Delta Hardware
Real World
Over the last 10 years or so, Musselwhite has been exploring and incorporating different styles of music, from rock to Cuban to Americana, probably to the chagrin of blues purists but to the delight of eclectic music fans.
On “Delta Hardware” (named for the vacant Delta Wholesale Hardware Co. building in Clarksdale, Miss., that he purchased a couple of years ago), the singer/songwriter/harmonicat leaves behind the guest artists and genre-hopping of late for some electrified Delta blues backed by his power-trio road band.
From the “Secret Agent Man”-type guitar on the opening “Church Is Out,” to the swampy “Black Water” and its images of breaking levees (come to think of it, the song sounds kind of like Led Zeppelin’s “When the Levee Breaks”), to the “Hip Shake Thing”-beat of “Clarksdale Boogie,” Musselwhite turns in a modern version of the white blues sound he helped popularize in the mid-1960s to mid-1970s. Of course, there’s plenty of killer slide guitar.
Kudos to Jimmy Hoyson for the raw yet cleanly engineered sound — high-tech low fi, so to speak.
Tracks
1. Church Is Out
2. One Of These Mornings
3. Sundown
4. Black Water
5. Clarksdale Boogie
6. Just A Feeling
7. Gone Too Long
8. Invisible Ones
9. Town To Town
10. Blues For Yesterday
Total time: 39:56
External Links
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