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Deluxe Edition
Released: Jan 22, 2002
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Released: Jan 22, 2002
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Deluxe Edition collects 15 highlights from Son Seals' long association with Alligator Records that began in 1973. Seals' combination of gritty Chicago blues with horn-laden soul is well represented...
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Lettin' Go
Released: Apr 25, 2000
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Released: Apr 25, 2000
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After spending his entire recording career with Alligator, Frank "Son" Seals' debut release on the Telarc Blues label is also the Chicago bluesman's first album of new material in almost six years....
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Spontaneous Combustion
Released: 1996
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Released: 1996
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Son Seals is a very powerful performer. While his vocals are full of passion, it is Seals' explosive guitar solos (egged on by two fine horn players who have some solo spots and a driving rhythm...
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Nothing But the Truth
Released: 1994
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Released: 1994
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The grotesque cover illustration is an abomination, but the contents are right in the growling grizzly bear style that we've come to expect. Only four Seals-penned originals, but the R&B-laced...
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Bad Axe
Released: 1984
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Released: 1984
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One of Son Seals's finest collections, studded with vicious performances ranging from covers of Eddie Vinson's "Person to Person" and Little Sonny's "Going Home (Where Women Got Meat on Their...
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Midnight Son
Released: 1976
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Released: 1976
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A much more polished set than its predecessor, Midnight Son is a particularly effective effort with several numbers that remain in Seals's onstage repertoire to this day -- "Telephone Angel," "On...
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The Son Seals Blues Band
Released: 1973
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Released: 1973
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The Chicago mainstay's debut album was a rough, gruff, no-nonsense affair typified by the decidedly unsentimental track "Your Love Is like a Cancer." Seals wasn't all that far removed from his...
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Live & Burning
Released: 1978
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Released: 1978
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Lives up to its billing. Seals's smoking set, caught live at Chicago's long-gone (and definitely lamented) Wise Fools Pub, finds him attacking a sharp cross-section of material -- Detroit Junior's...
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Chicago Fire
Released: 1980
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Released: 1980
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Son Seals in an experimental mood, utilizing chord progressions that occasionally don't quite fit together seamlessly (but give him an A for trying to expand the idiom's boundaries). Less...
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Living in the Danger Zone
Released: 1991
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Released: 1991
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The guitarist keeps his string of consecutive fine releases alive with a studio-cut disc that sizzles with bandstand-level velocity (until its last cut, anyway). "Frigidaire Woman," "Woman in...
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