viernes, 16 de octubre de 2009

Delbert McCLINTON - One Of The Fortunate Few 1997


Delbert McCLINTON - One Of The Fortunate Few 1997
Label: Rising Tide
Recorded at Sound Emporium, Nashville, Tennesse

Blues

On ONE OF THE FORTUNATE FEW, Delbert McClinton trots out a set of ten new compositions, and, working with some of the top session musicians in Nashville, lays down a groove ...    Full Descriptionas big and wide-open as his native Texas. Even though his lyrics touch on typical blues topics like salvation ("Sending Me Angels") and an unfaithful or departed lover (everything else), he sings with such hurt and conviction that they don't sound like cliches. Helping him to stay young is a veritable who's who of the younger generation of Country stars (Vince Gill, Patty Loveless and Bekka Bramlett) plus a few relative old-timers (Lyle Lovett, John Prine and a special appearance by B.B. King). Delbert McClinton made his first record in 1959, and a lot has changed since then, both in music and in the real world, but his voice and his groove still sound as fresh as they did way back when. Now approaching his fifth decade in the business, he continues to outperform artists half his age; and although he may not have invented the term "roadhouse blues," he's one of the ones who gave it meaning.
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When Robert Cray and the Fabulous Thunderbirds turned their similar combinations of Texas blues and Memphis soul into hit records in 1986, bar bands all across this land thought they had glimpsed the promised land of a long-awaited blues revival. There has been a flood of soul-blues releases since then, many of which have been respectable, even admirable, but they have lacked the two essential ingredients that gave the genre its artistic peak 30 years ago, as well as its brief resurgence 20 years later--terrific songs and outstanding singers. Delbert McClinton's One of the Fortunate Few has both those elements. The guest vocalists include Mavis Staples, Lyle Lovett, Patty Loveless, Pam Tillis, and Vince Gill, but it's McClinton's own coarse-grained Texas baritone--as supple as a snake and as definitive in its bite--that dominates the soundscape. And it's McClinton's co-producer and cowriter, Gary Nicholson, who makes the difference in the material. Nicholson, whose day job is writing mainstream-country hits, indulges his blues jones at night and has come up with rollicking uptempo numbers and gospel-drenched ballads.
Most importantly, Nicholson's lyrics contain both the irreverent wit that Cray lacks and the confessional angst lacking in the T-Birds. The humor crackles in McClinton's belt-it-out vocal on "Old Weakness (Coming on Strong)" and an aching need is felt in his restrained duet with Staples on "Somebody to Love You."
By Geoffrey Himes.
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Delbert McClinton- (Vocals, Acoustic guitar, Harmonica);
John Prine, Lyle Lovett- (Vocals);
Steuart Smith- (Acoustic & Electric guitars);
Gary Nicholson- (Electric & National Resophonic guitar);
B.B. King, Bill Campbell- (Electric guitar);
Lee Roy Parnell- (Slide guitar);
Jim Horn- (Alto flute, tenor & baritone sax);
Don Wise- (Tenor sax);
Terry Townson- (Trumpet);
Reese Wynans- (Piano, Fender Rhodes piano, Wurlitzer piano, Hammond B-3 organ);
Benmont Tench- (Piano, Wurlitzer piano, Hammond B-3 organ);
Mike Lawler- (Synthesizer);
Hutch Hutchinson- (Bass);
Jim Keltner- (Drums);
Tom Roady- (Percussion);
Bekka Bramlett, Vince Gill, Patty Loveless, Pam Tillis, Mavis Staples- (Background Vocals).
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01. Old Weakness 2:56  
02. Leap Of Faith 3:37  
03. Somebody To Love You 4:32  
04. Sending Me Angels 3:45 
05. Too Much Stuff 4:15 
06. Monkey Around 3:10
07. Lie No Better 4:27  
08. You Were Never Mine 4:02  
09. Better Off With The Blues 4:06  
10. Best Of Me 3:15
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