Darkness Darkness [Import, Original recording remastered]

Phil Upchurch | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 27, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Universal Japan
• ASIN: B00005L93E
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #282,726 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Darkness, Darkness

2. Fire and Rain

3. What We Call the Blues

4. Cold Sweat

5. Please Send Me Someone to Love

6. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)

7. You've Got a Friend

8. Love and Peace

9. Sweet Chariot

10. Sausalito Blues

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Smokin' and Soulful, January 25, 2005

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Mark W. Mckenzie (Cary, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Darkness Darkness (Audio CD)

I have seen Phil Upchurch perform live a couple of times, and it was an amazing experience. While this album doesn't quite capture all the same raw energy and imagination, it is the closest that I have heard on record. This is album is NOT heady, out-there bepop, but just straight-ahead, cooking, soulful guitar, with a smoking rhythm section. Kind of the anti-Jim Hall. Even in the rubato guitar intros, the energy is always there. The arrangements are concise and serve the music well. I bought this on vinyl way-back-when and I've listened to it over and over. Nice that it's available on CD.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GUITAR MASTER, June 11, 2005

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Charles Demetri (shelton, ct) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Darkness Darkness (Audio CD)

THIS IS ONE OF PHIL'S GREATEST ALBUMS! THE GUITAR SOUND IS WICKED AND NASTY. A GREAT COMBO OF SOUL AND JAZZ. A CLASSIC.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Phils Best Recording, April 23, 2010

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D. M. Patterson (SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI, US) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Darkness Darkness (Audio CD)

I have the original vinyl of this album,just wanted a CD. It's well recorded and is no doubt Upchurchs best recording session with top notch sidemen. He sure makes that old Fender hollow body sing. His playing is technically outstanding and he shows off his speed and improvisational skills very well.