Soulful, solid, and snazzy!
02/14/2001
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Bill Black's sound is late 50's instrumental with a solid flair for jazzy-type arrangements. Just listen to my all-time juke-box favorite, "White Silver Sands" and you'll know what I mean. Bill's combo delivers a simple, solid "punch" to his musical arrangements. Ever since breaking away from Elvis in the mid to late 50's, the Bill Black Combo has filled the instrumental ranks with smooth-listening, "Raunchy" favorites. A "must" for all late 50's early 60's fans!"
Solid & Saxy
V. A. Peek | 11/14/2002
(4 out of 5 stars)
"I am a mad fan of bill black his music still keeps coming back . From a kid of 15 years i took to the beat and now at my prime ripe age I still enjoy his music, even my kids love his beat , his sax player Ace Cannon is also good. Just keep on reproducing his Vinyls. Talking about Vinyls I am trying to get " solid and Raunchy the 3rd " where can I purchase one. Hope to hear from someone out there."
The Great Bill Black, not forgotten
V. A. Peek | Summerville, SC | 08/14/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I kept reading about Elvis, Scottie Moore, and Bill Black in those books by Peter Guralnick and the more I read the more I kept in my mind that I've heard of Bill Black somewhere. Well, it is a common name, but I knew it was significant to me, somehow. You see my brain is kind of aging on me and the memory isn't as good as I'd like it to be. And then, when I saw "Bill Black and his Combo" on into the book, I said to myself "of course. Honky Tonk and Raunchy. I have those LP's in my storage house. I haven't heard them in years." So lucky me, I came to Amazon and pulled up Bill Black and lo and behold, now I can have them on CD. Again thanks to Amazon for providing me with a source for all of my old favorite music pieces. I'm just sitting back and listening to them over and over and thanks to you, I'll never run out. Nor will I ever get tired of them. No one on this earth can ever make music as good as my young generation did (the 40's, 50's and early, early 60's). And in a review right here I find another name in my LP collection that I haven't heard in many years - Ace Cannon. So now I'm going to bring him up and see if I can find the ones by him that I have on LP. My order is going off tonight. All of it is just soothing music to me. Melodic and all that. I am just so sorry to know that Bill died at such a young age. I read about it in the book. On the DVDs and CDs with him playing with Elvis and Scottie he just seemed to be having so much fun. He could really slap that old upright bass. I had no idea that he could do anything other than that until I found out who he actually was. I'm just so thrilled that I can listen to him again. And all through the book, I kept thinking that Elvis didn't do him nor Scottie right. He could have helped them out more I believe. I think, in deference to the general opinion that Elvis was free-hearted, he was actually self-centered and greedy. He should have bought them (Scottie, Bill, Sam & Dewey Phillips) all new cadillacs every year like he did his flunkies. And even houses, and jewelry and such. Without those 4 guys, would Elvis have made it? Who knows. But they sure played a big role in the scheme of things. And deserved much better treatment by him. When he hooked up with the kernel, I think his heart took off in another direction.
(Yes I meant "kernel". He did not earn the right to be called "Colonel". That is an honored title that he most definitiely was not deserving of. Believe me. My husband was a military career man and it wasn't easy to earn those ranks.) Whoever thought up this business of Amazon, sure has my appreciation. I just discovered Amazon a year ago, when someone suggested I check it out for a CD I wanted. I can't remember the one now because by now I have sunk a fortune of hard earned cash with Amazon."
Track Listings (25) - Disc #1
