Nico Wayne Toussaint - My Kind Of Blues

Size: 335 MB
Time: 51:35
File: Flac
Released: 1998
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

1. Going Home (3:42)
2. Barbara (4:46)
3. Bad Boy (3:28)
4. Give Me A Kiss Baby (4:37)
5. Can't You Tell (4:05)
6. Cheaper To Keep Her (4:08)
7. West Helena Blues (5:29)
8. I Love You Babe (5:25)
9. Fever (4:17)
10. Walking Down College Street (4:54)
11. Bye Bye (6:39)

From this first album, released in 1998, Nico Wayne Toussaint showed the extent of his talent. When he blows his harmonica with vigor and conviction, he has the groove, there is no doubt; it does him well, his peachy, sharp, emotional and authentic timbre. He also knows how to play in his clear voice, with a touch of graceful notes. Sometimes you might think of Paul Personne, which is no mean compliment. Provided you accept this rather particular, very Frenchie tone, which must be taken as it is, even if it does not have quite the dusty flavor of the American great outdoors. You would have to be insensitive not to give in to the very compelling charm expressed in certain personal compositions (Give Me A Kiss Baby or Bye Bye for example, which he paradoxically interprets in French, with delightful nonchalance) or in this beautiful cover of a James Cotton record, West Helena Blues. Since then, Nico has grown in maturity and affluence, which has given him international stature; but he has lost a bit of the freshness that characterized his first album. This return to basics is all the more interesting... Finally, it should be noted that he is very well surrounded by a small band whose most robust blues emerge. On guitar Jeremy Johnson (lead), Phil Schmid (rhythm), Lee Tedreau (slide), on bass Billy Black and on drums Steve “Slim” Erickson.

My Kind Of Blues FLAC

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