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The above said, The Very Best of… does make for a succinct summarisation of Rodgers’ career ‘til his excursions alongside Brian May and cohorts, although a more complete selection should factor in at least a track from The Cosmos Rocks – and that’s before one considers his various solo albums and work with Jimmy Page in The Firm. So, actually, it doesn’t represent much of an all-bases-covered nostalgia trip at all, which renders Rodgers’ statement on Amazon, that “This collection captures the essence of my music career over the last 40 years”, rather inaccurate. Assuming he’s not writing off his many other achievements, that is. (News just in: an iTunes deluxe edition will feature solo material and tracks by The Firm.)
But despite successes elsewhere, it is for these two bands that Rodgers will always be most fondly remembered. Free was his first songwriting vehicle, and from the blues-rockers we have seven tracks, one fewer than the number selected from the Bad Company catalogue. That’s not to imply that Free were the lesser band, but they took longer to hit their commercial stride, the supergroup structure of the later act guaranteeing instant quality control with their eponymous 1974 debut. Free’s first LP, 1968’s Tons of Sobs, is represented by The Hunter; it’s the most blues-structured number on this set, rampant of lick and pleasantly hoary of vocal, drawn from the one album where Free adhered to the common motifs of the genre. Their greatest hit (surely!), All Right Now, was released in 1970, closing their third album Fire and Water (its excellent title-track is included). Suitably, it’s the final track here, too – given its enduring popularity, what could follow it?
An attractive but predictable-enough spread, this disc might offer nothing new, but as a one-stop introduction for a smattering of newcomers it performs its task perfectly. --Mike Diver
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"This collection captures the essence of my music career over the last forty years," said Rodgers. "I hope that it serves as thanks to all our fans for their incredible support."
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But that aside its also a blatent attempt to fleece people to part with hard earnt cash, to buy something that if there into rock will already have all the tracks anyway, but saying that it may help to get people into rock music which judging by the soul fan on one of the earlier blogs, he has just dicovered the wonders of rock music, and that I cannot and will not diss. I have been into rock for 32 years and dont think anything will happen to change that now but when I hear people being induced to listen to rock music and enjoy it, then it leaves one with a certain glow that your passion is still something that can light a fire in anothers heart.
Rock music is something that is a part of me and my life and is something I am greatfull for because of the sheer pleasure it gives me.
Rock on.
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