It Ain't Easy

Track Listings
1. Woamn    
2. Cowboy    
3. It Aint Easy    
4. Out In The Country    
5. Good Feeling (1957)    
6. Rock And Roll Widow    
7. Mama Told Me (Not To Come)    
8. Your Song    
9. Good Time Living    

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Japanese exclusive 24-bit remastered reissue of 1970 album. 2002.

It Ain't Easy, Music, Three Dog Night, Rock, Rock/Pop
It Ain't Easy
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • It Aint Easy
  • It ain't easy, but he did it!
  • John Baldry is a great Blues singer
  • it ain't easy
  • It Ain't Easy ~ Long John Baldry
 It Ain't Easy
Long John Baldry
Manufacturer: Wea International
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000A3OWS8
Release Date: 2005-09-05

Tracks:

  1. Conditional Discharge (Intro)
  2. Don't Try to Lay No Boogie Woogie on the King of Rock & Roll
  3. Black Girl
  4. It Ain't Easy
  5. Morning Morning
  6. I'm Ready
  7. Let's Burn Down the Cornfield
  8. Mr. Rubin
  9. Rock Me When He's Gone
  10. Flying
  11. Going Down Slow [#][*]
  12. Blues (Cornbread, Meat and Molasses) [#][*]
  13. Love in Vain [#][*]
  14. Midnight Hour Blues [#][*]
  15. Black Girl [#][*]
  16. It Ain't Easy [#][*]
  17. I'm Ready [#][*]
  18. Radio Spot

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.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars It Aint Easy.......2007-04-11

I have been looking for this music on CD for many years, I am extreemly happy and satisfied.

5 out of 5 stars It ain't easy, but he did it!.......2007-04-08

This is one of those great albums that not everybody will have the opportunity to discover. I mean, if you wasn't there when John Baldry played guitar in Wardour Street, with an old hat full of pennies, and doin' that Boogie Woogie music, maybe you will lose the chance to listen to it. I wasn't there of course! and I am not sure how did I get the recommendation for "It Ain't Easy" but it has been one of the best albums I've ever bought.

It begins with what has been known as Baldry's biggest hit...and what a starter!..."Don't Try To Lay No Boogie Woogie On The King Of Rock And Roll". It's pure and absolute rock and roll indeed! but the blues and the best pop music are present too all along this record.

"It Ain't Easy" is a song that I first heard with David Bowie in his Ziggy Stardust album, and Baldry (With Maggie Bell on the vocals) does a great version of this song in a Stone The Crows' style.

The first part of the album run produced by Rod Stewart, so if you love his Faces' Era it wont take you long to love this record too. And the other part, produced by Elton John is as good as the first one. It's more oriented to the pop side of the music, but it doesn't sacrify quality. It's curious, but there's a version of a Faces song, "Flying" under Elton John's production, very enjoyable by the way. And that smooth masterpiece, "Let's Burn Down The Cornfield"...WOW! it has it all, piano, guitar, feeling!.

It could be his voice, raised somewhere in the Mississippi and similar to Joe Cocker's...as if they were drinking some whisky or brandy just before they began singing, but the fact is that this guy knew how to do the blues!. I am glad to own a copy of this album...so give a click on "Order Now" and don't forget to put it into your buying cart!

4 out of 5 stars John Baldry is a great Blues singer.......2007-02-07

This was the first Long John Baldry album I ever bought in 1969. It was great then and the remastered version on CD is great now.

5 out of 5 stars it ain't easy.......2006-11-21

Truly a great listen for most. ONe of the great unsung music giants of our time. I wonder....If Ron Davies wrote "It ain't easy", who performed it first? Bowie or LJB? Anybody??

5 out of 5 stars It Ain't Easy ~ Long John Baldry.......2006-11-10

I have waited a long time for this DVD as it is one of my all time favorites from the 70's. This has some great classic bluesy rock & roll. Part of the collection was produced by Rod Stewart and the other part by Elton John.

Too bad they waited until John Baldry passed away before releasing it in the US.
Songs of Free Men/ A Paul Robeson Recital
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Robeson on wax
  • The voice, the sound quality and the interpretation
  • A Voice from the 40s, often dated, often moving
  • Robeson at his best
  • some of the greatest songs of the last century
 Songs of Free Men/ A Paul Robeson Recital

Manufacturer: Sony
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000029YJ
Release Date: 1997-12-09

Tracks:

  1. Balm in Gilead
  2. Chassidic Chant
  3. Quiet Flows The Don: From Border To Border
  4. Quiet Flows The Don: Oh, How Proud Our Quiet Don
  5. Elijah, Op. 70: The Lord God Of Abraham
  6. The Purest Kind Of Guy
  7. Joe Hill
  8. The Peat-Bog Soldiers
  9. The Four Insurgent Generals
  10. Native Land
  11. Song Of The Plains
  12. Cradle Song
  13. Within Four Walls
  14. By An' By
  15. Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
  16. John Henry
  17. Water Boy
  18. My Curly Headed Baby
  19. Mah Lindy Lou
  20. Wagon Wheels
  21. The House I Live In
  22. Showboat: I Still Suits Me
  23. Sylvia
  24. Showboat: Ol' Man River
  25. Porgy And Bess: It Ain't Necessarily So

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There was nothing like the Robeson sound, ever. To describe his deep, rich, perfectly equalized instrument is futile. Go instead to "Balm in Gilead," the opening track, and see if you can listen to the last pianissimo phrase without falling to pieces. Robeson was at his best when the music was slow and the words contained spiritual or social messages. Faster, lighter fare like Kern's "I Still Suits Me" or Gershwin's "It Ain't Necessarily So" find the serious-minded singer out of his element, lacking irony and swing. "Old Man River," though, gets a simple, dignified treatment. It's Songs of Free Men, though, that will just keep Robeson's artistry rolling along, especially in Sony's astonishing transfers. --Jed Distler

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Robeson on wax.......2007-06-19

I found this album in a thrift store last week, for a couple of dollars. It's the original pressing on four 78 RPM records, in a gatefold format. It's in pristine condition. I really bought it for the incredible cover art, although I hope to be able to listen to it in this format at some point.

5 out of 5 stars The voice, the sound quality and the interpretation.......2004-09-24

Put this on your stereo and if it is good enough the depth and richness of Robeson's voice will make your fillings rattle and your chest rumble. The power of his voice is awesome. This CD is superbly recorded with no audible noise at normal listening levels.

4 out of 5 stars A Voice from the 40s, often dated, often moving.......2002-09-01

"Red diaper babies" have greeted this disc with nostalgic joy, and it captures a time and an aesthetic and a political belief with precision. Anyone interested in the emotional life of the pro-Soviet left of the 1940s should buy this disc. It's something like Henry Wallace set to music. There is much more to Robeson than that, however, and Sony has given us Robeson whole: there are songs by American masters of the musical, there are labor songs, religious songs, as well as the kind of faux-folk songs which the butcher supreme Josef Stalin encouraged and which were not taken seriously inside the USSR (except at gunpoint!!) but which were taken up by dupes around the world. This is Robeson at his least savory - willing propagandist for a vile mass murderer. Songs such as "Native Land" (fittingly, Robeson is referring to the Soviet Union) and the Red Army song are the equivalent of the "Horst Wessel Song", anthems of murder, and it is difficult to listen to the worst of them without retching. On the other hand, Robeson's commitment to American folk culture was real. "Balm in Gilead" is deeply beautiful; "John Henry" is heroic; "By an' By" is both resigned yet hopeful. "Joe Hill" captures an era in labor history. Anyone interested in American popular song should hear these. Turning to Broadway, his "Old Man River" is very fine, though Robeson changed the lyrics for political reasons and Leonard Warren has done the song better. I disagree with the editorial reviewer: "I Still Suits Me" is wonderfully playful and shows Robeson using his gorgeously rich voice to tease and poke fun. However, Marc Blitzstein's "Purest Kind of a Guy" is beyond saving - another example of Robeson recording an unworthy song by a political fellow-traveller. Ugh. But for every miss there are two hits. Robeson performs Mendelssohn's Elijah with nobility, and sings his favorite song, "Water Boy", with joyous pride: "There ain't no hammer that's on these mountains that rings like mine, boys, that rings like mine."
No one need have any fears about the mono sound quality. The orchestra in the second half of the program is at times a little dwarfed by Robeson's voice, but it generally sounds clean and colorful, and the great artist's voice rings like no other.

5 out of 5 stars Robeson at his best.......2000-05-12

It's hard to believe that most of these recordings pre-date the advent of magnetic tape: the CD transfer is superlative. The songs and performance are beyond reproach. Notable is the imaginative packaging in miniature 'record album' format, complete with the original cover art, and a replica of the original Columbia record label applied to the CD.

In response to a previous question: Robeson's performance of Danny Boy (Londonderry Air) can be found on the Vanguard LP entitled "Robeson" (VRS-9037).

5 out of 5 stars some of the greatest songs of the last century.......2000-05-05

In the 1940s, before rabid McCarthyism and racism had taken its toll on him, Robeson made these wonderful recordings of spirituals, classics and pop tunes. Accompanied by the solo piano of the incomparable Lawrence Brown, or by an orchestra, the songs ring out with pride, dignity, skill and unmatched integrity. The shameful treatment that Robeson was subject to from American authorities certainly seem grotesquely absurd to a modern listener. The wonderful version of "The House I Live In" included on this cd should forever kill off any suspicion that Robeson did not love his country deeply. This album ought to be heard by millions of people, world wide. Robeson's voice is nothing less than a glorious high point in 20th century music, and it's hard to think of any recording capturing it to greater advantage.
It Ain't Easy
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Chris Smither will ruin all other music for you
  • Stripped Down Blues
 It Ain't Easy
Chris Smither
Manufacturer: Genes Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000003TK6
Release Date: 1994-03-04

Tracks:

  1. Footloose
  2. It Ain't Easy
  3. John Hurt Medley
  4. No Money Down
  5. Green Rocky Road
  6. Guilty
  7. Maybelline
  8. Rosalie
  9. One Plus One
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  11. Glory of Love
  12. Sittin' on Top of the World
  13. Once in a Very Blue Moon
  14. So Long, Harry Truman

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Chris Smither will ruin all other music for you.......2002-03-14

Of all of the music I own, Chris Smither's work lands in the top 3 of my most prized albums. His cheek-full lower tones rise to a full force shout as the emotion in the music changes. All the while, his hard driving acoustic pinger picking keeps the rhythm and melody, casting a spell all its own.

As one magazine reviewer noted some time ago, the music is the work of a very complex sensibility. Much more going on here than meets the eye, and I find that each time I listen to a song, I discover something I hadn't noticed before. An inflection, a melodic sweet spot, or a glimpse of Chris's subtle humor. Outstanding. 5 stars is not enough. I also recommend "Another Way to Find You".

Wait till you have a bad day, week, month, or year (get fired, divorced, audited, whatever) Take both albums, buy yourself a fifth of scotch and settle in on the couch in front of the stereo. You'll come away with a new perspective.

5 out of 5 stars Stripped Down Blues.......1998-10-06

This is the Chris Smither album to buy if you want to hear Chris play without accompanyment. Chris' other albums are wonderful in their own unique ways, however, there's nothing like the sound of Chris playing with his old Epiphone guitar. His later albums employ the use of a cheap Alvarez that looks cool, but has no soul. That having been said, this album most faithfully recreates his live sound in a way none of his other recordings even approach. When a singer/songwriter is limited to his voice and guitar (and foot--for percission), he has to say a lot with very little. And Chris' sound speaks volumes on this LP. A must own for the Chris Smither fanatic, and previous concert attendee. My favorite song on the album is "Sittin on top of the World." Chris is simply the finest singer/songwriter in the United States. Unparalleled in performance--singularly gifted in crafting intellegent lyrics full of pathos and good 'ol fashioned blues tales.
It Ain't Easy
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • a must have for collectors of Jamaican tunes
 It Ain't Easy
Spider Man & Super Man
Manufacturer: Hightone Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000005NE
Release Date: 1993-04-22

Tracks:

  1. Ease Off
  2. War Disease
  3. My Queen
  4. Simpleton
  5. It Ain't Easy
  6. What A Gwan
  7. Strength
  8. Put Dung The War Tool
  9. Respect Woman
  10. Reggae Music

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars a must have for collectors of Jamaican tunes.......1999-04-27

Two Kingston boys from childhood, reading the comics...tranforming into super hero DJs. This funny blend of tag team rapping and singing comes over some standard Jamaican rhythms like "Throw Mi Corn" and "Stagalag". Solgie mixing makes all the difference in the world. Check "War Disease", hot uno.
It Ain't Easy
Average customer rating: Not rated
    		It Ain't Easy
    Dalia
    Manufacturer: Pure (Polygram)
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000005AKL
    Release Date: 1996-11-26

    Tracks:

    1. It Ain't Easy
    2. Touch Me in the Morning
    3. I'm All Right
    4. It's Not Over
    5. My Baby
    6. I Wouldn't Do That to You
    7. Family
    8. Father's Hand
    9. Eye to Eye
    10. My Baby [House Mix]
    11. I Miss You
    Call Me Easy Say I'm Strong Love Me My Way It Ain't Wrong
    Average customer rating: Not rated
      		Call Me Easy Say I'm Strong Love Me My Way It Ain't Wrong
      Rainbirds
      Manufacturer: Mercury
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

      GeneralGeneral | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
      ASIN: B000025ZV3

      Tracks:

      1. Love Was Already There to Be Found
      2. Love Is a Better Word (White City of Lights)
      3. Not Exactly
      4. Better Than Before
      5. In Love & Alright
      6. Sea of Time: Rocking Song/Time/Call Me Easy Say
      7. Nowhere to Go
      8. Moon
      9. Jesus First !
      10. Responsible
      It Ain't Easy
      Average customer rating: Not rated
        		It Ain't Easy
        Three Dog Night
        Manufacturer: Mca
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

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        ASIN: B000008LKQ
        Release Date: 1990-10-25

        Tracks:

        1. Mama Told Me (Not to Come)
        2. It Ain't Easy
        3. Woman
        4. Cowboy
        5. Your Song
        6. Rock & Roll Widow
        7. Out in the Country
        8. Good Time Living
        9. Good Feeling (1957)
        Girls, It Ain't Easy
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          		Girls, It Ain't Easy
          Baby Wicked
          Manufacturer: East Side
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

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          ASIN: B000BITT6W
          Release Date: 2006-02-21

          Tracks:

          1. Soy La Babywicked (Remix)
          2. No Se Porque
          3. Goodgirls
          4. When Thugs Cry
          5. Put It In
          6. Lonely
          7. Una Fiesta
          8. X-Baby
          9. Papababy
          10. You Want Whores
          11. Bitches And Assholes (Remix)
          12. Wanna Be There
          13. Stop Handcuffin
          14. Oh How It Hurts

          Product Description

          1. Soy La Babywicked (Remix) - produced by Wreck
          2. No Se Porque - produced by Bigg Bandit
          3. Goodgirls feat. Kaotik, Wreck & Troubles - produced by Insane Mixaken
          4. When Thugs Cry feat. Rocky Padilla
          5. Put It In feat. Sick One & AC The Promoter - produced by Sick One
          6. Rest In Peace - produced by Rocky Padilla
          7. En Una Fiesta - produced by Insane Mixaken
          8. X-Baby - produced by Wreck
          9. Papababy feat. Knight Owl - produced by Rocky Padilla
          10. You Want Whores - produced by Rocky Padilla
          11. B*tches And A**holes (Remix) feat. Mz Krazie - produced by Wreck
          12. Wanna Be There feat. Rocky Padilla - produced by Rocky Padilla
          13. Stop Handcuffin feat. Spanky Loco & Bluntz Lla
          BONUS TRACK:
          14. Oh How It Hurts - produced by Rocky Padilla


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          Porgy & Bess / Most Happy Fella
          Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
          • Nice performances
          • "Gershwin and Loesser musical journeys ~ Percy Faith"
          		 Porgy & Bess / Most Happy Fella
          Percy Faith
          Manufacturer: Collectables
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

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          ASIN: B000066JEO
          Release Date: 2002-05-21

          Tracks:

          1. Catfish Row
          2. Summertime
          3. A Woman Is A Sometime Thing
          4. My Man's Gone Now
          5. Leavin' For The Promised Land
          6. I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'
          7. The Buzzard Song
          8. Bess, You Is My Woman Now
          9. Oh I Can't Sit Down
          10. It Ain't Necessarily So
          11. The Strawberry Woman And The Crab Man
          12. I Loves You, Porgy
          13. There's A Boat That's Leavin' Soon For New York
          14. Bess, Oh Where's My Bess
          15. O Lawd I'm On My Way
          16. The Most Happy Fella
          17. Somebody Somewhere
          18. Standing On The Corner
          19. Joey, Joey, Joey
          20. Abbondanza
          21. Don't Cry
          22. Sposalizio
          23. How Beautiful The Days
          24. Fresno Beauties
          25. Warm All Over
          26. Big D
          27. My Heart Is So Full Of You

          Album Description

          Gershwin's "Porgy And Bess" and Frank Loesser's "The Most = Happy Fella" get the Percy Faith treatment on these two original albums = on one compact disc. Famed "Tonight Show" trumpeter "Doc" Severinsen = is the credited soloist on "Porgy And Bess."

          Customer Reviews:

          4 out of 5 stars Nice performances.......2005-10-08

          The music is very enjoyable. I especially liked Doc Severinsen's contribution on a few pieces. Percy Faith is always solid, and this collection is no exception. The Gershwin sounds much better than Most Happy Fella because of the stereo sound compared to mono.

          5 out of 5 stars "Gershwin and Loesser musical journeys ~ Percy Faith".......2003-06-04

          The greatness of George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess", can only amplify melody of music can exist without lyric ~ and our legendary composer/arranger performs his "Percy Faith Touch". Mr. Faith was chumping at the bit to do this project ~ with sweeping arrangements and full orchestration that leaves no stone unturned. Highlighting ~ "SUMMERTIME", "I GOT PLENTY O' NUTTIN'", "IT AIN'T NECESSARILY SO", "I LOVES YOU, PORGY", "THERE'S A BOAT THAT'S LEAVIN' SOON" and my favorite of favorites "MY MAN'S GONE NOW", attentive haunting strings with echoing saxophones each musician reaching into the depths of their soul for this one ~ they were George Ockner (violin), Bernie Leighton (piano), "Doc" Severinsen (trumpet), Jimmie Abato (alto sax), Russ Banzer (tenor sax), Terry Snyder (drums), Phil Kraus (mallets), Lucien Schmidt (cello) and Harold Feldman (oboe).

          Another well received show was Frank Loesser's "The Most Happy Fella", with some great musical selections that Mr. Faith has given his full attention and the arrangements are exuberant. Such as the opening tracks "THE MOST HAPPY FELLA", "STANDING ON THE CORNER", "ABBONDANZA", "SPOSALIZIO", "FRESNO BEAUTIES" and "BIG D", sure to please all fans of Musicals and Broadway Shows ~ this one has your name on it.

          A must have for those rainy afternoons with a good book ~ entire album of twenty-seven selections is simply captivating and highly listenable. Percy Faith is still larger that life and his music will live through us his fans ~ and go on forever.


          Total Time: 72:10 on 27 Tracks ~ Collectables COL-CD-7469 ~ (5/21/2002)
          It Ain't Pretty Being Easy
          Average customer rating: Not rated
            		It Ain't Pretty Being Easy
            Syre
            Manufacturer: Landmark Distributor
            ProductGroup: Music
            Binding: Audio CD

            GeneralGeneral | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
            ASIN: B000008LCD
            Release Date: 1991-05-07

            Tracks:

            1. Flaunt It
            2. Say Hi to My Girlfriend
            3. (Can't Believe) I'm With You
            4. You Never Looked Back
            5. Summertime
            6. Friday's Smile
            7. Way You're Lookin' Tonight
            8. Never Said Goodbye
            9. In Your Eyes
            10. Ain't Seen Nothin'

            Music Review:

            1. John Barleycorn Must Die (Spkg) [Import] [Limited Edition]
            2. Live in Concert [Live]
            3. Live in New York [Import] [Live]
            4. Lola vs. the Powerman & the Money-Go-Round, Pt. 1 [Import]
            5. Machine Head [Import] [Gold CD]
            6. Missing
            7. No Security Live
            8. Precious Time Pt.1 [CD-single] [Import]
            9. Precious Time Pt.2 [CD-single] [Import]
            10. Pure And Simple

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            Music Review

            Hidin' from the Devil

            Distant Drums

            Conciertos Brandernburgueses 1: 1-3

            Totally Country, Vol. 2

            Dance Hits form Saturday Night Fever

            Body Love [Original recording remastered] [Soundtrack]

            Celtic Soul: The Magic of Ireland, Vol. 2

            Car Fulla White Boys [Clean]

            Christmas Treasures

            Boccherini: Quintets in Em; Quintets in C

            Creep

            Aproveite Agora [Import]

            Caroline [Import]

            Christmas Masterpieces & Famil

            Last Quarter Moon