Monkey Medicine

Gravenites/Cipollina, Nick Gravenites | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 1, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Relix
• ASIN: B000000SV8
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,184,680 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Blues In The Bottle

2. Six Weeks In Reno

3. I'll Pull The Trigger

4. Trust Me

5. Buried Alive In The Blues

6. Born In Chicago

7. Bad Luck Baby

8. Signs Of Life

9. Pride Of Man

10. Hot Rods And Cool Women

11. Small Walk-In Box

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One Of A Kind Blues, September 27, 2004

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traveling wilbury (Asheville, NC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Monkey Medicine (Audio CD)

The music of the Gravenites-Cippolina Band was unlike any other. It can't be compared to Quicksilver Messenger Service...which band was the apple and which the orange?

The Gravenites-Cipollina Band created unique blues rock. It picks up where Mike Bloomfield left off.

This is a very rare release of what the band was doing at the time...at their best.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More One Of A Kind Blues, September 25, 2004

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traveling wilbury (Asheville, NC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Monkey Medicine (Audio CD)

The previous reviewer compares this to Quicksilver Messenger Service. That's like apples and oranges!

The Gravenites-Cipollina Band created unique blues rock. This picks up where Mike Bloomfield left off.

This is a very rare release of what the band was doing at the time....at there best.

10 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Buyer beware, January 12, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Monkey Medicine (Audio CD)

If you are fond of Bonnie Raitt, or like your blues with wrapped in straw rather than in old steel guitar strings or last week's copy of the Chicago Tribune, you'll find most of the tracks here worth a listen. On the other hand, if you liked with what Gravenites did with Bloomfield or Cipollina with Quicksilver Messenger Service, you'll probably be disappointed. "Born in Chicago," despite the occasional quote from Bloomfield/Butterfield, is anemic; and although Cipollina shows on "Pride of Man" that he can reproduce most of the riffs from the original he did with QMS, Gravenites mumbles his way through the lyrics. Produced by Gravenites and Cipollina, this is a reminder of how good a producer Harvey Brooks was....