El rey del blues soul,YA colgaron uno de sus albums en youtube,extraordinario artista,para los amantes del blues y para los del soul ( gran desconocido entre los amantes del soul a pesar de ser uno de los mas grandes ):
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Increible,desde Junio solo visto en youtube,por 53 personas.

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Es una lastima que este gran cantante muchas veces no gozara de musicos a su altura ( lo mismo que Al Green y muchos otros).

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Siguen colgando algunos albums enteros ( en vinilo ) de " la voz " ( asi se le llamo a el en el blues ).

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Robert Cray ha publicado un nuevo álbum titulado "Nothin but love".

Aquí una pequeña "review" publicada por The New Yorker:

Robert Cray has been one of the most reliable pleasures of soul and blues for almost three decades now, an assessment that sounds like faint praise but shouldn’t. Cray is still mostly remembered for his 1986 release, “Strong Persuader,” which remains one of the best albums of his career, because it would have been one of the best albums of anyone’s career. Cray released five studio LPs in the ensuing decade and has maintained an enviable recording and touring schedule, and, while that professionalism steadily increases his body of work, it also means that individual albums tend to pass by somewhat anonymously.

It would be a mistake if that same fate befell his sixteenth album, “Nothin but Love” (Mascot). The leadoff track, “Won’t Be Coming Home,” has a familiar story—woman leaves man, man can’t get past it—stretched over a menacing keyboard line and a surging chorus. As always, it’s bolstered by Cray’s writing, which has the compression of short fiction: “Two days later I get a letter / A picture of a room in some hotel / Sitting framed up on the table / A picture I know so well.” One of the things that made “Strong Persuader” not just a pleasure but a classic was the unreliability of its narrators: the tortured cuckold of “Smoking Gun,” the self-doubting ladies’ man of “Right Next Door (Because of Me).” That’s the case here as well. Why does the narrator of “Worry” feel that passive anxiety is the only option available to him as a loved one descends into a life of ill repute?

Musically, Cray remains on firm footing. There are, as always, nods to his forebears—Albert Collins in the slashing, squealing solos, Otis Redding in the forceful vocals—but he’s been doing this long enough, and well enough, that he’s mostly just himself. On recent albums, Cray has sometimes fallen victim to the Curse of the Ambitious Composition. “Truce,” the closing track from his 2009 album, “This Time,” was a jazzy, understated, and borderline soporific five-and-a-half-minute portrait of a fraught relationship. What it lacked is what “Nothin but Love” has in abundance, and that’s forward motion. “Fix This” glides along on a reggae lilt and tasteful piano, until it reaches its chorus, all soul organ and full-throated vocals. “Side Dish” uses food metaphors to sketch out the facts of infidelity (it’s elevated above novelty by superb playing and by the plaintive closing line, “Please take me back”). And even though “I’m Done Cryin’” is nearly nine minutes long and a message song at that—it chronicles the emotional effects of job loss—it’s taut and straightforward, a letter from the economic front.

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ZZ Top, después de 9 años sin publicar, ha sacado nuevo álbum, titulado "La futura".

"Review" hecha por The guardian:

The first ZZ Top album for nine years opens with the most remarkable rock'n'roll song of the year. Gotsta Get Paid is an adaptation not of some old blues or boogie, but of the Houston hip-hop classic 25 Lighters by DJ DMD with Lil' Keke and Fat Pat. It doesn't sound like hip-hop, naturally – it's reconfigured as a dirty, lazy, heavy groove, Billy Gibbons's growling guitar and voice front and centre. It's simply brilliant. In fact, their 15th album would sound amazing even if the songs weren't up to scratch – Gibbons and co-producer Rick Rubin have done a remarkable job in making the band sound both timely and timeless, and fiercer than at any time in their career. But the songs hit the mark pretty consistently, too: on Consumption, with its hiccups and pauses, ZZ Top sound like an engine coughing and spluttering and roaring into life; Chartreuse picks up where Tush left off; I Don't Wanna Lose, Lose You could have been buffed up for Eliminator, but is all the better for being unpolished. It's an unexpectedly wonderful return from an undervalued band.

Una rareza: Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimmie Vaughan, Angela Strehli, Kim Wilson - Don't fall for me baby

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El tema de Stevie Ray Vaughan y compañìa me recuerda algo al "Double Trouble" de Clapton.

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A mí las interpretaciones que Clapton está haciendo en los últimos años de viejos temas como "Double trouble" o "Crossroads" no me acaban de convencer.

Aquí dejo la versión que tocaba de "Double trouble" hace años:

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Hendrix es Dios, amigos. Olvídense de todo lo demás si quieren vivir la emoción al 100%. También tenemos a Buddy Guy, Robert Johnson, BB King, John Lee Hooker, Albert King y otros. Pero estos son sus profetas.

Hendrix es Dios.

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No es un bluesman pero merece la pena conocerlo. Se trata de Danny Gaton, uno de los guitarristas con más talento y más desconocidos.

Hace lo que quiere con la guitarra.

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