Friday, January 27, 2012

J.B. Hutto - High & Lonesome (Fan Club Records, 1992)

Are your ready for the BLUES? I can’t hear you. Are YOU ready for the BLUES? Yes? Good. Then put aside everything, sit deep in your armchair and be prepared ‘cause you will be captivated, yes, captivated from the very first touch of strings. You’ll not be able to think of anything, feel anything or do anything and important most of all, you won’t want to. This music takes you over, you’re gradually becoming surrounded by the best slide blues ever, performed by the Master. That night of 12th April 1982, J.B. brought the house down. This live performance in Binghampton, New York is his best one. Slidewinder does his job perfect way starting with Jimmy Reed’s High & Lonesome, continuing with his own instrumental J.B.’s Boogie followed by excellent cover of Big Bill’s Feel So Good. Laundromat Blues, an answer to skeptics, saying J.B. is all about rock ‘n roll, will make you cry. Coo Coo Baby and Walking The Dog is a small relax. Then starts the madness. There are not enough words in the world to describe what happens in Come Back Baby. It seems music gets into your blood and you want to freeze the moment. Inimitable feeling brought to you by the King of Slide Guitar and his four-piece band, delivering true Chicago sound. Album finishes with fine cover of Leiber/Stoller’s Kansas City. If you listen to J.B. for the first time, I bet you’ll immediately become his fan. First thing I did after I listened to this album I started it again and then again and all over again. And I’m listening to it right now.


Track List


01. High And Lonesome
02. J.B.'s Boogie
03. Feel So Good
04. Too Much Alcohol
05. Hide and Seek
06. Laundromat Blues
07. Coo Coo Baby
08. Walking the Dog
09. Come Back Baby
10. Kansas City


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