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Artist: Johnny Guitar Watson
Title: Untouchable! The Classic 1959-1966 Recordings
Source: CDDA
Genre: Blues
Label: Ace Records
Ripdate: Oct-20-2010
Storedate: Aug-27-2007
Quality: VBRkbps 44,1kHz / Joint-Stereo
Tracks: 27
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■ Release Notes:
Like many a journeyman bluesman, Johnny
"Guitar" Watson led something of an
itinerant recording life during much of
his career, wandering from label to label
in the 1950s and 1960s with just a little
chart success. Untouchable! does a great
service to collectors by assembling 27
tracks from 1959-1966, many of which,
surprisingly, had not only never
previously come out on CD, but had never
been reissued in any form. While in
general these are blues/R&B crossover
sides, there's more variety than one
might think, and though the hopping
between styles makes it a little uneven,
it makes for a better listen in one gulp
than you might expect.
There's some relatively straight blues,
particularly in the earlier sides; there
are rather more blends of blues/R&B with
pop than many blues fans might realize
exist, sometimes on covers of pop
standards, and sometimes employing
strings; and there are cuts, particularly
in the mid-'60s selections, that verge on
out-and-out soul. It's true that the
three songs most likely to be familiar to
general blues and rock fans are among the
very best material here, those being
"Looking Back," which was covered by John
Mayall's Bluesbreakers (with Peter Green
on guitar); "Cuttin' In," a 1962 Top Ten
R&B hit and one of Watson's most
effective fusions of blues (with biting
guitar) and orchestration; and "Gangster
of Love," one of Watson's signature tunes
(though this 1963 King single, fine as it
is, is not his original version).
But everything here is at least OK, and
much of it is above average to excellent,
even on some tracks where the influences
of others like Clarence "Frogman" Henry,
the Olympics, the Temptations, and Ray
Charles are obvious. There might be a
little less guitar pyrotechnics than some
straight-ahead blues fans would like, and
it's unfortunate that a few interesting
cuts referred to in the liner notes from
this period were not available for
licensing. But overall it's a solid
overview of a time when Watson was among
the more interesting (and certainly
overlooked) artists building bridges
between the blues, R&B, and soul.
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NR. TRACK TIME.
01~ The Bear 02:54
(aka the Preacher and the Bear)
02~ One More Kiss 02:19
03~ Untouchable 02:35
04~ The Eagle Is Back 02:35
05~ Looking Back 01:56
06~ Johnny Guitar 02:26
07~ Posin' 02:40
08~ Embraceable You 02:42
09~ Broke and Lonely 02:58
10~ I Just Wants Me Some Love 02:47
11~ Cold, Cold Heart 02:30
12~ The Nearness of You 03:00
13~ Sweet Lovin' Mama 03:03
14~ Cuttin' In 03:16
15~ What You Do to Me 02:30
16~ That's the Chance You've Gotto Take 03:12
17~ Gangster of Love 02:54
18~ You Better Love Me 02:34
19~ In the Evenin' 02:59
20~ I Say I Love You 03:01
21~ Those Lonely, Lonely Nights 02:49
22~ Baby Don't Leave 02:35
23~ Ain't Gonna Move 02:20
24~ Wait a Minute, Baby 02:07
25~ Oh So Fine 02:11
26~ Big Bad Wolf 02:36
27~ You Can Stay (But the Noise Must Go) 02:44
Total Time: 72:13 min
Size: 59,7 MB
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