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...stores are for--and instead pick up a copy of Clapton's superior 1994 album of blues standards, From the Cradle, or, if that's already in their CD collection, blues great Robert Johnson's King of the Delta Blues Singers. Clapton, of course, is more than just a bluesman--from Sunshine of Your Love to Layla to Tears in Heaven, he has displayed a mastery of a variety of musical styles, including hard rock and pure pop. But one thing the decidedly pop-oriented Pilgrim mostly lacks is something Clapton's best work, particularly his blues work, has always...
...singer Ben Kweller and the object of a bidding war) has issued Restraining Bolt (Mercury); and 16-year-old blues-rock guitar prodigy Jonny Lang has sold more than 150,000 copies of his debut album, Lie To Me (A&M Records), an impressive total for almost any bluesman but even more so for one who is still just a blues...
...explore, rather than any sort of great mastery of technique," Morello says. "A lot of noises I make on the guitar you can make very easily. You just have to think. Maybe this switch, worked in conjunction with that pedal, will make a noise that will not resemble a bluesman on the front porch but maybe a bullhorn." Easy? Maybe not. Morello admits he practiced "obsessively" two to four hours a day during his four years at Harvard...
...blues are in the band's soul, and that would have been better reflected by music with a rawer, less processed feel. But on every song, Rucker's vocals are marvelously commanding. Low, rough and charismatic, his voice can convey depths of feeling that would do a true bluesman proud...
Anyone doubting that need only listen to her latest CD Blue Light 'Til Dawn, an enchanting and diverse collection that includes jazz renditions of songs by folk rocker Joni Mitchell and bluesman Robert Johnson. The first track, You Don't Know What Love Is, is slow and spare and recalls Billie Holiday without imitating her. "You don't know how hearts burn/ For love that cannot live yet never dies," Wilson sings, her rich alto conjuring feelings of midlife rust and heartbreak. Wilson's voice never pushes to hit any big, crass Star Search notes; this is a quiet album...