J.B. Lenoir - Vietnam Blues: Complete L & R
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Artist: J.B. LenoirEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1995-06-27
Music Label: Evidence
Soundtracks:
- Alabama
- Mojo Boogie
- God's Word
- The Whale Has Swalloed Me
- Move This Rope
- I Feel So Good
- Alabama March
- Talk To Your Daughter
- Mississippi Road
- Good Advice
- Vietnam
- I Want To Go
- Down In Mississippi
- Slow Down Woman
- If I Get Lucky
- Shot On James Meredith
- Round And Round
- Voodoo Music
- Born Dead
- Leavin' Here
- Vietnam Blues
- How Much More
- Tax Payin' Blues
- Feelin' Good
Music reviews of Vietnam Blues: Complete L & R
Music Review: Masterpiece - nothing else in blues quite like this
Rating: 5 Stars
I've just bought this CD for the 4th time - along with Jack Dupree's "Blues From The Gutter", it's the one I give away when I really want to give, and turn someone on to the blues.
It contains JBs last 2 albums before his untimely death in 1967, and represents the full flowering of his groundbreaking African Hunch style. JB was a popular Chicago electric blues musician who gradually evolved a new acoustic sound - syncretising a lot of what had come before, from gritty Delta guitar to barrelhouse-piano style syncopation, and more than a touch of gospel - but sounding fresh and modern; he was moving forwards not back. Sadly this style seems to have died with him; the world has not caught up yet.
All tracks have JB on acoustic guitar and vocals (those words hardly doing justice to what he does with them); many with Freddie Below on drums (inventor of Rock & Roll no matter what anyone else says); and a few with Willie Dixon's atmospheric growling on backup vocal (Willie also produced).
There's nothing else quite like this, though JB's 50's and early 60's Chicago recordings gave some hints of what was to come (a couple of his 50's hits are reworked here). The guitar work is simple yet complex, highly syncopated; the voice a flexible instrument, and the songs are just extraordinary - power and subtlety, tears and laughter, protest and acceptance, folk tales and modern living.
I can't really explain it in words, just listen to some of the samples, bearing in mind the the whole experience is so much more so - at least hear "Alabama", "Mojo Boogie", "Move This Rope", "I Feel So Good", "Good Advice", "Vietnam", "Down In Mississippi", "Voodoo Music", and especially "Born Dead" and "Feelin' Good" ... heck, just get the album! What a trip it is - hearing this for the first time is like hearing Robert Johnson for the first time...
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