Lightning in a Bottle (DVD, 2005)

Thank you Martin Scorsese, Antoine Fuqua and everyone else involved in this concert. We're very lucky to have this on dvd. If you don't already have a copy, after (not if) you buy it just make sure you play the interview with Antoine Fuqua, k? Here's the music:

1. Angelique Kidjo: Zelie
2. Mavis Staples: See That My Grave is Kept Clean
3. David "Honeyboy" Edwards: Gamblin' Man
4. Keb' Mo': Love in Vain
5. Odetta: Jim Crow Blues
6. Natalie Cole: St. Louis Blues
7. James "Blood" Ulmer & Alison Krauss: Sittin' on Top of the World
8. Ruth Brown, M. Staples & N. Cole: Men Are Like Streetcars
9. Buddy Guy: Can't be Satisfied
10. India.Arie: Strange Fruit
11. Macy Gray: Hound Dog
12. Larry Johnson: Hear the Angels Singing
13. John Fogerty: Midnight Special
14. Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown: Okie Dokie Stomp
15. Bonnie Raitt: Coming Home
16. Steve Tyler & Joe Perry: I'm a King Bee
17. Hubert Sumlin & David Johansen: Killing Floor
18. Shemekia Copeland & Robert Cray: I Pity The Fool
19. The Neville Brothers : Big Chief
20. Solomon Burke: Turn on Your Love Light
21. Solomon Burke: Down in the Valley
22. Buddy Guy: Red House
23. Angelique Kidjo: Voodoo Chile (max volume if you can)
24. Chuck D & The Fine Arts Militia: Boom Boom
25. B. B. King: Sweet Sixteen
26. B. B. King, B. Raitt & R. Cray: Paying the Cost to Be the Boss
Bonus Track #1: Stop Messin' Around (Tyler & Perry)
Bonus Track #2: The Sky is Crying (Greg Allman & Warren Haynes)
Bonus Track #3: Minnesota Blues (Mos Def)
Bonus Track #4: First Time I Met The Blues (Buddy Guy)
Bonus Track #5: Revelation (Chris Thomas King)

This concert is one of the BEST BLUES CONCERTS ever. B.B. King has the ability to bring out the most talented and gifted artists to perform with. He is invaluable to American music as a whole. The most spetacular of all the performances is Buddy Guy doing "Voodoo Chile" He is accompanied by Angelique Kidjo who sings and dances like the wind. She is extrodinary.
Bonie Raitt, John Fogerty, Bill Cosby, Macy Gray, Odetta, The Legendary Ruth Brown, and Robert Cray. WOW !!!!

Also, please check out B.B. King's DVD - A Night of Blistering Blues - This is just as good - and it comes with a CD.

Patti in DFW

I recently saw the "Lightining in a Bottle" on cable and decided to buy the DVD. It was well worth the purchase. As an avid lover of blues and what I call hole-in-the-wall music it was nice to watch and experience a concert and documentary with so many veterans of blues, jazz, rock, and rap pay tribute to music that has had such an effect on so many musicians and careers. And as an added bonus I got to discover the one man who had a major influence on Jimi Hendrix....(buy the DVD, you'll be surprised!!)

This DVD is a must have for any true music lover.

If you love the blues, hard rock, hazz, hip-hop, rap, country or rock, this should be in your library. Watching these incredible and often unsung icons of blues will give you a deeper comprehension of where modern American music got its roots. You will never understand the blues, or jazz, or for that matter, rap. These genres of music aren't intellectual forays into the mind. But by listening and hearing what the masters of the idiom have to say about their music, you may begin to comprehend what it's all about. Pain,joy, lust, sorrow, elation, bitter regret---many of the emotions we may never politely express---the blues, and the blues child, jazz, and its grandchild rap and hip-hop can express. Both raw and refined in the same measure, this movie gives a broad overview and intimate portrait of the artists and music called the blues. Particularly great are the snippets of interchange between artists who have come up together and champion each other. Hot music and you see why the old dogs don't need tricks, huge amps, fireworks, etc. It's all in the music.

Great historical review of the blues. Varied artists and their stories come alive on this DVD. The bond shared by many of the performers is strong and evident throughout. I bought the DVD for the historical as well as the entertainment value. It was a great purchase.