Poor Boy Blue

Jim Capaldi | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 9, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Steamhammer / SPV
• ASIN: B00042YJJC
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #268,026 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

For more than thirty years Jim Capaldi has been on top of popular music and this year, on March 15th, was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame with Traffic.

A regular gig in the mid sixties with his band Deep Feeling at the legendary night club, The Elbow Room in Birmingham, England, became the birthplace of Traffic. Steve Winwood was attracted to this early type of psychedelic music which Jim was then playing and was impressed by the large following Deep Feeling were building. Winwood often would come along to jam and as his friendship grew closer and Traffic was born. The rest is history.

Apart from Traffic’s ten album, multi platinum career, fuelled by Jim’s writing partnership with Steve, Jim has enjoyed a solo career with twelve albums to date. With his new recording, Poor Boy Blue, Jim was keen to explore his roots and used quite a lot of classic instrumentation to achieve the particular sound he was looking for on this album. The basis for the album and most work was done at his favourite studio in Weilerswist, near Cologne, with extra performances added in the UK. As with Jim’s last album, Living On The Outside, Poor Boy Blue was again co-produced with Can producer René Tinner and guests on the album include Steve Winwood, Gary Moore & Mick Dolan, together with several musicians who have been former Capaldi band members, including Chris Parren & Pete Bonas from his current band.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Jim, we will miss you., February 4, 2005

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S. Kato (Huchu, Tokyo Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Poor Boy Blue (Audio CD)

I bought this immediately after Jim's death from cancer. I had to.

First several tracks indicate Jim's re-visit on rock from 60's and 70's, which is fine, but predictable. Recording quality is uneven.

What I really got impressed were tracks 9 - 11 on soft side of Jim. Ballads like these haven't been heard since "Fierce Heart" tracks from 1983. These 3 tracks really deserve to be heard in memory of Jim Capaldi, 1944-2005.

Overall, my rating is 3 stars.