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Bought for a Dollar Sold for a Dime

Artist: Little Axe
Label: Real World
Category: Music

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

2 reviews
Sales Rank: 16509

Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.7 x 0.3

UPC: 180030000499
EAN: 0180030000499
ASIN: B003JCTING

Release Date: June 7, 2010
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days

Tracks:

•	Guide My Feet Soul Of A Man
•	Grinning
•	Take A Stroll
•	Hands Off
•	Can't Sleep
•	Hammerhead
•	Can't Stop Walking Yet
•	Hear Me Cry
•	Too Late
•	Another Friend Gone
•	Tell Me Why
•	Return
•	When The Sun Goes Down

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Customer Reviews:
5 out of 5 stars

Get it now!! June 8, 2010
Shoetown (NPTN)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful

This is typical Little Axe - 21st Century Blues but with an added live feel. With all the usual suspects playing on this latest offering it should have been excellent but its not; its far far better.

4 out of 5 stars

Bought for a tenner, worth every penny June 9, 2010
Leonardo27 (London United Kingdom)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

Skip McDonald's venerable blues project continues to evolve, with the emphasis this time shifting from the sample-based grooves of old to a 'live in the studio' format. It's a bold and rejuvenating move, resulting in his most accessible album to date and inching him closer to the mainstream. It's also a deeply spiritual, some might say almost religious, body of work. Book-ended by two short gospel cameos, thematically the album goes in search of the meaning of life.

The organic composition of the record makes for a warm and generally mellow experience, leaving behind many of the harsher elements of earlier dub experiments.

Some of the material is instantly familiar. "Soul Of A Man" first appeared on Little Axe's debut album "The Wolf That House Built", this new version emerging as a real song as opposed to the bolted-together patchwork of the original. "Grinning" , previously encountered on "Champagne and Grits", is an alternative reworking of Son House's "People Grinning In Your Face" and also benefits greatly from the live production.

Elsewhere, McDonald and Daby Toure resume the memorable collaboration started on last year's joint EP "Call My Name" with the soaring "Tell Me Why", whilst "Another Friend Gone" is pure undiluted gospel, and the massed voices on "Hammerhead" power an impressively insistent blues groove.

When all is said and done, there is the nagging feeling that maybe a few too many rough edges were smoothed over in the studio, and in songwriting terms perhaps there aren't quite as many out-and-out gems as on previous albums, but these are small quibbles in what is otherwise again a quality release from one of the most consistent and original exponents of the blues around.

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