Tim Gartland - Million Stars

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 48:53
Size: 111.9 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[3:34] 1. Let Me Keep The Dog
[3:52] 2. Off Of My Mind
[3:36] 3. Mess Me Up
[4:08] 4. When The Next Wind Blows
[3:04] 5. I Should Have Cared Less
[3:29] 6. Two Right Make A Wrong
[4:00] 7. Better The Foot Slip
[4:59] 8. Million Stars
[3:36] 9. Tippin' Time
[4:45] 10. Shine Your Loving Light
[5:11] 11. I Can Add
[4:32] 12. Shake It Nina

Singer/songwriter/harp player Tim Gartland is a rare breed, indeed. After being bitten by the blues bug at a Muddy Waters show as a young teenager in Ohio, he soon found himself in Chicago, playing harmonica with the likes of Bo Diddley, Carey Bell, Big Jack Johnson and Pinetop Perkins. Tim became increasingly interested in songwriting, and began writing melodic songs with relevant lyrics and elegant, funny turns of phrase.

Tim moved to Boston in 1991, where he became a well-respected player in the burgeoning Boston blues scene. He became a founding member, lead vocalist and harmonica player for popular group The Porch Rockers, who released three CDs. In 1998, he was a finalist in the Boston Blues Challenge. In 2011 Tim wrote and published an instructional book entitled, "The Talking Harmonica," and launched a teaching career, becoming the first harmonica instructor at the prestigious Winchester Community School.

Tim became a skilled harmonica player fairly quickly. And somewhere along the way, he became a first-rate singer and songwriter with a supple baritone and a very specific idea about how his songs should sound. On MILLION STARS, Tim is surrounded with exactly the right musicians and producer/engineer to bring his vision to life. Tim's organ/piano player and songwriting partner, Tom West, has long been regarded as a key player (pun unavoidable, sorry) on the Boston scene, gracing stages and recordings with Susan Tedeschi, Peter Wolf, and many more. Producer/engineer/guitarist Chris Rival has been the hands and ears behing some of the best-sounding, most soulful recordings to come out of the Boston area — including Paul Rishell and Annie Raines, Peter Wolf, Susan Tedeschi and many more. Drummer Forrest Padgett (Charlie Musselwhite) and bassist Paul Justice are well-respected longtime staples on the scene.

One of the first things to strike the listener about MILLION STARS is the sonority of the performance and the production; nothing is fighting for sonic space, the instruments and voice nestle comfortably together so your feel like you're in the room with them, and glad to be there. The players are all tasty and relaxed, which lets them cover a variety of grooves and feels — mid-tempo shuffle, funky R&B, strutting "Exile on Main Street" era Stones, driving down-tempo blues, haunting ballads — and bring them all under the same umbrella. ~Richard Rosenblatt

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