Sales Rank:19 List Price: $18.98 Lowest New Price: $9.46 Lowest Used Price: $9.45 Artist(s):
Willie Nelson/Wynton Marsalis
Tracks:
Bright Lights Big City
Night Life
Caldonia
Stardust
Basin Street Blues
Georgia On My Mind
Rainy Day Blues
My Bucket's Got a Hole In It
Ain't Nobody's Business
That's All
The event was simply billed as "Willie Nelson Sings the Blues," but the historic two-night stand on January 12 and 13, 2007 at Jazz at Lincoln Center was far more than that. Call it a summit meeting between two American icons, Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis, two of the most significant figures in modern-day country and jazz, who discovered common ground in their love for jazz standards and the blues. Their performance stirred the sounds of New Orleans, Nashville, Austin and New York City into a brilliantly programmed mix that was equal parts down-home and cosmopolitan, with plenty of swing and just a touch of melancholy. To say that these shows were a hot ticket would be an understatement. Luckily, the tapes were rolling and the results of this unique collaboration now constitute the Blue Note album Two Men With The Blues for everyone who couldn't cram into The Allen Room. Featuring great playing from one of the hottest bands around these classic tracks are given new life by the extraordinary dual talents of Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis. At a time when most people are thinking of retirement, Willie has never been busier. His profile has been high in recent weeks with his various career retrospective releases and sold out tour and this album can rightly stake it's place alongside anything else he has done. Wynton rarely sounds so relaxed and both of these musical giants are clearly having the time of their lives together on these new interpretations of some of the greatest songs of the 20th century.
Sales Rank:8 List Price: $13.98 Lowest New Price: $9.99 Lowest Used Price: $7.25 Artist(s):
B.B. King
Tracks:
See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
I Get So Weary
Get These Blues off Me
How Many More Years
Waiting for Your Call
My Love Is Down
World Gone Wrong
Blues Before Sunrise
Midnight Blues
Backwater Blues
Sitting on Top of the World
Tomorrow Night
B.B. King returns to his blues roots with the help of producer T Bone Burnett on "One Kind Favor,". The legendary artist is backed on the effort by pianist Dr. John, drummer Jim Keltner and bassist Nathan East. The track list includes such blues chestnuts as Big Bill Broonzy's "Backwater Blues," Lonnie Johnson's "Tomorrow Night," Blind Lemon Jefferson's "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" and T-Bone Walker's "I Get So Weary."
Sales Rank:31 List Price: $16.98 Lowest New Price: $10.72 Lowest Used Price: $9.95 Artist(s):
Buddy Guy
Tracks:
Best Damn Fool
Too Many Tears
Lyin' Like A Dog
Show Me The Money
Every Time I Sing The Blues
Out In The Woods
Hammer And A Nail
That's My Home
Skin Deep
Who's Gonna Fill Those Shoes
Smell The Funk
I Found Happiness
Skin Deep is the 2008 release by Buddy Guy. The album features The Memphis Horns, Willie Mitchell,Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, Eric Clapton, Robert Randolph and Quinn Sullivan.
Sales Rank:76 List Price: $19.98 Lowest New Price: $11.51 Lowest Used Price: $11.89 Artist(s):
Joe Bonamassa
Tracks:
Two CD set. Live from Nowhere in Particular is the 2008 album from Joe Bonamassa, an US blues guitarist/singer. Guitar One Magazine has stated that 'he just might be the best guitarist of his generation.' His blues-rock style is similar to that of Stevie Ray Vaughan's. In an interview in 'Guitarist' magazine (issue 265), Joe Bonamassa cited the three albums that had the biggest influence on his playing: John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton (the 'Beano Album'), Rory Gallagher's 'Irish Tour' and 'Goodbye' by Cream.
Sales Rank:46 List Price: $18.98 Lowest New Price: $7.67 Lowest Used Price: $7.99 Artist(s):
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
Tracks:
Rich Woman
Killing the Blues
Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us
Polly Come Home
Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)
Through the Morning, Through the Night
Please Read the Letter
Trampled Rose
Fortune Teller
Stick with Me Baby
Nothin'
Let Your Loss Be Your Lesson
Your Long Journey
The musical collaboration of the decade, Raising Sand is the sound of two iconic figures stepping out of their respective comfort zones and letting their instincts lead them across a brave new sonic landscape. Despite hailing from distinctly different backgrounds, Alison Krauss and Robert Plant share a maverick spirit and willingness to extend the boundaries of their respective genres. This spirit, expertly honed by producer T Bone Burnett, has resulted in an album pitched three steps beyond some cosmic collision of early urban blues, spacious West Texas country, and the untapped potential of the folk-rock revolution.
Supported by the unparalleled musicianship of Marc Ribot, Dennis Crouch, Mike Seeger, Jay Bellerose, Norman Blake, Greg Leisz, Patrick Warren, and Riley Baugus, Plant and Krauss -- as both solo and harmony vocalists -- tackle an intriguing selection of songs from such tunesmiths as Tom Waits, Gene Clark, Sam Phillips, Townes Van Zandt, The Everly Broth! ers, and Mel Tillis. Raising Sand finds Robert Plant and Alison Krauss exploring popular music's elemental roots while still sounding effortlessly, breath-takingly contemporary.
The song "Killing the Blues" is featured in the new JC Penney American Living Campaign.
Sales Rank:127 List Price: $16.98 Lowest New Price: $11.80 Lowest Used Price: $12.22 Artist(s):
Sonny Landreth
Tracks:
Blue Tarp Blues
When I Still Had You
Way Past Long
The Milky Way Home
Storm of Worry
Howlin' Moon
The Goin' On
Let It Fly
Blue Angel
Uberesso
Universe
Singer, songwriter and Louisiana slide guitar phenom Sonny Landreth’s first studio album in five years unites his band with a who’s who of musical guests for a set of all-original roots rock tinged with the blues and New Orleans soul. Featured guitarists and vocalists include Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, Vince Gill, Eric Johnson, Robben Ford, Dr. John and Jimmy Buffett.
Sales Rank:98 List Price: $13.98 Lowest New Price: $7.74 Lowest Used Price: $6.35 Artist(s):
Van Morrison
Tracks:
How Can A Poor Boy
School Of Hard Knocks
That's Entrainment
Don't Go To Nightclubs Anymore
Lover Come Back
Keep It Simple
End Of The Land
Song Of Home
No Thing
Soul
Behind The Ritual
On April 1st, Lost Highway will proudly release Keep It Simple, the new album from Van Morrison. Keep It Simple is Morrison's first album of new material since 2005, and the first in several years in which he composed all 11 songs specifically for one album.
In the interim the legendary artist had a year that may be unprecedented for any living artist, having released three separate collections of his hits, with the latest, Still On Top entering the UK charts at #2 and selling platinum, proving the ongoing appetite for his unrivalled work.
His music has always incorporated the widely varied influences he heard and absorbed since his childhood days on the streets of Belfast- long before the bands of his youth and his initial breakthrough with the band he started early on- called "Them."
On Keep It Simple, Morrison honors all those varied influences - Ulster-Scots Celtic, Jazz, Folk, Blues, Country, Soul and Gospel - and an added surprise of a mighty Ukelele -most times melding them all together at once creating his unmistakable signature sound.
In some of these songs Morrison addresses the propaganda of the myth perpetrating rock music world. There is a definite theme that recurs throughout the album, especially in the title track.
In keeping with that idea, Keep It Simple does not boast the big horns or expected string arrangements of some of Morrison's previous work. What it does feature are gorgeous songs rich with emotion, depth and beauty.
Sales Rank:318 List Price: $17.98 Lowest New Price: $12.65 Lowest Used Price: $8.43 Artist(s):
Irma Thomas
Tracks:
River is Waiting (featuring Henry Butler)
If I had Any Sense I'd Go Back Home (featuring Dr. John)
Too Much Thinking (featuring Jon Cleary)
Early in the Morning (featuring Tom McDermott)
What Can I Do (featuring David Torkanowsky)
Underground Stream (featuring David Egan)
Thinking About You (featuring Norah Jones)
Be You (featuring Dr. John)
This Bitter Earth (featuring Ellis Marsalis)
Cold Rain (featuring David Torkanowsky)
Somebody Told You (featuring John Medeski)
Overrated (featuring Davell Crawford)
Same Old Blues (featuring Marcia Ball)
I Think It's Going to Rain Today (featuring Randy Newman)
There has always been a piano at the heart of Irma Thomas's music, and she is accompanied here by twelve of the best pianists around. The Grammy®-winning Soul Queen of New Orleans has never sounded better than in this all-acoustic setting. From the soul-searing passion of "Cold Rain" to the bittersweet intimacy of "This Bitter Earth," Irma's enduring warmth and soulfulness prevail, never straying far from the blues. Included are many new songs (including one from Burt Bacharach and Steve Krikorian) and a previously unrecorded Doc Pomus-Dr. John composition.