North/South

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共9首歌曲

艺人: Jimmy Johnson
语种: 英语
厂牌: Delmark
发行时间: 1982年02月14日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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by Stewart Mason

Finally reissued on CD in 1999, nearly 20 years after its initial release, Jimmy Johnson's North/South is worth the wait for fans of electric Chicago blues with soul and rock influences. Probably named in tribute to the Paul Butterfield Blues Band's epic East-West album (Butterfield's guitarist Michael Bloomfield had died just prior to the album's recording), North/South is third-generation Chicago blues, far enough removed from the music's gutbucket origins to seamlessly incorporate influences like Eddie Lusk's soulful clavinet on the opening &Country Preacher,& but still connected enough to its roots that songs like &Can't Go No Further& and &A Woman Ain't Supposed to Be Hard& have the passion and soul sometimes missing from the smoother likes of Robert Cray. Other highlights include a swinging, funky instrumental, &Walking On Thin Ice,& with excellent piano and guitar solos from Lusk and Johnson, and the syncopated R&B of &Sang a Song in Heaven&; songs that prove that a true bluesman doesn't have to be constrained by the genre's rules of authenticity, and can stretch the form without being a pop sell-out.

North/South

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