Arc Angels

Happy to find this CD after looking for it for uears

Been listening to this cd since 1992-had to buy a couple of copies because they all get played to till they wear out-haha! What's not to love? The music is awesome, the players-wow! You get Stevie Ray Vaughn's drummer & bass player, Tommy Shannon & Chris Layton still layin' it down perfectly, & Charlie Sexton & Doyle Bramhall II-does it get any better? This is one of my favorite "go to to get the groove on" basics. Still superb 30 years later!

I recently saw Doyle Bramhall II playing with Eric Clapton on “Live In San Diego” dvd. After a little research, I discovered he toured with Roger Waters, as well as Clapton! 2 heavy hitters, to say the least! Then I found out he was a co-founder of the late 80’s-90’s band Arc Angels, which had a couple of hits on MTV back in the day, both of which are on this album. I decided to try it and am very glad I did. Blues influenced rock with one word that sums it up: Smooth! A really tight band that I would highly recommend. I may try some of Bramhall’s solo work as well. If he’s good enough for E.C., he’s good enough for me!

This album quickly became one of my all time favorites in the “Southern Rock” category. This band has that soulful sound, the guitars and that great weird organ that you wouldn’t “order at dinner” but fits in so damn nicely that you wonder why you didn’t have it all along in every song you ever listened to. Molly ‘n Lynyrd, Rossington Collins, Outlaws, ZZ, my favorite local Crawdaddy would round out a nice weekend sharing the stage with this group and their tunes!

With an all star line up, one would expect no less. No dissapointments here. Great songs, great hooks, raucous and exuberant playing ankered down by one of the best rythm sections out there. I have bought many CD's with the SHANNON / LAYTON team and have yet to be let down. This is a great combination. SEXTON and BRAMHALL write great material and handle the guitars expertly. While not a pyrotechnic guitar CD it has enough hot guitar work on it to satisfy most guitar nuts. The emphasis seems to be more on the songs and they have succeeded in crafting a cohesive CD without any fillers. Every song has it's place. My favourites are 'SHAPE I'M IN' and 'TOO MANY WAYS TO FALL'. But as they are all brilliant, that may well change by next week. Great talents - great CD

Listening to it right now. CD is in perfect shape and should be because I purchased a NEW one. The case is broke. It was shipped in an unpadded envelope that's large enough to send 6 or more cds at 1 time.Shipped USPS. Need I say more. They DO NOT CARE about your order.Glad it's here and playable. Only 4 stars because of packaging and shipping damage.

I love this hard to find CD and it means so much more now that I’m older and have since met both Charlie Sexton and Doyle Bramhall II. It came in amazing condition. I’m very impressed with Goodwill’s care in refurbishing this CD. Great job! Highly recommend.

This is killer stuff

I wish to commend this seller as this item came on the first day of shipping estimate, also like new as advertised with decent, reasonable price! Thank you.

It seems like there are countless professional musicians out there who get together with a few of their fellow pros for a bit of a jam (or in journalese parlance form a supergroup*), slum it and do a few gigs in low key places built on covers and a few of their own never-wozzas, decide to record an album of original material that's too often based on their lowest common denominator and is way less than the sum of their parts, and then move on with a cheery that was fun let's do it again some time; and of course they don't, or at least not for a long time and when they do it's with a couple of changes of personnel due to [real] work commitments. And that's how I imagine it was for Arc Angels the supergroup formed around the late Stevie Ray Vaughan's mates: guitarist, vocalist and producer Doyle Bramhall II and guitarist and vocalist Charlie Sexton, and the rhythm section from Vaughan's Double Trouble band: bassist Tommy Shannon and drummer Chris "Whipper" Layton.True to form Arc Angel jammed a bit, gigged a bit, released a studio album of original material, broke-up, reformed, changed the line-up, released a live recording, and continue to be a bit on/off as and when. But not true to form, their eponymous and soul studio release to date produced by Little Steven with a dozen original songs is really rather good, not only can all these guys play but Bramhall and Sexton, the latter with long-time co-writer Tonio K, know how to write a good song."Arc Angels" opens with a co-write between Bramhall and Sexton, the blues-rock "Living In A Dream", I'm not sure who's actually doing what here, the album credits both Bramhall and Sexton with lead vocals and guitars but I assume these are Bramhall's vocals and Sexton's guitar solo, either way this is good solid stuff and very much in the mould of the late Jeff Healey. Second track, the slightly lighter, and actually better for it in my opinion, "Paradise Café" is credited to Sexton and Tonio K and with its touch of sleaze and weaving bluesy guitar work it's a bit Stones`ey which is no bad thing in my book. Things slow down with Bramhall's bluesy ballad "Sent By Angels", it's another with a cracking guitar solo and with Bramhall's vocals it's another that reminds me of Healey. It's back to Sexton and Tonio K for fourth track "Sweet Nadine", more power-pop than blues it's a cracker in which Sexton's vocals, the gentle strumming, and Layton's sparse kick-drum build the tension in the introduction and each verse before it's released in the chorus [as an aside how many songs are there about Nadine, sweet or otherwise?]. "Good Time" from Bramhall is a funky blues rocker, it’s an interesting diversion but it's not in keeping with anything that's gone before and frankly while it sounds like fun it doesn't do anything for me, one perhaps to skip in future. Unlike the slow blues of the mournful yet beautiful "See What Tomorrow Brings" that follows; where most of the tracks here clock-in around the four to five minute mark, Bramhall's song which closes out the first half of the set comes in at six and a half minutes, it's not only the longest here it's perhaps the closest to anything that SRV might have recorded, and it's a real show-stopping highlight.The second half opens with Sexton and Tonio K's "Always Believed In You" another blues-rocker with, if my ears don't deceive me Sexton and Bramhall taking turns on vocals while their guitars interweave before a short but sublime instrumental break, at the moment at least this is my favourite track in this set. Layton's martial drumming opens Sexton and Tonio K's power-pop mid-tempo rocker "The Famous Jane" which for reasons I can't fathom has me thinking of Steve Earle at his rocking'est best or perhaps Bon Jovi at their comercial'ist. "Spanish Moon", the only track credited to all four Arc Angels (plus Tonio K) is another mid-tempo rocker with Bramhall and Sexton sharing vocal duties as it veers between light and dark, and once again it's the guitar playing that’s really sets this alight as Bramhall and Sexton weave licks. Bramhall's "Carry Me On" is another blues rocker albeit with a touch of country, it's lighter than some of the previous Bramhall blues-rockers, it's not his strongest and the fade as the instrumental section starts is disappointing. Penultimate track "Shape I'm In" is another from Bramhall, but this time it's a good old fashioned rock 'n' rolling honky-tonkin' 12-bar blues with Sexton and Bramhall trading verses and licks, corny perhaps ["… I was down like a dollar coming up against a yen…", that's more corny than just perhaps] but give me this kind of good-time music all day and I'll be happy. The closing track "Too Many Ways To Fall" from Sexton and Tonio K with input from Layton and Shannon is a straight-ahead blues rocker with a shot of heaviness, after "Shape I'm In" it comes in from left-field, it's another that at times reminds me of Healey and at others of the Stones with Sexton's woo-hoo calls, but whatever or whoever it draws its inspiration from with its changes in tempo and texture I'm revising my opinion of the best of the set, Little Steven has left the best to last and it’s a shame that at just under six minutes it's way too short.And that's it. Of course not all supergroups are equal or perhaps not all are quite as super as others, it's probably fair to say that as supergroups go the Travelling Wilburys, for example, with Beatle George Harrison, rock n roll pioneer Roy Orbison, Nobel poet laureate Bob Dylan, heartland pioneer Tom Petty and Mr Blue Sky Jeff Lynn were more super than most while the Arc Angels are to be fair less super than many. That said this is very good, way better than I had expected and although I think Sexton's compositions edge-out Bramhall's, what makes this album interesting is their contrasting but complimentary differences in style that keeps the album interesting from start to finish and I'm left wondering why it took me so long to find this gem.

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