| Product Summary | | Label: Northernblues Music Inc. | | UPC: 00809509001729 | | Release Date: 7/29/2003 | | Buy.com Sku: 60605733 | | Item#: MXS34T | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Train Of Love - Paul Reddick ~ Various Artists |  | | 2. Get Rhythm - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown/Benjy Davis ~ Various Artists | | | 3. Walking The Blues - Maria Muldaur ~ Various Artists | | | 4. Rock Island Line - Chris Thomas King ~ Various Artists | | | 5. I Walk The Line - Garland Jeffreys ~ Various Artists | | | 6. Folsom Prison Blues - Blackie And The Rodeo Kings ~ Various Artists | | | 7. Long Black Veil - Harry Manx ~ Various Artists | | | 8. Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down - Alvin Youngblood Hart ~ Various Artists | | | 9. Frankie's Man, Johnny - Sleepy Labeef ~ Various Artists | | | 10. Redemption - Corey Harris ~ Various Artists | | | 11. Send A Picture Of Mother - Kevin Breit ~ Various Artists | | | 12. Big River - Colin Linden ~ Various Artists | | | 13. Will The Circle Be Unbroken - Mavis Staples ~ Various Artists | |
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| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Corey Harris, Alvin Youngblood Hart (vocals, guitar); Sleepy LaBeef (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Tom Wilson (vocals, acoustic guitar); Colin Linden (vocals, electric guitar, mandolin); Stephen Fearing (vocals, electric guitar); Chris Thomas King (vocals, 12-string guitar); Paul Reddick (vocals, harmonica); Garland Jeffreys, Mavis Staples, Benjy Davis, Maria Muldaur (vocals); Mic Capdevielle (bass voice); Del Rey (guitar); Jim Tullio (acoustic guitar, bass guitar, percussion); Mark Bosch, Alan Freedman (acoustic guitar); Kevin Breit (slide guitar, steel guitar, National guitar, mandocello, mandola, mandolin, bass clarinet); Jim Weider (slide guitar); Jim Vivian (fiddle); Tony Cedras (accordion); Bob Doidge (trumpet); Richard Bell (piano); Joe Krown (organ); Chris Cameron (Wurlitzer organ); David Roe (upright bass); David Hyde, Butch Taylor (bass guitar); David Direnzo (drums, percussion); Kevin Tooley, David Peters, Jerry Cavanaugh, Bryan Owings, Gary Craig (drums); Darrell Rose (djembe, percussion); Emily Braden, Tony Backhouse, David P. Jackson (background vocals). | | Audio Mixers: Colin Linden; Andy Bowmer; Gene Foster; Kevin Massey; Jim Tullio; John Whynot; Bob Doidge. | | Liner Note Authors: Fred Litwin; Tom Wilson. | | Recording information: 21st Century Blues Studio, New Orleans, LA (09/??/2002-11/13/2002); Deep Field Studio, Nashville, TN (09/??/2002-11/13/2002); Grant Avenue Studio (09/??/2002-11/13/2002); Studio In The Country, Bogalusa, LA (09/??/2002-11/13/2002); Synergy Sound, Seattle, WA (09/??/2002-11/13/2002); The Toolshed (09/??/2002-11/13/2002). | | Author: Johnny Cash. | | Photographer: Tamara Reynolds. | | Arrangers: Corey Harris; Johnny Cash. | | Effectively honoring an amazing song from an amazing performer requires that you kick against the grass marking the steps of the master. Cash's country music re-oriented toward its blues element gives kickers a general direction for a collection hitting more shin than soup?on. Paul Reddick's "Train of Love" whirs into life on its master tape capstan and jumps track 13 seconds in a show of off-roading; "I have wondered," he ponders in the liner notes, "how things might have been if Johnny had hired Mississippi Fred McDowell (Luther Perkins is chopped liver?) as the guitar player for the Tennessee Three." Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown joins forces with Benjy Davis to swing out "Get Rhythm," taking turns sounding agreeably road-wearied. Chris Thomas King tunes his 12-string guitar "down to B flat standard, which is the way Leadbelly played it," and recasts "Rock Island Line" as a talking blues, which it almost was anyway, then skates away on the train engineer's cheer at cheating the toll (though no one ever asks whether the burned toll man's waiting for him on the return trip). Faced with doing over a perfect song with a perfect arrangement, Garland Jeffreys brilliantly deduces that a little more makes a lot more, and filigrees "I Walk the Line" in accordion and a more pronounced "boom-chicka-boom." Harry Manx's "Long Black Veil" shimmers under his predictable but effective slide guitar and surprising touches of Indian instrumentation, plus desperate gospel-fueled backing vocals, stripping finality from tone, turning the song over into an unsolved mystery. OK, Alvin Youngblood Hart doesn't sound like he knows what he's doing on "Sunday Morning Coming Down"; he asks "Well, who hasn't been there?" in the notes, and the problem is he sounds like almost everybody else who's been there. But then along comes Sleepy LaBeef, sounding like his voice went down one half-step for each of his 68 years, singing "Frankie's Man Johnny" like no one ever told him it wasn't his. Don't settle for walking if you can swoosh. ~ Andrew Hamlin |
Producer: Chris Thomas King; Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown; Colin Linden; Jordy Sharpe; Jim Bateman; Jim Tullio; Kevin Breit; Mavis Staples |
Engineer: Chris Thomas King; Colin Linden; Andy Bowmer; Gene Foster; Kevin Massey; Jim Tullio; John Whynot; Neville Pearsall; Bob Doidge |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 07/01/2003 | | Original Release Date : 2003 | | Catalog ID : 17 | | Label : NorthernBlues Music | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00809509001729 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Q (10/03, p.120)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "...The artists are an inspired mix of rootsy and creative, each bringing something different and imaginative..." Living Blues (11/03, p.61)
- "...This tribute album is a fine homage to the Man In Black..." |
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