Search - Climax Blues Band :: Climax Chicago Blues Band (Reis)

Still one of the best blues albums after all these years.

Joseph K. Papa | new jersey | 04/02/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Classic Brittish blues, this album is only rivaled by Fleetwood Mac's first lp, as with that album Haycock goes lick for lick with Peter Green, and the result is some of the more authentic sounding Chicago blues to come from the Brits at this time, contempories, Savoy Brown and John Mayall rivaled the close second to these two bands. Mean Old World, Insurance, Don't Start Me Talking, have some slick solos, short and sweet,something Clapton had yet to hone, who engaged in some longer jams and tended to lose the blues edge found here.

The sound quality is a marginal and subtle improvement from the C5 edition I also own, it definitely is a cleaner and clearer version, no washed out instruments and the tininess removed from the vocals, the keyboards much more pronounced. The C5 edition was more guitar heavy if that's what you might like better. This as the other are both keepers better yet. I would recomend this version to start with , it is overall the most sonically balanced and cleanest to my ears. perhaps I'll see your review shortly and I'll see if I'm missing something. Happy listening and let's work hard to stamp out crappy music from the airwaves."