Cryin Heart Blues

Rick Danko | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 8, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Other People's Music
• ASIN: B000BB03CS
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #86,906 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars More gems from the vault, February 24, 2006

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Shaky Fury (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cryin Heart Blues (Audio CD)

Danko has always had that special joy and vulnerability in his material. This set is no disappointment, though he is less prominent in some of the tracks. Some are alternate takes of Danko/Band standards, but none are throwaways. The live cuts with Paul Butterfield are a welcome addition, especially the riveting version of Unfaithful Servant (with an incredible harmonica solo by Butterfield).

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wishing for More, July 6, 2006

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A. Woodward (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cryin Heart Blues (Audio CD)

Singer/instrumentalist Rick Danko melded country and urban soul influences into a unique sound that some of us will always wish for more of. For us, this collection of previously unreleased material was issued some six years after his death. Three tracks here -- the Motownish "Turn to Stone" and "Cry Another Tear" and the pure-country "When I Get My Just Rewards" -- are among the most beautiful vocals he ever recorded and, alone, justify this disc. Given that chronic sobriety issues hampered his career, it is somewhat distressing to hear him so obviously hammered on certain tracks, including the four live tracks that close the album, but it can't be denied that those tracks rock hard.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Tracks from the vaults, August 3, 2006

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Dai Jeffries "Dai" (ALDERSHOT, Hants United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cryin Heart Blues (Audio CD)

Cryin' Heart Blues is another collection of tracks from the Rick Danko archives. It's a mixture of 17 live and studio cuts and demos and old favourites as well as tracks not previously released. 'When I Get My Just Rewards' and 'Lay Back In The Arms Of Someone' are polished studio works while 'New Mexicoe' is somewhat looser than the released version despite the possible presence of Eric Clapton and Ron Wood - not a very distinguished version, I have to say, so the guitarists could be Eric Wood and Ron Clapton for all the difference they make.

'Twilight' is in its compulsory second place in the running order and is a nice full band version. Among the live tracks 'Java Blues' and 'Unfaithful Servant' with Blondie Chaplin and Paul Butterfield both stand out and the CD is topped and tailed with two different live takes of 'Mystery Train'.

There can't be a lot left to release from any of the Band archives but what there is still sounds pretty good.