Whitey Ford Sings the Blues

Whitey Ford Sings the Blues
Everlast studio album
Publication (s)	September 8, 1998
admission	1997-1998
Label (s)	Tommy Boy / Warner Bros.
Format (s)	CD · MC · Download · Vinyl
Genre (s)	Hip-hop · Blue Rock
Title (number)	18th
running time	54:59
production	Everlast ( exec. ) Dante Ross (exec.) John Gamble
chronology Forever Everlasting (1990) Whitey Ford Sings the Blues Eat at Whitey's (2000)

Whitey Ford Sings the Blues is the second studio album by the American rapper and singer Everlast . It was released on September 8, 1998 via Tommy Boy Entertainment and Warner Bros. , in Germany on March 12, 1999. The album came eight years after Everlast's first studio album, Forever Everlasting, and two years after the breakup of House of Pain , co-founder of Everlast was on the market. In addition to traditional hip-hop , songs of the blues and blues rock genre can also be heard here for the first time .

Whitey Ford Sings the Blues became a huge hit. It reached number 9 on the US Billboard 200 and stayed there for 55 weeks, and it was also certified three times platinum . The single What It's Like was nominated for a Grammy .

background

In 1997 Everlast began recording for Whitey Ford Sings the Blues . Due to a congenital heart defect, he had a heart attack on the last day of admission, had an emergency operation and was given a new heart valve . Completion was not endangered by this incident, the album was finally released on September 8, 1998.

Everlast revealed about the musical content: "I just thought, 'Fuck the rules!", Took everything I had liked to hear in my life and threw it together like a big stew . "Among other things, he let Neil Young , Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath inspire.

Everlast was surprised by the success of this concept itself. He said: “I thought that I would get a lot of displeasure for this album because a lot of people are narrow-minded. I thought that hip-hop purists would tell me things like "What do you think you are doing?" And that rockers would tell me things like "Who do you think you can screw with?" But instead I got shouts like "Wow, you did your own thing, that's really cool". "

Track list

#	title	length
1.	The White Boy Is Back	0:45
2.	Money (Dollar Bill) ( feat.Sadat X )	3:14
3.	Ends	4:33
4th	What it's like	5:03
5.	Get down	3:59
6th	Sen Dog (Skit)	0:15
7th	Tired	2:22
8th.	Hot to death	3:49
9.	Painkillers	3:22
10.	Prince Paul (Skit)	0:58
11.	Praise the Lord	3:05
12.	Today (Watch Me Shine) (feat.Bronx Style Bob)	5:02
13.	Guru (skit)	0:17
14th	Death comes callin '	4:16
15th	Funky Beat (feat. Casual & Sadat X)	4:04
16.	The Letter	2:05
17th	7 years	4:05
18th	Next man	3:52

Chart placements

album

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1998	Whitey Ford Sings the Blues	DE12 (29 weeks) DE	-	CH20 (27 weeks) CH	UK65 (1 week) UK	US9 (55 weeks) US	First published: November 8, 1998

Single releases

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1999	What it's like	DE17 (18 weeks) DE	AT17 (9 weeks) AT	CH20 (14 weeks) CH	UK34 (3 weeks) UK	US13 (33 weeks) US
	Ends	DE67 (7 weeks) DE	-	-	UK47 (1 week) UK	-

criticism

Professional reviews
Reviews
source	rating
Allmusic
Rock hard	9.5 / 10
sputnik music	3.0
NME	6/10
ultimateGuitar.com	9.2
THE-PIT.DE	7.5 / 10

Allmusic's Alex Henderson described Everlast as creative because he used many different genres of music on his album. It was brave of him as a rapper to take this step, but he succeeded.

In Rock Hard , Marcus Schleutermann recommended the album not necessarily to metal listeners, despite the occasional ( hot to death ) hard sounds , but to all crossover fans. The "versatility of Everlast's vocals, whose range extends from his well-known rap style to unbeatable casual vocals, which even puts Cake and the Fun Lovin 'Criminals in their place in terms of coolness" is the big plus point.

DownInAHole from ultimatie-guitar.com also found positive words, who described the album as "unbelievable". His guitar riffs are rough, he also praised Everlast's lyrics, which would sound like "no album before". The album is "worth every penny".

The album was rated much more critically by AV Club. Nathan Rabin criticized Everlast for his songwriting qualities, with which he could not make Leonard Cohen unforgettable. As a guitarist he is just as unconvincing. In contrast to his time at House of Pain you can hear a more mature Everlast rapping or singing about failed relationships, among other things. His raps are more meaningless than ever, and weak, monotonous beats prevent him from developing. The album is ambitious, well-intentioned, but will “not be able to stop” Everlast's “descent into oblivion”.

Web links

• Album profile at discogs
• Whitey Ford Sings the Blues on rateyourmusic.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Everlast. Whitey Ford Sings the Blues . In: MusikWoche . The news magazine for the music industry. No. 11/1999 , March 15, 1999, news, p. 28 .
2. ↑ ^{a b} Tiarra Mukherjee: Everlast's White Boy Blues . Rolling Stone . September 29, 1998. Retrieved December 15, 2015.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Alex Henderson: AllMusic Review by Alex Henderson . Allmusic . Retrieved December 15, 2015.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Marcus Schleutermann: Everlast. Whitey Ford Sings the Blues . In: Rock Hard . No. 141 , February 1999, p. 92 .
5. ↑ Blindsided: Whitey Ford Sings The Blues . sputnik music. January 2, 2010. Retrieved December 15, 2015.
6. ^ Whitey Ford Sings The Blues . NME. September 12, 2005. Retrieved December 15, 2015.
7. ↑ ^{a b} DownAHole: Whitey Ford Sings The Blues . ultimateGuitar.com. August 28, 2006. Retrieved December 15, 2015.
8. ↑ Katharina Neuert: Everlast: Whitey Ford Sings The Blues . THE-PIT.DE. September 28, 2013. Retrieved December 15, 2015.
9. ^ Nathan Rabin: Everlast: Whitey Ford Sings The Blues . AV Club. March 29, 2002. Retrieved December 15, 2015.