Lucky Peterson - 2 albums: Travelin' Man / Lucky Peterson

Album: Travelin' Man
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 46:42
Size: 106.9 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[3:55] 1. Proud To Love My Baby
[4:20] 2. Feeling They Call The Blues
[3:18] 3. Trouble Everywhere
[4:42] 4. I'm Free
[9:22] 5. Get On Down
[4:12] 6. Get Off Me Baby
[2:57] 7. Traveling Man
[4:26] 8. Treat Me Like You Wanna
[3:36] 9. What Have I Done Wrong
[3:33] 10. Wish You Well
[2:16] 11. The Day After

An album was born one night at Ronnie Scott's in London. Lucky was on stage and launched into a stunning performance of an old Gatemouth Brown song. Label boss John Stedman's reaction was instant. What about a 'Retro' style album from Lucky? Lucky enthusiastically agreed. But Lucky, Steve Washington and their collaborators are supremely talented and creative - the concept's merely a starting point. So is this 'Retro'? Well, there's an acoustic bass, real piano, stunning 'real blues' guitar and great songs played live in the studio. A multi-instrumentalist, Lucky did just the occasional overdub. A bonus is the contribution of Lucky's wife Tamara. Her vocals on What Have I Done Wrong, are fabulously funky. Listen out also for Lucky's piano on Get On Down - another number where a funk groove dominates. The Peterson team couldn't become 'copyists' to save their lives - they bring a rare but much-needed freshness to this music. Lucky's on the cusp of regaining his mantle as today's hottest young blues artist.

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Album: Lucky Peterson
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 51:51
Size: 118.7 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 1999
Art: Front

[3:55] 1. Deal With It
[4:19] 2. The Otherside
[4:33] 3. Tribute To Luther Allison
[3:22] 4. Shake
[4:32] 5. Funny (How Time Slips Away)
[5:40] 6. Why Can't We Live Together
[4:48] 7. Ask Me Nothing 'bout The Blues
[4:14] 8. She's Giving Me The Blues
[4:51] 9. Seduction
[4:53] 10. Ta' Ta' You
[3:06] 11. Don't Cry No More
[3:31] 12. Ode To Billy Joe

As a triple threat, guitarist/organist/singer Lucky Peterson is able to vary the usual repetitive patterns that a full-length album of blues music can fall into, and though the back cover of his self-titled 1999 album advises "File Under: BLUES, " advice we would not dispute, a lot of different bases are covered on the album. "Shake," with the addition of the Late Night Horns, is a convincing remake of the Sam Cooke soul classic, Willie Nelson's "Funny How Time Slips Away" provides a country-style platform for a duet between Peterson and Joe Louis Walker, and the most surprising selection, Bobbie Gentry's "Ode To Billie Joe," turns out to be the outline for an extended instrumental organ solo. In between the stylistic changes of pace, however, there is still plenty of room for the updated Chicago blues in which Peterson specializes, notably on Ernie Isley's "Deal With It," Earl King's "Seduction," and Peterson's own self-descriptive "Tribute To Luther Allison." ~William Ruhlmann

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