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LYNWOOD
SLIM "LAST CALL"
Source: Blues in London
Date: 09/2006
Writer: Rick Webb |
"Jazz
and blues are just different fleas on the same
dog" Slim is quoted as saying on the sleeve
notes that accompany this, as ever, excellently
produced package from Delta Groove. Don't worry
though, as you might expect from one of the West
Coast's premier blues labels, the 'jazz' here
is of the swingin-groovey-west-coasty-easy-for-bluesers-to-dig
variety rather than the sheets-of-sound-John-Coltrane
malarky, and the 'blues' is of the highest order.
This
CD features guitarists Kid Ramos and Kirk Fletcher
among others, and it's good to hear them playing
some of this softer jazzy stuff. Slim's a proper
harmonca player - 'Across the Sea' is a dynamic
masterclass in Sonnny Boy style harp - but there
can't be too many harp players who can also
play flute as well as well as he does on 'I'm
Sorry', a late night mellow groove of a song.
A
late night mellow groove might well be the best
way to describe this whole CD. There's outstanding
virtuosity going on throughout, but it's a laid
back kind of cool rather than an in-your-face-check-out-my-solo
antics that makes it a rare blues record indeed.
Not to mention a very welcome one. Well done
Mr. Slim. Now lets have a bash at some of that
sheets of sound stuff...
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