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Buckwheat Zydeco: The Buckwheat Zydeco Story: A 20-Year Party
by Ed Kopp
This retrospective offers catchy, danceable tunes from one of Louisiana’s most compelling performers. Stanley Dural Jr. (alias Buckwheat Zydeco) ranks as the best-selling zydeco artist of all time. Hard to believe that he once wanted no part of zydeco.Son of an accomplished Creole accordian player, Dural first made his mark in the ‘70s as ...
Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan: In Session
by Ed Kopp
In 1983, blues legend Albert King scheduled a TV appearance on In Session, a program produced by CHCH-TV in Hamilton, Ontario. The show matched like-minded musicians in hour-long jam sessions. In advance of the show, the 60-year-old King was only told that he’d be jamming with another guitarist. His collaborator turned out to be 29-year-old Stevie ...
Jon Turk: My Special One
by Ed Kopp
Jon Turk is a soul and blues artist from Philadelphia who served as Percy Mayfield's guitarist during the 1980s. In recent years, Turk has labored as a bus driver and a security officer at Temple University. His wonderfully silky voice lifts these 10 self-penned songs above the ordinary.The production budget for My Special One ...
Marian McPartland's Hickory House Trio: Reprise
by Ed Kopp
Along with fellow pianist Dave Brubeck, Marian McPartland is a jazz wonder who continues to make great music at an advanced age. To celebrate her 80th birthday, McPartland reconvened her 1950s trio that served as the house band at the old Hickory House on 52nd Street in New York.Bassist Bill Crow and drummer Joe ...
Anatholi Bulkin: Initiation
by Ed Kopp
Anatholi Bulkin is a 33-year-old Swedish guitarist who has obviously dissected the work of Pat Metheny, John Scofield, John Abercrombie, and other fusion guitar giants. While he's clearly influenced by his fusion forebears, Bulkin is an impressive player in his own right who's just beginning to forge an individual style.Trio albums force young jazzers ...
Yeska: Skafrocubanjazz
by Ed Kopp
The word Yeska is Chicano slang for marijuana, but the only thing that seems high about this band is the caliber of its music.As the title of this CD indicates, Yeska is a jazz ensemble that fuses Jamaican ska with Afro-Cuban rhythms. Yeska's debut release is eminently danceable and polyrhythmic, but it's also the ...
Branch, Cotton, Musselwhite and Norcia: Superharps
by Ed Kopp
Superharps is a fun release that brings together four veteran blues harpists: Billy Branch, James Cotton, Charlie Musselwhite and Sugar Ray Norcia.Except for one solo cut apiece by Norcia and Cotton and an overlong slow-blues jam that closes this CD, Telarc assigned these four harmonicats to various duo formats, thus giving each player ample ...
Mighty Sam McClain: Soul Survivor: The Best of Mighty Sam McClain
by Ed Kopp
Soul Survivor compiles the best material from Mighty Sam McClain's four Audioquest releases, all recorded during the 1990s.As much a soul singer as a bluesman, Sam McClain writes songs that are emotional and very personal. McClain has a powerful voice not unlike Otis Redding's or Bobby “Blue" Bland's. The strongest material here is on ...
Kid Ramos: Kid Ramos
by Ed Kopp
With this second solo release of his career, David “Kid" Ramos didn't settle for a typical set of macho guitar blues. Instead, the Fabulous Thunderbirds axeman called in a talented collection of blues cats and orchestrated one of the most eclectic blues releases of the year.With jazzy horns expertly charted by Jeff Turmes, Gene ...
Paul Jones: Pucker Up Buttercup
by Ed Kopp
R.L. Burnside’s Ass Pocket ‘o Whiskey was a college radio smash for Fat Possum Records, the Oxford, Miss., label that specializes in crude country blues. Paul Jones’ Pucker Up Buttercup seems directed at the same audience. Like most Fat Possum artists, Jones hails from the hills of northern Mississippi. His rugged guitar playing is heavily distorted ...
