Time: 37:16
Size: 85.3 MB
Styles: Contemporary blues
Year: 2012
Art: Front
[1:58] 1. Let's Get Drunk And Truck
[3:02] 2. How Long Blues
[2:59] 3. It Ain't Love
[3:38] 4. Guess I'm A Fool
[3:36] 5. Caledonia
[2:55] 6. Let's Go Get Stoned
[3:44] 7. Let It Go
[4:02] 8. Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby
[3:25] 9. Anywhere You Go
[3:14] 10. No Time For The Blues
[4:37] 11. River's Invitation
Rabson continues to forge her own unique path in the blues world with Not Alone, an album that features the guitar work and vocals of another low-key blues legend, Bob Margolin. It's not exactly an album of duets -- Rabson sings most of the leads and her piano playing is featured throughout -- but it's not entirely a solo effort, either, since Margolin only performs solo on a couple of tracks. What is clear is that both players are having a ball and their energy and good humor are infectious. The album is a delight from start to finish. Except for Margolin's "Let It Go" -- a bluesy rhumba marked by Rabson's rippling piano arpeggios and lyrics delivered in a wry drawl that bring to mind the philosophical ruminations of Mose Allison -- the tunes here are mostly familiar covers. Rabson reinvents the material with her surprising arrangements and on-the-money vocals. "Let's Go Get Stoned," the Ashford & Simpson tune made popular by Ray Charles, gets a downtempo treatment that celebrates excess with a gospel-flavored arrangement. Rabson delivers the Rev. Thomas Dorsey standard "I'm Going to Live the Life I Sing About in My Song" with a wry approach that manages to sound both spiritual and carnal, especially when she sings: "I can't say one thing and then do another, be a saint by day and a devil under covers." A boogie-woogie cover of Louis Jordan's "Caledonia" features Margolin's smooth, laid-back guitar work supporting Rabson's excellent piano work, while her ragtime reading of Hudson Whitaker's almost obscene "Let's Get Drunk and Truck" is a pure delight. ~J. Poet
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