Time: 39:15
Size: 89.9 MB
Styles: Chicago blues
Year: 2010
Art: Front
[4:22] 1. Thin Ice
[3:01] 2. Chicken Bone
[3:43] 3. There Ain't No Better Time
[3:27] 4. Chump Change
[3:37] 5. Get Ready
[5:22] 6. Quiet As Kept
[3:08] 7. She's Got Her Baby On Her Mind
[4:32] 8. Warning Signs
[3:57] 9. Drowning On Dry Land
[4:03] 10. Tonight
When blues artists record albums or perform live concerts, they exude innate energy. It can be soulful, sly, edgy, funny, and in Joe Zaklan’s case, relaxingly good-natured. Zaklan’s education started in earnest at age twenty when he hit the road with J.B. Hutto, gigging with the slide master in the blues haunts of Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Madison. This talented guitarist, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist “sideman,” who was once a member of the Chicago blues scene of the 1970s and 80s playing alongside Lonnie Brooks and Little Mac Simmons, has made his solo debut. As for the result, “There Ain’t No Better Time” to listen to it!
Eight well-crafted original songs and two covers (“Get Ready” and “Tonight”) compose Zaklan’s fresh(man) offering, and Jon Norton of radio station WGLT in Normal, Illinois says, “...his warm and confident voice is a pleasant surprise. ...it’s taken a long time” to get this CD into listeners’ hands. Nevertheless, blues fans everywhere will be glad it’s here. ~Rainey Wetnight
Eight well-crafted original songs and two covers (“Get Ready” and “Tonight”) compose Zaklan’s fresh(man) offering, and Jon Norton of radio station WGLT in Normal, Illinois says, “...his warm and confident voice is a pleasant surprise. ...it’s taken a long time” to get this CD into listeners’ hands. Nevertheless, blues fans everywhere will be glad it’s here. ~Rainey Wetnight
There Ain't No Better Time mc
There Ain't No Better Time zippy
