Heads Up

Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 9, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 2002
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Alligator Records
• ASIN: B000068QUY
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #145,753 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Modern Blues, April 9, 2005

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Derrick Peterman (San Jose, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Heads Up (Audio CD)

Call me old fashioned, opinionated, out of touch, whatever, but if you ask me, 95% of the blues worth listening was recorded before 1975. I am pleased to say this effort by Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials is firmly within the remaining 5%.

Lil' Ed simply has a great deep, soulfull voice for blues, and the band really cooks. The song writing is mostly tight and the lyrics are definitely the sort of every day slices of life that we've come to expect from the blues. It's modern blues, but none of the pretensions of modern blues artists that just don't move me (Robert Cray, Keb Mo), it's just great art.

Since they don't let me give it 4 1/2 stars, heck, I'll round it up to five.

And if you like this, check out "Chicken, Gravy and Biscuits" by these guys.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WOW, September 16, 2003

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Dave (Louisville, KY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Heads Up (Audio CD)

I'm a life long blues fan, and I've followed Lil Ed since What you see is what you get, but this is definitely his best disc. His vocals are so emotional you feel like you're right there in the studio when he laughs and he cries. The band has never been tighter, bringing in some of that fire from their live show. The third guitarist, what a concept, fits in perfectly, allowing the band to just feel BIG! I'm on my fourth copy

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Party Band, August 16, 2002

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Paul F. Ferguson (Brockport, New York USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Heads Up (Audio CD)

Okay. So I've become an "Ed Head" since hearing "Get Wild" a few years back. Lil' Ed may not be the most skilled slide guitarist or the most original, but he sure packs a lot of energy. The next best thing to being at one of his performances, a pleasure I have not yet had, has got to be listening to one of his CDs. "Heads Up" may not be much of an advance beyond "Get Wild," but it doesn't slack off. He plays a couple of Chuck Berry riffs in Woman in the Castle, and channels Elmore James and his uncle J.B. Hutto in several other cuts. He also plays an interesting variation on the Charles Brown classic, Black Night. As the kids used to say on American Bandstand back in the fifties, great beat, good to dance to.