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JJ Grey & Mofro: Orange Blossoms
by Chris M. Slawecki
JJ Grey and Mofro's follow-up to their critically and popularly acclaimed 2007 Alligator debut, Country Ghetto, sounds a little less shocking but no less rocking. It feels as if that first release, in retrospect, was a shout designed by songwriter, producer, singer and multi-instrumentalist Grey to get your attention. Orange Blossoms stretches out into real conversation ...
Smokin' Joe Kubek & Bnois King: Blood Brothers
by Chris M. Slawecki
Joe Kubek moved to Texas and played backup for bluesmen of both local and national renown (including Texas legend Freddie King) before he turned 20. He met Louisiana native Bnois King at a blues jam session in Dallas. The two quickly realized that their individual slashing blues styles would make one powerhouse combination guitar sound and ...
Country Ghetto
Label: Alligator Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: War; Circles; Country Ghetto; Tragic; By My Side; On Palestine; Footsteps; Turpentine; A Woman; Mississippi; The Sun is Shining Down; Goodbye.
State of Grace
Label: Alligator Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Smiling Face Hiding a Weeping Heart; Close the Door; (What
JJ Grey & Mofro: Country Ghetto
by Chris M. Slawecki
It's rather promising for a band's debut to remind you of the Faces on the fast numbers and of Otis Redding on the slow ones, but these legends provide solid points of reference for JJ Grey & Mofro's Country Ghetto. Country Ghetto is swampy, funky, bluesy, and above all genuine, straight from JJ Grey's ...
JJ Grey & Mofro: Country Ghetto
by Doug Collette
Like all musical genres, the blues has its own particular set of conventions. Yet the seemingly infinite variations on the shuffle tempo and the AABA lyric format derive from the unique personalities involved. Such is the case with JJ Grey & Mofro's new album. Country Ghetto feels like everything that is the blues while mostly sounding ...
The Holmes Brothers: State of Grace
by Chris M. Slawecki
Wendell Holmes plays guitar, piano and sings, and Sherman Holmes plays bass and sings. When Popsy Dixon joins on drums and vocals, this trio transforms into the Holmes Brothers, the Blues Foundation's 2005 Band of the Year. Their three-part harmonies are honeyed country gospel, but their front-stoop funk and dark, broken-hearted tales are pure country blues.
We the People
Label: Alligator Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: We the People; What Good is Life?; I Got Your Number; Runaway Train; Down that Road Again; Fine Cadillac; Can't Get Enough; A Hurt So Old; Who Needs It?; Blues in My Blood; Cost of Livin'; Sonic Boom.
Guitar Shorty: We the People
by Chris M. Slawecki
Each summer seems to offer one song that you just crank up and bust out at the top of your stereo while you cruise in your car... sort of your summertime theme. That song, this summer, was for me the title track from We the People. One of Texas' most venerated blues guitarists, Guitar ...
