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Guitar Music

Label: Warner Bros. Records
Released: 2003

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James Blood Ulmer: No Escape From The Blues

Read "No Escape From The Blues" reviewed by Charlie B. Dahan


While best known for his work with Ornette Coleman and in the modern jazz world, James “Blood" Ulmer has recorded two fantastic blues records recently. His follow up to Memphis Blood: The Sun Sessions is the equally provocative and musically exciting work No Escape From The Blues. 2003 was declared the year of ...

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James Blood Ulmer: No Escape From the Blues

Read "No Escape From the Blues" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Jazz Raconteur James Blood Ulmer began his blues march with the release of 2001’s Memphis Blood . On that release Living Colour’s Vernon Reid, convinced that Ulmer was one of the last great blues singers, wanted to record the iconoclast in Memphis at the famed Sun Studios. The result was a collection of blues standards presented ...

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Memphis Blood

Label: Label M
Released: 2001
Track listing: Spoonful; I Want To Be Loved; Little Red Rooster; Dimples; I Just Want To Make Love To You; Evil; Death Letter; Fattening Frogs For Snakes; Money; I Love The Life I Live; Too Lazy To Work, Too Nervous To Steal; Double Trouble; I Asked For Water; Back Door Man. (Total Time: 59:24)

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Blue Blood

Label: Innerhythmic
Released: 2001
Track listing: O Gentle One; As It Is; 99 Names; On And On; Pull On Up To Love; Momentarily; We Got to Get Together; I Can Tell; Home Alone.

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James Blood Ulmer: Blue Blood

Read "Blue Blood" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Blood Ulmer has always been a guitarist to watch. His leaps are blindingly quick; his pauses deafeningly still. Unfortunately his work on record has a checkered past, with masterpieces standing alongside throwaway sellout performances. Blue Blood, an obvious sequel to the most excellent record by Third Rail, features some of the same performers and a similar ...

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James Blood Ulmer: Memphis Blood

Read "Memphis Blood" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Memphis Blood could very possibly be as historic a recording as Howlin' Wolf's Evil . Everything about this release is Romantic. The music ranges from some of the earliest recorded blues for the 1920s to novelty tunes from the '50s and '60s. The recording venue is perhaps the most famous ever, the home of seminal recordings ...

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Forbidden Blues

Label: Warner Bros. Records
Released: 1998


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