When I was coming of age along the Northeast shoreline during the 1970s, my favorite local band was Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, a horn-laden R&B outfit spawned by the fertile music scene in Asbury Park, New Jersey. The Jukes’ first album, I Don’t Want to Go Home remains a blue-eyed-soul masterpiece to this [...]
Tag Archives: blue-eyed soul
Tony Joe White, That On the Road Look Live (Rhino Handmade Records)
September 1, 2010 – 12:58 am
Tony Joe White has made a career out of being laconic, and his matter-of-fact delivery lent a homespun truthfulness to race relations in “Willie and Laura Mae Jones,” a subtle wink to “Polk Salad Annie” and a mournful quality to “Rainy Night in Georgia.” When he dueted with Shelby Lynne on “Can’t Go Back Home,” [...]
Clarence Bucaro, New Orleans (Hyena)
November 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
On his latest album, New Orleans, Clarence Bucaro revisits a project he shelved prior to releasing 2008′s ’Til Spring. Backed by an all-star ensemble, including sousaphonist Kirk Joseph and guitarist Anders Osborne, with whom Bucaro also shares production credits, this ten-song suite depicts the journeyman’s love affair with the Crescent City. Steeped in blue-eyed soul, [...]
Various Artists, Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm (Vanguard)
July 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
Tribute albums: We smile, nod, applaud a good cause if one’s attached, take it home, play the first 15 minutes, file, excrete a few years down the road at the multi-family garage sale. And by that point, hey, we’ve forgotten the thing was up there. The family domicile weighs a little less. We fall for [...]
Luther Kent: Gimme Two Steps
March 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
It should be no surprise that Luther Kent’s latest CD, The Bobby Bland Songbook, pays tribute to the “Three B Blues Boy,” as Kent considers himself Bland’s biggest fan. “He’s without question the greatest blues singer of all time,” declares Kent. “There isn’t anyone even close. I’ve appeared with him three times and it was [...]
Eddie Hinton, Cry and Moan (Bullseye Blues Records)
May 1, 1991 – 12:01 am
The best news about this CD is that it is a new collection of Eddie Hinton tunes and has been released on a label that will make it widely available. Also good news is that Hinton still sings like a tortured John Fogerty, and plays the same tasty soul guitar that he did backing up [...]
