Time: 053:16
File: Flac
Released: 1998
Styles: Blues
Art: Front
1. Midas Queen (3:00)
2. Strange brew (4:02)
3. That's Alright (5:30)
4. Big Legged Woman (4:22)
5. Three O' Clock (7:14)
6. Backstroke (4:45)
7. Cadillac Assembly Line (4:28)
8. Early in the morning (4:21)
9. Thinking About Your Love (3:06)
10. Ain't No Love (4:59)
11. C.C. Rider (5:56)
12. Sergione (1:26)
As a regular visitor to the Pistoia Blues Festival, in 1986 he joined Giancarlo Crea's Model T. Boogie band, selected for the 1987 Chicago Blues Festival , which allowed him to go on stage together with artists such as Albert King , Johnny Copeland or Phil Guy.
In 1990, after finishing his experience with Model T. Boogie with which he had released two albums, he left Italy to move to Chicago where he played with local blues artists such as Son Seals , Melvin Taylor , Sugar Blue . He returned to Italy in 1993 where he joined Mimmo Mollica 's Blues Harbour . He then played on Ollie Nightingale 's album Live at Campanile. In 1994 he founded his own group: Nick Becattini & Serious Fun, with whom he first released a self-titled studio album in 1995, nominated by Musica Jazz as best group of the year, and then a live album, Funky People - Live! in 1997.
He then collaborated with Peaches Staten , with whom he released two albums ( Nick & Peaches Live at Blue Sun and Time Will Tell ), and during his trips to Chicago, together with his wife Renita Cameron, with Carl Weatherby and Pinetop Perkins . In 1998 his second studio album Unleaded was released for Club de Musique , and two years later with Caterina Vichi he recorded Uffizi blues.
In 2003, his third solo studio album Pistoia Blues was released on Bluesin Records . In 2009, Becattini returned with a new group and a new album, Nick Becattini & the Nickettes. In 2013 he began a collaboration with the singer Ty Le Blanc , with whom he released two works: Leblanc in 2013 produced by Gianluca Di Maggio of Trasimeno Blues, with Pippo Guarnera and Vince Vallicelli, and a live album in 2014, Blues Shadows. During this period he intensified his collaboration with Bluesin' both as a teacher and as a participant in the festival. In 2020 he released a new album Lifetime Blues (Saifam) reviewed best Italian blues album of the year.
On December 8, 2021 he participated in Sweet home Pistoia , a concert celebrating forty years of Bluesin'. In 2022 he reunited with Giancarlo Crea and Dado Lombardo the Model T. Boogie to record a new album entitled Still gettin' down. In May 2023, his solo album Crazy Legs was released . In the same year, he revealed that he was suffering from ALS. In August 2024 he published his autobiography entitled Catartico blues, for the Società editrice fiorentina . Becattini died a month later, in his home in Camaiore, from complications of the neurodegenerative disease. He was married and had two children.
In 1990, after finishing his experience with Model T. Boogie with which he had released two albums, he left Italy to move to Chicago where he played with local blues artists such as Son Seals , Melvin Taylor , Sugar Blue . He returned to Italy in 1993 where he joined Mimmo Mollica 's Blues Harbour . He then played on Ollie Nightingale 's album Live at Campanile. In 1994 he founded his own group: Nick Becattini & Serious Fun, with whom he first released a self-titled studio album in 1995, nominated by Musica Jazz as best group of the year, and then a live album, Funky People - Live! in 1997.
He then collaborated with Peaches Staten , with whom he released two albums ( Nick & Peaches Live at Blue Sun and Time Will Tell ), and during his trips to Chicago, together with his wife Renita Cameron, with Carl Weatherby and Pinetop Perkins . In 1998 his second studio album Unleaded was released for Club de Musique , and two years later with Caterina Vichi he recorded Uffizi blues.
In 2003, his third solo studio album Pistoia Blues was released on Bluesin Records . In 2009, Becattini returned with a new group and a new album, Nick Becattini & the Nickettes. In 2013 he began a collaboration with the singer Ty Le Blanc , with whom he released two works: Leblanc in 2013 produced by Gianluca Di Maggio of Trasimeno Blues, with Pippo Guarnera and Vince Vallicelli, and a live album in 2014, Blues Shadows. During this period he intensified his collaboration with Bluesin' both as a teacher and as a participant in the festival. In 2020 he released a new album Lifetime Blues (Saifam) reviewed best Italian blues album of the year.
On December 8, 2021 he participated in Sweet home Pistoia , a concert celebrating forty years of Bluesin'. In 2022 he reunited with Giancarlo Crea and Dado Lombardo the Model T. Boogie to record a new album entitled Still gettin' down. In May 2023, his solo album Crazy Legs was released . In the same year, he revealed that he was suffering from ALS. In August 2024 he published his autobiography entitled Catartico blues, for the Società editrice fiorentina . Becattini died a month later, in his home in Camaiore, from complications of the neurodegenerative disease. He was married and had two children.
Unleaded FLAC
This Post is a Day early, going Fishing in Wawa Ont. (Walleye) ... the next 2 will be late.
2 comments:
Have fun in WaWa. Watch out for the dead skunk in the middle of the road...HaHa. (Crowbar?)
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