Blues for We

Reception

The Allmusic review by Jason Ankeny awarded the album 2½ stars stating "The title notwithstanding, Blues for We largely abandons all pretense of conventional blues idioms to couch Brown in a series of soul-jazz contexts that draw heavily on mainstream R&B formulas; the problem is the material, which spans from avant-garde jazz to bubblegum pop and stretches even a player of Brown's considerable range far past the point of no return. Sometimes a record can be too ambitious for its own good, and the reach of Blues for We definitely exceeds its grasp -- given the choice to pursue any number of directions, Brown sets off in all of them, and loses himself in the process".

Track listing

1. "Twist & Shout" (Phil Medley, Bert Russell)
2. "Blues For We"
3. "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney)
4. "Son of a Preacher Man (John Hurley, Ronnie Wilkins)
5. "Set Me Free"
6. "Freaky Zeke"
7. "Indian Giver"
8. "Stranger on the Shore" (Acker Bilk)

Personnel