Stormy Monday Blues: Essential Collection [Import]

T-Bone Walker | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 20, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Half Moon UK
• ASIN: B00002505G
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #112,379 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Stormy Monday Blues

2. Confusion Blues

3. Every Night I Have To Cry

4. Treat Me So Low Down

5. Cold Hearted Woman

6. Flower Blues

7. I Gotta Break Away

8. I'm Gonna Stop This Nite Life

9. I'm Still In Love With You

10. Going To Build Me A Playhouse

11. Goin' To Funky Town

12. I'm In A Awful Mood

13. Jealous Woman

14. Long Skirt Baby Blues

15. Party Girl

16. Struggling Blues

17. Little Girl Don't You Know

18. Why My Baby (Keep On Bothering Me)

19. I Wish My Baby Would (Come Home At Night)

Customer Reviews

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The funky side of T-Bone, August 25, 2007

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Mr. M. E. Foster (Richardson TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stormy Monday Blues: Essential Collection (Audio CD)

For someone who is not familiar with T-Bone Walker, CDs featuring his recordings from the 1950s might be a better introduction. If, on the other hand, you find that you just can't get enough T-Bone, "Stormy Monday Blues - The Essential Collection" ought to be on the top of your list. It contains songs that he recorded for the ABC Bluesway label in 1967 and 1968. The CD's insert refers to it as "highlights", but as far as I can tell, it's the complete Bluesway recordings. It was late in his career, and T-Bone's customary arrangements and playing style were becoming dated. So presumably in order to appeal to a newer audience the decision was made to funkify things on a handful of the songs - a commercial ploy with results that are every bit as clever and urbane as any of his other recordings, with the sound quality to match. A note for the frugal: There are several other CDs that contain parts of the Bluesway recordings. (For example, "Stormy Monday Blues" ASIN B000023ZLL and "Funky Town" ASIN B0000011M2.) This one has the complete set on one CD at a much lower price.