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| Artist: Son Seals
Label: Alligator Records
Category: Music
Buy New: $17.98
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 195737
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 014551561125
EAN: 0014551561125
ASIN: B00005UF1X
Release Date: January 22, 2002
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| Tracks:
| • | I Believe To My Soul | | • | Going Home (Where Women Got Meat On Their Bones) | | • | Bad Axe | | • | Don't Pick Me For Your Fool (live) | | • | Buzzard Luck | | • | Telephone Angel | | • | Life All By Myself | | • | Your Love Is Like A Cancer | | • | Landlord At My Door | | • | Now That I'm Down | | • | I Can't Hold Out (live) | | • | Before The Bullets Fly | | • | Good Woman Bad | | • | Funky Bitch (live) | | • | Hot Sauce (live) |
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After delivering an electrifying jolt to "I Believe to My Soul," the Ray Charles classic that opens this best-of collection, Son Seals's guitar proceeds to sting, soar, and swagger through the rest of this 15-cut, career-spanning anthology. Though his vocals are gruffly serviceable, lacking range and nuance, and much of his material is derivatively generic, Seals pulverizes like a force of nature whenever his guitar surges to the fore. In the studio, the Arkansas-raised, Chicago-based bluesman echoes Otis Rush on "Your Love Is Like a Cancer," Albert King on "Buzzard Love," and B.B. King on "Telephone Angel." The bandstand is where Seals truly comes into his own, with the live recordings of "Don't Pick Me for Your Fool" and "Hot Sauce" giving him the chance to stretch and sizzle. In addition to a judicious selection of highlights from his catalogue, the anthology includes the previously unreleased "Life All By Myself," an outtake from his 1973 debut. --Don McLeese
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 Gritty contemporary Chicago blues December 5, 2004
Docendo Discimus (Vita scholae)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The self-styled "bad axe", Frank "Son" Seals, plays some gritty, low-down Chicago blues on this fine collection of highlights from his 23-year stay with Aligator Records.
Born in 1942, Seals was supposedly raised in the back room of his guitar-playing father's juke joint in Arkansas, and he has played and toured with men like Earl Hooker an Albert King before releasing his self-titled solo debut in 1973, "The Son Seals Blues Band".
This disc is a fine place for newcomers to start, drawing from all eight of his Alligator releases. The opening track, Ray Charles' "I Believe To My Soul" reinterpreted as a raw blues grind, is one of the best songs here...Seals plays sizzling lead guitar backed by a juicy horn ensemble, and he was no fan of hysterical guitar pyrotechnics; his playing was rough and passionate, but never exaggerated.
Other highlights include "Telephone Angel", "Before The Bullets Fly", the swaggering "Going Home", the slow burner "Don't Pick Me For Your Fool", the previously unreleased "Life All By Myself", and "Your Love Is Like A Cancer" from Seals' debut album. Some of the best songs from the album "Nothing But The Truth" are missing, but that's the way compilation albums are...and besides, you can just go get "Nothing But The Truth", you cheapskate!
The great Son Seals passed away in late 2004. He was one of the toughest, most sincere performances working on the Chicago scene, and this is an excellent way to get acquainted with his music.
 All Blues No Filler September 10, 2004
James A. Dean (Arlington, TX United States)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Son Seals is an awesome guitar player, not the pyrotechnic type, but the quintessential blues type. This is a great overview and primer for his entire career. You will be hard-pressed to buy a better blues cd. This is old school blues, but you can still learn something from listening to it. Very highly recommended.
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