sábado, 14 de noviembre de 2009

Marcia BALL - Live! Down The Road 2005


Marcia BALL - Live! Down The Road 2005

Blues

Marcia Ball showcases one great slow-rolling blues here: Louisiana 1927, Randy Newman´s dust bowl tale about a historic flood, into which she wholeheartedly dives and immerses herself. In perhaps her best singing of this entire set, she recoils from its last line as if in horror from nature´s awesome devastation of person and property.

But throughout the rest of this set, this composer, pianist, and singer—and current owner of the W.C. Handy Awards for Contemporary Blues Female Artist and for Contemporary Blues Album of the Year (So Many Rivers, also nominated for a Grammy Award)—throws a Crescent City party that shakes the house of rock down to its seminal roots.

Ball´s party mixes and cooks up the spicy sounds of Texas and Louisiana, from Ball originals and several well-chosen covers, into potent jambalaya. In That´s Enough of That Stuff, her snapshot of the joys of a New Orleans party, in living color and illuminated by white-hot Crescent City piano, she displays a reporters eye for nuanced detail:

    We got Fess down on the jukebox
    Fats on the radio
    Got Toots on the piano in the living room
    And the Nevilles singing "Iko Iko"

Ball kicks in several other well-placed covers, with a great vocal and Pat Boyack´s incendiary electric solo on Duke Robillard´s Just Kiss Me; sharing with vocalist Angela Strehli It Hurts to Be In Love (once a hit for Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers) across the border between New Orleans R&B and rock 'n´ roll; jumpin like Louis Jordan fronting the Chuck Berry band at Mardi Gras in Crawfishin´; and ending the set by shredding the bawdy blues Let Me Play with Your Poodle, favored in previous generations by Lightnin´ Hopkins, Tampa Red,
and Memphis Slim.
By Chris M. Slawecki
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Marcia Ball- Vocals, Piano
Alvin "Red" Tyler- Hammond b-3 organ
Angela Strehli- Vocals
Mark Kazanoff- Saxophone
Pat Boyack- Guitar
Don Bennett- Bass
Brad Andrew- Saxophone
Al Gomez- Trumpet
Corey Keller- Drums
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01. Big Shot (4:00)
02. Right Tool For The Job (5:12)
03. Just Kiss Me (6:42)
04. That's Enough Of That Stuff (6:29)
05. Louella (6:28)
06. Everyday Will Be Like a Holiday (4:56)
07. La Ti Da (5:51)
08. It Hurts To Be In Love (4:09)
09. Down The Road (4:12)
10. No Ordinary Woman (4:11)
11. Crawfishin' (5:29)
12. Louisiana (6:55)
13. Count The Days (3:39)
14. Play With Your Poodle (7:59)
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