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...Band for "Hold On I'm Coming" and "Soul Man," and Commitments lead singer Andrew Strong belts out "Mustang Sally," accompanied by Jason Starkey, Ringo Starr's son. Shortest, but not least, is "Monster" Mikey Welch, a thirteenyear-old blues guitar prodigy who plays with the savvy of a bluesman twice or three times his age. This kid is barely old enough to have the blues, but he can wail through twelve bars like nobody's business. Carla Thomas, Joe Walsh, and the Blues Brothers Band wrap up the show with a rousing "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love." Jake would...
...that means these 50 sides are some definitive blues: great blues, in the great tradition. Elmore James, who was born in Mississippi in 1918 and died in Chicago in 1963, led the archetypal bluesman's life: he rambled around the Delta with Robert Johnson in the '30s, played juke joints in the '40s, had a couple of R.-and-B.-chart hits in the early '50s, cut some fierce sides in the late '50s and early '60s (collected here in all their home-fried glory), then passed on from the accumulated effects of road life and drink before his legend...
...bottom are homogenized, will the Delta lose its special fervor? Maybe. Maybe not. On the edge of Clarksdale, bluesman Johnson told of his days learning music from his sharecropper father. "Folks ain't so bad off now," he said. "It ain't as low down as it used to be. Blues ain't as sad." Then the Oil Man lifted his head and sang a few lines -- about the Persian Gulf...
MICHAEL BOLTON: SOUL PROVIDER (Columbia). Singer-songwriter Bolton, a white rhythm-and-bluesman from New Haven, Conn., finally hits his stride here. High point: Georgia on My Mind, on which his uncanny four-octave range and gut- wrenching phrasing give Ray Charles a serious run for the money...
They perform with a Harlem gospel choir on a version of I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For that becomes a bit of casual exaltation ex rock cathedra. They cook up a new song for the great bluesman B.B. King, When Love Comes to Town, and kick out the jams together. They corral Dylan into playing Hammond organ on an extraordinary new tune, Hawkmoon 269, and press him into harmony-singing and lyric-writing service on Love Rescue Me, a high point not only for the band but also for their informal spiritual adviser. The Edge...