Blues Traveler - 25 (2012)

2012-04-08T19:16:47Z

Blues Traveler - 25 (2012)

CD1:
01 – Run-Around
02 – Hook
03 – The Mountains Win Again
04 – But Anyway
05 – You, Me and Everything
06 – Amber Awaits
07 – After What
08 – Back In The Day
09 – Girl Inside My Head
10 – Carolina Blues
11 – Let Her and Let Go
12 – Gina
13 – 100 Years
14 – What’s For Breakfast
15 – NY Prophesie
16 – Unable To Get Free
17 – How You Remember It
18 – What I Got

CD2:
01 – The Demon
02 – The Poignant & Epic Saga Of Featherhead & Lucky Lack
03 – Blue Hour
04 – Trust In Trust
05 – Didn’t Mean To Wake Up
06 – But Anyway ’88
07 – Random Amounts
08 – Twelve Swords
09 – The Sun and The Storm
10 – Traveler’s Suite
11 – Run-Around (Gunslinger Remix)

Personnel:
    John Popper - Vocals, harmonica, 12-string guitar
    Chan Kinchla - Guitar
    Bobby Sheehan, Tad Kinchla - Bass
    Brendan Hill - Drums, percussion
    Ben Wilson - Keyboards
    Joan Osborne - Backing vocals on "100 Years"
    Warren Haynes - Slide guitar on "The Mountains Win Again"
    Arnie Lawrence - Soprano saxophone on "100 Years"

Released to commemorate the band's quarter-century anniversary, 2012's 25 is a double-disc compilation that digs deep into Blues Traveler's career. The first disc contains the hits and album tracks -- not all of them, with the 1997 Top 40 hit "Most Precarious" being the most conspicuous absence -- but the core of the jam band's canon is here, including "But Anyway," "Run-Around," "Hook," "The Mountains Win Again," and "Carolina Blues," topped off with a newly recorded cover of Sublime's "What I Got." That's just the beginning of the collector bait: the rest of the retrospective is devoted to B-sides, rarities, and outtakes, including such nuggets as an early version of "Run-Around" called "The Poignant and Epic Saga of Featherhead and Lucky Lack," a brand new Gunslinger Remix of "Run Around," a version of "But Anyway" from 1988, and all four cuts from the 2000 EP Decisions of the Sky: A Traveler's Tale of Sun and Storm, including the 20-minute saga "Traveler's Suite." Combined, the hits and the rarities may not have one specific targeted audience -- the casual fans will like the first, the hardcore the second, and neither may necessarily have the need for the other -- but taken together the two discs show Blues Traveler at both their most accessible and their most adventurous, so, in a sense, it is a representative introduction. ---Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic Review

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Blues Traveler - Suzie Cracks The Whip (2012)

2012-04-23T15:22:43Z

Blues Traveler - Suzie Cracks The Whip (2012)


01 – You Don’t Have To Love Me
02 – Recognize My Friend
03 – Devil In The Details
04 – All Things Are Possible
05 – Things Are Looking Up
06 – Love Is Everything (That I Describe)
07 – Don’t Wanna Go (feat. Crystal Bowersox)
08 – Nobody Fall In Love With Me		play
09 – Cover Me		play
10 – Saving Grace
11 – Big City Girls
12 – Cara Let The Moon

Personnel:
    John Popper – Harmonica, Vocals
    Chan Kinchla – Guitar (Acoustic), Mandolin, Guitar (Electric)
    Brendan Hill – Percussion, Drums
    Tad Kinchla – Bass
    Ben Wilson – Keyboards

A New York-based blues-rock quartet formed in 1988 by singer/harmonica player John Popper, guitarist Chan Kinchla, bassist Bobby Sheehan, and drummer Brendan Hill, Blues Traveler were part of a revival of the extended jamming style of '60s and '70s groups like the Grateful Dead and Led Zeppelin. Signed to A&M, they released their first album, Blues Traveler, in May 1990 and followed it with Travelers & Thieves in September 1991. Popper was in a serious car accident in 1992, leaving him unable to perform for a number of months. Fortunately, he recovered, yet he still had to perform in a wheelchair for a period of time. In April 1993, Blues Traveler released their third album, Save His Soul, which became the band's first to make the Top 100. Blues Traveler's aptly named fourth album, Four, released in September 1994, at first looked like a sales disappointment, but it rebounded in 1995 when "Run-Around," a single taken from it, became the group's first chart hit. "Run-Around" became one of the biggest singles of 1995, spending nearly a full year on the charts and sending Four into quintuple platinum status.

As the group prepared the follow-up to Four, Blues Traveler released the live double-album Live from the Fall in the summer of 1996. The group returned in the summer of 1997 with its fifth studio album, Straight on Till Morning. After completing his 1999 debut solo effort, Zygote, Popper -- who'd been experiencing chest pains for months -- was forced to undergo an angioplasty; weeks later, tragedy struck on August 20, 1999, when Sheehan was found dead in his New Orleans home. He was just 31 years old. The new millennium saw a newly charged Blues Traveler, and their sixth record, Bridge, appeared in May 2001. The next winter, Blues Traveler released the live What You and I Have Been Through. The studio record Truth Be Told followed in 2003, and another concert album, Live on the Rocks, appeared in 2004. The group returned to the studio in 2004, releasing the Jay Bennett-produced Bastardos! in September of the following year. In 2007, Blues Traveler released Cover Yourself, a collection of previous hits reworked with acoustic arrangements. The David Bianco-produced North Hollywood Shootout appeared from Verve Forecast in 2008. In 2012, the band released 25, a two-disc set (one disc of hits and key tracks and a second disc of B-sides, demos and rarities) celebrating the group's 25th anniversary. --- William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

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