Time: 42:22
File: Flac
Released: 2014
Styles: Blues
Art: Front
1. Early in the Morning (4:12)
2. Blues for Breakfast (3:20)
3. I Ain't Got You (2:33)
4. Hallelujah I Love Her So (3:25)
5. Mississippi Bound (4:15)
6. Kidney Stew (3:52)
7. How Long Blues (3:10)
8. If You Don't Love Me (3:59)
9. Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out (3:48)
10. Mystery Train (3:22)
11. Nice and Easy (feat. Francesca Bertazzo Hart) (6:21)
In recent years, Night Train's musical project has favored performance with acoustic instruments: harmonica, acoustic guitars, dobro, double bass, drums played mostly with brushes. "Blues for Breakfast" mirrors this "unplugged" setting and was recorded live on magnetic tape to capture the natural and slightly vintage sound.
The album contains original songs and Night Train reinterpretations of some classics of African-American music. Early in the morning, opens the CD and is a song from '47 by Louis Jordan and one of the first examples of Rhumba Blues. We wanted to keep the Latin feel, trying to emphasize through music the goliardic spirit that characterized much of the author's work.
Blues for breakfast, the song that gives the title to the CD, is an original shuffle and tells of the difficulty of getting up early in the morning after spending the night out playing. With I ain't got you we wanted to pay homage to both the author Jimmy Reed and the Blues Brothers, who must be credited with having contributed greatly to the spread of the Blues. For this reason, we recovered part of their arrangement. Hallelujah I Love Her So is one of Ray Charles' biggest R'n'B hits. We reinterpreted it in a swing key, slowing down the beat.
Mississippi bound, the second original of the album, is a funk song and has a programmatic title: it talks about the fact that to play the Blues you have to appropriate the roots of the genre. Kidney Stew is a fun piece by saxophonist Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, which is rarely revisited. The theme is exposed by the harmonica – here amplified in Chicago blues style – while the gait is swinging.
With How long blues, a song from the late twenties by Leroy Carr, we wanted to immerse ourselves in the most traditional blues. For this we used the washboard – the washboard used as a percussive instrument – and the dobro guitar played with the slide. The funky style of New Orleans is the basis of the original If you don't love me, which recovers, for the lyrics, a classic Blues theme: the end of a love story.
Nobody knows you when you're down and out is a ballad written in the late twenties for the great Bessie Smith, the empress of the Blues, which boasts countless covers including one, splendid, included in Eric Clapton's album Unplugged, which we were inevitably inspired by. A train shuffle could not be missing – by affinity. Junior Parker's classic Mystery Train is revived here with a nod to rock'n'roll. The album closes with an instrumental, Nice and Easy, a jazzy Blues composed as a tribute to the great Charlie Christian and Kenny Burrell, guitarists placed in the jazz field but both characterized by a deep sense of the Blues. This piece makes use of the precious collaboration of the talented jazz musician Francesca Bertazzo Hart, present here with scat singing and solo guitar interventions.
The album contains original songs and Night Train reinterpretations of some classics of African-American music. Early in the morning, opens the CD and is a song from '47 by Louis Jordan and one of the first examples of Rhumba Blues. We wanted to keep the Latin feel, trying to emphasize through music the goliardic spirit that characterized much of the author's work.
Blues for breakfast, the song that gives the title to the CD, is an original shuffle and tells of the difficulty of getting up early in the morning after spending the night out playing. With I ain't got you we wanted to pay homage to both the author Jimmy Reed and the Blues Brothers, who must be credited with having contributed greatly to the spread of the Blues. For this reason, we recovered part of their arrangement. Hallelujah I Love Her So is one of Ray Charles' biggest R'n'B hits. We reinterpreted it in a swing key, slowing down the beat.
Mississippi bound, the second original of the album, is a funk song and has a programmatic title: it talks about the fact that to play the Blues you have to appropriate the roots of the genre. Kidney Stew is a fun piece by saxophonist Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, which is rarely revisited. The theme is exposed by the harmonica – here amplified in Chicago blues style – while the gait is swinging.
With How long blues, a song from the late twenties by Leroy Carr, we wanted to immerse ourselves in the most traditional blues. For this we used the washboard – the washboard used as a percussive instrument – and the dobro guitar played with the slide. The funky style of New Orleans is the basis of the original If you don't love me, which recovers, for the lyrics, a classic Blues theme: the end of a love story.
Nobody knows you when you're down and out is a ballad written in the late twenties for the great Bessie Smith, the empress of the Blues, which boasts countless covers including one, splendid, included in Eric Clapton's album Unplugged, which we were inevitably inspired by. A train shuffle could not be missing – by affinity. Junior Parker's classic Mystery Train is revived here with a nod to rock'n'roll. The album closes with an instrumental, Nice and Easy, a jazzy Blues composed as a tribute to the great Charlie Christian and Kenny Burrell, guitarists placed in the jazz field but both characterized by a deep sense of the Blues. This piece makes use of the precious collaboration of the talented jazz musician Francesca Bertazzo Hart, present here with scat singing and solo guitar interventions.
Blues for Breakfast FLAC
1 comment:
@BluzBug: Great thanks for this album. Accoustic guitar with harmonica also with elegantly rhythm section is always welcome. So, thanks You very much. Regards!
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