★★★★★
The studio-superstar backup band isn't exactly long on personality, but it rocks, and almost every song ranks as an underrecorded classic. John Belushi goes out of his way--earnestly, even awkwardly--to identify the original artists, which cancels out the Rasta jokes on "Groove Me." However. If Belushi told those jokes to supply his fans with their ration of dope humor, then shame on him...
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
God only knows how Atlantic managed to lure these living legends into recording, but I'm here to tell you the straight poop: this band's got a street-smart sound that's tighter than a toad's ass. I've heard rumors that John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd were intimately involved in this project, but, believe me, the music on the Blues Brothers' Brief-case Full of Blues is no joke...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
The Blues Brothers began as an affectionate joke-cum-tribute to R&B; music, and taken in that spirit it retained its entertainment value, even after this live album topped the charts, sold two million copies, and produced hit singles in "Rubber Biscuit" and "Soul Man...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Like the Grateful Dead or the Minutemen, the Blues Brothers are a band that, regardless of their own quality, ultimately did more harm than good by influencing an endless stream of horrible imitations. This pet project of John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd featured top session players and had great taste in song selection, but Jake and Elwood also spawned thousands of terrible white R&B; cover bands and made possible the soulless House of Blues franchise...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Steve Cropper, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Matt "Guitar" Murphy, "Blue Lou" Marini, and Alan "Mr. Fabulous" Rubin were all members of the all-star band that backed John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd in their Blues Brothers incarnation between 1978 and 1980. Here, they reorganized with a few more players, notably singer Larry "T" Thurston, as the Blues Brothers Band...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
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