Two CD set featuring 35 of the duo's greatest recordings in one package. The Blues Brothers originally began as a Saturday Night Live-only performance featuring two of the shows' main players: John Belushi and Dan Akroyd. They proved to be so popular that they eventually released a handful of albums plus filmed the immortal Blues Brothers movie, only coming to an abrupt end when Belushi died in early 1982. All of the unique tracks from their albums are featured on these two CDs, pulled from The Blues Brothers Original Soundtrack, The Definitive Collection and The Best Of The Blues Brothers. Includes 'Soul Man', 'Rubber Biscuit', 'She Caught The Katy', 'Peter Gunn Theme', 'Everybody Needs Somebody' and 'Gimme Some Lovin''. Pressed on full color picture CDs: Disc One is of Jake (Belushi) and Disc Two is of Elwood (Akroyd).

Artist: Cecil Barfield
Album: South Georgia Blues
Year: 2009
Genre: Blues
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Tracks: 11
Size: 103 mb

Roman Wall Blues was an awkward though intermittently interesting effort that still found Harvey in the midst of his long, halting transition from soul-blues artist to a more original songwriter who fused satire and hard rock with R&B. Many of the arrangements have a dated horn-adorned soul-rock feel, and the trendy band-on-the-road hippie phraseology isn't as funny as it was probably intended to be. But there are some genuinely enjoyable tracks here and there, like the goofy minstrel folk-rock of "Broken Hearted Fairytale," the desultory lament "Maxine," and the uncommonly grim title track, where Harvey plays the part of an actual Roman soldier on patrol. And Harvey's vocals are never less than exuberant, in the manner of that hyperactive kid who's barely toned down even after reaching adulthood, particularly on the '50s rock & roll-style "Donna." Covering the Rolling Stones' "Jumpin' Jack Flash" was an utterly superfluous endeavor, however. It's among the rarest of Harvey's albums, and as a little-heard link in his evolution it deserves reissue, in spite of its inconsistency.