Pinetop Perkins and Willie Big Eyes Smith-Joined At The Hip-CD-FLAC-2010-FORSAKEN
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Artist : Pinetop Perkins & Willie Big Eyes Smith
Album : Joined at the Hip Label : Telarc Genre : Blues Source : CD Street Date : 2010-06-08 Quality : 920 kbps / 44.1kHz / 2 channels Encoder : FLAC 1.2.1
Size : 402.43 MB
Time : 58:25 min Url : http://www.pinetopperkins.com
1. Grown Up to Be a Man 4:02 2. Cut That Out 4:01 3. Take Your Eyes Off My Woman 4:24 4. Walkin Down the Highway 6:40 5. Gambling Blues 4:13 6. I Would Like to Have a Girl Like You 4:19 7. Take My Hand, Precious Lord 5:58 8. Youd Better Slow Down 4:10 9. Minor Blues (Instrumental) 2:50 10. I Feel So Good 4:12 11. Lord, Lord, Lord 5:33 12. Grindin Man 4:07 13. Eyesight to the Blind 3:56
Its hard to believe this album wasnt made a long time ago,
actually, since blues pianist Pinetop Perkins and drummer and
harmonica player Willie “Big Eyes” Smith have worked together
frequently in the past 40 some years. Perkins replaced the
legendary pianist Otis Spann in Muddy Waters band in 1969 when
Smith was the drummer in the ensemble, and later Perkins and
Smith formed the Legendary Blues Band in the 1980s. Perkins was
96 years old when the sessions for Joined at the Hip were
recorded, but one wouldnt know it, and Smith, now out from
behind the drum kit (his son, Kenny Smith, plays drums here),
concentrates on his harp blowing and handles most of the vocals.
The result is a solid Chicago blues record, one that feels like
it could have been tracked anytime in the past four decades. The
sound is big and warm and alive, and this is the Chicago blues
without any annoying and unnecessary flash — it just socks home
where its supposed to, with solid ensemble playing (Bob Stroger
is on bass and John Primer and “Little Frank” Krakowski handle
the guitars while Perkins, of course, mans the piano and Smith
adds appropriate harmonica fills, with Kenny Smith on drums).
Highlights include the opener, Grown Up to Be a Man, a fine
version of Sonny Boy Williamsons Eyesight to the Blind (the
second Sonny Boy — Eyesight was his first single back in
1951), and a compelling I Would Like to Have a Girl Like You,
which was written by Billy Flynn, who was also a member of the
Legendary Blues Band with Perkins and Smith. Produced by Michael
Freeman, Joined at the Hip is Chicago blues played straight and
true, headed up by a couple of veteran blues musicians who not
only know what theyre talking about, theyve also lived it.
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