Advantages: This man can play Disadvantages: Not a lot of lyrics
...used a recording studio called Sweet Tea, the Oxford, Mississippi studio, is also owned by the producer of this album, one Dennis Herring.
For this session Mr Herring has assembled an extraordinary band of black Mississippi veterans in the shape of Spam on Drums and Sam Carr also on drums along with some younger white players Jimbo Mathus on rhythm guitar on bass Davey Faragher and another drummer in the form of Pete Thomas.
The opening track of ... ...picks out the tune of the song “Done got old”. With the opening line of the track proclaiming “well, I done got old, can’t do the things I used to, cause I’m a old man, and I’m not the same”. As the song ends on the line “I’m a very old man” and the strumming of his acoustic guitar fades into the distance you get the impression that this going to be a laid-back country blues album.
As the ...
Miles13 11.05.2005
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