Freddie King - Texas Cannonball

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Music Review: What a pain
Rating: 3 Stars

They at points have all the feeling and tasteful notes of a self-playing piano. The song Lowdown in Lodi is a good one but nothing special. Reconsider baby is the crowning achievment of the record. It was great and Freddy was all a true bluesman could be. Then Big legged woman came on. Fun and a nice aside. Then came another one that just wasn't anything special. Followed by 2 or 3 okay songs but not very deep blues sounding. Then an interesting and good interpretation of The great Howlin' Wolf's How many more years. Ain't no sunshine was not a blues song really but one of the respectable tracks having a real feeling and not being disturbed by the session guys but rather well accompanied. This album gets funky too... of course it's not a real credit to funk in some ways like an Albert King song might be. I don't want to be too hard on the change but The sky is crying may be to different for some people's taste as it has a different kind of beat and may take some getting used to [ I hated it when I first heard it, but I was just expecting something different and was thrown off ]. Freddy is alright, but whoever [ probably Leon or Denny Cordell ] had the idea to set a slow blues masterpiece to this funky beat and rythm really turned me around for a while there. I have no problem with changing the music of a great song - that's part of the art. But being one of my favorites I was turned off by the change- I guess it's not all that bad though now that I am familiar with where they were going with that. It is still not as powerful that way though I don't think.

Freddy was one of the greats but this is not one of his greatest, or even close. Reconsider baby is the only traditional slow blues blues track [In my opinion]. I didn't dislike the music in general but I thought I was buying a blues album... ... I do not recommend this to anybody who didn't like Harp attack or understands what I mean about the self-playing piano or is just out for a straight up blues album. I did purchase Albert King's Years gone by with the sky is crying on it recently, and that I do recommend being funky but blues at the same time, great groove. I hope this saves you some frustration.

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Blues CDs

• Music > Styles
• Pop