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I have mixed emotions with B&L
First is, that I'm very happy to get a 'new' studio album. New material is always good. But when I first listened to it yesterday, I haven't had the same great feeling that I had when I first listened to songs from their last albums like 'laugh I nearly died, anybody seen my baby, love is strong', it feels to me a bit like the red devil session part 2. There are some great songs on B&L, especially the slower ones, blue and lonesome is my favorite at the moment, but for my feeling, it's not really a new record. IMO they should have released it like jamming with Edward, don't make such a 'sensation' out of it. But ok...
What I recognized, too, is that Keith playing is so much in the background like on no other record. The difficult parts are played by Ronnie or Clapton, from the first listening I only count one Keith solo, but I could be wrong.
Production wise I don't like the sound very much. It's not polished, that's great, but sometimes so heavy distorted, that it sound more worse than the worst stones blues songs from the early sixties. And I mean some of the greatest blues records have superb sound and not sounding polished, like muddy waters 'folk singer' or junior wells 'hoodoo man blues' or the ' American folk & blues festival '65. Sometimes it's hard to tell who plays what on B&L.
Thanks to Gazza's Spotify playlist i must say that the original versions of B&L are so great, that the stones doesn't top them, which they imo mostly did on their previous covers. But being par with them is a great Effort, too.
I will of course have many more listening to it die I hope that it grows on me.
Excuse my bad English
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