Blues From the Rainforest

Merl Saunders | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 17, 1998)
• Original Release Date: 1990
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sumertone
• ASIN: B0000023LH
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #97,117 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #69 in Music > Indie Music > Rock > Jambands

Track Listings

1. Blues from the Rain Forest

2. Sunrise Over Haleakala

3. Blue Hill Ocean Dance

4. Afro Pearl Blue

5. Dance of the Fireflies

6. Sri Lanka

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A relaxing journey, January 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Blues From the Rainforest (Audio CD)

Merl Saunders makes a keeper of an album with the help of Jerry Garcia and others. It calms the senses and takes you on a journey through Central America's rainforrests with relaxing chords and native instruments. Jerry's distinctive guitars compliments the music here as it does on other Saunders' works. I personally listen to this album at work, and my co-workers are constantly asking me what it is, or to borrow it. It is a keeper, one which you will listen to repeatedly.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect for a meditative mood, March 3, 2004

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twirlgrrl "twirlgrrl" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blues From the Rainforest (Audio CD)

Wow, an instrumental synthesizer-driven album by the great blues/rock/soul daddy Merl Saunders! It's hard to know what to think until you've heard it. I used this CD as part of the "soundtrack" while helping a friend through labor. We did some guided imagery as a relaxation technique and this music was PERFECT accompaniment to our visions of floating down a river through a forest. I listen to this CD when I need to change a hectic or upsetting day into a gentle, calming but uplifting evening. I don't generally listen to "new age" music, but this is new-agey in the best possible sense because it paints vivid pictures and uses all sorts of interesting sounds, rather than being a bland drone of synthesizers as some new age can be. Jerry Garcia's melodic contributions to the first several tracks are really what makes the music so uplifting. His guitar weaves a melody in and around the gorgeous atmospherics behind, and it's not sleepy, it's quietly exuberant. Highly recommended!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is an AWESOME album!!!, February 7, 2001

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"brianz57" (Venice, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blues From the Rainforest (Audio CD)

Back on Earth Day 1990 me and some friends drove from LA to SF (not very enviromental of us, huh?) in order to see an Earth Day concert at Chrisy Fields in the Presidio. We were going because of Bob Weir and Rob Wasserman playing. (Actuially I was really going to see a Devo reunion!). It was a stormy SF day, clouds and rain breaking into sunshine and then back again. We stood in the wet through an all day musical adventure, many acts from Maria Muldar to Mary's Danish to the bad version of Starship and more. Bob and Rob's set got cut off by a storm midway into Throwin' Stones. Devo never played. But in the middle of it, Merl played. It was the first time I heard Blues for The Rainforest. It may have been the first time it was ever played live for an audience. It was so beautiful, with the actual wind and thunder and rain happening and supporting it all... I was so moved. I bought the CD that day. And the CD had Jerry on it!!! I have since bought about 10 copies, because I always want to share it with someone. I am a Massage Therapist and teacher, and I use it in my classes and my sessions all the time, it is so beautiful, peaceful, healing. It is a truly spiritual and groovin' album. And Jerry soars!!! Awesome!