Devil's Slide [CD on Demand]

Bob Brozman

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 14, 1992)
• Original Release Date: 1988
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rounder Select
• ASIN: B0000003N9
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #166,439 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ragtime wizardry from the king of the National Guitar, August 8, 2002

By	O. Buxton "Olly Buxton" (Highgate, UK) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Ok, Ok, so we all know the Mississippi delta shines like a National guitar, and so does the cover of Dire Strait's poly-platinum "Brothers in Arms", but if you want to know what one *really* sounds like, here is the place - with the greatest respect to Messrs. Simon and Knopfler - you need to start.

Bob Brozman is, from what I can tell, a criminally under-purchased music recording artist: he must be, since he has sold fewer records than guitar legends such as Stevie Ray Vaughan and BB King, in whose company his name is surely entitled to be dropped.

This record comprises a lot of quirky Ragtime and Hawaiian cuts - it's not quite as bluesy as I expected - which all sound fun, until Bob rips into Robert Johnson's monumental Stones In My Pathway, at a pace jaunty enough to sound almost uplifting (not a quality usually associated with Johnson's remarkable oeuvre), when suddenly any doubt you may have been entertaining as to whether you are indeed in the hands of a master instrumentalist are immediately dispelled.

Thereafter, prepare for your eyebrows to spend more time than they usually do communing with your hairline. It shouldn't be possible for a man do do such things with an acoustic instrument. And if it's possible, it sure shouldn't be legal.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My wife's all time favorite, April 30, 2000

By A Customer

Sorry guys, I personally am not familiar with this gem, but a minute ago I accidentally deleted the very positive review my wife had carefully composed. She is refusing to write it again, but I feel this artist deserves to get his due. If you like vintage blues with a bit of a ragtime feeling, grab this cut and enjoy!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brozman is the Resonator King, May 14, 2000

By	"scatdaddy" (Sanbornton, NH) - See all my reviews

This is more than the description of "twenty-one songs sharing sding syncopation;" it is a fantastic display of technical virtuosity both beautiful and sublime that will leave you wishing for more, give me more...