Sylvan Songs - Strange Angels: In Flight with Elmore James

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Jul 7, 2018 Sold Date

Apr 21, 2018 Start Date

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Artikel Name: Strange Angels: In Flight with Elmore James
Genre: Black/Soul/Blues/R&B/Gospel Produkt Typ: LP (Vinyl) Label: Sylvan Songs Titelanzahl: 13

Trackliste LP - 1

1. Elayna Boynton - Can't Stop Lovin' You 2. Bettye LaVette - Person To Person 3. Rodney Crowell - Shake Your Money Maker 4. Tom Jones - Done Somebody Wrong 5. Warren Haynes - Mean Mistreatin' Mama 6. Deborah Bonham - Dust My Broom 7. Jamey Johnson - It Hurts Me Too 8. Shelby Lynne / Allison Moorer - Strange Angels 9. Keb' Mo' - Look On Yonder Wall 10. Mollie Marriott - My Bleeding Heart 11. Chuck E. Weiss - Hawaiian Boogie 12. Addi McDaniel - Dark And Dreary 13. Elmore's Latest Broomdusters - Bobby's Rock

Beschreibung

The 2018 tribute album Strange Angels: In Flight with Elmore James was released to coincide with the 100th birthday of Elmore James, one of the titanic figures in 20th century blues. Given that James died at the age of 45 in 1963, 55 years prior to the release of Strange Angels, his profile could use the boost this kind of star-studded tribute album delivers, and there are enough blues, country, rock, and soul stars here to snag the attention of the curious. What they'll find is an exceptional catalog given a slyly diverse array of interpretations, almost all of which are considerably less fiery than James' originals. Tom Jones' barrel-chested roar on "Done Somebody Wrong" attempts to conjure some of that rawness and it finds a counterpart in a long jam between Warren Haynes, Billy Gibbons, and Mickey Raphael on "Mean Mistreatin' Mama," but the act that gets the closest to the loose groove of Elmore is Rodney Crowell, who plays "Shake Your Money Maker" with a grin. If James' electric vitality is distinctly absent, it's also to the credit of the producers and performers that they treat James' catalog as songs that can withstand interpretation, while also nodding to his exceptional skills as a slide guitarist. This means Strange Angels is a fine, engaging collection of traditional blues, one that's enjoyable on the surface but more importantly provides a possible introduction to one of the true greats of postwar blues. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Stephen Thomas Erlewine