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Chris Rea: Blue Guitars - CD1 Beginnings

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Label: Jazzee Blue Records
Released: 2005.10.17
Time:
 54:36
Category: Blues
Producer(s): Chris Rea, Andy Wilman
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.chrisrea.com
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Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] West Africa (Ch.Rea) - 4.14
[2] Cry for Home (Ch.Rea) - 4.58
[3] The King Who Sold his Own (Ch.Rea) - 5.18
[4] White Man Coming (Ch.Rea) - 4.01
[5] Where The Blues Come From (Ch.Rea) - 6.18
[6] Lord Tell Me It Won't Be Long (Ch.Rea) - 4.58
[7] Work Gang (Ch.Rea) - 4.32
[8] Praise The Lord (Ch.Rea) - 4.41
[9] Sweet Sunday (Ch.Rea) - 5.38
[10] Sing Out The Devil (Ch.Rea) - 6.08
[11] Boss Man Cut My Chains (Ch.Rea) - 3.21

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Chris Rea - Electric Guitar, Piano, Harmonica, Dobro, Mandolin, Banjo, Slide Guitar, Bass, Calimba, Balafon, Vibraphone, Hammond Organ, Percussion, Drums, Producer, Paintings

Robert Ahwai - Guitar
Sylvin Marc - Bass
Gerry O'Connor - Banjo
Ed Hession - Accordion
Martin Ditcham - Drums
Richard Williams - Narrator

Andy Wilman - Producer
John Knowles - Executive Producer
Edward Mcdonald - Recording Engineer
Douglas Dreger - Mixing
Aiden Farrell - Editing
Chris Rodmell - Editing
Robert Payton - Director
Janina Stamps - Production Coordination
Jon Tricklebank - Art Direction, Design
Mark Edwards - Liner Notes
Stuart Epps - Photography

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Blue Guitars is the twenty-first studio album by English singer-songwriter Chris Rea, released on October 14, 2005. It's the Blues album 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 1½ years with a work schedule - according to Chris Rea himself - of twelve hours a day, seven days a week. Initially the project was inspired by Bill Wyman's "Blues Odyssey" and can be called an "odyssey" in its own right, for depicting a journey through the various epochs of Blues Music, starting at its African origins and finishing with modern-time Blues from the 60s and 70s. Subsequently the eleven CDs are titled the following: "Beginnings", "Country Blues", "Louisiana & New Orleans", "Electric Memphis Blues", "Texas Blues", "Chicago Blues", "Blues Ballads", "Gospel Soul Blues & Motown", "Celtic & Irish Blues", "Latin Blues" and "60s & 70s".

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".

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.

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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