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Shuffling and kicking across the floorah...

R. C. Shipley | detroit, MI USA | 12/09/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is a really nice surprise! I didn't expect this to be as good as it is! All the stuff on this compilation gets high marks for originality...(except for two lame cuts/13-2=eleven super cuts ain't bad)...despite the familiarity of the tunes, the interpretations are highly unique with maximum emphasis on being soulful and bluesy. Look at the Masters who work on this project! "Wild Horses", sung by Otis Clay, is worth the price of this CD alone, the slow-driving, flat-out-heart-pumping rythmn is hot enough to get my favorite wife off the couch and tangoing in my arms with a get your ya-yas out look in her eyes;) This is the cream of the da-mint when it comes to solid craftsmanship and bluesmen, (Luther Allison, Larry McCray, Lucky Peterson, Junior Wells, Gatemouth Brown, Willie Dixon, Bobby Womack, Alvin Hart...)-these muthas play it loud and play it right, and when you combine that with extra-hard and edgy tracks you got the potion and the motion. I'm partial to Taj Mahal and when he sings about dem "Honky-Tonk" Ladies, it's as real as a smoky juke-joint a few blocks from Chicago's Michigan Avenue full of rough and tough, red-roughe wearing trouble. I'm curious as to why most of this compilation was recorded in 1997, yet the CD release is only a few months old? Doesn't matter though-the music is timeless and, please Sir, can I have another!"

If You Love The Stones You Got To Like The Blues

Mark | Ontario, Canada | 10/31/2002

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This Ain't No Tribute disc is one of the best tribute discs of the stones that this Stones Fan has ever heard. After all it was the Stones who introduced millions to the roots of rock music. If you like the Blues, even just a little, and if you like the Stones, these covers of some of their classics and some not so classic will impress you. Bobby Womack, a Chicago Blues Man from the late 50's early 60's, covers the Stones early hit " It's All Over Now" which was originally his song before the Stones covered it. If you want to here a new take on some old classics this disc is well worth the purchase. I'm glad to see that the "This Aint No Tribute Series" is still available, but this one is the best of the bunch."

Hats off to the blues

M. SMITH | Music Heaven | 05/29/2009

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Two solid covers; one by Junior Wells, "Satisfaction", works as a barrelhouse blues. The other is Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown's estimable version of "Ventilator Blues." The great tracks though are Otis Clay's singing "Wild Horses"--you'd sware he wrote it himself. The other is Alvin Youngblood Hart's "Sway," pulled off because he has the strain in his voice, but the lead guitar to finish it off."