jueves, 15 de octubre de 2009

Dirty Blues Band - Stone Dirt 1969


Dirty Blues Band - Stone Dirt 1969
Label: Blackrose

Blues

For their second album, a revised version of the Dirty Blues Band cut ten excellent numbers in a single session in April of 1968, which actually yielded more satisfying results than the original group's earlier debut LP. Rod Piazza is not only in great voice (as is his harmonica), but this version of the band — with Rick Lunetta on guitar, Greg Anderson on bass, and Dave Miter on drums, plus Pat Maloney on piano and organ and reedmen Jimmy Forrest and Willie Green, with Freddie Hill on trumpet — seems a lot more comfortable here. The music surges and flows, and this reviewer — who is not usually partial to blues bands with horns — found himself swept along with Piazza's work on standards by Willie Dixon ("Bring It on Home," "I Can't Quit You Baby"), John Lee Hooker ("It's My Own Fault Baby"), as well as originals such as "Tell Me" and "She's the One." In fact, the highlight of the album is his "Sittin' Down Wonderin'," where Piazza and company sound uncannily like Albert King, and Lunetta takes a killer solo around Maloney's brilliantly understated organ fills. And mostly the reeds and trumpet are used with admirable restraint where they turn up at all, most successfully on a soaring rendition of "You've Got to Love Her with a Feeling." The one pity is that the band didn't last long enough to capitalize on any success that this album might have seen, because one suspects that would have been considerable, at the time.
By Bruce Eder. AMG.
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Part of a relatively obscure West Coast blues scene based in Riverdale, California, in the late 1960s, the Dirty Blues Band played straightforward, lovingly attentive, and competently rendered electric blues. This twofer collects the band's first two albums, both released in 1968, and finds them riffing on a mix of stinging originals and well-known Willie Dixon standards such as "Spoonful," "Bring It on Home," and "I Can't Quit You, Baby." Of particular note to collectors is the presence of Glenn Ross Campbell, who, following a move to the U.K., would found the Misunderstood and later Juicy Lucy.
From CD Universe.
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Rod Piazza- (Harmonica, Vocals),
Jimmy Forrest- (Saxophone, Main Performer),
William Green- (Saxophone),
Freddie Hill- (Trumpet),
Rick Lunetta- (Guitar),
Paddy Moloney- (Keyboards),
Dave Miter- (Drums),
Greg Anderson- (Bass).
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01. Bring It on Home 2:57  
02. It's My Fault 5:14      
03. I Can't Quit You Baby 5:40   
04. Tell Me 4:20   
05. She's the One 2:47   
06. My Baby 4:36   
07. Sittin' Down Wonderin'  5:41  
08. Six Sides 2:57   
09. You've Got to Love Her 4:35    
10. Gone Too Long 3:09
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