Whitey Ford Sings the Blues | 
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| Artist: Everlast
Label: Rhino/Tommy Boy
Category: Music
List Price: CDN$ 14.99
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Rating:  300 reviews
Sales Rank: 17236
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 81236
UPC: 016998123621
EAN: 0016998123621
ASIN: B00000AFH2
Release Date: June 17, 2003
Availability: Usually ships within 1 - 2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | White Boy Is Back | | • | Money (Dollar Bill) - Everlast, Sadat X | | • | Ends | | • | What It's Like | | • | Get Down | | • | Sen Dog | | • | Tired | | • | Hot to Death | | • | Painkillers | | • | Prince Paul | | • | Praise the Lord | | • | Today (Watch Me Shine) - Bronx Style Bob, Everlast | | • | Guru | | • | Death Comes Callin' | | • | Funky Beat - Casual, Everlast, Sadat X | | • | Letter | | • | 7 Years | | • | Next Man [CD Bonus Cut] |
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From Amazon.com
When you think about it, House of Pain really were ahead of their time. Tracks like "Jump Around" may have been light on the content side, but they delivered in the production department--they played with sounds in the same way that Missy Elliott and Timbaland have popularized, and they crossed over to a rock audience long before Puffy ever tried it. On Whitey Ford Sings the Blues, Everlast's second solo album, the opening is an appropriation of "The Fat Boys are Back"; a couple of songs favor a sensitive folk-rock touch, with Everlast on guitar; and others reach back for House of Pain's best rock-influenced sounds. Though plenty of others have rhymed over rock and folk tracks, Everlast has a good feel for it and his songs are solid. If this isn't a career album, it's damn close. --Randy Silver
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| Customer Reviews: Read 295 more reviews...
 Sing whitey sing!!!! June 30, 2004
gavin redmond (rep of ireland)
If you're looking for an album that'll lift you, amp you, make you think, make you "get down" and entertain you, then look NO further...."whitey ford sings the blues" is for you. Its perfectly balanced with anthems like "get down", "praise the lord", funky beat", "money" and "next man" to get you amped. There's jams on there like "what its like", "ends", "today" "the letter" and "7years" to give you an accurate look at everyday life and makes you think. Songs like "death comes callin'", "painkillers" and "tired" just entertain you with tights rhymes and heavy basslines+beats. The ONLY track i dont like is "hot to death". Apart from that,its brilliant. The production is airtight, as you would expext from the SD50's. His husky voice is excellent when he's singing and its phenomenal when spitting a verse. TOP NOTCH.
 Whitey Ford February 28, 2004
Jacalyn Burnham (Elizabethtown, PA United States)
"Whitey Ford Sings The Blues" is one of my favorite albums ever and Everlast is just wonderful. I first got into Everlast back in dec 2002 but I knew about him way before that. I remember when I was 9 seeing his video for "What It's Like" I always loved the video and the song. Everlast was a good songwriter in House Of Pain but the songs he wrote than were more like party songs. But,since "Whitey Ford Sings The Blues" he's really shown how great of a songwriter he is and what he writes rally has meanings. Everlast truly is a wonderful rapper/singer/songwriter and a good person too. His music has really touched me and I hope maybe one I'll get to meet him. "Whitey Ford Sings The Blues" is a wonderful album. Every Everlast fan should buy this!
The White Boy Is Back!!!! February 26, 2004
irishman77 (Lexington, MA United States)
This album is one word incredible. Everlast has grown up a lot (he had a heart attack during recording which changed his outlook on life) and diversified his music a lot. Instead of being a hard rappin bad boy, Ev is now a soulful troubador who does a little bit of everything. The sound of this album continued blazing a trail that House of Pain started, meaning the sounds that come out are unique in how they mix hip-hop beats and rock melodies, along with some pure songs of each. Ev's voice is gruff as ever, but he uses it to sing some hearty blues as well as spit out a flow or diss people (he beat Eminem down in their battle, despite what the MTV loving teenybopper below says). The key to this album is the great songwriting: tunes like What It's Like, Today, Tired, Get Down and the rest are just blazing, and sound like no other album you've heard. There are awesome guest spots too. There are great rap jams (Tired, Funky Beat, Money) more rock-based tracks (Ends, Today, What It's Like, Hot to Death) and some that combine everything into classic tracks like Death Come Callin, but everything here is top-notch and unique. Even straight up piano blues like 7 Years (the last thing you'd expect from Ev) is a nice twist. Don't mind, as E says, "the haters mad cause I got floor seats at the Lakers" check this album and you'll put this Whitey Ford in his own Hall of Fame.
 Nothing Special February 12, 2004
gonn1000 (Portugal)
Former House of Pain member Everlast mixes a couple of styles in his second solo album, joining rock, hip hop, folk, spoken-word and blues. The result is a professional, well-crafted record with some consistent songs but never really rises above average, been-there-done-that material. There are some fine moments here like "Ends", "Get Down" and "What It`s Like", while most of the other songs are merely listenable/ forgettable and the record has more hip hop than it really needs. It`s a bit too long, either, becoming unappealing halfway through. Probably this is one of those "for fans only" albums. I guess I`m not included.
 Wheres your house of pain now Whitey? December 19, 2003
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I believe Eminem put this reject out of business a long time ago...but just in case you are retarded enough to buy this
idiots CD, you should realize he has no talent whatsoever.
His songs sound like Jim Carrey in Dumb and Dumber, making the "most annoying sound in the world". It should be criminal.
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