Rod Piazza - Vintage Live: 1975

Size: 96,4 MB
Time: 41:06
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1998
Styles: Modern Electric Blues, Harmonica Blues
Art: Full

01. Oh Baby (4:24)
02. Key To The Highway (3:56)
03. Mellow Down Easy (3:37)
04. Standing Around Crying (4:30)
05. I Had My Fun (3:40)
06. Rocking Daddy (4:50)
07. Mean Old World (3:45)
08. Take A Walk With Me (4:21)
09. My Babe (3:14)
10. Third Degree (4:47)

This medium to lo-fi live club recording (location and exact date unspecified) finds Piazza and a young, enthusiastic band playing it by the record collection as they mine their way through ten Chicago blues classics. With Hollywood Fats on guitar and former Canned Heat bassman Larry Taylor, the licks are suitably retro and blues-approved, as Piazza devotes over half the set to letter-perfect re-creations of Little Walter staples like "My Babe," "Oh Baby," "Key to the Highway," "Mellow Down Easy," "I Had My Fun," and "Mean Old World." Piazza extends the Walter approach to include like-minded versions of Muddy's "Standing Around Crying," "Take a Walk With Me," Eddie Boyd's "Third Degree," and Howlin' Wolf's "Rocking Daddy." What sounds still sounds pretty impressive (if somewhat derivative) some 20 years later must have seemed absolutely revelatory at the time. ~Review by Cub Koda

Thanks to DrPeak.
Vintage Live: 1975

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