Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Walking By Myself
2. Oh Pretty Woman (featuring Albert King)
3. Still Got The Blues (full version)
4. Separate Ways
5. Since I Met You Baby (featuring BB King)
6. Story of the Blues (single edit)
7. All Your Love
8. Too Tired (featuring Albert Collins)
9. Need Your Love So Bad (single edit)
10. Midnight Blues
11. King of the Blues
12. Jumpin' At Shadows
13. Texas Strut
14. Moving On
15. Stop Messin' Around
16. Parisienne Walkways-'93
17. The Supernatural

Disc 2:

1. Caldonia (live, feat Albert Collins & Albert King)
2. You Don't Love Me (live)
3. Key To Love (live)
4. The Thrill Is Gone (live, featuring BB King)
5. Stormy Monday (live, featuring Albert King)
6. Cold, Cold Feeling (live, featuring Albert Collins)
7. Further Up The Road (live, featuring Albert Collins)
8. The Stumble (live)
9. Oh Pretty Woman (live)
10. Walking By Myself (live)
11. Too Tired (live, featuring Albert Collins)
12. Still Got The Blues (live)
13. All Your Love (live)
14. Midnight Blues (live)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #38395 in Music
• Released on: 2002-02-04
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: .24 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
Like the guy in Spinal Tap, Gary Moore has an amp that goes up to 11, and at times during the two and half hours of The Best Of The Blues you wonder if it's stuck there. Luckily episodes of thunder and lightning are interspersed with performances like "Still Got The Blues", "Need Your Love So Bad" and "Midnight Blues" on the first disc of this 2-CD set, or "Cold, Cold Feeling" on the second--calmer passages where the storm clouds yield to shafts of silver light. Disc 1 is a selection from four early-90s albums (Still Got The Blues, After Hours, Blues Alive and Blues For Greeny), with guest-spots by Albert King, B.B. King and Albert Collins, plus a concert recording of "Parisienne Walkways". Disc 2 has the same guests (though on different songs) and half-a-dozen of the same titles, but this is all unissued concert material. Live performance only stimulates Moore's tendency to skip the foreplay, producing music that is urgent, active and seething with testosterone. Great stuff for a night in with the lads. --Tony Russell

Album Description
Drawing together the best of Gary Moore's four recent blues albums, along with the unforgettable "Parisienne Walkways 93" and a whole bonus CD of live tracks, Gary Moore: The Best of the Blues, is essential listening for the army of Gary Moore followers and all fans of the blues.

1990 was a watershed in the career of Gary Moore. It was the year that the virtuoso guitarist turned his back on the rock guitar that had made his name and returned to playing his true love, the blues. He released Still Got the Blues, the first of four highly successful blues albums, and became one of the true superstars of the genre. After Hours, Blues Alive and Blues for Greeny, his tribute to Peter Green, followed, and his collaborations with blues legends Albert King, Albert Collins and BB King further enhanced this reputation.

Customer Reviews

Good overview of Moore's bluesiest material
Gary Moore?! Isn't he the heavy metal guitar shedder who used to play with Thin Lizzy?
Well, yes, but Irishman Gary Moore also occationally calls back when he hears the blues calling (or gets a message that is has called). He put out his almost-classic almost-pure-blues album "Still Got The Blues" in 1990, and had a pretty big hit with the title track, and Moore, who hails from Van Morrison's hometown of Belfast, is a very talented, versatile guitarist, a good composer, and an even better interpreter of songs.

This 2-disc set is a collection of Moore's high-octane early-90s blues material...it opens with his excellent, fiery cover of Jimmy Rogers' "Walking By Myself", and other highlights include the driving "Moving On", the funky boogie of "Stop Messin' Around", a fine rendition of West side blues king Otis Rush's "All Your Love (I Need Loving)", and of course the well-crafted original "Still Got The Blues For You", which includes an immediately recognizable main single-string riff as well as a fine melody. And the classic "Parisienne Walkways" is here as well, although it is more rock ballad than blues...Moore's bell-clear Gibson Les Paul doesn't need the backing of a string orchestra, but the song itself is too good for little things like that to spoil the mood.

The second disc is actually a 77-minute live album, and a really good one at that.
Opening with a thumping "Caldonia" which features both Albert Collins and Albert King, it duplicates many of the songs on disc one, but it is actually a little bit stronger, providing a more cohesive listen and a little bit more grit as well.
An energetic "You Don't Love Me" is really good, as is "Walking By Myself", a muscular "Still Got The Blues", and a ten-minute "Stormy Monday", again featuring Albert "King" Nelson.

The annotation is very poor, but the music is generally good, although 31 tracks are six or eight too many. Diehards will want this set for the live disc, though, and more casual listeners can pick up "Best Of The Blues" instead of buying all of Moore's Virgin albums. There's plenty of good stuff here.

great live bonus disc
This is a superior "best of" album, and you should get it for the bonus Live disc 2, capturing Gary on the Still Got the Blues and After Hours tours in the early 90s.

The live disc features a tremendous performance of Stormy Monday with Albert King, and the performances of Texas Strut, Moving On, Still Got the Blues and Midnight Blues are superior to the original album versions.

Great album

Blues is best
This cd covers some great aggresive playing, as we would expect from Gary, The old Les Paul really does the job. All guitar addicts will appreciate the fabulous tone, particularly on the rework of Fleetwood Mac's 'Stop Messin' Around' - complete with the stand alone tone of Peter Green's old Les Paul, It's got to be for Gary to produce 'that' tone. To be brief, this is Gary Moor playing blues as only he can, there's too many tracks to review individually. But if you like guitar playing with an edge, and your into the blues, this is one that can't be missed. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.