Time: 65:04
Size: 148.9 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2001/2007
Art: Front
[ 4:29] 1. Joe Juliano - Cadillac Blues
[ 4:18] 2. Joe Juliano - She's Into Something
[ 4:32] 3. The Brothers Keller - It Takes Time
[ 5:50] 4. The Brothers Keller - I Found Someone Who Loves Me
[ 2:34] 5. Hillbilly Voodoo Dolls - Beldonia
[ 5:09] 6. Hillbilly Voodoo Dolls - Don't You Just Know It
[ 4:34] 7. Big Walter Smith And The Groove Merchants - All Your Love
[ 3:58] 8. Big Walter Smith And The Groove Merchants - She's Mine
[ 4:15] 9. Soulmates - Mississippi Soupbone
[ 5:09] 10. Soulmates - Walkin' The Dog
[ 6:13] 11. Lamont Cranston Blues Band - Got My Mojo Workin'
[13:58] 12. Lamont Cranston Blues Band - Riding With Daddy (with 2 tunes by Joe Juliano tacked in at the end)
The Live Bluesapolooza benefit album was recorded in 2000, and released last year. It features six of the Twin Cities finest blues bands, all coming together to raise funds for Mark DeForrest. Each band gets a brace of tracks on the album, plus there are two bonus tracks at the end by Joe Juliano.
Guitarist Joe Juliano bookends the CD. He kicks things off with Johnnie Bassett's "Cadillac Blues" and Colin Wright's "She's Into Something," each offering something a little bit different, and each showing that Juliano is no mean guitarist. He also gets the last two (unlisted) tracks where the band is augmented by a sax player.
Juliano is followed by another guitar based group, the Keller Brothers, who also perform a couple of covers. Their version of Otis Rush's "It Takes Time" shows that they know their stuff and can certainly play. They are followed by the first of the original tracks, "Beldonia" by the Hillbilly Voodoo Dolls. It is an instrumental "Beldonia" which has a strong Muddy Waters influence running through it. They then drop into the party mood with a fun version (is there any other kind?) of "Don't You Just Know It."
Magic Sam's "All Your Love" gets a great reworking from Big Walter and the Groove Merchants who add a brass section that really makes things swing. They also do a take on Doyle Bramhall's "She's Mine" with some fine guitar from Scott Graves, before passing the baton to the Soulmates. "Mississippi Soupbone" (slang for a fine looking woman) is the best track on the album. Everything about the band just fits nicely into place and special guest Steve Vonderharr contributes the excellent harp. They also add their party bit with "Walkin' The Dog."
Fittingly, the (officially listed bit of the) party closes with local legends Lamont Cranston, still going strong after 30 years. They maintain the party mood with Pat Hayes in top form on harp and vocals as they rattle through "Got My Mojo Workin'," before rounding off with an interpretation of Howlin' Wolf's "Ridin' With Daddy" that is very much their own.
"Bluesapolooza" sounds like it was a lot of fun. There is a good-time atmosphere permeating the album, and all of the featured bands acquit themselves well. In this respect "Bluesapolooza" acts as a good introduction to the local scene, for anyone who has ever wondered about the locally based blues bands in the Twin Cities. ~Gordon Baxter
Guitarist Joe Juliano bookends the CD. He kicks things off with Johnnie Bassett's "Cadillac Blues" and Colin Wright's "She's Into Something," each offering something a little bit different, and each showing that Juliano is no mean guitarist. He also gets the last two (unlisted) tracks where the band is augmented by a sax player.
Juliano is followed by another guitar based group, the Keller Brothers, who also perform a couple of covers. Their version of Otis Rush's "It Takes Time" shows that they know their stuff and can certainly play. They are followed by the first of the original tracks, "Beldonia" by the Hillbilly Voodoo Dolls. It is an instrumental "Beldonia" which has a strong Muddy Waters influence running through it. They then drop into the party mood with a fun version (is there any other kind?) of "Don't You Just Know It."
Magic Sam's "All Your Love" gets a great reworking from Big Walter and the Groove Merchants who add a brass section that really makes things swing. They also do a take on Doyle Bramhall's "She's Mine" with some fine guitar from Scott Graves, before passing the baton to the Soulmates. "Mississippi Soupbone" (slang for a fine looking woman) is the best track on the album. Everything about the band just fits nicely into place and special guest Steve Vonderharr contributes the excellent harp. They also add their party bit with "Walkin' The Dog."
Fittingly, the (officially listed bit of the) party closes with local legends Lamont Cranston, still going strong after 30 years. They maintain the party mood with Pat Hayes in top form on harp and vocals as they rattle through "Got My Mojo Workin'," before rounding off with an interpretation of Howlin' Wolf's "Ridin' With Daddy" that is very much their own.
"Bluesapolooza" sounds like it was a lot of fun. There is a good-time atmosphere permeating the album, and all of the featured bands acquit themselves well. In this respect "Bluesapolooza" acts as a good introduction to the local scene, for anyone who has ever wondered about the locally based blues bands in the Twin Cities. ~Gordon Baxter
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