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It Ain't Easy | 
 enlarge | Artist: Long John Baldry
Label: Rhino/Wea UK
Category: Music
List Price: $14.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 5079
Format: Import, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 278464
UPC: 812278464282
EAN: 0081227846428
ASIN: B000A3OWS8
Release Date: September 5, 2005
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| Tracks:
| • | Conditional Discharge (Intro) - Long John Baldry, Armitt, Ian | | • | Don't Try to Lay No Boogie Woogie on the King of Rock & Roll - Long John Baldry, Thomas, Jeff | | • | Black Girl - Long John Baldry, Ledbetter, Huddie | | • | It Ain't Easy - Long John Baldry, Davies, Ron | | • | Morning Morning - Long John Baldry, Kupferberg, Tuli | | • | I'm Ready - Long John Baldry, Dixon, Willie | | • | Let's Burn Down the Cornfield - Long John Baldry, Newman, Randy | | • | Mr. Rubin - Long John Baldry, Duncan, Lesley | | • | Rock Me When He's Gone - Long John Baldry, John, Elton | | • | Flying - Long John Baldry, Lane | | • | Going Down Slow - Long John Baldry, Oden, James B. | | • | Blues (Cornbread, Meat and Molasses) - Long John Baldry, Terry, Sonny | | • | Love in Vain - Long John Baldry, Johnson, Robert | | • | Midnight Hour Blues - Long John Baldry, Carr, Leroy | | • | Black Girl - Long John Baldry, Ledbetter, Huddie | | • | It Ain't Easy - Long John Baldry, Davies, Ron | | • | I'm Ready - Long John Baldry, Dixon, Willie |
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Album Description
With the death last month of the legendary British bluesman, it is fitting that some of his many fine albums are reissued. It Ain't Easy (1971) features a British blues/rock line-up befitting the man behind the Long John Baldry moniker. This album returns Baldry to a decidedly edgier and hipper audience, with a cast of all-stars on some of the more adventurous material he had covered to date. This is no doubt due, at least in part, to the involvement of superstars Rod Stewart and Elton John. Among their contributions to the project, Stewart and Elton divided the production tasks -- each taking a side of the original album. Immediately, Baldry sheds the MOR blue-eyed pop soul image. The backing band on Stewart's side include fellow Face and future Rolling Stone, Ron Wood, on electric guitar and acoustic guitarist and Sam Mitchell, who appeared on many of Stewart's early '70s solo albums. Features Baldry's biggest hit 'Don't Try to Lay No Boogie-Woogie on the King of Rock n Roll'. Highlights from Elton John's side include Randy Newman's 'Let's Burn Down the Cornfield', which would have fit perfectly on John's Tumbleweed Connection album. Remastered and expanded. Warner. 2005.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 Good music, CD needed work July 31, 2008
I love his music, which is why I bought the CD. But the first track skipped, right out of the package. Had to take a CD cleaner to it to get it to play correctly.
Boogie and Blues July 19, 2008
Song 10, "Flying" had me flying - my favorite track on the album. Pity it's the last song.. And many of the songs are not as good, but there are some nice acoustic steel-string country blues numbers after that (bonus tracks) pre-dating Clapton's stuff but somewhat comparable. "Black Girl" stood out. Getting back into the rock side of it for the last two bonus numbers, I liked the second "It Ain't Easy" better than the original. I'm glad these were included.
It Ain't Easy by Long John Baldry January 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
not every cut on this album is a gem, but all are worthy of a hearing and, depending on your standards, at least half are keepers.
 EXCELENT ... LJB WAS THE BEST OF ENGLISH R&B September 13, 2007
As I said previously... It was a plasure to hear these records ( "It Ain't Easy" and "Everything Stop for Tea") thirty years after I heard them first time. The sound is perfect.
morning morning August 21, 2007
i have never been so in love with an album as john baldry's it ain't easy. it is an album that pulls at my heart and touches my soul like only the best blues can do. if you want one of the best blues albums from one of the finest this is the album for you to cut your teeth on.
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