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I Got The Blues
Running Time: 4:10 |
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Danny Jumps One
Running Time: 3:54 |
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I Get So Weary
Running Time: 4:24 |
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Alimony Blues
Running Time: 4:40 |
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Shake Your Moneymaker
Running Time: 4:06 |
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Sunnyland
Running Time: 5:43 |
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I'll Change My Style
Running Time: 3:52 |
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The Sky Is Crying
Running Time: 3:48 |
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Southern Country Boy
Running Time: 3:34 |
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Bleeding Heart
Running Time: 3:16 | |
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You're My Best Poker Hand
Running Time: 3:47
Comments: Billed on back of CD reissue as "You Are My Best Poker Hand". |
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I Ain't Got You
Running Time: 4:22 |
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1988
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| Format » |
Import Vinyl/CD Album
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| Other Appearances » |
Danny Adler (Songwriter), Danny Adler (Songwriter), Albert Deroy Burghardt, J(unio)r(.) (Songwriter), Clarence Carter (Songwriter), Duke Coleman (Songwriter), Elmore James (Songwriter), Morris Levy (Songwriter), Clarence L. Lewis (Songwriter), Horace Owens (Songwriter), (Mathis) Jimmy (James) Reed (Songwriter), Freddie Simon (Songwriter), Sunnyland Slim (Al Luandrew) (Songwriter), Swamp Dogg (Jerry Williams, Jr.) (Songwriter), Franco Ratti (Executive Producer), Bob Brunning (Liner Notes), Bob Brunning (Liner Notes), Mike Vernon (Produced By), Mike Vernon (Engineered By), TDM (Artwork By), Dave Peabody (Cover Photos By) |
| Record Label » |
Appaloosa |
| Catalogue Number » |
AP 060 (LP) AP 060-2 (CD)
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| Running Time » |
41:27/48:36
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CD Reissue Notes:
THE DE LUXE BLUES BAND WAS FORMED IN 1980, WHEN DANNY ADLER, VOCALS AND GUITAR, WAS ASKED TO PUT A BAND TOGETHER TO BACK UP SOME VISITING AMERICAN BLUES ARTISTES FOR A GIG IN LONDON'S FAMOUS "DINGWALLS" CLUB. HE CALLED BOB HALL, THE U.K.'S PREMIER BLUES AND BOOGIE PIANIST, AND MICKEY WALLER, THE LEGENDARY DRUMMER WHO HAD PLAYED WITH MANY MAJOR R'N'B MUSICIANS. BOB HALL RECOMMENDED ME (WE HAD PLAYED TOGETHER IN MANY BANDS SINCE WE FORMED THE BRUNNING SUNFLOWER BLUES BAND WAY BACK IN 1969, FOLLOWING OUR MEETING IN THE SAVOY BROWN BLUES BAND THE PREVIOUS YEAR).
THUS THE DE LUXE'S WERE BORN ALBEIT ACCIDENTALLY. SENSING THAT THE LINE-UP COULD BE MORE PERMANENT ARRANGED FOR A RECORD COMPANY SCOUT TO COME TO THE GIG, THE NEXT DAY WE WERE OFFERED A RECORD CONTRACT, FOR AN ALBUM TO BE RECORDED LIVE IN THE "HALF MOON", PUTNEY. WE THEN STARTED EXTENSIVELY TOURING, PARTICULARLY ENJOYING OUR MANY EXCURSIONS INTO ITALY. THIS LED TO US SIGNING TO THE APPALOOSA LABEL, FOR WHOM WE CUT THREE MORE ALBUMS, RELEASED ON APPALOOSA: A STREET-CAR NAMED DE LUXE, URBAN DE LUXE AND MOTORVATING. THE SESSIONS FOR THE RECORDINGS ON THIS C.D. WERE SLIGHTLY UNUSUAL. WE DECIDED WE DIDN'T PARTICULARLY LIKE RECORDING IN CONVENTIONAL STUDIOS, SO WE PERSUADED PRODUCER MIKE VERNON TO HAND ALL HIS RECORDING EQUIPMENT (AND A VERY EXPANSIVE GRAND PIANO!) INTO DANNY'S LARGE, BEAUTIFUL VICTORIAN HOUSE. BY NOW WE WERE DELIGHTED TO HAVE WELCOMED INTO THE DE LUXE BLUES BAND DICK HECKSTALL-SMITH, ONE OF THE U.K.'S BEST KNOW SAX PLAYERS. THE MIXTURE OF MUSIC WAS MUCH AS BEFORE: PLENTY OF T-BONE INSPIRED PLAYING, PLUS A VARIETY OF NEW AND OLD BLUES AND R'N'B' MATERIAL. THE RELAXED ATMOSPHERE HELPED, AND EVERY BODY ENJOYED THE SESSION. THE C.D. YOU ARE HOLDING HAS TWO "BONUS" TRACKS IN ADDITION TO THE SONGS ON THE VYNYL (sic) VERSION: YOU ARE MY BEST POKER HAND AND THE CLASSIC I AIN'T GOT YOU.
SADLY, THE DE LUXE FOLDED AFTER A VERY HAPPY TEN YEARS TOGETHER IN 1990 WHEN BOB QUIT FOR A SOLO CAREER, AND DANNY RETURNED TO HIS HOMELAND, THE UNITED STATES. BUT WHO KNOWS... PERHAPS ONE DAY SOMEONE WILL PHONE ONE OF US TO ASK US TO PUT A BAND TOGETHER TO BACK A VISITING AMERICAN BLUES ARTISTE...!
BOB BRUNNING
(C) 1992
1992 Appaloosa - I.R.D.
Via G.B. de La Salle 4
20132 MILANO - Italy
Made in Italy by PhonoComp
All Rights Reserved.
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Good tune up but needs an oil change
Review written by John Fitzgerald, March 27th, 2005 Most of what is featured here is Danny Adler's oopsy daisy slip slidin' guitar sounds which slightly reminds me of Rick Vito's style and I understand that Adler & Vito know each other so maybe this was something they had/have in common. There is good piano work, as always, by Bob Hall but Dick Heckstall-Smith's sax parts really intrude here though they weren't meant to most likely and he is a great player in general. There is an interesting finger snapping opener to "Sunnyland" but it eventually kicks in to the Elmore James shuffle style which is one of the better cuts. Oddly, we get two slow strolls in a row with "I'll change my style" and the emptier sounding "The sky is crying" though the piano and sax fight it out for the title which hurts. "Southern country boy" is a fair up beat shuffling swing and "Bleeding heart" here is not much different to the live renditions Jeremy Spencer had done of this song first while with Fleetwood Mac and then much later in his solo touring career. "I got the blues" is a good tip toeing blues and this along with "The sky is crying" and the up tempo stomp of "Alimony blues" have that familiar opening riff that appears on many De Luxe Blues Band 80's era albums and it's almost too familiar here but "Danny jumps one" is a good sax & guitar plinky instrumental piece and "I get so weary" is a slow blues that would be good but the sax here holds it back and makes it seem more draggy than it is. "Shake your moneymaker" is a rousing peppy cover but naturally it's still fields away from Jeremy's classic Fleetwood Mac version. Be warned though that the CD version of this album has the tracks listed in the wrong order (just as some vinyl copies of this album did and as it's the same error, I assume this is where the mistake carried over on to the CD) as tracks 1-5 are actually tracks 6-10 on the disc and tracks 6-10 are actually 1-5. They have however, included two bonus tracks unavailable elsewhere (and they are listed in the correct places), the OK swinger "You are my best poker hand" and the essential nugget "I ain't got you" which is good here but it may be a little slower than one usually hears this song performed. Both of these tracks are noticeably more muffled than the others though but still listenable and I would say that this is one of the better DLBB albums of the 80's but still a forced traditional feel with the sax butting in to everything present.
| Comments » |
The original vinyl versions of this album had the label for side 1 of the album mistakenly pasted on side 2 (and vice-versa). This problem carried over to the CD edition, with tracks 1-5 becoming 6-10 & tracks 6-10 becoming tracks 1-5 on the CD.
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2011-01-16 |
| Tracklisting » |
Discography entry submitted by Jeff Kenney & Marty Adelson. |
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