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Mississippi Heat

Warning Shot

By Mississippi Heat

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Sweet Poison; Alley Cat Boogie; Come to Mama; I Don’t Know; Yeah Now Baby; Birthday song; Nowhere to Go; Warning Shot; Swingy Dingy Baby; Too Sad To Wipe My Tears; Recession Blues; Evaporated Blues; Your Cheating Heart; Part of Something Special; What cha Say; Working Man.

Mississippi Heat: Warning Shot

by C. Michael Bailey
October 13, 2014

My father, born in 1915 and having seen and heard such, would call Warning Shot “Roadhouse Music." More technically, this is “jump blues" employing a larger-than-average band with an unidentified horn section on a majority of the 16 selections, the longest clocking in at 5:36 and the shortest at 3:00. This is an old-fashioned recording of ...

Let's Live it Up!

By Mississippi Heat

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Let's Live it Up; Steadfast, Loyal, and True; Jumpin' in Chi-Town; She Died From a Broken Heart; Betty Sue; Another Sleepless Night; Peace Train; Been Good To You; I Want to Know; Enlighten Me; Daggers & Spears; Don't Cry For Me; I Got Some News Today; Until We Meet Again.

Mississippi Heat: Let's Live It Up!

by Nic Jones
October 14, 2010

In times like these, the blues form is well-placed to reflect them, and with its sometimes fine balance of the urban and the down-home, Mississippi Heat is a band more than capable of doing it. Pierre Lacocque, a mouth harp virtuoso without any of the negative connotations such virtuosity might imply, has been ...

Mississippi Heat: Let's Live it Up!

by John Barron
May 13, 2010

Formed in 1991, Mississippi Heat has become one of the more popular modern blues bands out of Chicago. Led by harmonica great Pierre Lacocque, this high-energy ensemble has released nine recordings with a rotating cast of top-notch talent. On Let's Live it Up!, the group delivers a rocking set with the help of earthy vocalist Inetta ...

Hattiesburg Blues

By Mississippi Heat

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Tiger Man; Chicago Is My Home; Forgot You Had A Home; How Much Worse Can It Be?; Soft-Hearted Woman; Hattiesburg Blues; Gone So Long; Light From Within; Calypso In Blue; Hell And Back; Say Something Good; Foolish Man; Nature Is Cryin

Mississippi Heat: Hattiesburg Blues

by Nic Jones
May 31, 2008

Varied is the word on this one, even whilst the music retains a cohesive feel. Pierre Lacocque's harmonica is notable for its singularity, and he heads a rolling cast of musicians in the realization of his original compositions plus one from Denise Lasalle, amongst others. The music is clean and dirty at the same time. This ...

Handyman

By Mississippi Heat

Label: Van der Linden Recordings
Released: 1999