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Corey Harris: Fulton Blues

Read "Fulton Blues" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Sono trascorsi due decenni dal debutto di Corey Harris in Between Midnight and Day, che fece gridare al miracolo catapultando il bluesman sulla scena internazionale. Quelle torride esecuzioni di Delta Blues suscitarono alti consensi e grandi attese (confermate dal successivo Fish Ain't Bitin'), portando il New York Times a paragoni -certo eccessivi-con Robert Johnson, Lightnin' Hopkins e Howlin' Wolf. Inutile nascondere che quelle aspettative sono andate un po' deluse: negli anni successivi Harris ha spaziato forse troppo in ...

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Otis Taylor: Recapturing the Banjo

Read "Recapturing the Banjo" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


“Se chiedete a qualcuno dove pensa che sia nato il banjo a cinque corde, sicuramente vi risponderà che proviene dal Kentucky o dalla Carolina del Nord”. Dick Weissman, che di folk revival se ne intende, non ha dubbi nell’indicare le strade della verità storica del banjo. Poi c’è quella canzoncina, “Oh Susanna”, scritta da uno dei padri della musica americana (Stephen Foster) che non lascia ombre di dubbio sull’appropriazione americana dello strumento (“I come from Alabama with my banjo on ...

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Corey Harris: Zion Crossroads

Read "Zion Crossroads" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Di crocicchi, Corey Harris ne ha attraversati tanti. In nome della musica del diavolo è stato in Africa ad apprendere la lezione primordiale prima di suonare nei paraggi di New Orleans e registrare una manciata di album (Between Midnight and Day, Greens from the Garden) che hanno fatto impaurire e/o morire d’invidia i puristi del blues del Delta. Una puntatina dalle parti di Martin Scorsese (è stato uno dei protagonisti del “viaggio musicale” “The Blues") prima di imbattersi in un ...

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Corey Harris, Henry Butler: Vu Du Menz

Read "Vu Du Menz" reviewed by Ed Kopp


Critics and musicians routinely refer to veteran New Orleans pianist Henry Butler as “a genius." An eclectic virtuoso who’s studied everything from avant-garde jazz to opera to New Orleans R&B, Butler plays piano like he has four hands instead of two. As talented as Butler is, I’ve preferred his jazz and R&B albums to his blues releases, simply because the latter have been too ornate to suit my crude tastes. Vu-Du Menz is more down-and-dirty than Butler’s past ...

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Corey Harris: Greens From The Garden

Read "Greens From The Garden" reviewed by Ed Kopp


Now here's something you rarely find in the blues bin: a concept album.New Orleans resident and country bluesman Corey Harris relates music to nourishment on Greens From the Garden, his third and best release. Like sumptuous courses at a great Southern feast, there's a variety of sustaining musical styles on Greens. Harris's tunes are interspersed with spoken snippets that I find annoying, but his music more than compensates. Greens benefits from a live-in-the-studio feel. Stylistically this ...


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