavy metal guitar solos. Moore is really a rock musician rather than a blues musician, but that doesn't matter to me because his remarkable guitar skills and love for blues music is undeniable. Gary is doing exactly what Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Johnny Winter, and Kenny Wayne Shepherd have done. They are all exposing great blues music to the rock audience who will never hear anything this good on MTV or modern rock radio. Music is music, it's either good or bad, and if blues music can sound this great all the time then I'm all for it!
Any blues or rock n' roll fan who hasn't heard this excellent album is missing out on some hot music and even hotter guitar playing. Get this CD and turn it up!

The early recordings of Buddy Guy for Artistic, USA and most notably Chess, that first established his reputation as just about the most explosive and exhilarating Chicago blues guitarist of his generation, have been poorly represented on CD over recent years. As and where these sides have been readily available, they have tended to be either shoddily compiled or been lacking in any quality control sifting. While the best of Buddy’s early sides still stand as just about as impressive as late 1950s and early 1960s blues ever got, he also recorded more inferior and novelty material than was perhaps good for his reputation.

Riley "Beale Street Blues Boy" King will long be remembered as one of the breakthrough artists who took the blues to new levels and new audiences from the early 60's onwards.
His prolific touring schedule-he averaged 200 shows a year with a record 342 in 1956 alone-meant that to understand BB King you needed to hear him live, in front of an audience. As such he himself claims his 1964 release "Live at the Regal" his best recording ever. With this in mind we present "Blues At Sunset" a radio broadcast live recording from 1972 which captures the essence of BB King with a set featuring his established favourites along with a couple of tracks from the two albums released that year. He is on form and treats us all to that slow virtuoso style that became the trade mark of himself and "Lucille" (his guitar) and her many reincarnations!

British label My Kind Of Music present another fine compilation of some of the best music ever made. In this case, it's called Shakin' All Over: The Best Of British Rock 'N' Roll and it features some of the best rock'n'roll ever made where everyone has or had a home in Great Britain, all that have nothing to do with The Beatles. All of these songs are bangers, making them a mash, which means they are scorchers. Original songs by the original artists, just listen…

This 60th Anniversary 60-CD Deluxe Edition celebrates RCA Victor's signing of Elvis Presley-The King of rock 'n' roll. Features all of the albums Elvis recorded and RCA released in his lifetime: studio, soundtrack, and live. It also includes compilations released that featured unreleased songs or songs new to the LP format.

The Rolling Stones by CD-Maximum of Russia. 31 volumes featuring the Stones back-catalogue of Decca, London and Rolling Stones Records album releases with bonus tracks. The bonus tracks are best sounding studio or live recordings (soundboard/audience) previously released on several bootlegs. The artwork packaging is first rate. Each CD features the original album artwork plus additional album, singles, E.P. or bootleg artwork from various countries (UK, France, Germany, USA and Japan) and full color posters. The silver CD is silk-screened with the original album label too. Sound quality overall is either excellent mono or stereo.