| | New Millennium Blues Party CD (1 Customer Review)
Digitally remastered by Bob Fisher (Pacific Multimedia Corp).
Rhino's New Millennium Blues Party might as well be titled Blues' Greatest Hits. Its 20 tracks cover some of the most popular blues songs of (mostly) the latter half of the 20th century, and correspondingly, there's an enormously wide range of styles and approaches, from Chicago grit to slick blues-pop. Even though the variety does keep things interesting, it's also kind of jarring to jump from Robert Cray to Susan Tedeschi to Muddy Waters to George Thorogood to Jonny Lang, one right after the other. It does help, though, that the collection is packed with classic blues singles: Muddy Waters' "Mannish Boy," Howlin' Wolf's "Smokestack Lightning," Albert King's "Born Under a Bad Sign," B.B. King's "The Thrill Is Gone," and John Lee Hooker's "Boom Boom." There are a couple of odd artist/song matchups -- "Johnny B. Goode" performed by Johnny Winter? -- but overall, for a basic, hit-laden blues primer, you could do a lot worse than New Millennium Blues Party. ~ Steve Huey
B.B. King,Eric Clapton,Johnny Lang,Stevie Ray Vaughan,Bonnie
Includes liner notes by Bill Dahl and James Austin.
Audio Remasterer: Bob Fisher .
Compilation producers: James Austin, Garson Foos.
New Millennium Blues Party Music New Millennium Blues Party Songs | 1. | (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man - Eric Clapton |
| 2. | Smoking Gun - Robert Cray Band |
| 3. | It Hurt So Bad - Susan Tedeschi |
| 4. | Mannish Boy - Muddy Waters |
| 5. | Bad to the Bone - George Thorogood & the Destroyers |
| 6. | Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - Jonny Lang |
| 7. | Tuff Enuff - The Fabulous Thunderbirds |
| 8. | Runaway - Bonnie Raitt |
| 9. | Smokestack Lightning - Howlin' Wolf |
| 10. | Born With a Broken Heart - John Tate |
| 11. | Ain't Wastin' Time No More - The Allman Brothers Band |
| 12. | Something's Got a Hold on Me - Etta James |
| 13. | Born Under a Bad Sign - Albert King |
| 14. | Johnny B. Goode - Johnny Winter |
| 15. | Big Boss Man - Jimmy Reed |
| 16. | Thrill Is Gone, The - B.B. King |
| 17. | Dust My Broom - Elmore James |
| 18. | Wang Dang Doodle - Koko Taylor |
| 19. | Boom Boom - John Lee Hooker |
| 20. | Flood Down in Texas - Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble |
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