jueves, 12 de noviembre de 2009

Duke ROBILLARD - Living With The Blues 2002


Duke ROBILLARD - Living With The Blues 2002

Blues

This is a very good record by one of the current best guitar players and blues musicians. Here Duke devotes most of his time to received repertoire, offering as always first-class playing. He covers magnificently songs from B. B. King, Guitar Slim, Freddie King and also an unplugged version of a slide guitar master Tampa Red's "Hard Road". The record also contains a very attractive cover of Willie Dixon's "I live the life I love", first recorded by Muddy Waters, who made it one of this classic tunes. The title record song "Living with the Blues", besides being a great tune by Brownie McGhee, is an appropriate title for this album. It is of course very hard to say who my favourite guitarist is, because there are several players who can qualify depending of the moment, but I'm sure DUKE ROBILLARD is one of them.
By Jose Maria Domenech Fedi
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Roomful of Blues founding guitarist Duke Robillard initially signed to Canadian label Stony Plain with the intention of playing more straightforward music, to stick to the blues, instead of the musical mélange that had long been his specialty. But his 2002 outing for the label, Living with the Blues, shows that when Robillard immerses himself in a genre, he still can't help exploring that genre's stylistic variety. This album includes everything from the Freddie King tune "Use What You Got," performed with a taut intensity reminiscent of Muddy Waters, to a delta-inflected Tampa Red song, "Hard Road," to the funk-edged "Goodtime Charlie." Robillard has been highly praised in blues circles for many years, especially after embarking on his solo career in 1990. He performs all the above with the apparent ease that mastery allows. While Living with the Blues is often determinedly low-key, Robillard's enthusiasm and imagination shine through with a soft, consistent glow.
By Genevieve Williams.
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Duke Robillard- (Vocals, Acoustic & Electric guitars);
Doug James- (Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone);
Bruce Katz- (Piano, Hammond B-3 Organ);
John Packer- (Acoustic & Electric Basses);
Mark Teixeira- (Drums, Percussion).
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01. If Walls Could Talk (3:46)
02. Use What You Got (6:08)
03. Satisfied (8:24)
04. Hard Road (3:47)
05. Buy Me A Dog (3:54)
06. Good Time Charlie (7:07)
07. Painful Memory (4:47)
08. I Live The Life I Love (4:33)
09. I'm Mad About It (2:46)
10. Sleepin' On It (2:50)
11. Living With The Blues (3:12)
12. Long Gone Baby (3:52)
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