Blue Guitars - Album Number Four - Electric Memphis Blues

Electric Memphis Blues

The title says it all, "Going Electric", that's what this album is about, and what a change it was for the Blues and Blues Musicians, finally they could make themselves heard among the loud crowds and stuffed places, they usually used to play. It was a tremendous change in the way, the Blues could be approached, fine and subtle figures and fine chord structures could suddenly be played, the Blues was rising to previously unbeknown heights: "Now I can play above the bar noise, Man I'm bigger than a crowd" as Rea states in the opener "Electric Guitar", which perfectly paraphrases, what musicians must have felt, after this milestone revolution. Nor did "electric" stop at the guitars - organs, pianos, keyboards, all was going electric, studios started to play around with the new electric sound, the possibilities seemed endless.

Tracklist:

  1. " Electric Guitar - 4.42
  2. " Electric Memphis Blues - 4.15
  3. " All Night Long - 4.11
  4. " Born Bad - 3.46
  5. " Let's Start Again - 3.52
  6. " What I'm Looking For - 4.26
  7. " Rules Of Love - 3.12
  8. " What You Done To Me - 3.28
  9. " Hobo Love Blues - 3.38
  10. " Pass Me By - 3.06
  11. " The Soul Of My Father's Shadow - 3.52
  12. " My Blue World Says Hello - 4.06

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