| Reiter In |  | Artist: Chris Whitley & The Bastard Club
Label: Downtown
Category: Music
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Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 677058
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
EAN: 4012116001020
ASIN: B000EIEJKA
Release Date: February 28, 2006
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| Tracks:
| • | I Wanna Be Your Dog - Chris Whitley, Pop, I. | | • | Bring It on Home - Chris Whitley, Dixon, Willie | | • | Inn - Chris Whitley, Geltner, B. | | • | Mountain Side - Chris Whitley, Coyne, W. | | • | Cut the Cards - Chris Whitley, Beattie, T. | | • | I'm in Love with a German Film Star - Chris Whitley, Gogan, B. | | • | Are Friends Electric? - Chris Whitley, Numan, G. | | • | Reiter In - Chris Whitley, Whitley | | • | I Go Evil - Chris Whitley, Whitley | | • | All Beauty Taken from You in This Life Remains Forever - Chris Whitley, Whitley | | • | Come Home - Chris Whitley, Schramm |
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Amazon.com
The raw intensity and category-defying daring of this posthumous release reminds us how great was the loss when Chris Whitley died in November 2005. Reiter In is about as live an album as one can record in the studio and as close as the mercurial Whitley would come to the essence of punk rock. Since his virtuosic guitar remains much on display, the results seem to find a common bond between Jimmy Page and Johnny Thunders. In fact, Whitney thunders like Led Zeppelin in a muscular rendition of Willie Dixon's "Bring It on Home," a trance-inducing cover of the Flaming Lips' "Mountain Side," and the original "I Go Evil." Other covers range from the album-opening stomp of the Stooges' "I Wanna Be Your Dog" to the throb of the Passions' "I'm in Love with a German Film Star" and Gary Numan's "Are Friends Electric?" Yet the quieter intimacy of the almost wordless "Inn" and two poems, "Cut the Cards" and the German/English "Reiter In"--both of which evoke the specter of mortality--is equally powerful and revelatory. A fitting epitaph, and a transcendent power surge. --Don McLeese
Album Details
With his 1991 Debut Album Living with the Law Texas-born Singer/Songwriter Chris Whitley Earned Critical and Commercial Success. Widely Admired by Fellow Musicians the Master of the National Guitar Developed his Own Style of Blues, Rock'n'roll and Alternative Rock. A Number of Albums Followed, Each One Different from the Other. He Toured Extensively, Building Up a Strong Cult Following of Devoted Fans. On November 20, 2005 Chris Lost his Battle Against Lung Cancer and Died at Age 45. His Last Record "Reiter In" is a Surprisingly Powerful Rock Album Full of Raw Melancholy and Rough Beauty. Whitley Wanted the Band on the Album Be Called "Chris Whitley and Bastard Club". The Recordings, Analog in One Take, were Done on June 1,2,3 and Fifth 2005 at Old Soul Studios in Catskill, Ny USA.
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| Customer Reviews:
 A hidden gem by one my musical heroes April 30, 2008
Kelly (Glen Allen, VA United States)
The deeper I dig into Chris Whitley's body of work, the more I find. He was able to make some incredibly diverse music that is consistently top quality. These songs just make me happy. It's so surprising to me that this stuff isn't played by every radio station in the country. This man should be as big as Elvis. Was he too eclectic? Too edgy? I don't get it...
A man at the height of his powers... fantastic! May 9, 2007
Craig Kirchner (Sydney)
Reiter In continues the big, dirty swamp 'blues and swagger' that were on the album Dislocation Blues (with Jeff Lang). The mood is dark, the voice is a haunted howl and whisper, the guitars growl and wail. Totally mesmerizing and I played it for days on end after I got it.
I bought this after listening online to some of the songs - they confirmed that this was the same sort of stuff as Dislocation Blues, which was the first I'd heard of Chris Whitley (yeah, I was late to the party - the world has certainly been robbed).
Which brings me to the previous reviewer that felt the sound recording wasn't good. I think this is a taste thing, because in my search for more Whitley I listened to some snippets of earlier recordings ('90s) and they sounded too bright and clean in vocal and guitar stylings for my tastes - a bit 'bland country' - and not like the grungy atmospheric sound I love on these two albums. Or maybe my speakers are better. But I'll seek out some more earlier Whitley.
As a side note, this review follows in a karmic way from seeing Jeff Lang do his thing live just last night - and he did make a warm tribute to Chris. Seeing Jeff live (first time) was both exhiliarating and daunting. Exhiliarating because he wields his acoustics with all the flair, aggression and artistry of Hendrix (though as a short white guy who looks like a 'bushranger', he'll never be as famous). And daunting, because I've been learning guitar for 9 months and came to the sad realisation that I will never, ever 'own' the guitar so completely as he does.
Anyway, buy this album and Dislocation Blues. Reiter Out.
 one for the obsessives January 9, 2007
B. macpherson (cape york, Australia)
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
This was a disappointment for me...the recording quality is poor and it was obviously released post-mortem...maybe to milk the legend?? One for the obsessives only..stick to his studio work.
 Chris' raw and moving farewell December 19, 2006
John Alapick (Wilkes-Barre, PA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Chris Whitey's posthumous release, Reiter In, finds the criminally underrated songwriter/guitarist still challenging himself even while he was fighting to survive. Rather than go in the atmospheric direction of Soft Dangerous Shores, this is live in the studio release with a "just plug in and let it rip" feel to it. Chris was near his demise at this point and the performances here echo the wide range of emotions one goes through before their passing. The opening tracks are a furious take on the Stooges' "I Wanna Be Your Dog" and a joyous version of the blues classic "Bring It On Home" that features great call and response between Chris' guitar and Tim Beattie's harmonica playing. After these tracks, the album is a very moody affair as the tracks "Inn" and "Cut the Cards" are very melancholy while the closing instrumental "Come Home" and the version of the Flaming Lips' "Mountain Side" are very upbeat and give a sense of hope. The version of Gary Numan's "Are Friends Electric?" is actually a little bit funky until Chris' passionate soloing kicks in. While all of these tracks are very good, it's Chris' original songs, all of which have a very hypnotic feel, that work best. "All Beauty Taken..." is a rollicking blues with a loose vibe while the title track is a spoken word piece told over a repetitive yet beautiful guitar line. Finally, the plodding "I Go Evil" is absolutely killer, possessing a wicked groove never heard in his previous work. All told, while this isn't one of Chris' best albums (his albums of all original material give a better description of his vast talents), Reiter In is another strong album from a true artist that played and wrote what he felt rather than give in to commercial gain.
One Last Gasp of Genius! September 12, 2006
heavymanners (Chicago)
My oldest daughter, now 23, became mesmerized by Chris Whitley's "Living With The Law" album when she was pre-school age. "Stones Under My Bed" is still her fave.
I some ways, she has tried to live up to Chris Whitley's outlaw sensibilities. (One too many tatoos and a terrible problem with authority figures...)
We saw Chris only once at a tragically-gone-wrong club show in Chicago at the Metro right after the 2-CD retrospective disc came out.
Ticket sales were down, so the club decided to "add" a drummer and bass player of local fame to "back up" Chris.
It was a disaster.
The drummer could only play one off-beat skiddle riff and it didn't fit any of Chris's tunes. The bass player was having a bad case of stage fright.
Whitley soldiered on.... and (sadly but heroically) never dismissed his incompetent sidemen.
As usual he wailed, distorted, anguished over the failed spectacle of himself trying to redeem just a moment or two.
It was the best/worst illustration of pathos I've ever seen.
Chris has always reminded me of Miles when he was a bad junky.
Either one.
Too much suffering for too few rewards....
The CD is a must-have treasure.
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