"Electric Blues" 1970-2005 Part 4 - disc 1

In some ways, the fourth installment of Bear Family's four-volume Plug It In! Turn It Up! Electric Blues - The Definitive Collection is the most important -- not because this was the most innovative period for electric blues but rather the years of 1970-2005 are generally considered to be when the genre was rather dormant…

...Certain acts had hits now and then, but the blues weren't ruling the R&B charts and rock & roll starts to shed its blues influence during the '70s, so its presence doesn't seem as immediate. Nevertheless, this fourth volume proves that electric blues not only has a rich legacy but that it is one that continues into the modern era, both by old hands (Buddy Guy pops up with his 1991 "Damn Right, I've Got the Blues") and new (Robert Cray's "Smoking Gun," which actually crossed over into the Top 40). Most of the major names of soul-blues and mainstream blues are here -- B.B. King, Al Green, Z.Z. Hill, O.V. Wright, Bobby Rush, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Albert King -- and this also traces the rise of Alligator Records (Hound Dog Taylor's "Give Me Back My Wig" still sounds nasty all these years later), grapples with such rock bands as the J. Geils Band and ZZ Top, and makes a case for the influence of Stevie Ray Vaughan and the Fabulous Thunderbirds. While it doesn't necessarily make a case for the next generation -- some of the newer tracks toward the end of the set are by old guys like R.L. Burnside -- this fourth volume does prove that electric blues remained vital well into the new millennium.(Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Allmusic)

trax:
1. Something Strange Is Goin`On In My House - Ted Taylor 2. I Can`t Get Next To You - Al Green 3. Big Leg Woman (With A Short Short Mini Skirt) - Israel 'Popper Stopper' Tolbert 4. Get Your Lie Straight - Bill Coday 5. Don`t Make Me Pay For His Mistakes - Z.Z. Hill 6. A Nickel And A Nail - O.V. Wright 7. Chicken Heads - Bobby Rush 8. Everybody Knows About My Good Thing, Pt. 1 - Little Johnny Taylor 9. Drowing In The Sea Of Love - Joe Simon 10. Joey - Little Beaver 11. That`s What Love Will Make You Do - Little Milton 12. Breaking Up Somebody`s Home - Ann Peebles 13. I`ll Pay The Blues For You - Albert King 14. Man Sized Job - Denise LaSalle 15. Your Turn To Cry - Bettye LaVette 16. It`s Hard Going Up (But Twice As Coming Down) - Little Sonny 17. To Know You Is To Love You - B.B. King 18. Cheaper To Keep Her - Johnny Taylor 19. Let`s Straighten It Out - Latimore 20. I Wouldn`t Treat A Dog (The Way You Treated Me) - Bobby "Blue" Bland 21. Take Me To The River - Syl Johnson 22. Turning Point - Tyrone Davis 23. Ain`t That A Bitch - Johnny "Guitar" Watson 24. (You Are My) Leanin`Tree - Artie "Blues Boy" White
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