Singing the Blues
Monday, October 10th, 2005 01:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanThe benefits of leaving home comparatively late to miss the rush hour include the ability to watch BBC breakfast news, which generally includes bits and pieces that don't generally fill the remaining news broadcasts during the day, even on BBC News 24.
This leads me to a piece of information which may be of interest to at least three people on my friends list, in no particular order:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
telemeister, cybersofa and suitandtieguy.
Having been seriously unwell a couple of years back, Chris Rea has spent the past 18 months or so recuperating, and took the opportunity to record some material without particularly worrying about commercial needs. He just jammed in a studio with a bunch of like-minded musician friends. The upshot is that he went back to his musical roots and has just released a 11 CD (+ 1 DVD) set of blues material, called Blue Guitars. The CDs are split into different blues styles, so:
More to the point, it is priced at under £40 to keep it accessible.
This leads me to a piece of information which may be of interest to at least three people on my friends list, in no particular order:
telemeister, cybersofa and suitandtieguy. Having been seriously unwell a couple of years back, Chris Rea has spent the past 18 months or so recuperating, and took the opportunity to record some material without particularly worrying about commercial needs. He just jammed in a studio with a bunch of like-minded musician friends. The upshot is that he went back to his musical roots and has just released a 11 CD (+ 1 DVD) set of blues material, called Blue Guitars. The CDs are split into different blues styles, so:
CD1 BEGINNINGS
CD2 COUNTRY BLUES
CD3 LOUISIANA AND NEW ORLEANS
CD4 ELECTRIC MEMPHIS BLUES
CD5 TEXAS BLUES
CD6 CHICAGO BLUES
CD7 BLUES BALLADS
CD8 GOSPEL SOUL BLUES AND MOTOWN
CD9 CELTIC AND IRISH BLUES
CD10 LATIN BLUES
CD11 60s / 70s
CD12 DVD STONY ROAD
More to the point, it is priced at under £40 to keep it accessible.