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Robben Ford- Anthology: The Early Years

Label: Avenue Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: (Disc 1) Sweet Sixteen; You Drive A Hard Bargain; Raining In My Heart; Blue And Lonesome: Red Rooster; Eighty-One; Miss; Miss; Sunrise. (Total Time: 58:52). (Disc 2) Oh Gee; You Don't Know What Love Is; Everyday I Have The Blues; It's My Own Fault; Ladies' Choice; Hawk's Theme' S-K Blues; Low Ride; Softly Rolling; Stella And Frenchie; Goin' Down Slow. (Total Time: 58:52).

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Robben Ford: Robben Ford- Anthology: The Early Years

Read "Robben Ford- Anthology: The Early Years" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Robben Ford knew all there was to know about the blues pentonic scale before he was 20 years old. Anthology: The Early Years catalogs a pre-Yellowjackets, pre-Miles Davis, teenaged Robben Ford. This is significant because, Ford, at this time (between 1972 and 1976), shows more aptitude for the Blues than players do twice his age. This ...

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Sunrise

Label: Avenue Records
Released: 1999

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Supernatural

Label: Avenue Records
Released: 1999

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Robben Ford: Sunrise

Read "Sunrise" reviewed by Robert Spencer


Sunrise is aptly named, for this 1972 recording captures Robben Ford's stinging blues guitar at the dawn of his career. It contains the hallmarks of Ford's now long-familiar style: non-stop solos of brisk funk logic; clean and exquisitely formed lines; and a monster groove. There's also quite a bit of vocal work on this one: by ...

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Tiger Walk

Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 1998

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Robben Ford: The Authorized Bootleg

Read "The Authorized Bootleg" reviewed by Robert Spencer


Here's Robben Ford on acoustic guitar at Oakland's fabled Yoshi's in December 1995. The Blue Line is with him: Roscoe Beck on bass, Tom Brechtlein on drums, and Bill Boublitz on piano and organ. The place is packed and the crowd is wildly enthusiastic. As well it should be. Acoustic Ford reveals him as supreme blues ...

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Robben Ford: Tiger Walk

Read "Tiger Walk" reviewed by Robert Spencer


Listening to this new Robben Ford disc reminds me how much this man's guitar contributed to the sound of the much-maligned late period of Miles Davis. At its core Tiger Walk is a quartet recording centering around Ford, Bernie Worrell on clavinet and organ, Charlie Drayton on bass guitars, and Steve Jordon on drums and percussion. ...

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Blues Connotation

Label: Avenue Records
Released: 1997


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