Bad Company - In Concert - Merchants of Cool

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1 Burning Sky
2 Can't Get Enough
3 Feel Like Making Love
4 Rock Steady
5 Movin' On
6 Deal With the Preacher
7 Ready for Love
8 Rock And Roll Fantasy (With Beetles Medley)
9 All Right Now
10 Bad Company
11 Silver, Blue and Gold
12 Shooting Star
13 Joe Fabulous

No final do ano de 1973 com a dissolução definitiva do Free, Paul Rodgers, embora tivesse recebido um convite tentador para substituir Ian Gillan no Deep Purple, resolve montar uma nova banda, juntamente com outro membro do Free, o baterista Simon Kirke.

Convidam o guitarrista do Mott The Hoople, Mick Ralphs, que aceita de imediato, pois estava insatisfeito com a liderança de Ian Hunter imposta por David Bowie.

No baixo chamam Raymond "Boz" Burrel, ex-Centipede e ex-King Crimson.

Paul Rodgers - Muddy Water Blues (93)

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01 - Muddy Water Blues (Acoustic Version)
02 - Louisiana Blues
03 - I Can't Be Satisfied
04 - Rollin' Stone
05 - Good Morning Little School Girl (Part 1)
06 - I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
07 - She's Alright
08 - Standing Around Crying
09 - The Hunter
10 - She Moves Me
11 - I'm Ready
12 - I Just Want To Make Love To You
13 - Born Under A Bad Sign
14 - Good Morning Little School Girl (Part 2)
15 - Muddy Water Blues (Electric Version)


Paul Rodgers' tribute to Muddy Waters is not a return to Waters' electric Chicago blues, but a continuation of the blues-rock of Rodgers' old bands, Free and Bad Company.

Taken on those terms, Muddy Water Blues: A Tribute to Muddy Waters works only when Rodgers is matched with a good blues-rock guitarist.

Jeff Beck, Buddy Guy, and Gary Moore all play well, while Richie Sambora, Neal Schon, and Trevor Rabin all sound a bit lost; the rest, including David Gilmour and Brian May, fall somewhere in between.

Bad Company - Holy Water (90)

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1 Holy Water
2 Walk Through Fire
3 Stranger Stranger
4 If You Needed Somebody
5 Fearless
6 Lay Your Love on Me
7 Boys Cry Tough
8 With You in a Heartbeat
9 I Don't Care
10 Never Too Late
11 Dead of the Night
12 I Can't Live Without You
13 100 Miles



Bad Company's last platinum album, Holy Water is a formulaic yet reasonably engaging collection of AOR hard rock.

Although the only original members on Holy Water are guitarist Mick Ralphs and drummer Simon Kirke, the band does a fair job of approximating the sound of classic Bad Company while adding enough elements of '80s pop-metal to make the record appealing to teenagers who grew up on power ballads.

And the band does turn in a first-rate power ballad with "If You Needed Somebody," which rose all the way to number 16 on the singles chart. Surprisingly, that was one of three hits from the album — "Holy Water" and "Walk Through Fire" also received a fair amount of airplay.

What that success signals is not a creative rebirth for Bad Company, but that the group knew how to follow a formula very well.

Holy Water hasn't aged as well as their original hit albums — instead of the clean, ballsy attack of Bad Company and Straight Shooter, it's awash in echo and synths — but it is a finely crafted, big-budget record of the late '80s and early '90s.

It's just as indicative of its era as Bad Company is.