Månadens
skiva november 2011
![]() Sheba Potts-Wright”Let your
mind go back”
Ecko ECD 1134115:- Detta är
Shebas 7:e CD för Ecko Records i Memphis. Hon har vunnit flera utmärkelser i
omröstningar i USA för southern soul/blues-genren under 2000-talet. 22/10 toppar
hon American Blues Networks playlist med låten I´ve done all I can från
nya CDn. Hon har en
ny, lite mognare, approach till texterna på denna skiva. David Whiteis i Living
Blues: ”Not long after the
release of her previous Ecko disc, 2008´s I´m a bluesman´s daughter;
Sheba Potts-Wright told me that that recording represented a new direction for
her. ´I have turned myself around´, she declared. ´There´s certain things I´m
gonna say and not gonna say now.´ She´s kept her word. The songs here, for the
most part, tackle the usual soul-blues subject matter – love and loss;
satisfaction and hunger for it – but the lyrics eschew coarseness. Sheba has
left the hoochie-mama hi-jinks to others. - - - …true to her declaration, the
bluesman´s daughter has grown up – she´s a lady, in every sence of the word.” Blues
& Rhythm: ”Ecko Records out of Memphis are lucky to
have Sheba Potts-Wright, one of the most successful young female soul/blues
singers on the current scene on their artist roster. - - - This is a good CD
from a very good artist.” Jag frågade
också Heikki Suosalo på Soul Express efter hans omdöme av denna skiva.
Så här svarar han: Hi Tommy! My next column (www.soulexpress.net)
will
appear only either in late October, but most probably in November - due to
these damn travels all the time. There's a
big amount of Southern Soul indies included this time, about twenty, and more
is coming in. I gave Sheba a good review; one of the best SS CDs this year. It'll sit in my top-ten. Best regards Heikki Månadens skivor september
Beautiful Bobby Blackmon”Yeah
baby! Chillin´ with the blues”
B3 Records B3 03 (140:-) Orlando,
Florida Area | Music Current: Band Leader at Beautiful
Bobby Blackmon & B3 Blues Band Past: Director Of Sales Training
at Sherwood Davis & Geck, Director of Sales Training at Davis & Geck,
NE Area Sales Director at Davis & Ge... Education: Texas Southern University Så värst mycket mer hittade jag inte om Mr. Blackmon vid en
snabbkoll på nätet. Efter fina recensioner av hans andra CD, Travelin´ home!,
2005, lyckade jag få in 5-6 ex av skivan. Den var kanon med många excellenta
soulbluesballader, fint gitarrlir och ett tajt band. 2011 har han nu sin tredje CD ute, som har fått lysande
recensioner i Living Blues nr 213 och senaste Blues Revue. Bobby
är från Dallas, TX, men bor och är verksam i Orlando, ”central Florida”. Living Blues: ”Bobby
Blackmon claims B.B. King and Wayne Bennett as two of his guitar heroes, and
his playing reflects both their sophistication and their fire, even if his
lines are a little more stripped-down and his harmonic ideas more elemental
than theirs. His band is tight and funkified, and they´ve mastered the
too-seldom realized art of kicking up the energy level without blowing out the
speakers (or the ears). - - - - Passion, emotional honesty, musicianship, and
taste – you can´t do much better than that.” |