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Mississippi Heat: Warning Shot
ByMississippi Heat is led by one Pierre LaCocque, a fine harmonica player in the vein of Charlie Musselwhite and Paul Butterfield. LaCocque penned 10 of the songs on Warning Shot played all of the harmonic and produced the recording. Hailing from Chicago, LaCocque came by his abilities honestly, capable of playing every style between Sonny Boy No.1 and Little Walter Jacobs.
What Warning Shot is not is a rehash of the poor maligned twelve-bars ad nausem. The styles range from the Elmore James-inflected "Sweet Poison" to gulf humidity of "Come to Mama" and "Recession Blues." The swampy dirge "Evaporated Blues" sung by Michael Dotson contains an overdriven Tony Joe White propelling a modified version of Son House's "Death Letter Blues."
LaCocque gives an instrumental "Your Cheating Heart" that recalls the best of Floyd Cramer and Boots Randolph's work in the 1960s. It is a romp; like the entire recording. Other standouts are Inetta Visor, who belts with the best of them and Neal O'Hara who excels equally on piano and organ. Enjoy this recording with a shot of Jack Black with a Jax back.
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.
Personnel
Pierre Lacoque: harmonica; Inetta visor: vocals; Michael Dotson: vocals 95, 9, 12), guitar; giles Corey: guitar; Carls Weathersby: guitar (6, 14); Neal O-hara: keyboards; Brian Quinn: bass; Kenny Smith: vocals (15), drums; Andrew Thomas: drums (2, 3, 5, 6 9, 12, 14); Sax Gordon: saxophones; Ruben Alverez: percussion; Kae koen, Diane Madison and Nanette Frank: backup vocals.
Album information
Title: Warning Shot | Year Released: 2014 | Record Label: Delmark Records
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