Chris Rea Blue Guitars Album 1(Beginnings)(mp3 320 kbs)ICM369
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Blue Guitars is a Blues album released by Chris Rea on October 14th 2005
consisting of eleven CDs, one DVD and a full colour book, including paintings
by the artist, liner notes and song lyrics.
The album is an ambitious project with the 137 songs recorded over the course
of 1 1/2 years with a work schedule - according to Chris Rea himself - of
twelve hours a day, seven days a week.
The collection is the fifth and last release in a line of Blues recordings
Chris Rea has made since recovering from a serious disease at the turn of the
millennium and promising himself a return to his Bluesy roots in the event that
he survived.
According to Rea "Blue Guitars" will be his last solo effort; however, he will
continue to release albums as a member of the band "Memphis Fireflies".
Albums
The eleven separate records which comprise "Blue Guitars" could as well stand on
their own; in combination, however, they provide a journey through the different
epochs of the Blues, showing the various components that have been added to the
original African Blues over time, the changes in instrumentation, style, lyrical
expression and thematic implications.
Thereby Chris Rea and his band imitate the various styles and lyrical topics,
creating an instantly recognisable atmosphere on each record, with the first few
songs usually setting up the direction in which the record is going and then
developing to various styles within the field of each record.
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Album Number One - Beginnings
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The first album of this set deals with the very beginnings of the Blues, tracing
its ways back to its African roots.
Living conditions were hard, many African natives were taken captives and
transported across the ocean to be sold as slaves, sometimes even betrayed by
their own people, which is vividly depicted in the song The King Who Sold His Own.
All in all it was an environment, where it was only natural for the Blues to
develop, and even though the instrumentation and the construction of the songs was
still very different from what we now know as Blues, the basics were already there:
the sadness, the strain, the burdens, the depression, the feeling of "blue" and of
course the underlying musical structure.
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1. West Africa
2. Cry for Home
3. The King Who Sold his Own
4. White Man Coming
5. Where The Blues Come From
6. Lord Tell Me It Won't Be Long
7. Work Gang
8. Praise The Lord
9. Sweet Sunday
10. Sing Out The Devil
11. Boss Man Cut My Chains
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Format : MPEG Audio
File size : 9.78 MiB
Duration : 4mn 16s
Overall bit rate : 320 Kbps
Album : Blue Guitars - Album 1: (Begin
Track name : West Africa
Track name/Position : 1
Performer : Chris Rea
Recorded date : 2005
Writing library : LAME3.92
Audio
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Duration : 4mn 16s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 320 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Stream size : 9.78 MiB (100%)
Writing library : LAME3.92
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