As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

LP #9 Chuck Brown and Eva Cassidy – The Other Side (1992)


If it’s cheating to have this album on my list when I’ve already declared Eva’s Live at Blues Alley to be my all-time favorite live album, then so be it.   ;-)  If you love standards, particularly R&B classics like “Drown In My Own Tears” and “Dark End Of The Street”, and you like (or at least can tolerate) Chuck’s baritone, this one is definitely for you; the two both sing on the first 6 tracks, while the rest feature a couple more duets plus solo turns by each of them. I’ve pretty much exhausted my superlatives for Eva by now (and there’s also a little more about Chuck in the entry for “Bustin’ Loose”), but if you do want more, check out this great 1998 Washington Post column by Jefferson Morley.
 
Favorite tracks:
You’ve Changed
I Could Have Told You So
Dark End Of The Street
Red Top
You Don’t Know Me

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