1. You Got The Bucks 
2. Red, White & Blues 
3. Can't Play The Blues (In An Air-Conditioned Room) 
4. Early In The Morning 
5. One Track Train 
6. Boogie Thing 
7. Never Found A Girl 
8. Trick Bag 
9. Take You And Show You 
10.Big Bird

Steve "The Colonel" Cropper - Guitar 
Lou "Blue Lou" Marini - Sax 
Alan "Mr. Fabulous" Rubin - Trumpet 
"Smokin" John Tropea – Guitar 
Anthony "Rusty" Cloud - Keyboards 
Eric "The Red" Udel - Bass 
Lee "Funkytime" Finklestein – Drums 
Rob "Honeydripper" Paparozzi – Vocals and Harmonica 
Larry "Dogbone" Farrell – Trombone 
And Special Guest: Eddie "Knock on Wood" Floyd – Vocals

This is one of the rarer Blues Brothers CDs/LPs from their catalogue, it's a studio effort from most of the original Blues Brothers Band with Paul Shaffer. Released in 1992, it is done largely without either of the Blues Brothers (Jake/John Belushi having passed on almost a decade before its release) although Elwood Blues/Dan Ackroyd does vocals on the title track, and plays his harp on another, "You Can't Play the Blues (In An Air-Conditioned Room. It's good, if not great, stuff, but seems largely an effort for the remaining members of the band to cash in with some product, instead of their individual solo career efforts.

For those of us who can't get enough of the Blues Brothers stuff, I'd recommend this one *after* getting "The Blues Brothers Band-- Live In Montreaux" and "Blues Brothers & Friends-- Live from the House of Blues", but if you're just discovering the Blues Brothers after seeing one (or the other) of their movies, there are much better places for you to start listening, such as "The Blues Brothers Complete." ---Walter Five, amazon.com

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1. Born In Chicago - The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
2. The Blues Don't Bother Me - Matt Murphy
3. Harmonica Musings - John Popper
4. Cheaper To Keep Her - Dan Aykroyd/Lonnie Brooks/Junior Wells/The Blues Brothers Band
5. Perry Mason Theme - The Blues Brothers Band
6. Looking For A Fox - John Goodman/Dan Aykroyd/The Blues Brothers Band
7. Can't Turn You Lose - The Blues Brothers Band
8. R-E-S-P-E-C-T - Aretha Frankin/The Blues Brothers Band
9. 634-5789 - Eddie Floyd/Wilson Pickett/Jonny Lang/The Blues Brothers Band
10. Maybe I'm Wrong - Blues Traveler
11. Riders In The Sky (A Cowboy Legend) - Dan Aykroyd/John Goodmand/The Blues Brothers Band
12. John The Revelator - Taj Mahal/Sam Moore/Joe/ Morton/Sharon Riley/The Faith Chorale
13. Let There Be Drums - The Carl LaFong Trio
14. Season Of The Witch - Dr. John/The Brothers Band
15. Funk Nassau - Joe Morton/Dan Aykroyd/John Goodman/Paul Shaffer/Erykah Badu/The Blues Brothers Band
16. How Blue Can You Get - The Lousiiana Gator Boys
17. Turn On Your Love Light - Joe Morton/Dan Aykroyd/John Goodman/J. Evan Bonifant/The Blues Brothers Band
18. New Orleans - The Louisiana Gator Boys/The Blues Brothers Band

Like the movie itself, the soundtrack to the belated Blues Brothers sequel, Blues Brothers 2000, simply doesn't work as well as its predecessor, despite good intentions all around. Part of the problem, of course, is the absence of John Belushi, who provided a boisterous energy and undeniable charisma that made the Blues Brothers' slick updates of classic blues and soul quite entertaining. This time around, the music just sounds a little too polished for its own good. Nevertheless, it's sort of fun to hear all the stars (Aretha Franklin, B.B. King, etc.) again, and they make missteps such as the blues reworking of Donovan's "Season of the Witch" and the little kid Blues Brother tolerable. --- Stephen Thomas Erlewine, allmusic.com

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1.The Blues Brothers - She Caught The Katy (4:12) 
2.The Blues Brothers - Peter Gunn Theme (3:48) 
3.The Blues Brothers - Gimme Some Lovin' (3:08) 
4.Ray Charles - Shake A Tail Feather (2:49) 
5.The Blues Brothers - Everybody Needs Somebody To Love (3:24) 
6.James Brown - The Old Landmark (2:58) 
7.Arethra Franklin - Think (3:16) 
8.The Blues Brothers - Theme From Rawhide (2:39) 
9.Cab Calloway - Minnie The Moocher (3:25) 
10.The Blues Brothers - Sweet Home Chicago (7:51) 
11.The Blues Brothers Jailhouse Rock(3:19)

Comic actors John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd received a lot of flak for their Blues Brothers shtick -- mostly for the albums, not 1980's beloved classic film. But they should be given credit for exposing many people -- including this reviewer -- to the music of blues and R&B veterans. The Blues Brothers soundtrack was released on Atlantic Records. On the surface this doesn't seem unusual, since the Blues Brothers' Atlantic debut, Briefcase Full of Blues, was a number one album; but the movie was released by Universal, and its parent company, MCA, passed on the soundtrack. The rollicking remake of the Spencer Davis Group's "Gimme Some Lovin'" was a hit, featuring an arrangement notable for the horn section that replaces Steve Winwood's rumbling organ work. Ray Charles has a good time with "Shake a Tail Feather," and he's helped out by Jake and Elwood Blues (Belushi and Aykroyd, respectively). The cover of Solomon Burke's "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" is a lot of fun, thanks to the great overall rhythm and Elwood's lightning-fast stage rap, while James Brown and the Reverend James Cleveland Choir provide a blast of gospel music on "Old Landmark." Aretha Franklin's "Think" is explosive, and Cab Calloway's "Minnie the Moocher" is slyly irresistible. Charles, Brown, Franklin, and Calloway all have small roles in the film, yet so does John Lee Hooker, but he's not represented here. ---Bret Adams, allmusic.com

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