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Old 01-30-2022, 10:48 PM
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Originally Posted by aleuzzi View Post
It’s also too LA-slick. Christine sounds good but would sound a lot better if the production and arrangement weren’t so glossy. If you can’t let your scars show while singing the blues, then why bother.
To be fair, it was 1988 and they were in LA.

As a blues fan, I love Chess Records but really don’t like Alligator Records, another Chicago blues label, for kind of that same reason. Chess had short, charming songs (including the original Etta James version of Roll With Me Henry).
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