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Baker Street is a compilation album released in 1998 by Gerry Rafferty. It features 16 of his best hits from 1978 to 1982. It features 16 of his best hits from 1978 to 1982. Track listing
"Baker Street" is a single by the British singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty, released in February 1978. It won the 1979 Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically [ 2 ] and reached the top three in the UK, US and elsewhere.
City to City is the second solo studio album by Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty, released on 20 January 1978 by United Artists Records.It was Rafferty's first solo release in six years—and first release of any kind since 1975—due to his tenure in the band Stealers Wheel and subsequent legal proceedings which prevented Rafferty from releasing any new solo recordings for the next ...
Blues Blues Blues is an album credited to the Jimmy Rogers All-Stars. [1] [2] It was released in January 1999, just over a year after Jimmy Rogers's death. [3] The album peaked at No. 1 on the UK Jazz & Blues Albums Chart. [4] Mick Jagger, one of the album's many featured musicians, considered Rogers to be the originator of electric blues. [5]
Billboard gave the album 4 out of 4 stars, indicating "very strong sales potential" to retailers, speculating that it would have pop and rhythm and blues appeal. [1] In the 2004 edition of The New Rolling Stone Album Guide, the two-album compilation was rated 3.5 out of 5 stars and the editors write that this music is the stronger half, calling ...
The eleven separate records which compose "Blue Guitars" could as well stand on their own; in combination, however, they provide a journey through the different epochs of the Blues, showing the various components that have been added to the original African Blues over time, the changes in instrumentation, style, lyrical expression and thematic implications.
A cover of "Baker Street", originally performed by Gerry Rafferty, was the first single released from the album.This reached number two in the UK singles chart [2] and the top 10 of many other countries around Europe.
A dirt road main street, she walked off in bare feet", and laments "It's a shame I won't be passing through again." Jennings looks back to the seventies again with his reading of Gerry Rafferty 's 1978 hit " Baker Street ," which opens the album and substitutes a bluesy, Eric Clapton -sounding guitar solo for the original's famous saxophone tag ...