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Rolling Stone: "[W]hen Taylor fires up his slide guitar behind May's growl...it's easy to imagine yourself at the very birth of British electric blues. Because they were there."

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CD Details

Released: May 26, 2015
Originally Released: 2007
Label: Repertoire

Entertainment Reviews:

Rolling Stone - p.64

"[W]hen Taylor fires up his slide guitar behind May's growl...it's easy to imagine yourself at the very birth of British electric blues. Because they were there."

Entertainment Weekly - p.130

"[T]here's a weird beauty in the matter-of-fact way they rip through BALBOA's 13 blues, jazz, and R&B-inflected tunes....Undeniably galvanizing in all the right ways." -- Grade: B+

Q - p.105

3 stars out of 5 -- "Here, bluesy rockers, hardfaced ballads and lyrics about death show them still refusing to go gently."

Tracks:

1.The Beat Goes On
2.Buried Alive
3.Livin' in My Skin
4.(Blues For) Robert Johnson
5.Pretty Beat
6.In the Beginning
7.Mimi
8.Feel Like Goin' Home
9.The Ballad of Hollis Brown
10.Freedom Song
11.Dearly Beloved
12.All Light Up
13.Balboa Island
14.It's All Over Now Baby Blue
15.Hoochie Coochie Man
16.Look Away Now