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Best New Blues Release, June 18, 2009
This review is from: Tear This World Up (Audio CD)
I have been a Chicago blues fanatic and collector for 20 years, and this new release from one of the most distinctive West Side Chicago bluesman is the best new blues CD I have heard in a long time. Original songs with witty lyrics, powerful, rich, & resonant vocals, and a wild, unmistakable reverb soaked Eddie C guitar style. Dick Shurman (Albert Collins, Johnny WInter) did a great job producing this modern day blues classic (with a vintage/retro feel) Eddie C's first new CD in almost a decade!
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Welcome Back Eddie, September 7, 2009
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After 10 years, Eddie C. gets another shot and makes the most of it. With fun lyrics, soulful grooves and the Westside guitar style he has played for 50 years, this one is a winner. There are a few tunes here played by Magic Sam done Eddie C. style which sound great. I enjoyed the whole CD and you probably will too if you like electric blues music. This man is a master of his style and let's hope it's not another 10 years before he gets back in the studio. Our senior blues leaders are leaving us as the years go by and now is the time to capture their classic sound. This CD is recommended and also check out Eddie's other music!
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Amp permanently on 10, July 9, 2010
This review is from: Tear This World Up (Audio CD)
The King of the Jungle" is back and as always, Eddie C. Campbell delivers the goods. This one is a real finger popper from beginning to end. Like most of the better known blues guitarists from the west side of Chicago--Magic Sam and Otis Rush come to mind--Campbell's got a sound all his own. (The west side's Magic Slim doesn't make the list because he can sound like anybody.) Campbell plays a busy but melodic style on a vintage Fender Jazzmaster, and he keeps the reverb setting on his amp permanently on 10.
Tear This World Up is evenly divided between wry originals and clever covers. Of the former, "Tie Your Time Up" jumps out ("Have you ever had a date / and you knew you were a day late?"). Another witty original from Campbell's pen is "Care," with its boogaloo arrangement. Campbell also lays down a sassy instrumental, "It's So Easy," which sounds like a Booker T and the MGs number from 1965. Campbell covers Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter and even Gershwin here, but he puts his own stamp on the songs.
On all of Campbell's previous albums, he's done one Magic Sam cover. This album has two: "Easy Baby" and "Love Me With a Feeling." This album will surely be under consideration by the Blues Foundation as Album of the Year. If I had a vote, it would get mine.--OffBeat Magazine, March 2010 issue
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