Mississippi Heat - Glad You're Mine 2005

Mississippi Heat - Glad You're Mine 2005
Label: Crosscut

Blues

GLAD YOU'RE MINE was awarded first prize by the "German Music Critic's Award" (PREIS DER DEUTSCHEN SCHALLPLATTENKRITIK), Berlin, 2006.

"Lacocque has achieved the hardest thing of all, which is to find a distinctive 'voice' on the blues harp. He has masterful command of tone and can belt out riffs or stabs when needed but is at his best when taking a lead and constructs beautiful, musical lines, even when in strict blues territory. … Intriguingly, Lacocque achieves an almost clarinet like fluidity at times. … [GLAD YOU'RE MINE] gives singer Inetta Visor the scope to use her fabulous voice. Her vocals are powerful but not strident. She has some gentle qualities in her voice too, and can easily deliver the spread of material on this album. I like it very much."
From BLUES NEWS.
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Authentic blues from Chicago, traditional and yet modern. The focus of the new studio production is on bandleader PIERRE LACOCQUE – the innovative blues harmonica player who founded the band in 1991, the powerfully expressive African American female vocalist INETTA VISOR, as well as guitarist CHRIS WINTERS.
Special guest: CARL WEATHERSBY.

MISSISSIPPI HEAT is a blues band concept, a formation with the vision to maintain strength and passion, tradition and modernity equally. Since its conception in 1991 the band has, with varying lineups, played umpteen thousand shows on both sides of the Atlantic, driven by the untiring consistent significance of band leader and harmonica player PIERRE LACOCQUE. The local daily Chicago Reader reports: "Lacocque is one of the few harp players of the younger generation who has studied the lessons of finesse, ease and solo-building from the masters ...and has also inherited their untamed instrumental power."

'Glad You're Mine' is MISSISSIPPI HEAT's sixth album. It's the most homogenous to date, with a core lineup that remained unchanged for some years. INETTA VISOR, one of Chicago’s great unknown black voices, has developed into a powerhouse of a front woman; guitarist CHRIS WINTERS has, during the course of the last years stepped out of the shadows of well-known guest performers – and with bassist SPURLING BANKS and drummer KENNY SMITH (son of long time Muddy Waters’ drummer Willie "Big Eyes" Smith) the band is in possession of a high class rhythm section. New to the group are keyboardist CHRIS CAMERON and guitarist STEVE DOYLE, who play call and response on Dirty Deal with the 'eighth band member' and CrossCut artist CARL WEATHERSBY.
Nine original songs and three covers: two songs by Denise LaSalle and I'm A Woman (a 1962 hit for Peggy Lee): 'Glad You're Mine' is a new, small, compact and modern masterpiece by a blues band that deserves a much wider acknowledgment worldwide.
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Pierre Lacocque- Harmonica
Inetta Visor- Vocals
Kenny Smith- Drums
Giles Corey- Vocals and Leaping Guitar
Stephen Howard- Bass
Special Guest:
Carl Weathersby- Guitar
Danny Draher- Guitar and Vocals
Lurrie Bell- Guitar
Chris Winter- Guitar
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01. Dirty Deal (4:30)
02. Heartless Fool (5:13)
03. She Ain't Your Toy (5:44)
04. Glad You're Mine (3:16)
05. Give Me Yo' Strongest Whiskey (3:24)
06. Cool Twist (4:19)
07. I'm A Woman (6:39)
08. Take My Hand (3:32)
09. Love Will Play Tricks (5:03)
10. Where Were You (Ode To Magic Sam) (4:14)
11. Jamaican Night (4:00)
12. Real Sad Story (4:24)
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