tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post5124483292044152338..comments2024-03-02T07:40:22.786+03:00Comments on Only Solitaire blog: Albert Collins: Ice Pickin'Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post-38333821414579161222011-05-11T12:13:10.549+04:002011-05-11T12:13:10.549+04:00This is one of my favourite blues albums, and defi...This is one of my favourite blues albums, and definitely among the best albums issued by Alligator Records, a label I'm quite ambivalent about - their efforts to revive the blues after it went out of the radar (again) in the 70s are huge and commendable, but they ended overdoing the "making it accessible" part. As someone said, by the late 80s Alligator's formula was basically "take some hot newcomer or respectable veteran, schedule a session with some professional backing musicians, including someone famous, preferably Robert Cray, write some new tunes, mix some standards into the tracklist, be sure to have at least a funky track and finish the package with cover art where everybody is smiling and looking like fresh from the shower".Jaime Vargashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14412648861919343738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post-84626800186317363142011-04-19T23:33:01.783+04:002011-04-19T23:33:01.783+04:00I don't have the albums on me to compare the t...I don't have the albums on me to compare the two versions, but I'm pretty sure that 'Conversation With Collins' appeared on 'Trash Talkin'. Might have been an inferior version of course.Anton Jnoreply@blogger.com