Eric Burdon Sings The Songs Of The Animals

As the lead singer of the Animals, Eric Burdon was one of the British Invasion's most distinctive vocalists, with a searingly powerful blues-rock voice. When the first lineup of the group fell apart in 1966, Burdon kept the Animals' name going with various players for a few years. Usually billed as Eric Burdon and the Animals, the group was essentially Burdon's vehicle, whom he used to purvey a far more psychedelic and less R&B-oriented vision.

Burdon's real triumphs as a solo artist came at the beginning of the '70s .

As a solo artist , at the beginning of the '70s, he hooked up with a bunch of L.A. Journeyman soul/funksters who became his backing band," War " .
Recording three albums worth of material in the year or two that they were together, the Burdon/War records could ramble on interminably, and would have benefited from a lot of editing.

War defied expectations and became even bigger when left to their own devices.

Burdon wanted to act in the movie" Blowup " (1966). Director Michelangelo Antonioni wanted to use him as a musician in a club scene. Burdon turned the role down, because he had acted in movies before, where he sang songs.
He disbanded The Animals and went to California where he met Jim Morrison and came to the realisation that his real inspiration was acting.


Later, he turned down major roles in" Zabriskie Point " and Performance (both 1970).

In 1991 he had a cameo appearance in The Doors.

In 1998 he acted as himself in the Greek movie" My Brother and I ", followed by a bigger role in the German motion picture Snow on New Year's Eve (1999).

In 2007 he performed the traditional "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" in the drama festival film The Blue Hour and in a documentary about Joshua Tree

TRACKS

1. House of the Rising Sun
2. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
3. We Gotta Get Out of This Place
4. It's My Life
5. When I Was Young
6. The Real Me
7. Home Dream
8. Stop
9. Paint It Black
10. Nights in White Satin
11. Tobacco Road
12. Mother Earth
13. City Boy
14. Have Mercy Judge
15. A Day in the Life

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