Cado Belle

Artist: Cado Belle
Label: Cool Sound
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4571136370740
ASIN: B0006GB1BA

Release Date: 2004-11-10

Cado Belle

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Tracks:

All Too Familiar
Infamous Mister
Rocked To Stony Silence
I Name This Ship Survival
Paper In The Rain
That Kind Of Fool
Airport Shutdown
Rough Diamonds
Got To Love
Stones Throw From Nowhere

Album Details

Digitally Remastered Japanese Limited Edition in an LP-STYLE Slipcase. Includes Four Bonus Tracks.

Customer Reviews:

Glasgows Finest !!.......2007-04-21

This is a fantastic album . I had the original LP and tape , long lost . They were my favourite band . Maggie Reillys vocals are absolutely superb and fully complemented by the UK finest guitarist Alan Darby . Airport Shutdown and Stone throw from nowhere are definitive tracks in my music brain > i cant wait to hear it again .

Its incredible to find this as one of mu friends in London phoned me to say that he had been out with a drink with Alan Darby recently and he currently is in the house band of the west end show " we will rock you " with Laurie Wisefield doing the Queen guitar bits superbly . He is the most incredible guitarist and it is astonishing that he is not a mega star .

Another lost Cado Belle treat was an EP I had which had my favourite Cado track " September " which featured Maggies voice at its finest but most of all the most incredible controlled feedback solo guitar from Alan.

I understand he escapes from time to time to play magnificent blues incognito in London .

Anyone got a copy of the EP ?

They lived in Glasgows west end Superb band !!!

Stewart Denny

Scottish Soul with funky bumps.......2007-01-05

The band was showcased twice on UK radio, given two well-deserved 'In Concert' slots on Radio 1 (The UKs foremost public broadcaster of pop music). I saw the band live at the University of Kent, Canterbury and like many well-rehearsed college circuit bands of the time, they sounded the same live as here on this album (though without the string arrangements). The lead singer, Maggie Reilly had already enjoyed well deserved success with Stone The Crows (I think) and later had a chart hit with Mike Oldfield. But I like her best sitting in the Cado Belle line up. Her big hits were folk derived, but I hear her as a soul/ funk/ jazz vocalist in truth... more at home with a brass-section and a bass that sticks in gloops to the wall, than with strummers 'n pickers.

Comparisons can be risky, but think Average White Band meets Jess Roden with a hint of Jonathan Kelly if you know of him.

What you get is funky Scottish soul that bumps. I like Airport Shutdown, Paper in the Rain and Rocked to Stony Silence best but all tracks are extremely strong by any reckoning: melodic lines, harmonisation, lyrical content, delivery and very polite turn-taking by the musicians who all leave plenty of space for each other. Kind of crisp and very cared for sound.

The numbers deserve to provide the strongest American soul singers with great hits. These songs would not have disgraced Tina Turner, Ruby Turner, the Staple Singers, Al Green and the like. I'm talking SERIOUSLY good. You have been told: buy the album!

Stands the test of time.......2006-11-07

Bought for a friend who had lost their LP years before. It still sounds very modern and just as good as had been remembered.

Caledonia Soul indeed........2006-05-04

In the mid 1970s while living in London, one song dominated the airwaves. Actually it was an instrumental by the Average White Band entitled Pick Up the Pieces but it seemed to be on everystation all the time. What was interesting other than it being a great track was that it marked a period of what was in effect Caledonia Soul which came like a tide through the British Isles. Van Morrison fronted the Caledonia Soul Orchestra and was the most well known of the genre but there were many more besides.

Maggie Bell, late of Stone the Crows, was also a leading representative of the movement which inspired many people including my old friend Tony MacCananey, to get on board. I first came across Cado Belle when they performed on the BBC Radio One in Concert Series along with the O Band.

I was enthralled by the sound of the band but overawed by the singer who sounded as she had been born on the banks of the mississippi with a voice so soulful and beautiful it could not be believed. The sound quality was not great but I taped the show and still have the tape to this day although I no longer have a tape player.

Imagine my surprise and delight when I happened to put in Cado Belle into the amazon search engine and it turned up trumps. Although the price was a little high it has been definitely worth it to get hold of this gem.

Hearing Cado Belle again after 30 years or so has brought me to tears. The disc has not been out of my car player since I got it. On top of everything else there are an additional four tracks of superb music which had not been available until now. I do not know where to start. Well my two favourite tracks are Stones Throw from Nowhere and I Name this Ship Survival although I have to say that I prefer the live versions as they have no orchestration. Paul Buckmaster is certainly a Master of his craft but I do feel that his arrangements detract from the band and the voice. Perhaps we could see a live album from the BBC or a Cado Belle Naked to just show the sheer power of virtuosity of this band.

Each of the tracks on this album are well written and well arranged with the band acting in complete harmony while Maggie's voice is just a joy.

I am certainly glad that this album is finally available though I fear it will be lost in the United States while much lesser talent is promoted in the name of soul but which has much less than this singer and this band.

Hear this album and weep.

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