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Chi Coltrane | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 16, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Sony/Columbia
• ASIN: B000026A9M
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #31,594 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Thunder And Lightning

2. You Were My Friend

3. Myself To You

4. Go Like Elijah

5. Feeling Good

6. Wheel Of Life

7. Who Ever Told You

8. It's Not Easy

9. Let It Ride

10. Hallelujah

11. Fly Away Bluebird

12. I Will Not Dance

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Let It Ride, May 11, 2006

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Gord Wilson "alivingdog.com" (Bellingham, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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I already reviewed the Golden Classics Chi Coltrane CD from Collectables, but this in my view is a better mix. Why? Chi's charting hits were "Thunder and Lightning" and "Go Like Elijah," both of which are from her self-titled Columbia record (which had a great cover). This DVD includes mostly songs from that album along with cuts from her next album, Let It Ride, including the title song and my favorite, "Hallelujah."

Chi combines an accomplished piano style with a soaring rock voice. Her songs can be introspective musings as in "You Were My Friend", "Goodbye John," or energetic celebrations "Thunder and Lightning", "Hallelujah". "I Will Not Dance" is a searing anti- (Vietnam) war protest. I was laughing because Amazon suggests you buy this along with the Golden Collection, and were you to do so, you'd get a lot of the same songs. On second thought, though, it's not as crazy as it sounds. There are at least five great songs on the Golden Collection not on this disc: "Time to Come In", "Goodbye John", "The Tree" "Turn Me Around" and "It's Really Come to This". My preference would be for the first and second albums to be rereleased in their entirety, along with Road to Tomorrow, but until then, here's a great collection.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good collection, August 17, 2006

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T. Sable "Media Fan" (Bay Point, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This CD is a huge improvement over the "Golden Classics" CD that was issued many years earlier. "The Best" CD only contains 4 songs not on the previous set; however, the sound quality is so far superior that it is worth owning for that reason alone. In addition, "The Best" contains "Hallelujah" and "Let It Ride," two of her best songs not found on "Golden."

The real problem for Chi fans is that, apart from her first two albums for Columbia, nothing else remains in print on CD in the USA, or anywhere else that I'm aware of. "The Letter" can sometimes be found, but "Silk and Steel," "Live," "Ready to Roll" and "Road to Tomorrow" remain in never-never land. Such a real shame, too, as all of Chi's albums are well worth hearing - again and again.

5.0 out of 5 stars hard to get, December 30, 2011

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kristi "flower girl" (chicago, il usa) - See all my reviews

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it seems when i want older british cd's or dvd's it's not easy to get. i'm still trying to find "letter to breznov." again, i bought this cd for one song "thunder and lightening." great song!