Eric Burdon - Ultimate Comeback (2008)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Image) +CUE, LOG | 830 MB | Scans
Genre: Rock, Classic Rock | Label: Strange Days Records | Catalog Number: POCE 1260/1
EAC Rip | FLAC (Image) +CUE, LOG | 830 MB | Scans
Genre: Rock, Classic Rock | Label: Strange Days Records | Catalog Number: POCE 1260/1
As the lead singer of the Animals, Eric Burdon was one of the British Invasion's most distinctive vocalists, with a searingly powerful blues-rock voice. When the first lineup of the group fell apart in 1966, Burdon kept the Animals' name going with various players for a few years. Usually billed as Eric Burdon & the Animals, the group was essentially Burdon's vehicle, which he used to purvey a far more psychedelic and less R&B-oriented vision. Occasionally he came up with a good second-division psychedelic hit, like "Sky Pilot"; more often, the music was indulgent, dating it almost immediately. Burdon's real triumphs as a solo artist came at the beginning of the '70s, when he hooked up with a bunch of L.A. journeyman soul/funksters who became his backing band, War. Recording three albums' worth of material in the year or two that they were together, the Burdon/War records could ramble on interminably, and would have benefited from a lot of editing. But they contained some spacy funkadelia of real quality, especially their number three hit single "Spill the Wine," which was almost recorded as an afterthought in the midst of sessions dominated by exploratory jams.