Review Tracks

This is an incomplete list of some of the tracks I use when reviewing audio devices and the reasons I use them.  I am always looking for better examples of specific elements and welcome recommendations.   I am a lover of blues, blues/rock, classic rock, and anything with good guitar work in it. For that reason, my test tracks tend to be slanted towards those genre.

Album Cover	Artist	Album	Track	Notes
	Stevie Ray Vaughan	Texas Flood	Lenny	Guitar to die for, but what I look for is percussion. Snare, cymbal, and highhat.
	Fleetwood Mac	The Best of...	Go Insane (Live)	Guitar and male vocals. Lots of nuance and subtleties in this song.
	Jonny Lang	Lie to me	Lie to me	Looking for control of bass and sub-bass and bleed into mids.
	Tedeschi Trucks	Let me get by	I want more	Female vocals, brass band
	The Blasters	Testament	Blue Shadows	Saxophone and piano with male vocals
	Vintage Trouble	The bomb shelter Sessions	Blues Hand me Down	Looking at attack speed and decay especially in bass and sub-bass. This track gets muddy quick if the equipment can’t handle it.
	Poco	Legacy	Call it love	Male Vocals and Vocal harmonies
	Yngwie Malmsteen	Rising Force	Rising Force	Duh, Guitar! oh, and the vocals aren't bad either
	Gerry Rafferty	City To City	Baker Street	Saxophone timbre
	Janis Joplin	Pearl	Cry Baby	Female Vocals
	Jethro Tull	Songs from the wood	Hunting Girl	Flute Timbre
	Primal Scream	Give Out but don't give up	Rocks	Guitar attack and sub-bass extension
	Cowboy Junkies	The Trinity Sessions	I'm so Lonesome I could cry	Soundstage and Female Vocals
	Van Morrison	Moondance	Crazy Love	Male Vocals
	The Who	Who's Next	Baba O'riley	Soundstage and Imaging
	Keith Richards	Main Offender	Runnin Too Deep	Soundstage and bass depth/punch
	Edvard Grieg	Peer Gynt	In the hall of the Mountain King	Dynamics, this piece goes from near silent to blisteringly loud with every step between well represented in the mix.