Friday, February 16, 2018

Larry Burton Band - Hustler's Paradise

Year: 1992
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:05
Size: 124,6 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Scans: Full

1. It's My Life (3:31)
2. Dark Clouds (4:43)
3. Going Back Home (5:25)
4. What I'm Going Through (7:30)
5. You're So Mean To Me (3:32)
6. You Hurt Me So Bad (7:13)
7. Hey, Hey, Hey (3:46)
8. I've Got Your Body (He's Got Your Mind) (7:58)
9. If You're Leaving Me (3:33)
10. I'm Moving On (6:49)

Larry Burton is the complete package - a great guitarist, a soulful blues singer and a creative songwriter. Larry's resumé reads like a who's who of the blues. He has played in support of Albert King, Albert Collins, John Lee Hooker, Taj Mahal, Johnny Winter, Koko Taylor, Little Milton, Son Seals, Otis Rush, Jimmy Johnson, Lonnie Brooks, Jimmy Witherspoon, Sugar Blue, Kim Wilson and Champion Jack Dupree, just to name a few.

Larry also has played on over two dozen albums, including the great Albert King album San Francisco '83 and Lou Rawls' experimental Shades of Blue. He's on A.C. Reed's iconoclastic Fed Up With This Music. He's on four Collins albums, two of them recorded live in Switzerland and Japan. He's on three albums with Johnny Littlejohn and two with Jimmy Johnson. He's featured on Past, Present And Future (Earwig Music) by his brother Aron Burton, the well known blues singer and bass player. He was also co-leader of the Burton Brothers Blues Band when they cut their album released in Europe on the B&B Label. Larry is also spotlighted on the Icehouse Records release, Slide Guitar Blues, along with Johnny Winter, Sonny Landreth and Elmore James.

Naturally, all the other blues artist would have been happy if Larry had continued to back them up with his outstanding rhythm work - he plays full, precise chords that are fingered so cleanly and played so tenderly, you can hear every note - and his fully developed, fiery solos. But his ability to front a band blossomed on one of his European tours and led to the release of his own first album Hustler's Paradise on the Brambus Label. It is chock full of scorching guitar and features all original songs by Larry Burton. They explore the nuances of the man/woman relationship that is the source of so much of the world's blues - and the medicine for it too.

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2 comments:

ELTON said...

Another gem from larry Butler! Thanks again Red Rooster! Fine blues here.

Red Rooster said...

You're welcome Elton, glad you enjoyed the post. Thanks for your comment.