Eric Bibb - Livin', Lovin' and Doin' - 2005.

Bibb's Bio:

Like Josh White, Jr., who is the son of folk singer Josh White, singer, songwriter, and guitarist Eric Bibb was raised in the folk tradition, the son of the folk singer Leon Bibb. Bibb's uncle was the world-famous jazz pianist and composer, John Lewis, part of the Modern Jazz Quartet. Bibb was raised in a music-filled household, as family friends in the 1950s and '60s included Pete Seeger, » Read more

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Tinsley Ellis - Live: Highwayman - 2005.

Review:

Tinsley Ellis has some great studio albums in his catalog, but like several blues guitarists, you have to see him live or at least hear him live to experience what the fuss is about. And the guitarist, backed by a strong supporting cast, delivers an exceptionally pleasing and well-rounded set on Live! Highwayman. Beginning with the standard brand of Texas or Austin blues, the musician opens with the mid-tempo "To the Devil for a Dime," which comes off as a blend of Stevie Ray Vaughan and a grittier, rowdier Robert Cray. Cray is also heard somewhat on the heartache soul of "The Last Song," which travels into epic Floyd-ian bombast near the conclusion. Setting the groove early, Ellis has an equally blues soul and voice that suits his fabulous playing to a T. From there he ventures down a slightly less edgy, more swinging vibe on the bouncy, sway-inducing title track the way B.B. King would've performed it in his prime. It's also on this number where you get to see the guitar chops of Ellis front and center. Even the slower, downbeat tunes are strong, especially the deliberately building "A Quitter Never Wins," which brings to mind Cray and Buddy Guy. About halfway through the song he displays his style before asking if any blues fans are in attendance. The second half of the number is more of a rock-blues style à la David Gilmour but just as solid. The first track that seems to be almost run of the mill is the mid-tempo and keyboard-tinted "Real Bad Way" although Ellis manages to play off it well two-thirds of the way in. One of the first sleeper picks is "Hell or High Water," which has the band picking up steam thanks to the Evil One's rapid-fire bass line and Ellis upping the ante. And this flows nicely into the up-tempo, high-energy "The Next Miss Wrong," which could be described by some as Waylon Jennings nailing an old blues tune. Just makes you start to boogie wherever you may be. The crowning moment might be the terrific rendition of "Pawnbroker," a ten-minute tune that reeks of blues-rock that groups like Big Sugar and Wide Mouth Mason dream of. Above all, Ellis has the blues coursing through his bloodstream, especially on the tired-of-appeasing tone on "The Axe." "Double Eyed Whammy" resembles a blues tune funneled through Motown, but on the whole Ellis shows why he is the best, if not the most underrated, axeman in the blues business.

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Kelly Joe Phelps - Tap The Red Cane Whirlwind - 2005.

Review


There are few artists who offer the raw sincerity and accomplished musical acumen that guitarist, singer, and songwriter Kelly Joe Phelps does. From his first offering, Lead Me On on the Burnside label, through his subsequent studio outings for Rykodisc, Phelps has done something remarkable: forged himself a solid identifying mark as a folk and blues musician of distinction in fields owing so much to the past that latter-day performers are usually crushed under the weight of them. Tap the Red Cane Whirlwind is a collection of solo live performances recorded n California in 2004. Lee Townsend, who has long been affiliated with him, produced the set. It opens with a nine-and-a-half-minute version of Skip James' "Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues." Phelps snakily moves the tune through various modes and modulations, delving deep into Delta blues tonalities and backside melodies that open up spaces inside it. His voice, smoky and sweetly raspy, is never harsh, though it often sounds like it is inhabited by ghosts. It's a stunner. The other cover here is a smoking version of the late Rev. Gary Davis' "I Am the Light of the World." Dignified, soulful, and spot-on musically, Phelps is a dynamite guitarist who adds, subtracts, and morphs figures onto the original fingerstyle lines, and uses his voice to offer evidence of the timelessness of the lyric. And as moving and virtuosic as these two performances are, it's his own songs that offer the true prize of this collection. There's "Jericho," with its spooky droning bassline just under some slippery, winding fingerstyle playing, all of it supporting a vocal that comes from some lost world, just beyond the pale, to impart a tale from antiquity that weighs heavily on the forbidding present juncture. The stinging folk-blues of "Gold Tooth" showcases Phelps' ability to make the strings literally dance as his singing tugs at the ends of lines while driving others deeper into the spectral groove. The tenderness inherent in "Waiting for Marty" is elegiac, full of sepia tones and the notion of bittersweet memory. Here is the place where longing, regret for a life squandered, and the acceptance of things as they are -- even as they drift away into the ether and invisible history -- makes for a song that is literally unlike any other. Simply stated, if there is one recording that captures the sum of the magic, power, and poetry that is Kelly Joe Phelps, this one's it.


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K.M. Williams - Truth Music - 2005 .

Review

This CD is a rockin, modern, 21th Century take on Country Blues that was born primarily out of Great Traditional, Regional Country Blues styles. The first regions; the Mississippi Hill Country Boogie and Delta Blues. The second regions; the Cotton Country Blues and Backwood Spirituals of Central Texas. The Texas Country Blues Preacher, KM WILLIAMS, combined elements of all these styles and added his own unique Texas/Missisippi/Lousiana Country Blues approach to compose this new CD which he calls TRUTH MUSIC. The music reflects the Funky Mississippi Hill Country Boogie of RL BURNSIDE, the Soulful Real Deal Delta Blues of ROBERT JOHNSON, the Lousiana swamp boogie of SLIM HARPO, the inventive, poetic Texas Country Blues of LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS and the Deep Spiritual Groove of BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON. This CD is one of the NEW BLUES CDs that points to the future of the real blues in the 21th Century. So if you really like Modern Hill Country Blues Mix as performed on CDs recently by RL Burnside, but still a fan of the deep Traditional Country Blues of Robert Johnson and Lightnin' Hopkins.

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Rod Piazza And the Mighty Flyers: Big Blues Party

Review
The concert video Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers: Big Blues Party captures the award-winning blues band performing eight songs. The setlist includes :"Sinister Woman," "Hear Me Knockin'," "Goodbye My Lover," "The Stinger," "Tough and Tender," and "Southern Lady."

Tracks:

1. Sinister Woman [8:48]

2. Hear Me Knocking [7:51]

3. Goodbye My Lover [10:05]

4. The Stinger [6:54]

5. Murder in the 1st Degree [6:49]

6. Tough and Tender [7:17]

7. Moving in a West Coast Way [5:13]

8. Southern Lady [13:33]

9. Credits [:46]

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