James Harman Band - Cards On The Table

Size: 128,3 MB
Time: 54:36
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1994
Styles: Harmonica Blues, West Coast Blues
Art: Full

01. Night Ridin' Daddy (5:19)
02. Where's My Thang (7:28)
03. Cards On The Table (3:50)
04. 'temporary Blues (5:01)
05. Black Under Black (3:56)
06. Don't Spoil My View (3:29)
07. Three-Way Party (5:37)
08. Sparks (Start Flyin') (3:52)
09. Run, Run Tonight (2:38)
10. Last Clean Shirt (4:19)
11. I'll Call You (2:48)
12. Crazy By Degrees (3:39)
13. Walk The Streets (Cold And Lonely) (2:36)

James Harman is a lot of things: He's a top notch, greasy and gritty harmonica player who plays with the same virtuosic verve as his heroes Little Walter, Walter Horton and Sonny Boy Williamson and he's a stand out singer who mixes hard blues vocalising with cool jive-ass beatnik-cool attitude. And he's an old-style hands-on bandleader who can spot talent about a decade before anyone else. Over the years Harman has had some pretty big hitters on his payroll. Hollywood Fats, Kid Ramos, Junior Watson, Enrico Crivellaro, Buddy Reed, Gene Taylor and Joel Foy have all passed through and benefited from being in his band. To complete the package, he's a true original blues songwriter who prides himself on wise, witty and, at times, way-out lyrics.

You get a perfect demonstration of his prodigious skills on this excellent CD via tracks as diverse as the upbeat horn-led ‘Black under Black' to the slop-bucket R&B of ‘Don't Spoil my View' and the rollicking down-home slide guitar number ‘Sparks Start Flyin'. Then there's ‘Where's My Thang' - a consumer nightmare of a song in the Coasters tradition that has a neat mumbling dialogue and a funky horn section that really goes to town on the fade-out. Every track displays that indefinable magic that epitomises the music of James Harman.

Jeff "Big Dad" Turmes; Anson Funderburgh; James Harman - vocals, harmonica; Michael "Buster" Cherry - drums; Robby "Sugar Boy" Eason - guitar

Thanks to Kempen.
Cards On The Table

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