Double Bill [Import]

Bill Wyman | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 22, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Disky Records
• ASIN: B0000TXFQC
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,046,113 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Long Walk to D.C.

2. Hot Foot Blues

3. Hit That Jive Jack

4. Love Letters

5. Love's Down the Drain

6. I Can't Dance

7. Medley: Snap You Fingers/What a Friend We Have in Jesus [Medley]

8. Get in the Kitchen

9. Boogie Woogie All Night Long

10. Medley: Do You or Don't You/I Wanna Know

See all 12 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. The Joint Is Jumpin'

2. Brownskin Girl

3. Tired and Sleepy

4. Lonely Blue Boy

5. Bye Bye Blues

6. Where's the Money

7. Jellyroll Fool

8. Jealous Girl

9. My Handy Man

10. Rollin' and Stumblin'

See all 12 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Two CDs of unbridled R&B, including stomping renditions of The Joint Is Jumpin'; Hot Foot Blues; Hit That Jive Jack; Jealous Girl; Love Letters , and more. 24 tracks recorded in 2001!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Stone and Beatle unite, July 24, 2001

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Timothy Smith "fabsmith" (United States) - See all my reviews

"Double Bill" is an eclectic, but enjoyable collection of tunes that music fans should want to check out. Bill Wyman and the Rhythm Kings provides samplings of just about every musical style and song you can think of. It is a great CD to put on your computer at work or home while you go about your business. It also is wonderful that George Harrison makes a guest appearance on "Love Letters." His slide guitar bit was recorded in January, not long before his new bout with cancer began. That is one of many compelling reasons to purchase this.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars too slick for its own good, February 4, 2002

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DB361 (Jersey City, NJ USA) - See all my reviews

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When I sampled a few cuts on Amazon.com I was impressed by the musicanship. But having purchased the CD I'm a bit disappointed. As one reviewer here wrote, it is a good CD to have on while going about one's business. I agree. But for a Car CD or to listen to closely, I feel, while it has a high degreee of musical accoomplishment, there is a generic, studio-session-man slickness that keeps one distanced from the real essence of the music.

Furthermore, for me there are too many Georgie Fame bland vocals and too few Gary Brooker, Procol Harum vocals. I do like the female voices. I also confess a prejudice against what I would call 1940's jive music, the kind Brian Setzer plays. Therefore these selections are not as pleasing to me as the R and B and blues, and there are several of them.

So, good for a party or while otherwise engaged, but too seemless to be deeply engaging.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Go get this!, July 20, 2001

By A Customer

This is one of those cd's you keep playing over and over again, because there's so many great tunes to enjoy. Bill Wyman really has a great ear for rediscovering half-forgotten classics from the blues, swing and pop history. And of course it helps having the very best of Britain's studio musicians available who are clearly much enjoying themselves. The only reason it doesn't get my 5 stars is because Bill once again after 3 cd's of silence decided to start singing lead on a couple of songs. They are not the best songs of this album AND Bill as he well knows is no singer. Also, given the instrumental talent and the mostly jazzy renderings you would have hoped that the soloists would have been allowed a little more room to move. As it is, the instrumental solos are on the brief side and often a little tame. I hope for a 'live in concert'-album next, because that's where the steam really comes off! But with this many great songs on one album and this much talent to perform them, who's really complaining? Go on, order this one; you could do much, much worse.