Aaron Burton - 2 albums: Recession Blues / Rising Sun

Album: Recession Blues
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:14
Size: 128.7 MB
Styles: Country blues
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[3:07] 1. Workoholic
[4:20] 2. You're Wrong
[2:44] 3. Funeral Preachin' Blues
[4:12] 4. Young Thing
[4:32] 5. Hey Bartender (Banjo Funk)
[3:20] 6. Jesse Linn
[3:17] 7. Recession Blues
[3:38] 8. Gonna Party Tonight
[2:55] 9. Fading Every Day
[3:27] 10. Ain't Gonna Work No More
[3:26] 11. The Day Sweet Sammy Died
[2:56] 12. Ascap Blues
[3:54] 13. Never Stopped Dreaming Of You
[3:29] 14. Dirty Dog
[3:07] 15. A. B. Stomp
[3:42] 16. Memphis, Tennessee

Aaron Burton is certainly one of the best (if unfortunately not very well known in the outside world) today's Country blues player. This CD features him with a tight small band, delivering an immaculate performance of down home blues (and some Country Music too) with a strong influence of lightnin' Hopkins and Lonnie Johnson: laid back vocals, excellent restrained but very soulful guitar solos, memorable songs. A CD to get. ~gerard herzhaft

Recession Blues mc
Recession Blues zippy

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Album: Rising Sun
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:17
Size: 101.4 MB
Styles: Country blues
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[4:16] 1. Rising Sun
[3:34] 2. I'll Get Mine
[5:19] 3. Evil Hearted Woman
[3:27] 4. Baton Rouge
[3:16] 5. I Won't Do That No More
[3:50] 6. Jamie Lee
[2:50] 7. I Feel So Good
[3:51] 8. Rockabilly Girl
[3:15] 9. Store Bought Melons
[3:02] 10. You Got Me Hooked
[3:16] 11. Tried And True
[4:16] 12. Leaving Blues #2

Aaron Burton is a young Texan guitarist/mandolinist/vocalist who plays country/traditional blues with a distinctly Texan spin having the talent, like our own Ian Siegal, to sound black , traditional and authentic but at the same time highly relevant to today s blues scene. Backed by a crack band that features Pat Boyack (lead guitar), Stompin Bill Johnston (harp), Christian Dozzler (piano/accordion), Sonny Collie (bass) and Dick Cordes (drums), Burton delivers twelve fine blues that could well have been recorded back in the 40s or early 50s. The title track is a deep North Mississippi Hill Country styled blues replete with downhome harp and almost spiritual vocals accentuated by a call and response holler I ll Get Mine segues into Tampa Red territory, a loping blues fuelled by warbling harp Evil Hearted Woman has a plaintive Nighthawk feel to both the vocals and the slide, the Nighthawk influence again to the fore on Baton Rouge which predictably features fine swamp harp and honky-tonk piano. Dozzler s accordion adds immeasurably to the wistful Cajun feel of I Won t Do That No More Tampa Red meets Jimmy Rogers on the compelling I Feel So Good whilst Dozzler s accordion is again to the fore on the melancholy swamp pop of Rockabilly Girl . Add in Leaving Blues #2 where Burton sounds like a Chi-Town Willie McTell the jaunty Crescent City inspired You Got Me Hooked , with it s fine harp and the hypnotic Hill Country influenced instrumental Tried And True with it s tribal drumming and you have a set that will delight all lovers of quality traditional country blues. Rating 9 Mick Rainsford ~Blues in Britain

Rising Sun

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