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By Lehman Stiles
Assistant Entartainmant Editor
The first question to an
about The Blues Brothers' c
album is why anyone would pi
an album of recycles blues
from the Sixties by people
Delbert MClinton. The se
question to answer is why two
successful sketch comedians v
go through the time and effort
that. The third question to ar
is why does it all work so w<
The first two probably car
answered; it's just one of
tilings: as tne aioum cover pi
"Jake had a vision." As to v
all sounds so good, the onl
planation is that it is good;
something very rare these i
real music.
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The Blues Brothers, of cours
are Dan Aykroyd and John Belus
of Saturday Nicht Live, the she
swer that made staying home <
lebut Saturday night ob . Their albui
it out Briefcase Full of Blues (Elwood
hits er, Aykroyd carries his harmoni
like onstage in a briefcase handcuff
cond to his wrist), is a straightforwar
very exhilarating collection
vould screaming, frightening blues. T1
to do is no ioke. folks.
iswer Belushi and Aykroyd ha
ell? portrayed some memorab
I't be characters that have become pi
those of the culture in their vario
its it, ventures: Aykroyd as "head"
/hy it the wonderful Conehead fam
y ex- and foil to Steve Martin in t
it is classic Czech brothers ski
days: Belushi as a remarkably versat
Samurai soldier and the infamc
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these characters is as powerful and
believable as Joliet Jake and
Elwood Blues.
In some sense, The Blues
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of crime by a black bluesmanjanitor
named Curtis ? appeals to
all music lovers. You find yourself
wanting desperately to believe that
Belushi and Aykroyd are former
gas-station-robbers and that they
learned the blues in the basement
of a Catholic orphanage. It's easy
to do when you hear the music.
There is absolutely no reasor
that Aykroyd and Belushi shoulc
be able to handle this sort of thing
I Other than a letter-perfec
imitation of Joe Cocker by Belushi
neither has the talent supposedly
needed to sell records. But th<
music on this album is some of th<
best to come out in this half of th<
decade ? steaming, emotion
packed, slice-of-life stuff. Belush
sounds as if he's been saved by thii
_1 music, as if it's all he lives for. H<
'w brings the same insanely untitles
1)11 power to his voice that he brings t
11? his comedy.
"J The album is funny in spots, bu
that is obviously not the mail
Diiroose of this venture. Listeninj
?f to this music makes you glai
118 you're alive, a trait associated witi
only a very few modern artists. It'
ve the feeling you used to get listenin
to vintage Beach Boys ? all is we
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is Aykroyd suggests in the innd
troduction that "by 2006, the blues
es will exist only in the classical
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library", not as long as the Blues
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he manage to emphasize the elements
ay of the blues that make them appeal
st to all races and ages ? the selfde
effacing pity, the contrariness of
id, humanity. Even if you're not a
>m black janitor named Curtis, and
ce even if you're not a Catholic orng
phan, desperate and on the lam,
&e you are going to like this music. As
er Joliet Jake screams between
eh numbers. "I suflcest vou buv as
;ed many blues albums as you can!"
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