Izdavač: Ostalo
Žanr: Bluz
Poreklo: Strani izvođač

NOVO, U CELOFANU
ORIGINAL STRANO IZDANJE

2 ALBUMA NA 1 CD

For a (some would say thankfully) short period at the beginning of the 1970s, there was a vogue for dressing up the blues with the trappings of the progressive rock and soul of the day. The down-home qualitities of singers like Muddy Waters were swamped by wah-wah guitars, electric pianos, busy rock drumming and overblown horn sections. Muddy`s Electric Mud remains a disastrous episode, but other projects often produced more interesting results. The final Excello albums by Lightnin` Slim and Whispering Smith featured additional horn sections (more for the former, less for the latter) but the sheer grit and down-home bluesiness of the singers` vocals, more than compensated for the more adventurous instrumental stylings. Slim`s album was produced by Jerry `Swamp Dogg` Williams and comes with the usual quota of Swamp Dogg quirkiness. Smith`s album is far more rootsy, a Louisiana blues affair, with only minor intrusions from the horns. Slim and Smith toured together frequently in their final years and these two `contemporary` albums fit together as well as the two artists did on stage.