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Pierre Hughes
Reviewed in Canada on July 1, 2018
Great cd
Hella
Reviewed in Canada on June 3, 2014
Amazing, haunting melodies and notes... JB Lenoir had the blues and could express himself very well... His life was cut too short by the system he lived under with no health care after he got hit by a car... and essentially bled to death internally...God Bless You where ever you are in heaven now, JB
Linda
Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2013
I had only heard JB on television before, but hearing him on my sound system is amazing. He is one of the best blues singers I have ever heard. He truly has an unique style and his voice is just awe inspiring.
Iceman
Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2013
Although J.B.'s voice may not be for everybody, his music played an important part in bridging blues with rhythm & blues. This recording is a good one too.
Rice M
Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2012
If you are going to only have one CD by JB Lenoir, this is probably the one to get. The price is right and the liner notes are excellent! While this is a good intro to JB, I took off one star because it has been "cleaned up" a little too much for my ears. Most people would probably be glad to be rid of the tape hiss and/or record surface noise but I find it flattens out the high end.Some people are put off by his high tenor voice upon a first listen which may explain the song "Natural Man", "...everybody wants to know, what in the world am I. People should understand that I am a natural man."Lenoir's one big hit, "Mama Talk to Your Daughter" is here, along with "One More Shot" which is a great jump blues number. "When I'm Drinking" was actually a Smokey Hogg number, recorded by Hogg on Imperial Records (IM 673) almost 3 years before Lenoir cut it for Chess. But the Chess brothers were always quite loose with copyrights.Even here in Chicago, Lenoir was a minor player for most of his life, Chess didn't release his first U.S. LP (Natural Man) until 3 years after his death despite owning not only his Chess recordings but the earlier JOB and Parrot recordings too.In 1965 he toured Europe and later had several albums released there including the Polydor album, "Crusade" recorded in Sept. 1966 (Chicago) and produced by John Mayall. His success in Europe seem to point to big things here but he died of a heart attack in April of 1967. By the way, he and everyone else here in Chicago pronounced the name La-NOR.
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