Struck By Lightning [Import]

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
1991 album includes 'She Wants So Many Things', 'They Murdered The Clown' & 'The Kid With The Butterfly Net'.

Tracks:

Struck By Lightning
Last Train Has Gone
The Truth Comes Out
Ain't No Free
Road Tramp Blues
So Glad You're Mine
My Home Is Highway
Like An Angel
Don't Know Who To Talk To Anymore
Living In New York
Talking 'Bout New Orleans
Struck By Lightning (Reprise)

Customer Reviews:

Not My Preference.......2006-08-05

Would I go down to the Crossroads to learn to play guitar like Kim Simmonds? I'd give it some serious thought. Still, I found this disc dissappointing. Reading the other reviews I thought this was another in the line of terrific acoustic blues albums Kim Simmonds has recorded. It is acoustic blues; but, to my surprise Kim uses a pick instead of the finger-picking style he used to create his first acoustic albums. There's no denying there are some good moments on this disc- My Home is a Highway features some inspired playing as does Road Tramp Blues which includes some complex strumming and nice slide work done in what sounds like an open tuning. Still [and this is probably no more that a personal preference], I don't think this album comes close a CD such as Kim's Blues Before Midnight. Simmonds has great command of his instrument and a love for the blues; when he picks up an acoustic guitar I think that love is best communicated when he plays in the traditional style of the blues greats who preceded and influenced him. Again there are some fine moments here; but, if he is going to use a pick, I'd rather hear Kim Simmonds strap on his electric Gibson- there are real sonic explosions when he does that.

Excellent Production!.......2005-04-20

Kim Simmonds, founder of the British blues/rock group Savoy Brown, can sometimes be found playing in small nightclubs performing acoustically. I had the opportunity to see him live in such a setting not to long ago in a Northern California pub. In February of 2004, Kim released this gem as a follow up to 2001's Blues Like Midnight. And is a testament to the fact that he continues to grow artistically. The songs on this disc are easy and enjoyable conjuring up a mixture of acoustic blues, jazz and folk. While some Americana roots music is a little much at times, I can honestly say that there is not a bad song on this disc. For some reason, it took a while-one month-for Amazon to get the disc to me but it was well worth the wait.

Struck by Lightening.......2004-05-15

As a Savoy Brown fan for over 30 years, I still cannot understand why guitar virtuoso Kim Simmonds does not get at least the equal acclaim of his less talented but more famous peers - you know who they are!
I saw Kim live last week in Philadelphia playing an acoustic show. I can't describe it; your solar plexis just stops when you witness this special kind of performance! Every song was stunning - and what an unbelievable version of "Stormy Monday!"
Kim, and friend brushing the snare, played several songs from his new "Struck by Lightning." I was able to get a copy before it hit the market. For acoustic fans, this is a great album. Smooth, consistent, easy to listen to, resonating, far better and more enjoyable than those Buddy Guy acoustic albums.
This record is also well suited to Kim's vocals. They are convincing and strong, especially when combined with great blues guitar runs like on "The Truth Comes Out" or ditto for the old Elvis cover, "So Glad Your Mine." My favorites are "Living in New York," "Don't Know Who to Talk to Anymore" and, "My Home is a Highway." They all have that small blues cafe, live performance flavor to them - a little bounce, a little piano in the background, and completely engaging.
Weaknesses, yeah, in a couple places there's more strumming than there needs to be, but not unpleasant. Less chords and more of those blues licks would be nice, but don't get me wrong there are plenty of nice licks here. Really not a dull or uninteresting cut on this CD. My favorite SB album is "Street Corner Talking." I think "Struck By Lightning" generally has a similar strain of feeling to it as SCT's "All I Can Do is Cry" or "I Can't Get Next to You." If fact, in Kim's acoustic show here he played several SCT songs and it worked wonderfully.
I love this new album!"

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Get Struck by... Graham who?!??!

Struck by Lightning
Graham Parker
Manufacturer: Lemon Records UK
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0001GQSPY
Release Date: 2004-03-29

Tracks:

She Wants So Many Things
They Murdered the Clown
Strong Winds
Kid with the Butterfly Net
And It Shook Me
Wrapping Paper
That's Where She Ends Up
Brand New Book
Weeping Statues
Guardian Angels
Children and Dogs
Over the Border (To America)
When I Was King
Ten Girls Ago
Sun Is Gonna Shine Again
I'm into Something Good [*]

Customer Reviews:

Get Struck by... Graham who?!??!.......2004-10-23

Graham Parker sits prominently amongst our generation's best songwriters. Always critically acclaimed, he consistently cranks out quality material handled with intelligence, dignity, and integrity. So of course mass sales have eluded him. Nonetheless he still carries on, like Bob Dylan's never-ending tour, after some thirty years in the business. Along the way some absolutely amazing gems have resulted from his seemingly endless output. 1991's "Struck By Lightning" is one of these.

At least one of the best songs ever written graces this album: "They Murdered the Clown" mixes heavy rhythms with Parker's mambo-snake venom lyrics. Some of his nastiest lines lie in wait in the second verse. The circus organ and pounding guitar and drums make an amazing combination that combines the extremely danceable with the extremely disturbing. No one could accuse Parker of sugar-coating reality. He tells it like it is, and on this song he hits home with even more than the usual umph. "They Murdered The Clown" justifies this album alone, but of course much more awaits. Parker's ode to lost youth, "The Kid With the Butterfly Net" contains some nice violin riffs and a longing akin to Hank Williams' "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry". The pleading "Wrapping Paper" could entice any partner to forgiveness: "Speak to me girl, speak to me darling; You're not a princess, I'm not Prince Charming". Many other of the album's songs will provide food for thought for years: "Children and Dogs", "Over The Border (To America)", "Weeping Statues", "When I Was King". Parker's trademark innovative songwriting and orchestration run throughout the entire album. The album's sound is unique; it's crisp and lively; it may be one of his best sounding albums.

For years "Struck By Lightning" languished in the category of "out-of-print". It looks like "Lemon Records" has brought it back. Parker's material, like his career, somehow survives major label indifference. Happily, most of it can still be obtained thanks to various independent labels. Parker shows no signs of slowing (he's probably now in his 50s); many consider his most recent material to be his best. If that is true, it can sit happily next to "Struck By Lightning".

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Struck By Lightning
Graham Parker
Manufacturer: RCA
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000008JA6
Release Date: 1991-02-05

Tracks:

She Wants So Many Things
They Murdered the Clown
Strong Wind
Kid With the Butterfly Net
And It Shook Me
Wrapping Paper
That's Where She Ends Up
Brand New Book
Weeping Statues
Guardian Angels
Children and Dogs
Over the Border (To America)
When I Was King
Ten Girls Ago
Sun Is Gonna Shine Again

Average customer rating:

Best,most consistent of his later records
How Woodstock Changed Graham's Life :>)
Right Up There With His Very Best
Outstanding, if too much
A beautiful, underrated, mature album from a real artist

Struck by Lightning
Graham Parker
Manufacturer: Diablo Records UK
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000003BTL
Release Date: 1997-11-01

Tracks:

She Wants So Many Things
They Murdered The Clown
Strong Winds
The Kid With The Butterfly Net
And It Shook Me
Wrapping Paper
That's Where She Ends Up
A Brand New Book
Weeping Statues
Guardian Angels
Children And Dogs
Over The Border (To America)
When I Was King
Ten Girls Ago
The Sun Is Gonna Shine Again

Album Description

1991 album includes 'She Wants So Many Things', 'They Murdered The Clown' & 'The Kid With The Butterfly Net'.

Customer Reviews:

Best,most consistent of his later records.......2002-11-20

I only recently rediscovered Graham Parker, and I have had a great time catching up on all his albums of the nineties. After a couple of months of steady listening, this is hands down my favorite Parker album, for the songwriting, the production and the performance. Unlike some of his other later albums, like Human Soul or Burning Questions, which are hit and miss throughout, this is a remarkably consistent collection of intelligent, catchy tunes. I think it strikes the perfect balance between his earlier rock albums and the later, more mature themed albums. Favorites include 'That's Where She Ends Up", one of his most unusual songs, A Brand New Book and The Sun Is gonna Shine Again

How Woodstock Changed Graham's Life :>).......2001-08-19

I have long been a fan of Graham Parker and The Rumor. I've noticed that some who have reviewed this CD mention the sound is so much different. I would think so. I believe it's the years living in the hills of Woodstock N.Y. that has done so. The biggest bonus of this CD is having his good friend, Garth Hudson of The Band playing on it. This is one fine CD and another musical journey for Parker.

Right Up There With His Very Best.......2001-02-17

I have nearly all of Graham's albums, and this one is tied for best. Just about every song is great. The few that aren't great are very good. (I must say, though, that it did take a number of listenings to grow on me before I fell in love with it.) It's not in the style of his 1970s stuff. If you loved Mona Lisa's Sister, you'll love this one too.

Outstanding, if too much.......2000-04-23

Graham Parker's best? No way. But "Struck by Lightning" finds him taking a lot of chances and mostly succeeding. He goes from pretty to propulsive to thought-provoking over the course of this fine disc, and a couple country-flavored songs and just too much music (a wee bit of trimming, please) are his only missteps. Quite nice.

A beautiful, underrated, mature album from a real artist.......2000-03-24

This is definitely one of Graham's best albums. The music is consistently excellent and it's beyond me why it wasn't played on the radio. As great as the music is, however, it's the lyrics that bring me back again and again, particularly on songs like "Kid with the Butterfly Net", a song about his young daughter that never fails to bring tears to my eyes now that I have a little girl of my own--"She walks through the fields/Walks in the heat through the fields/She swings with her arms but can what she catches be real/And when you see her by the water, you see what you want to/And all the chains around you cannot keep her prisoner/They haven't been forged yet/For the kid with the butterfly net". Beautiful.

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Authentic sound in a world of pop and rap
Struck by Brilliance
Why isn't this on the radio?
Awesome and Rockin!!
Mutton Dressed as Lamb?

Struck by Lightning
Rockhill
Manufacturer: Invicta Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000CS43N0
Release Date: 2005-12-15

Tracks:

Wide Open Skies
Shelter from the Storm
You & Me
Struck by Lightning
Drumbeat of War
Satellite
I Want You
Fool for You
Slip & Fall
Black & White
Maria
Stitch in Time
Bitter End

Product Description

Electric Americana Classic Roots Rock

Customer Reviews:

Authentic sound in a world of pop and rap.......2006-01-18

Good outdoor / driving music. Traditional rhythms with a refreshing lack of special effects. These are tunes that are new and original but sound like the ones you listened to when you were 18, driving with the top down and barefoot or outside playing frisbee. Struck By Lightning sounds a bit too Huey Lewis for my tastes. I hear a lot of influences - a bit of a Dire Straits, a bit of Neil Young, John Cougar Mellencamp, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Traveling Wilburys, Los Lobos, New Riders of the Purple Sage. This is a band whose is well-suited for music that avoids the techno grunge of the 90's and today. Somebody who appreciates the slide guitar but can't keep replaying all of the Lynrd Skynrd.

They are clearly a band that has a pronmising future for those who would like to listen to a more traditional sound in the current musical environment.

Struck by Brilliance.......2006-01-14

These guys are great. This is honest, from the heart tunes. Shows that maturity and experience does count in both writing and playing.

They don't sound like Johnny Cash, but the same feeling of I've lived it and the emotion goes straight to your soul is certainly there.

Why isn't this on the radio?.......2006-01-10

A great CD and fun to listen to. If you appreciate good solid guitar playing you will enjoy this CD. Love the track "Slip and Fall"

Awesome and Rockin!!.......2006-01-05

"Struck By Lightning" rocks!! When you play it be prepared to move to the incredible rhythm! It is a great collection of fast and upbeat mixed with soulful melodies. It really is a cd for every kind of music taste of all ages. I highly recommend it.

Mutton Dressed as Lamb?.......2006-01-05

I've given "Struck By Lightning" 5 stars because its appeal came as a complete surprise to me. I was given the album, having heard a few extracts before. Those extracts had seemed much too "country" for my tastes, so I was slightly fearful of having to say nice things about the complete product. I shouldn't have worried. Track 1, "Wide Open Skies", is a gentle and contemplative intro which leads into a full-on honky-tonk rocker. The pace of the album, and the succession of varying tempos in the 13 tracks, draw you in and make you appreciate Rockhill's control, and the very thoughtful production values of the work.

It's insulting to categorize bands by reference to others, but since few people will have heard of Rockhill it seems only fair to tell you what to expect. The music is in no way derivative but there are echoes of Hootie and the Blowfish and Spin Doctors in the confident breakaway guitars and rasping vocals of the faster numbers. Some of the more laconic tracks [like "Fool For You"] remind me of early Wilco, while the two contemplative closing tracks - "Stitch in Time" and "Bitter End" - have a patina of CSN&Y. Okay, insulting it may be, but that's not a bad provenance to be able to boast, in four very dissimilar but talented precursors.

The members of Rockhill are not exactly in the first flush of youth, but the word I use again is confident. They are four guys making good music, and having a heap of fun doing it. The fun shines through, and several of the tracks have a haunting, lasting quality. I really enjoyed "Struck By Lightning", and lovers of the jangling guitar and wide-open sound of the band's 'electric Americana' will be well rewarded by the album's surprising subtlety. While hearing it through for the first time, my over-riding thought was that they must be a really impressive live act, too. I really hope the album and the band get some wide recognition.

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Struck By Lightning
Graham Parker
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000QA84HA

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Struck by Lightning
Julie Caitlin Brown
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Blues | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000FTBHY4
Release Date: 2006-01-10

Tracks:

River Knows How to Run
Your Heart Had Other Ideas
Cry for Love
When Are You Coming Home
As I Believe
I Thank God for the Courage
Closed a Window
Not Your Enemy
Dream
Struck by Lightning

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Excellent Brazilian music!

Struck by Lightning
Airto Moreira
Manufacturer: Caroline
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000000HSS
Release Date: 1992-07-22

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It's Time for Carnival
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Sea Horse
Struck by Lightning
Samba Louco (Crazy Samba)
Seven Dwarfs
Samba Nosso (Our Samba)
Skins & Rattle

Customer Reviews:

Excellent Brazilian music!.......2005-12-23

Airto pulls it off again - a terrific recording of terrific songs, aided by such stalwarts as Flora Purim, Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Mark Egan and others. Two songs have a strong samba/carnaval feel; another one is called "crazy samba;" there are several jazzy ensemble pieces (some with vocals) and two songs where Airto overdubbed complex percussion parts to make an interesting whole.

If you already are a fan of Airto, this is a good recording to add. If you're startig out, it's also a good place (but rare since it's now out of print). Get it if you see it!

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