Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:32
Size: 131.7 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2004
Art: Front
[3:43] 1. What Comes Around
[4:16] 2. Bad Things
[3:37] 3. Junker Blues
[4:36] 4. Sad Sad Story
[3:46] 5. 29 Ways
[8:04] 6. The Roll Up
[2:47] 7. My Gal Kangaroo
[3:01] 8. Jam 373
[3:56] 9. Walking The Dog
[3:24] 10. Tell Me Something (I Don't Know)
[3:55] 11. Dream Of You
[3:19] 12. Congo Mombo
[4:45] 13. Never Been To Spain
[4:16] 14. Again
Guitarist/Singer, Michael Louis was born in NYC and raised in Brooklyn, NY and still lives there. Growing up on the streets of the New York City area had a profound effect on his music. His musical style is also influenced from the south through blues, jazz, funk, soul, rhythm and all its offshoots that were born there. On his new album "THE ROLL UP," you hear the tough funk in Willie Dixon's "29 Ways," blues/soul in "Sad, Sad Story," the Allmans style jamming on "The Roll Up," the heavy rock of "Bad Things," the New Orleans pop blues of "Junker Blues"(a tribute to one of his favorite spots in the world, New Orleans & also to its writer, "Champion" Jack Dupree). The CD with 14 songs in all was released Fall 2004. His band includes: Frank Diorio/Drums and Andrei Sebastian/Bass. Frank's most recent gigs have been with Felicia Collins (David Letterman Band) & Phoebe Snow. Andrei is a great up and coming bass player who understands the fatback style of playing his instrument. Michael has played with members of the Jimmy Vivino Band and the Jerry Vivino Band (the Max Weinberg 7/Conan O' Brien). Michael is also well known with his rockabilly band "SLICK PELT." They have 2 CDs out on his own label, MMM Records. Slick Pelt has toured the south, mid-west and up & down the East Coast and have opened for: Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, The Blasters, Gov't Mule, George Clinton & P Funk, Koko Taylor, Robert Gordon and even Randy Quaid (& the Sharks). Michael and his current group perform all over the NY Tri-State area. He has a solid fan base and his (former) web site had over 50,000 hits. His CDs with Slick Pelt are available through every major CD retailer on the internet. His new release is greatly anticipated by fans and retailers alike.
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Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:21
Size: 133.6 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2009
Art: Front
[3:53] 1. Ain't That Kinda Man
[4:13] 2. Shade Tree
[3:28] 3. Country Girl
[6:08] 4. Saturday Night
[3:25] 5. Let It Go
[5:20] 6. Cause Of Us
[4:04] 7. Reasons And Seasons
[4:44] 8. I Fought The Law
[3:45] 9. Ramblin' With That Woman
[3:49] 10. Molly
[2:59] 11. With All My Heart
[2:53] 12. Super Directional
[2:42] 13. Memphis Sound
[6:53] 14. The Interview
Brooklyn’s Michael Louis Band is a hard working, big sounding and righteous power Blues trio that cuts to the chase and drives on. Louis has found the Seger boogie and the sublimely rocking profundity of Cream. These guys may be from the 3rd city but here, North is definitely meeting South. These sessions were recorded across Dixie in Memphis, Muscle Shoals and Tupelo, MS. And, to show how they were received, Roland James said “you guys may be from New York but it must be South New York.” These recordings really got the “stank” they were seeking. This disk is rife and full with soul, funk, country, Southern rock or even what we LIer’s call “psychedelta.” The band of Eric Kalb (D), Andrei Sebastian (B) and Michael Louis (G,V) have lots of back and experience and together, they crunch. Guests include Travis Wammack who produced and played some axe and James Wormworth who did well hitting things along with Sonny Burgess and Billy Lee Reilly of Sun Studio fame. Feedback and fuzz, sliding and grinding and rapid fire axe share time with soulful stretching out like in opener “Ain’t That Kinda Man.” “Shade Tree” pops and funks like it has no backbone. Allman Brothers imbues “Let It Go”, “Molly” is an acoustic Ragtime tribute to a certain kind of lady and “Cause of Us” Cissily struts like Nocentelli, Batiste and Porter. Heavy is all you need to know about “Reasons and Seasons.” Probably the coolest cut to flow across my tympanic membranes in a while is a deep North MS take on “I Fought the Law”! These guys bring it from the woods to the city. Krang! (Mark Gresser) Dr. Blues regional CD reviews
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