Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:58
Size: 93.8 MB
Styles: R&B, Contemporary blues
Year: 2015
Art: Front
[4:30] 1. Stranded
[4:25] 2. Walk Out That Door
[4:57] 3. Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City
[4:15] 4. I Won't Give Up
[3:41] 5. Run Away With You
[4:55] 6. Long Way To Memphis
[4:14] 7. Still Doing Fine
[3:06] 8. Been Such A Long Time
[3:47] 9. Sometimes
[3:03] 10. Welcome Home
Blues music by its nature evokes pain, hardship and troubles, finding a sort of sanguine healing in the very expression of the songs themselves. And so it is with Michigan blues guitarist Greg Nagy, whose latest album, “Stranded,” was written and recorded as his marriage fell apart. “I went into this record over a year ago while in the early stages of ending a 24-year marriage, quite possibly one of the toughest things I’ve ever faced,” Nagy told Local Spins. “I often felt dead on my feet. And yet, music kept me going – not the career of music or the idea of music – but just the music.
“The songs, the performances and the entire process seemed to unfold on its own. Too beat to think about it, I just did it. Singing, writing, playing became an exercise in meditation, in breathing, in staying alive.” What emerged on Nagy’s third solo album – recorded at Lansing keyboard player Jim Alfredson’s studio, with mixing and mastering by Glenn Brown – is an intense yet hopeful set of songs.
“The songs, the performances and the entire process seemed to unfold on its own. Too beat to think about it, I just did it. Singing, writing, playing became an exercise in meditation, in breathing, in staying alive.” What emerged on Nagy’s third solo album – recorded at Lansing keyboard player Jim Alfredson’s studio, with mixing and mastering by Glenn Brown – is an intense yet hopeful set of songs.
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Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:37
Size: 99.8 MB
Styles: R&B, Contemporary blues
Year: 2011
Art: Front
[4:00] 1. Pack It Up
[4:02] 2. Wishing Well
[4:04] 3. Be With You
[5:42] 4. I'll Know I'm Ready
[3:27] 5. Can't Take It No More
[3:37] 6. Let It Roll
[4:53] 7. Still Means The World To Me
[3:43] 8. Facebook Mama
[3:45] 9. For A Broken Heart
[3:18] 10. Here Comes My Baby
[3:02] 11. Fell Toward None
Somebody needs to come right out and say it: this guy really sounds like Stevie Ray Vaughan -- not just vocally (though at times, and especially on the rather hilarious "Facebook Mama," the vocal resemblance is nearly uncanny) but also in his admirable tendency to blend the sounds of Texas-style blues-rock with Memphis soul (and to dig occasionally into a bag of Jimi Hendrix tricks). Nagy claims to play "both kinds of music: rhythm AND blues," and that's a good summation of his style. On Fell Toward None he succeeds most completely when he rocks hardest ("Wishing Well," "Pack It Up") and when he rocks funkiest and/or most soulfully ("Let It Roll," the brilliant "Be with You"). He seldom stumbles, but when it happens it's generally because he fails to maintain a high-enough energy level; this happens most egregiously on "Still Means the World to Me," a fine song that bogs down irretrievably by the end of its five-minute length. ("Facebook Mama" also feels like it's struggling to get off the ground and never quite makes it.) But throughout the album both his voice and his guitar playing are a pleasure to hear, and it's a solid success overall. ~ Rick Anderson
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