Time: 57:07
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1999
Styles: Electric Blues
Art: Full
01. Time Out (4:28)
02. I Want To See You Again (5:04)
03. Smoky City (7:30)
04. Dark Moon Risin' (4:06)
05. As The Years Go Passin' By (5:27)
06. When Do I Get To Be Called A Man (3:23)
07. Just Like You (4:17)
08. Black Mare (5:21)
09. Blues For Breakfast (3:57)
10. Mr. Airplane Man (5:31)
11. Man Eater (6:30)
12. Nobody's Fault But Mine (1:28)
Just like its title, Bill Sims' eponymous PBS / Warner Brothers debut is unpretentious and solid: it's this singer-guitarist's personal overview of the blues. Sims' voice at its most soulful suggests a blues Gil Scott-Heron or Lou Rawls -- smooth, deep rather than flashy, and bittersweet. Some of his guitar solos somehow sound like that too. He transforms "Nobody's Fault But Mine" into a backporch banjo stomp, and tunes by Big Bill Broonzy and Charley Patton into shifty New Orleans second-line funk. He also breaks down a mournful version of Howlin' Wolf's "Mr. Airplane Man," and brings onboard saxophonist Chico Freeman to intensify the slow-burning R&B heat in "Smoky City." ~Chris Slawecki
Bill Sims
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