Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: The Allman Brothers Band

Allman Brothers Band, Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues (Series) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 9, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Island / Mercury
• ASIN: B0000A0VA2
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #91,476 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Full title - Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues. From the PBS series produced by filmmaker Martin Scorsese, this release features 11 tracks including 7 live versions. Mercury. 2003.

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Decent Compilation Although Sound Quality Is Lacking!, September 26, 2003

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deepbluereview "deepbluereview" (SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: The Allman Brothers Band (Audio CD)

At first glance, it is hard to understand why Martin Scorsese would want to bring us another compilation of the Allman Brothers Band. There is nothing new here and certainly nothing that cannot be found elsewhere. Moreover, everyone knows that the Allman Brothers play a southern rock style grounded in the blues. Scorsese is producing the PBS blues special which will air September 28, 2003 and therein seems to lie the method behind the Scorsese madness. With that in mind, it becomes clear that Scorsese hand picked these songs to highlight the way rock bands have popularized old blues songs written and performed to limited and largely black audiences in juke joints years before the band played them. The selection includes Muddy Water's "No More Tears" and "Can't Lose What You Never Had", Elmore James "Done Somebody Wrong", T-Bone Walker's "Stormy Monday", Willie Dixon's "Hoochie Coochie Man and Sonny Boy Williamson's "One Way Out" among others. In that light, it is fair sampling of the Bands rendition of other musicians work although it does ignore the bands original contributions to this same genre. Overall a decent compilation but the sound quality could have been better.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars ****1/2. Nice!, August 24, 2004

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Docendo Discimus (Vita scholae) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: The Allman Brothers Band (Audio CD)

This is a very interesting collection of some of the Allman Brothers Band's bluesiest material.
Some of these songs are well-known ("Trouble No More", "Statesboro Blues", "One Way Out"), while others are quite rare, like the Allmans' rendition of John Lee Hooker's "Dimples", but virtually everything is great.
Serious Allman Brothers fans will own most or all of this material already, of course, and casual fans may be better off with a "real" career-spanning compilation like the brand-new "Anthology". But if a collection of the Allmans' bluesy early-70s recordings is what you're after, this is just about as good as it gets.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great, September 3, 2005

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Petri "PT" (Slovakia, Middle Europe) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: The Allman Brothers Band (Audio CD)

Some CD's of the Scorsese set are pretty lackhuster, but this is great. No country rock or psychedelia, just blues. And the great news is that you not only get the best blues from their first three records from studio (Trouble no more is one of the best blues covers I've ever heard), some rare tracks, but also songs from the great Fillmore
east live album, which show how powerful the band was and what a gorgeous slide guitarist Duane Allman was.
Get It.